The Great Trek from a Boer woman's side: Suzanne Botmar's daughter loves an English castaway, and the family goes north with the wagons to Natal — to Retief's embassy, Dingaan's kraal, and the massacre at Weenen. Haggard was in the Transvaal for the annexation and heard the Trek from the people who had made it; Swallow is his Boer novel, and the English are not the heroes of it.