Crossword-Solution: RETIEF 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

PREFACE The Author hopes that the reader may find some historical interest in the tale set out in these pages of the massacre of the Boer general, Retief, and his companions at the hands of the Zulu king, Dingaan.

Quatermain’s strange experiences when as a very young man he accompanied the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan.

Now, while Pereira was mocking and bragging of his prowess, Pieter Retief looked at me, and our eyes met.

Again I say that his father should be proud of him.” “Well, if it comes to that, I am, mynheer,” said my father, who just then joined us after his morning walk, “although I beg you to say no more lest the lad should grow vain.” “Bah!” replied Retief, “fellows of his stamp are not vain; it is your big talkers who are vain,” and he glanced out of the corner of his shrewd eye at Pereira, “your turkey cocks with all their tails spread.

But Pieter Retief thrust his big form in front of him rather rudely, and said with one of his hearty laughs: “Allemachte! friend, let the _missje_ wish a good journey to the young fellow who saved her life.” Next moment Hans, the Hottentot, screamed at the oxen in the usual fashion, and we rolled away through the gate.