[Illustration: THE CONICAL TOWER, ELLIPTICAL TEMPLE, GREAT ZIMBABWE]
GREAT ZIMBABWE
MASHONALAND, RHODESIA
AN ACCOUNT OF TWO YEARS’ EXAMINATION
WORK IN 1902–4 ON BEHALF OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF RHODESIA
BY
R. N. HALL, F.R.G.S.
CO-AUTHOR WITH W. G. NEAL OF “THE ANCIENT RUINS OF RHODESIA”
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
PROFESSOR A. H. KEANE, LL.D., F.R.G.S.
WITH TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND PLANS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
_First Published in 1905_
CONTENTS
DEDICATION _Page_ xiii
PREFACE xv
INTRODUCTION, by Professor A. H. Keane, LL.D., F.R.G.S. xxxi
CHAPTER I
Arrival at Great Zimbabwe—First Impressions—View from Acropolis
Hill 1