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Ch. 2: The Traditional Ophir Land

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IN TRADITIONAL OPHIR LAND
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field, and in 1871 he won the honor of reaching and first clearly describing the extraordinary ruins of Zimbabwe and its adjacent gold-fields. Unfortunately for his credit as an archasologist he insisted on the fancy that the old building on the hill was a copy of King Solomon's temple on Mount Moriah and that the lower ruins reproduced the palace inhabited by the Queen of Sheba during her stay of several years in Jerusalem.1 This does not impair, however, the probable accuracy of his main contention
that he had revealed part of the ancient workings of the people who furnished the flow of gold to Arabia and Judaea in the days of King Solomon.2
'"The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland," J. Theodore Bent, London, 1896.
2 " It was really (Adam) Renders who first discovered these ruins three years before Mauch saw them, though Mauch and Baines first published them to the world, and they only described what the old Portuguese writers talked of hundreds of years ago." E. A. Maund, "Geo. Proc," February, 1891, p. 105.
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