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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
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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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