The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore)
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The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore)
Extinct cities -- Zimbabwe -- Mashonaland; Great Zimbabwe (Extinct city)
[15] Perrot and Chipiez’s Phœnicia, p. 281.
[16] Kremer, Akademie der Wissenschaft. Wien.
[17] Herod. Bk. III. § 8.
[18] Akademie der Wissenschaft. Wien 1890.
[19] Equal to two Egyptian spans of 9·58 inches.
[20] Vide illustration, p. 194.
[21] Vide illustration, p. 216.
[22] Ezek. xxvii. 21, 22.
[23] Vide Chap. III.
[24] Vide Chap. XI.
[25] Chap. II.
[26] De Barros, De Asiâ. Lisbon, 1552.
[27] According to Ptolemy, the Romans penetrated from the north through
the heart of Africa to a nation called Agizymba, south of the equator.
[28] Chap. IX.
[29] Vide illustration, p. 262.
[30] For description of ruins, vide Chap. IV.
[31] Lecture before the Colonial Institute, April 12, 1892.
[32] Chap. II.
[33] Kremer, Akademie der Wissenschaft.
[34] Chap. VIII.
[35] The heights have been obtained with aneroid and boiling-point
thermometers, and with the exception of that of Zimbabwe, where we
stayed some time, are only approximate.
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