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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
CHAPTER VII. 
The Region South of the Zambesi. 
Livingstone’s first great journey gave an immense 
stimulus to African exploration. One of the first to 
enter the field was Mr. Francis Galt-on, who, in 1850-51, 
with his companion Anderssen, penetrated into the 
Namaqualand interior and the Lake Ngami region from 
Walvisch Bay, and added greatly to our knowledge of 
that part of South Africa. Anderssen himself, a Dane, 
had already done much good work, and so did Thomas 
Baines, both here and elsewhere. 
Further east, again, a German traveller, Karl Maucli, 
explored the region to the north of the Limpopo river, 
known as Matabeleland. In the Transvaal and else¬ 
where he discovered great gold fields, a discovery which 
caused much excitement in Europe. Much more in the 
way of gold discovery has been done recently, and 
most of the country traversed by Maucli is now British 
territory. One of the most important discoveries were 
the ruins of Zimbabye or Zembaoe, in the old kingdom 
of Monomatapu, to which reference has been made in an 
earlier chapter. Maucli found walls from 7 to 10 feet 
thick, and 30 feet high, and extending for 150 yards ; 
from one portion rose a pyramidal tower 30 feet in height. 
The pioneers of the British South African Company’s 
force are now investigating these ruins, so that the 
mystery of their origin may yet be solved. Thomas 
Baines also did a great deal for the exploration of 
this same region, and collected much important in¬ 
formation as to its gold fields. But we shall go on to 
another German traveller, Edward Mohr, who has given 
us some delightful examples of South African life and 
