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A view looking down onto two rows of bell tents surrounded by a thorn zariba with scrubland and the Tuli River in the background. Of the 500 BSA Co. police, only 300 moved on to Tuli, the remainder, under the command of Sir John Willoughby, remaining at Macloutsie to cover the column’s rear. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.

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Showing another section of the police lines at Tuli River. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.

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A view looking across granite outcrops towards the Umzingwane with the rapids situated at a curve in the river among the granite in the foreground. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A closer view of the entrance to the rapids with the river passing through a narrow defile between granite outcrops on the bank. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...

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73 x 51 mm. Showing the plaque marking Rhodes' grave at the 'World's View' in the Matopos Hills.

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202 x 151 mm. Showing the stone slab and plaque marking Cecil Rhodes' grave in the Matopos Hills.

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Twenty persons are showing in the photograph. The Royal Commission comprised Viscount Bledisloe (Chairman), Patrick Ashley Cooper, Ernest Evans, Thomas Fitzgerald, William Henry Mainwaring, and Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing, with George Frederick Seel as Secretary.

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Showing another section of the wall seen in Y3052A/106. This part, to the right of the entrance gateway, does not have the decorative stonework visible in that print. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing the entrance gateway in the wall, seen at the right hand side of Y3052A/106. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Showing one of the circular stone walls, in good repair apart from some crumbling at the gateway at the right of the print, in the ruins visited at Lundi by the pioneers. The wall consists of neatly dressed stone similar to that seen at Zimbabwe (see Y3052A/110) with two herring bone patterns running along the left hand section and above these two rows of decoratively spaced stones. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

Scope and Contents Showing the severed head of a hippopotamus lying on the ground. 'In spite of the order that no game was to be shot to avoid alarming any Matabele in the neighbourhood, Johnson could not resist the temptation offered by a school of four hippopotami disporting in the river. He and the brothers Burnett put an end to their game. The skin, leg bones and skull of a cow [presumably the animal seen here] were at once claimed by William Harvey Brown, an American naturalist sent to South Africa to...

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Showing diggers in the foreground with factory buildings beyond at the Shabanie Asbestos Mine, 95 miles east of Bulawayo.

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73 x 51 mm. Showing the grave and memorial of the members of the Shingani Patrol killed in 1893.

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Showing Dr Jameson and Canon Balfour seated in camp chairs with four Matabele warriors sitting on the ground in front of them. In the background are wagons loaded with equipment. A photograph probably taken on July 20th.

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Showing Pennefather’s tent in the foreground (with washing draped over the guys) and the laagered wagons of the pioneer column beyond. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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Published and unpublished material collected by Sugg relating to Southern Africa.

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A view from flat bush land looking towards the smooth dome of the Savana Buli Rock. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along a river (probably the Suvirima, a tributary of the Lundi) towards the Savana Buli Rock. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

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A view looking along a river (probably the Suvirima, a tributary of the Lundi) towards the Savana Buli Rock. Photograph taken about August 2nd. A similar view to Y3052A/ 88, taken from a slightly different angle. Photograph taken about August 2nd.

Scope and Contents Showing teams of men, some standing naked in the river hauling an ox span and wagon (tipped at a precarious angle on the farther bank) across the Umzingwane. Sir John Willoughby describes the work involved in this task: The ... rivers, on account of their steep banks and sandy beds, were great natural obstacles to the advance of the main column, and also to us, though to a somewhat lesser degree. Drifts had to be made over each, the banks cut away and the sandy beds corduroyed [the corduroy...

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Showing a large team of oxen pulling a wagon across the Umzingwane. This probably shows the wagon seen in Y3052A/57, with extra oxen inspanned to it pulling the vehicle across the river. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A view of Umzingwane River with horses drinking and a team of oxen (blurred) crossing the drift. A photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A view looking along the sandy riverbank towards the river. A photograph taken about July 15th 1890.

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A rather poorly defined view showing a wagon stuck in the shallow bed of the Umzingwane with groups of loose oxen standing beside the river. Photograph taken about July 15th 1890.