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A view looking across bush towards large granite kopjes. Exact location unknown, but a photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890 between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers.

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Another view showing granite outcrops between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers. Photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890.

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120 x 73 mm.

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122 x 74 mm.

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Showing a group of Makalaka girls in front of a clay and thatch hut at M’tibi’s Kraal. Photograph taken July 24th 1890.

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Showing a group of Makalaka men and women on a large granite boulder with a thatched hut and cliffs beyond. Photograph probably taken on July 24th 1890, the day on which the Column reached Mtibi’s Kraal on the banks of the Setoutsie River.

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A view from flat bush land towards an unidentified hill with a vertical cliff face on its right hand side backed by a rounded, lightly vegetated slope. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the column’s horses grazing on pasture land in the foreground with the Savana Buli Rock rising beyond. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the wagons of the column laagered on flat bush in the foreground with the Savana Buli Rock, a huge dome of smooth granite, towering above in the background. A photograph taken shortly before the column crossed the Lundi River on August 2nd.

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A view looking down from a hill onto the laager of wagons, drawn up in a circle on flat bush land with hills in the distance. Exact location unknown. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the column laagered on flat land in the foreground with granite kopjes beyond. The searchlight and steam engine (see Y3052A/30) can be seen in the right foreground. Exact location unknown, but a photograph taken between July 24th and 28th 1890 between the Setoutsie and Nuanetsie Rivers.

Scope and Contents Showing pioneer wagons laagered in a circle near the Tuli River with the searchlight steam-engine visible in the background (see Y3052A/30). Tuli was reached on July 1 and occupied until July 11 when a column consisting of 180 pioneers, 200 police, 62 wagons and a number of small prospecting parties started to cross the Tuli River. This party was preceded by Captain Hoste and B Troop who crossed the river on July 6 and forged ahead cutting the road towards the Umzingwani River 50 miles from...

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A view looking down from the site of Fort Tuli (see Y3052A/42-44) onto a laager of wagons at the same spot as that seen in Y3052A/38. This however is a large affair with a corrugated iron shed in the foreground and a row of tents around part of the perimeter. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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A view looking down from the site of Fort Tuli (see Y3052A/42-44) onto the circular laager of wagons with the Tuli River in the background and scrubland beyond. The searchlight steam-engine (see Y3052A/30) is under canvas at the left of the laager. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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Showing a large thorn tree near the Umzingwane with an unidentified pioneer standing in the foreground. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A view looking along the river with an unidentified pioneer standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along the Lundi towards rapids in the distance with an unidentified pioneer standing on the bank in the foreground. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A slightly blurred view showing Mashona holding vegetables and other produce for bartering while they bargain with the pioneers. Exact location unknown, but presumably taken in the Lundi River area around August 2nd.

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Showing a group of Mashonas siting or standing with goods for barter carried in circular wicker baskets. A group of pioneers poses for the camera in the background. Exact location unknown, but presumably taken in the Lundi River area around August 2nd.

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Showing a group of Matabele warriors, some wearing traditional clothing with shields of hide, others with European accoutrements. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.

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Showing Matabele warriors armed with shields and rifles standing among a group of pioneers.

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Showing the Matabele warriors seated on the ground at Fort Tuli with a group of pioneers gathered round them in a semi-circle.

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73 x 118 mm. A group of people on the top of a hill.

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77 x 51 mm. A woman seated on rocks next to a river, probably at the Matopos Hills.

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Showing part of the camp with the searchlight and steam engine (see Y3052A/30) at the left of the print, a row of wagons and men and equipment in the foreground. The location is presumably Impadi rather than Impagi, a spot about two thirds of the way between Tuli and the Umzingwane. The advance road making party reached the Umzingwane on July 10th, the day before the main body set out from Fort Tuli. The main column would have reached Impadi on about July 14th 1890.