conjecture,but it is curious that ZElian tells us tbat the
Egyptians £ sacrifice a sow to the moon once a year 11
and Herodotus says ‘ the only deities to whom the
Egyptians are permitted to offer a pig are the moon
and Bacchus.’ All that the pottery proves to us is
that the ancient inhabitants of Zimbabwe had reached
a high state of excellence in the manufacture of it,
corresponding to a state of ceramic art known only
to the rest of the world in classical times.
PO T T E R Y W H O R L S
Concerning the bronze and iron weapons and implements
which we found at Zimbabwe it is very
difficult to say anything definite In the first place,
these ruins have been overrun for centuries by Kaffir
races with a knowledge of iron-smelting, who would
at once utilise fragments of iron which they found for
their own purposes ; secondly, the shapes and sizes of
arrows andspear-heads correspond very closely to those
in use amongst the natives now. ,As against this it
must be said that there are many iron objects amongst
our finds which are quite unlike anything which ever
came out of a Kaffir workshop, and the patterns of
the assegai, or spear-head, and arrow are probably of
W EAPON S
great antiquity, handed down from generation to
generation to the present day. Amongst the most
curious of our iron finds at Zimbabwe certainly are the
double iron bells, of which we found three in the
neighbourhood of the temple on the fortress. Similar
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