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to prove very strongly to my mind that it was built for and has re- 

 mained a sacred enclosure, the main building probably having been 

 what I have termed it all through these notes, a " Temple." 



In the Temple, more especially in the vicinity of the "curl," 

 broken sherds of pottery were found ; also bones of antelope (large). 

 'Round about the monoliths, bones and sherds were again found, 

 and in all the graves opened there was the same result. Through- 

 out not one skeleton has been found. Under the circumstances, is 

 it not possible that cremation was in vogue among these people ? 

 It appears to me to be by no means an improbable solution of the 

 mystery. 



I have already remarked that the work throughout is that of a 

 negro race, and again that the work cannot be earlier than the 

 end of the XVIth century. 



In case any argument may crop up, now or in the future, let me 

 again state that the fragments of Nankin china were found in the 

 main walls, or, to be exact, in the main wall of the " curl," quite a 

 meter below the surface. 



Again, the fragments of terra-cotta porcelain were found much in 

 the same place ; though I can give no name to it, yet in some 

 respects it has the appearance of " coalport." 



Umtali, S. Rhodesia, S. Africa, December 20, 1906. 



