GOLD FROM THE QUARTZ

First edition: 223 [1] pages, frontispiece, 2 maps, numerous black and white illustrations, map on front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth boards, title gilt on the upper cover and spine, Name of a previous owner on the fep, a good copy.

Presented to Rene Beaudire 1910 by the London Missionary Society.

A South African Bibliography volume 2 page 183: An account of Rhodesia from the missionary point of view, but has a chapter on Dingiswayo, Shaka and Mzilikazi.

Reverend William Allan Elliott

He studied at New College, London. He was ordained on 20 June 1876 at the Congregational Chapel, Cheltenham and married Rosina Clapton the following day. They sailed from England on 23 August 1876 arriving at the LMS Mission at Inyati (present-day Inyathi) twelve months later.

They remained at Inyati until 9 June 1890 when because of the unrest and political disturbances in Matabeleland, caused by the Pioneer Column’s progress from Tuli to Mashonaland, they left for Palapye in present-day Botswana, and stayed with Rev James D. Hepburn, only returning in October. https://zimfieldguide.com/matabeleland-north/