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From: "Ken Markham" <>
Subject: Rhodesian Epic ... ... ...
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:37:37 +0200

Hi All Listers,

I would like to introduce to you a great reference book that
has outstanding value in both text and pictorial content. This
is one of my personal favourites.

RHODESIAN EPIC
T.W. BAXTER AND R.W.S. TURNER
1966
HOWARD TIMMINS
CAPE TOWN
Printed by Citadel Press, Cape Town, RSA.

I would like to run through a number of items in the book to
capture some attention to its value. All pages are two-tone.

"Rhodesian Epic is a collection of pictures that tells the story
of Rhodesia from the earliest times down to ... The aim is to
convey visually a series of events that are normally described
only in words ..."

One of my favourite maps of Africa is on pages 12-13 !!!. It is
dated 1805, and illustrates something I would like to include in
one of my books.

Jumping to pg38, Chapter Four, on David Livingstone. Pg38 has the
nicest sketch of David Livingstone I've seen anywhere, full page
too !!!. If you haven't seen this picture, it is well worth the
effort to see it. I hope to put forward just a few facts from
these chapters that I don't think I included in my last posting.
I hope it is useful to you ?.

David Livingstone was born in 1813 in Blantyre in Scotland. The
son of a tea-pedlar... In 1840 he qualified as a doctor at Glasgow
University... A meeting with Robert Moffat turned his thoughts to
Africa and in December 1840 he sailed for Cape Town. He spent 3
separate periods in Africa,

1. 1841 - 1856,
2. 1856 - 1864,
3. 1866 - 1873.

On the 1st August 1849, he was the first white person to see Lake
Nguni. In June 1851 he reached the Zambezi and saw the horrors of
slave trading... Much about his travels... At last, worn out, he
died at Chtambo's village, south of Lake Bangwela on 1 May 1873.
His faithful followers, Susi and Chuma, buried his heart under a
tree, embalmed the body and carried it back to the coast. He was
buried in Westminster Abbey on 18 April 1874.

Picture of David Livingstone with "his second child Agnes". There
were six children, 3 boys and 3 girls, one of the girls died in
infancy and Robert the eldest son was killed in the American Civil
War. [Well you have the name of the son who was killed in this
War now !!!].

Sketch 52: Livingstone mauled by a lion. The upper humerous of his
left arm was broken and was badly set. It was this old injury that
his body was identified when it arrived in England.

Kolobeng is in south "Bechuanaland", now Botswana.
Sketches, maps and much more info...
Charles Livingstone was David Livingstone's brother.
Sketch of H.M. Stanley meeting Livingstone.

"When Livingstone was interred in Westminster Abbey, Chuma stood
in the congragation..."

"A group of distinguished surgeons performed a post-mortem
examination to remove all doubt as to identification, and used as
conclusive evidence the broken bone of his left arm, fractured in
an encounter with a lion in 1843."

Pic97, younger picture of Robert Moffat. Born 1795. He died in
England at age of 88.

Pic98, Mary Moffat, wife of Robert Moffat. Mary Smith was born in
1795 and married Robert Moffat in Cape Town in 1819. She died in
London in 1871.

Pic102, John Smith Moffat, son of Robert Moffat, was born at
Kuruman in 1835. He married Emily Unwin in 1858. He died in 1918
in Mowbray, Cape Province.

Pic103, Emily Moffat, born in Brighton in 1831. She was the only
child of Jonah Stephen Unwin, a tea-merchant.

Pic105, Thomas Morgan Thomas, died 1884.

Pic127, Carl Mauch, born 1837. He mapped the Tati and
Mashonaland goldfields, he visited Zimbabwe in 1871, and later
discovered the goldfields at Makaha in the Mtoko district. He died
in 1875 as the result of falling out of his bedroom window. As
far as I can 'remember', he also named "Mount Markham" in the
eastern highlands of Zims [or Carl Maunch or Marx?].

Pic134, James Fairbairn and James Dawson.
Pic151, "The Moffat Treaty".
Pic195, George Benjamin Dunbar Moodie.
Pic196, Thomas Moodie, trek leader.
Pic197, "The Van der Byl Trek" [members].
Pic211, Major Patrick William Forbes. He died in 1918.
Pic215, "The Last Stand", the battle of Forbes at Shangani.
Pic229, Taylor's fort at and look-out post just outside Byo.
Pic248, Robert Stephenson Smith Baden-Powell. Born 1857 in London.
[Their is a relationship between both families of
Stephenson and Smith as mentioned in "MM".]
Pic262, Randolph Cosby Nesbitt, V.C. Born at Queenstown in Cape
Colony. [R.C. Nesbitt], [A great picture !!!].
Pic284, Coach passenger ticket. [Proprietors - J.D. Symington].
Pic288, Departure from Bulawayo of Zeederberg's mail coach in 1896.
Pic289, C.H. Zeederberg, pioneer mail contractor.
Pic293, J.W. Dunlop, and family. [Trust me, Iknow what I'm doing !.
There is NOT even a spare tyre in this photo !!!].
Pic322, W.E. Fairbridge ...
Pic324, The first issue of the 'Mashonaland Herald', 27 June 1891.
The editor, W.E. Fairbridge ...
Pic370, Kingsley Fairbridge with his parents. Taken at his home
"Utopia", Umtali, 1897. Pictures shows both his parents.
Kingsley was born at Grahamstown in 1885, and he came to
Zims at the age of 11. In 1907 he obtained a Rhodes
Scholarship. He devoted his life to emigration, principally
to Australia. He died in 1902.
Pic373, Mrs. Payne's tea-room at Umtali, Zims, 1897.
Pic411, ....... H.M.G. Jackson, W.E. Thomas, H.J. Taylor, ......
....... H.F. Griffiths, D.H. Moodie...

Yours Sincerely,
Sir Ken Markham, K.C.B., (95).

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