on the inside, but on the outside,£ probably with some
view to symmetry and decoration, there had been inserted
double rows of stones, hewn into a kind of tile,
and placed obliquely one row at right angles to the
other. Each enclosure had an entrance facing north.’
He concludes that the ruin was constructed to protect
the gold, ‘ numbers of pits fifty feet deep being found
in the vicinity.’ This pattern, the construction, and
the object undoubtedly connect these ruins with those
which I shall presently describe.
Mr. G. Philips, an old hunter in these parts, said
at the Eoyal Geographical Society’s meeting, November
24, 1890, of the Zimbabwe ruins, £They are
exactly like others I have, seen in the country——the
same zigzag patterns and the mortarless walls of
small hewn stones. When hunting in the mountains
to the west of this I came on a regular line of these
ruins, and one must have been a tremendously big
place. - There were three distinct gateways in the
outer wall, which I suppose was at least thirty feet
thick at the base, and one of those immense ironwood
trees (hartekol), that would have taken hundreds of
years to grow, had grown up through a crevice in the
wall and rent it asunder.’ He also described another
ruin north-west of Tati. ‘ The walls are twelve to
fifteen feet thick, and it is entered by a passage so
arranged as to be commanded by archers from the
interior, and it only admits of the passage of one at a
time.’
Mr. E. A. Maund, in speaking of the ruins at Tati
and on the Impakwe, says,£ As I have said, these ruins