The Gold of Ophir, Vol. 45

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Excerpt from The Gold of Ophir, Vol. 45: Whence Brought and by Whom?Observers - trained archaeologists such as the late Theodore Bent and Mr. Robert Swan practical miners, engineers, and men Of high scientific knowledge, such as Dr. Henry Schlichter, Dr. Carl Mauch, Mr. Thomas Baines, Mr. E. A. Maund and Mr. Franklin White, lastly experienced local explorers, such as Messrs. Hall and Neal with their worthy associate, Mr. Johnson, who have spent years of intelligent labour investigating the whole of this wonderful auriferous region, mapping its hundreds Of ancient gold workings and Classifying the associated 'izimbabyes' into periods and types. Thus was given the indispensable clue to the time sequences, and to the architectural prototypes if any could elsewhere be found, for all these Observers have from the first been of accord that none of the early and more finished structures, those especially Of the first and second periods, could be ascribed to the present Bantu populations Of Rhodesia. And such an attribution is now altogether excluded, since I have been able to show that these Negroid Bantu peoples were preceded by a still lower race - the bushman-hottentots - who occupied the land at the very time the monuments were raised, and indeed supplied the forced labour necessary for their profitable erection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.