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For copies of rock engravings at Tondia I am indebted to
M. Raymond Mauny, Director of Archaeology at the Institut de
L'Afrique Noire, Dakar, who made them and has generously
allowed me to reproduce them.

I am indebted to Dr. Gertrude Caton-Thompson and the Clar-
endon Press for permission to reproduce the drawing of stone
steps at Great Zimbabwe.

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