I print it practically as it left his hands.
There are other MSS.

also, one of which, headed "Child of Storm," relates the moving history of a beautiful and, I fear I must add, wicked Zulu girl named Mameena who did much evil in her day and went unrepentant from the world.
Another, amongst other things, tells the secret story of the causes of the defeat of Cetewayo and his armies by the English in 1879, which happened not long before Quatermain met Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good.
These three narratives are, indeed, more or less connected with each other.

At least, a certain aged dwarf, called Zikali, a witch-doctor and an terrible man, has to do with all of them, although in the first, "Marie," he is only vaguely mentioned in connection with the massacre of Retief, whereof he was doubtless the primary instigator.

As "Marie" comes first in chronological order, and was placed on the top of the pile by its author, I publish it first.

With the others I hope to deal later on, as I may find time and opportunity.
But the future must take care of itself.