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 355
321 OUR EMBASSY TO THE CHIEF ’MTOKO custom to which both Dos Santos and El Masoudi, the Arabian historian, allude. There is evidently a strong Zambesi influence in ’Mtoko’s country ; their battle-axes, their assegais, and their powder-horns are far more elaborately carved and decorated with brass… … inlaid with different-coloured straws, and their brace¬ lets also are very elaborate. Our emissary came back with a long face. The ’Mtoko, despite the offering we had sent him, was indignant at our invasion of his privacy ; in fact, to avoid seeing a white induna without taking counsel with his…
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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