Romancing the Zulu: H. Rider Haggard, Nada the Lily, and Salvage Ethnography

Abstract

But there it is: a picture, as Lang says, ‘of a dying people.’ I hope that hundreds of years hence the highly educated descendants of the Zulu race may read it and learn therefrom something of the spirit of their own savage ancestors.
(Haggard, The Days of My Life 2, 18)