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Showing Captain Hoste and another officer at the head of ‘B’ Troop, mounted in formation on the dry section of the Tuli Riverbed. ‘B’ Troop left Tuli on July 6th to cut the road through to the Umzingwani River (50 miles from Tuli) while the main column awaited provisions from Macloutsie.

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Showing the searchlight steam engine laagered on cleared land at Fort Tuli. See Y3052A/30. Photograph taken during first week of July 1890.

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Showing ‘B’ Troop mounted and in formation on part of the sandy riverbed of the Tuli. The Tuli (or Shashi) River stretched nearly 1000 yards from bank to bank, but at the time the Pioneer Column was there, before the rains, the river itself was only a few hundred yards across and the flat riverbed was used as a football pitch.

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A view looking back across the Tuli River towards the kopje on which Fort Tuli would later stand. The main column’s laager can just be made out below the hill. A photograph probably taken on July 6th 1890.

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A view looking towards the summit of the kopje with a protective thorn zariba surrounding the hill in the foreground, inside which are wagons and tents. On the summit of the kopje is the earthworks fort itself with an encampment of bell tents inside a brushwood perimeter fence and a sandbag lookout post. The fort itself was built, after the main body of the column had passed through, by a troop of BSA Co. police left behind as a garrison by Willoughby.

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A more distant view of Fort Tuli showing the whole of the summit of the kopje and outer fortifications.

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 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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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 showing the summit of the kopje 100 feet above the Tuli River with a cleared space surrounded by a thorn zariba. Inside the zariba are rows of bivouac tents, a group of pioneers gathered round light field pieces and the searchlight (see Y3052A/30) and a flagpole in the foreground. Photograph taken during the first week of July 1890.