DURCH MATABELELAND 10 Monate im Ochsenwagen Rhodesien 1887 Lobengula Gold
THROUGH MATABELELAND THE RECORD OF A TEN MONTHS TRIP IN AN OX-WAGGON THROUGH MASHONALAND AND MATABELELAND JOSEPH GARBETT WOOD BOOKS OF RHODESIA 1974 22 x 15 cm. [13] + iv +198 pp + plates + fold out map. Volume 33 of the Rhodesia Reprint Library. Facsimile reproduction of the 1893 edition with additional portraits, and a new Foreword by Edward C. Tabler. 'The existence of Rhodesia's 'ancient' A gold-workings was discovered by Henry Hartley in 1865. Two years later the German geologist. Carl Mauch, who confirmed the presence of payable gold, made further discoveries near Tati in Botswana which opened up a traffic in concession-hunting. Prospectors came in a steady stream to the court of Lobengula until 1888 when Rhodes, through the Rudd Concession, obtained the complete and exclusive rights to all minerals in the Matabele kingdom.
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