Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by William Taylor Longmire, William Adolphus Knell and Thomas Baines. A shipwreck off the Cape, a Portuguese treasure buried three hundred years ago in a ruined fortress on the Zambesi, and a girl traveling with her father, who wants the gold. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen and helped raise the Union Jack over the Transvaal; the wreck of the Zanzibar at the start is taken from a real disaster he had read about, and it is the best-written passage in the book. Forty-eight plates of wreck and rescue at sea by painters including Clarkson Frederick Stanfield and J. M. W. Turner carry the story's storm and treasure in paint.