Before he wrote King Solomon’s Mines, Haggard served in the colonial government of Natal and the Transvaal. Here he argues about the British settlement of Zululand after the war of 1879 and the fate of King Cetywayo, responsible government in Natal, and the annexation of the Transvaal and the Boer agitation against it.
Haggard’s first book, from 1882, a period document of imperial policy whose views of Africans are those of its time. Download the free EPUB.