are scarce here. They do not seem to thrive in this climate. Another peculiarity is that nearly all the women have black hair; a blonde with blue eyes is a great rarity in Africa. When a woman's hair isn't black in Africa, it is a fiery red. . . . The country between Victoria Falls and Bulawayo seems to be better developed than the country between Bulawayo and Mafeking. This afternoon, eighty or a hundred miles from the falls, we stopped at quite a coal-mining town, and saw great rows of coke ovens.
Thursday, April 3.—In order to reach the sea at
Beira, we were compelled to travel back to Bulawayo
from Victoria Falls, and remain there from 7:30 A. M.
until 10:30 P. M. We devoted the day to an automobile
ride, and visited the Khami ruins, fifteen miles
from the town. . . . Many centuries ago, Africa
was inhabited by a race far superior in intelligence to
the present native negroes. These people left the country
hurriedly, for some reason, and it was one of their
deserted towns we visited today. Some learned investigators
say the ruined and deserted cities were
built long before the Christian era, probably in the
time of Solomon, and that the gold with which Solomon's
temple was adorned, amounting in value to ten
million dollars, was mined in Africa. There seems to be
no doubt that the gold mines in Rhodesia were worked
many centuries ago; the workers in the mines today
find unmistakable evidence of previous occupation. . . .
The ruins we visited are scattered over a good
