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Excerpt from The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland: Being a Record of Excavation and Exploration in 1891 IN looking over this work for a second edition, I find little to add to the material as it appeared in the first, and next to nothing to alter. Sir John Willoughby has kindly supplied me with details con cerning five weeks' excavation which he carried on the summer following the one which we Spent there, the results of which, however, appear only to have produced additional specimens of the objects we found - namely, crucibles with traces of gold, frag ments of decorated bowls, phalli, &c. - but no further object to assist us in unravelling the mystery of the primitive race which built the ruins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.