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 294
260 EXPLORATION JOURNEYS IN MASHONALAND grass grows here in tufts like the hair on the niggers’ heads, we got grass cut on which to lay our rugs; occasionally we found it necessary to encamp on … STRAW HAT spots over which a grass lire had passed, and then wre got hopelessly black, and lived like sweeps until we reached a stream, where we could wash ourselves and our clothes.
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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