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The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa The gold regions of south eastern Africa http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.CH.DOCUMENT.sip200011 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org The gold regions of south eastern Africa Author/Creator Baines, Thomas Date 1968 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Zambezi-Limpopo Watershed, Zimbabwe, Great Zimbabwe Source Smithsonian Institution Libraries, DT745 .B2 1968X Relation Rhodesiana reprint library, v. 1 Description A traveler's account of the Zambezi region during an expedition carried out in the 1870s. Includes a memoir by the author, Sir Thomas Baines, and a brief biography by H. Rowlinson). 26 illustrations; 1 map. Format extent 272 pages (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.CH.DOCUMENT.sip200011 http://www.aluka.org i -~ ~ i -~ ~ ~ -~ ~ X i ~i I..' I '~.. W.V~W i ~ i~ -.. 4 ~ 4 7.' i4~~~t ~ 4 "'Ut,. ~ 4 - 444- t.7.7.t7.7..~t7*. 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Box 1994, Bulawayo Publishers of Rhodesiana Reprints and New Rhodesian Literary Works. PRINTED IN RHODESIA BY MARDON PRINTERS (PVT.) LTD. R E-PUBLICATION of this book has been made possible by the assistance of two Rhodesians of a Pioneer family whose wish it is that it be dedicated to THE PIONEERS' AND EARLY SETTLERS' SOCIETY to honour the men and women who pioneered Rhodesia, and to promote a wider interest in the country's history The publishers gratefully acknowledge this help and have pleasure in making this out-of-print Rhodesiana work available to the public of Rhodesia through this Books of Rhodesia series. INTRODUCTION T HIS book has been selected as the first Volume in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library as a tribute to the painstaking pre-Pioneer exploration work carried out by Thomas Baines, in the country which is now Rhodesia. Born in 1820 at King's Lynn, Baines travelled widely in Southern Africa where he spent the best years of his life. He first made a name for himself as an official war artist with the British Forces in the Eastern Cape during the Kaffir Wars. He journeyed to the Zambezi and Matabeleland several times; was a member of Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition and, in 1862, visited the Victoria Falls by way of South-West Africa. As an artist he was a most prolific worker, and the pictorial record of Southern Africa is the richer for his sketches and paintings. He is especially noted in Rhodesia for his paintings of the Victoria Falls. 6 In October, 100 years ago, his fame as an explorer, map-maker and naturalist led to his engagement by a company in Britain to investigate the newly discovered Tati and "Matabili Land" goldfields. His prospecting, which extended as far as Hartley Hill, is the subject of this book. He negotiated a mining concession with Lobengula whose "coronation" he attended. The work is fascinating for its reports on mineral finds, Matabele customs, meetings with other pre-Pioneers; and descriptions of gold workings, including those of Lydenburg and Pilgrim's Rest in the Transvaal. It gives an insight into veld craft and the hazards of early wagon travel. Tragically, Thomas Baines died in Durban on 8th May, 1875, before realising the goal for which he had laboured unremittingly for so many years. His name is commemorated in Rhodesia in Baines Avenue, Salisbury; and in Baines School, Bulawayo, which has a fine collection of his works and papers. Bulawayo, October, 1968. THE GOLD REGIONS SOUTH EASTERN AFRICA, BY THB LATE THOMAS BAINES, ESQ., F.R.G.S. ACCOMPANIED BY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR, With Portrait, Map, and numerou Illustrations and Photographs. [tMTHSONOV 71 BOLBONUA BADONI.-HATVRAL SIE. LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD, CHARING CAPE COLONY: J. W C. MACKAY, PORT ELIZABETH. 1877. CROSS. THIS BOOK, WHICH COMPRISES THE LAST AND GREATEST WORK OF THE ITfDEFATIGABLE TRAYETLER, THOMAS BAINES, IS DEDICATED, WITH SPECIAL PERMISSION, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, AS THE FIRST OF ENGLAND'S ROYAL RACE WII.0 H"AS LANDED 0:tON TILE SHORES OF SOUTH AFRICA. PREFACE TEE region described in the following pages was, until the last few years, when the explorations of Herr Mauch, Erskine, Elton, Chapman, and others somewhat dispersed the cloud of mystery in which it was enveloped, essentially a mythical one. Its geographical features were generally depicted in the manner described by Swift"So Geographers in Afric Maps With savage pictures fial their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants instead of towns." The name of Monomotapa (which means a place from which something valuable is derived), is seldom used except as a mediveval geographical term, found in old school geographies and obsolete atlases. It was supposed by its Arab and Portupogese discoverers and conquerors to include all the regions* south of the Zambesi, extending to the country of the Kafirs (Pays de Caifres) or even to the banks of the Orange River, the Vigita Magna of the old geographers, and the large towns supposed to exist in this region (shaken over the old Maps as if from a - pepper castor) are frequently alluded to in the early records of the Cape Colony. We learn from these records, however, that several exploring parties were sent in search of rich countries during the latter half of the seventeenth century, but none of them succeeded in penetrating so far into the interior. The Seaboard or Coast Region was known under the name it still bears, that of "Sofala," which signifies in Arabic a plain or low country. Sabia lies more inland behind Sofala, and is supposed by some authorities, including Josephus, and no less a personage than the * The country north of the Zambesi is Lower Ethiopia. The land of the lakes was known as the Empire of Monoanm1gi. v1. PREFACE. author of the Koran, to be the ancient kingdom of the love-sick Queen, who visited Solomon when in all his glory, and of whom Mahommedan, Abyssinian, and Jewish writers relate such innumerable traditions.
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