Excerpt from the book...At the date of our introduction to him, Philip Hadden was atransport-rider and trader in "the Zulu." Still on the right side offorty, in appearance he was singularly handsome; tall, dark, upright,with keen eyes, short-pointed beard, curling hair and clear-cutfeatures. His life had been varied, and there were passages in it whichhe did not narrate even to his most intimate friends. He was of gentlebirth, however, and it was said that he had received a public school anduniversity education in England. At any rate he could quote the classicswith aptitude on occasion, an accomplishment which, coupled with hisrefined voice and a bearing not altogether common in the wild placesof the world, had earned for him among his rough companions the_soubriquet_ of "The Prince."