Author: Carl PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
"My discoveries show particularly that the "Ophir" of the time of Solomon was the country between the lower Bambesi and the Limpopo River."--Introd.
The Eldorado of the Ancients
Author: Carl PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
"My discoveries show particularly that the "Ophir" of the time of Solomon was the country between the lower Bambesi and the Limpopo River."--Introd.
The Eldorado of the Ancients
Author: Carl PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Eldorado of the Ancients
Author: Carl PetersThe Eldorado of the Ancients
Author: Karl PetersPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230293707
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...saw the natives wash a few grains of gold out of a bucket of river-mud. They had dreamt of Inca treasures, but forgot that also the gold of the Peruvian Children of the Sun " was obtained a grain at a time." We newcomers are not frightened by this method of going to work. When we call to mind that the modern miners on the Rand fetch up hard ore from more than a thousand feet, out of the bowels of the earth, which ore mostly yields no more than 6 to 8 dwts., or not even half an ounce; when we consider that the companies that undertake this work still manage to show large profits, we shall be better able to appreciate the riches of Manicaland. If the old works go down to modern times they still go back in parts to times prehistoric. To the east of our Count Moltke Mine we found old underground buildings just like those in Inyanga. Throughout Manicaland one finds ancient Phoenician gravestones. The religious views of the Manicas are those of the Makalangas. From the Zambesi down to this region of the Upper Pungwe we find one and the same civilisation. And this reaches, as I discovered later, unbroken, down to the Sabi and the Lundi. In fact, I believe that everywhere where one finds the negro washing gold to-day, one may conclude that his first impulse to do so was derived from other races. PHOENICIAN GRAVESTONE IN MANICALAND. The negro himself is much too indolent and lazy to obtain any metal grain by grain through labour, when there is not the prospect of receiving something for his belly in exchange. It would never occur to him to wash or dig for gold, not even to satisfy his own desire for ornaments, if strangers had not come who had offered him something to eat and drink for it. I find it altogether superfluous to follow here every...
Mysteries of the Ancients
Author: Kathryn WalkerPublisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778741473
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The pyramids are a fascinating part of our history--but have you ever wondered if they were related to aliens from outer space? Is there really a city made of gold like in the story of El Dorado? This fascinating book examines the many myths and legends about our ancient past, searching for and finding facts about fascinating sites that include Stonehenge and the lost city of Tiahuanaco.
Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Academy and Literature
Author: Complete Collection of Travel Literature
Author: Tahir ShahPublisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783011734
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 2011
Book Description
This edition brings together Tahir Shah's full collection of travel writing: from India to Africa to South America, join the author on his unusual adventures and expeditions around the world. Shah's overwhelming laugh-out-loud style is present as he educates, informs, and amuses readers about the locations and people he discovers on his journeys.
In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition
Author: Tahir ShahPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129152861X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
For more than a century Henry Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines has inspired generations of young men to set forth in search of adventure. But long before Rider Haggard's classic, explorers, theologians and scientists scoured the known world for the source of King Solomon's astonishing wealth. Taking his leads from a mixture of texts including The Septuagint, the earliest known form of the Bible, as well as using geological, geographical and folkloric sources, Tahir Shah sets out in search for Solomon's gold mines. For him the obvious place to look is Ethiopia, in the horn of Africa. On the ensuing journey Shah discovers a massive illegal gold mine, itself like something out of the Old Testament, with thousands of men, women and children digging with their hands. But the hardest leg of the journey is to the 'cursed mountain' of Tullu Wallel where legend says there lies an ancient shaft, once the entrance to Solomon's mines.
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
Author: Tahir ShahPublisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783011130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Taking his leads from a mixture of texts including The Septuagint, the earliest known form of the Bible, as well as using geological, geographical and folkloric sources, Tahir Shah sets out for Ethiopia in search for King Solomon's gold mines.