[31] See Dr. Keane’s Introduction to this volume; also The Gold of Ophir; also M. Grandidier’s work on the Sabæan, Phœnician, and Idumean Jew influences on South-East Africa and Madagascar; and The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia (2nd edition).
[32] See The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia, 2nd edition, pp. 141–3, for descriptions of relics found at Zimbabwe in 1891 and 1892. See Appendix hereto, [Note F], for inventory of relics found by the author at Zimbabwe, 1902–4.
[33] All the birds found at Zimbabwe either by Mr. Bent and the author were discovered occupying an eastern position, cut off from south-west, west, and north by cliffs or large and high walls.
[34] Professor Dr. Flinders Petrie informs the author that this pattern is decidedly of Eastern origin, possibly Assyrian.
[35] See also Preface, “Two Periods of Gold Manufacture at Zimbabwe.”
[36] Dr. Flinders Petrie has informed the author that calcedony beads, identical in shape and size to those found in ruins in Rhodesia, are of mediæval Arab origin.
[37] Dr. Budge, Head Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, considers this glass to belong to the thirteenth or fourteenth century of this era.
[38] The author is preparing a monograph on the pottery of the Barotse and Makalanga.
[39] See [Note C], Appendix to this volume, which gives a fuller description of this “find.”
[40] For descriptions of ancient architecture in the ruins of Rhodesia generally, see The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia (2nd edition), Chapter XII.