_The South African veld, with its gentle rolling hills and soft green
meadows watered by many streams, is the background for this unusual
story about Nomusa, daughter of a Zulu chief._
_Nomusa is warmhearted and generous and affectionate; she loves all her
little brothers and sisters and enjoys helping to care for them. But she
is strong and brave and daring, too; she feels that girls’ work is dull
and boys’ work is much more exciting, and much more fun._
_More than anything else, Nomusa yearns to go with the men on the annual
elephant hunt. But she knows this is impossible. As her mother says_,
“_Girls_ never _go on elephant hunts!_”
_After Nomusa’s adventure with a fierce wild boar, her father, Chief
Zitu, rewards her bravery. In a final climax, Nomusa realizes that being
a girl has its own rewards._
_A sympathetic, engrossing story about a primitive civilization of
today. Nomusa is a heroine whom girls will envy and boys will admire._