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Index
Cover
Description
Title Page
Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes on Terminology and Pronunciation
Dramatis Personae
Poem
CHAPTER 1 – RIVERMAN’S WAR
1. MLANJENI THE RIVERMAN
2. A SURPRISE FOR SIR HARRY SMITH
3. THE WAR OF MLANJENI (1850-3)
4. GOLIATH
CHAPTER 2 – Crooked like a Snake
1. THE ARTFUL DODGER OF GOVERNORS
2. CHANGING ENEMIES INTO FRIENDS
3. CUTTING DOWN THE CHIEFS
4. THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
CHAPTER 3 – Nongqawuse
1. DOWN BY THE GXARHA
2. THE PYTHON THAT ENCIRCLES HOHITA
3. SEEING IS BELIEVING
CHAPTER 4 – ‘There is a Thing which Speaks in my Country’
1. THE REVIVAL OF THE PROPHECIES
2. GREY INTERVENES
3. THE CRUISE OF THE GEYSER
4. THE CENTRAL BELIEFS OF THE XHOSA CATTLE-KILLING
CHAPTER 5 – To the Bitter End
1. WAITING FOR NXITO
2. THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT
3. THE AGONY OF THE UNBELIEVERS
4. THE HARD AND THE SOFT
CHAPTER 6 – The Apotheosis of Major Gawler
1. A DISCIPLE OF COLONEL EYRE
2. MHALA GETS A MESSAGE
3. BULUNGWA PLOUGHS
4. NONKOSI SPEAKS
5. THE BATTLE IS JOINED
6. GAWLER TRIUMPHANT
CHAPTER 7 – The Chiefs’ Plot
1. ‘THE LATE GREAT PLOT’
2. TRANSPORTATION
3. THE CLEAR SWEEP
4. THE END OF MHALA
CHAPTER 8 – Kaffir Relief
1. THE POOR CALVES OF THE ROAD
2. NO BREAD FOR THE IDLE
3. ENTER THE KAFFIR RELIEF COMMITTEE
4. PRIVATE BENEVOLENCE IS NOT REQUISITE
5. THE TRUE CHARITY OF GOVERNOR GREY
CHAPTER 9 – Under Our Thumb
1. THE FADANA PATROL
2. EATING THORNS
3. THE REWARD OF VIRTUE
4. GO TO JAIL
5. THE ISLAND
CHAPTER 10 – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Xhosa Cattle-Killing
CHAPTER 11 – And Last
Afterword (2003)
Maps
Picture Section
Select Bibliography
Copyright Page
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