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 247
THE FINDS AT THE GREAT ZIMBABWE RUINS 213 enumerates all the Kaffir instruments which he saw ; and he would assuredly have mentioned these bells had they existed there in his days 300 years ago. We must, therefore, conclude that either these bells are ancient, and were used by the old inhabitants… … BATTLE-AXE AND ARROWS traditional form of which has been continued amongst o the negroes of the Congo, or that some northern race closely allied to the Congo races swept over this country at some time or another, and have left this trace of their occupation. The barbed bronze spear-liead we found…
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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