Bod. REPoRT—1905. 
could be no doubt that the Rhodesian ruins were the work of a native 
race closely akin to those at present inhabiting the country. To identify 
this race would be a task well deserving of the efforts of investigators. So 
far from considering that his new conception of the origin and date of 
these ruins destroyed a romance, the lecturer maintained that they were 
far more interesting now that they proved to be, not a parasitic growth 
from Arabia, but products of South Africa itself. Their history is the past 
history of Rhodesia. 
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