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The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A missionary family buries a child in drought

   The story opens on the coast of Pondo-land, in the stifling heat before a storm. Rachel Dove, only fifteen, helps her father lay the family's baby in the hard red ground. Her father reads the burial service while two rock rabbits and an old baboon watch.

   The Reverend John Dove is a gaunt, saintly man with one aim. He wants to convert the heathen, and he welcomes the thought of martyrdom. His wife Janey, a Scotswoman with second sight, wants only rest. In the tent she tells him that more of them will die, all but Rachel, who was born to live out her life.

   Rachel judges them both calmly, with an eye older than her years. She reads the Greek Gospels, speaks Zulu and helps nurse the sick. When her mother asks for fruit, her father sends her alone to the river for Cape gooseberries, trusting God to guard her.

   A child raised among prophecy, grief and wild country fears very little and sees very far.

2. 2

   A flood and a stranger bind two children together

   Rachel crosses the dry riverbed to a small island, picking berries as the sky turns black.

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3. 3

   Rachel becomes Lady of the Lightnings and Heaven

   In the morning Rachel's father finds the children through the mist, and Richard must ride off after his father's wagons.

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4. 4

   A hunter in zebra trousers watches from the ridge

   Mr. Dove plans to convert the Zulus, and the family camps below a cliff with a waterfall on the Natal coast.

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5. 5

   Rachel saves Noie from the king's spear

   A girl runs out of the morning mist, exhausted and pursued by a Zulu warrior with a raised assegai.

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6. 6

   Two hairs are thrown to the wind

   Noie tells Rachel her story in the tent.

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7. 7

   Ishmael's love turns into a threat

   The Doves build a mission station at Ramah.

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8. 8

   Noie is stolen and Rachel rides into Zululand

   A second Zulu embassy arrives at Ramah and insists that the Inkosazana come to the king.

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9. 9

   The Spirit of the Zulus is caught in a golden cage

   Dingaan asks the white Spirit whether he should attack the Boers who are marching toward his country.

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10. 10

    A vision in the water calls Richard to Zululand

    One afternoon, worn out and in despair, Rachel sits by the pool and wishes for Richard's help.

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