The ruined cities of Mashonaland : being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, with a chapter on the orientation and mensuration of the temple by R. M. W. Swan (1893)
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · London, New York : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 240
206 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT Arabs who came from the Persian Gulf, forming an hereditary intercourse between the Arabs and the east coast of Africa until the Portuguese found them there and drove them away three centuries ago. It is impossible that a collection of things such as these could… … FRAGMENT OF BOWL OF GLAZED POTTERY highly commercial race during the middle ages, and the Arabians alone had this character at the time in question. Considering the large quantity of soapstone frag¬ ments, bowls, and other things, the finds of pottery of a good period at Zimbabwe were not many.…
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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