Well, here he is. The MC of my WIP. It's actually a lithograph of a portrait photo, but regardless, it's a much better version of the poor quality photo I posted a week ago, and therefore a better opportunity to see what he looked like before he got old and lost his hair.
So does this guy look like he could have 49 or 65 wives? I'll leave that to the ladies to decide. But aside from being a lady's man, he was a father of many, many children. Sources vary, as I wrote about yesterday, but some say he had 117, and other sources say over 150!
The strange thing about it is that none of these sources, not even his own notes, mention much about his family life. I mean the different books and websites confirm that he had all the wives and all those kids, but none of them say much about them, except that he built each wife her own house, and provided for all of them.
But there is one episode where he mentions that his eldest son was ill, and that the Zulu king sent his witchdoctors to cure him, (and they did!) But that's pretty much it.
Oh well, it's things like this that make me glad this is a NOVEL I'm writing.
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