An edition of Cetshwayo's Dutchman (1880)
Cetshwayo's Dutchman
being the private journal of a white trader in Zululand during the British invasion
By Cornelius Vijn,J.W. Colenso
Publish Date
1880
Publisher
Longmans, Green, and Co.
Language
eng
Pages
224
Description:
"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--Seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.