 | 1918 - 966 pages
...edifices Symbaoe, which, accor(hing to their language, signifies “Court,”t for every place where the Benomotapa may be is so called, and they say that,...the manner of a chief alcaide. and they call this officer Symbacayo, or, as we should say, Regent of the Symbaoe, and there arc always some of the Benomotapa's... | |
 | Innocent Pikirayi - 2001 - 340 pages
...the fashioning of the stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them is a tower more than twelve fathoms high. The natives of the country call all...property all the king's other dwellings have this name. . . . When, and by whom, these edifices were raised, as the people of the land are ignorant of the... | |
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... Moorish merchants, learned men, who went thither, could not read, neither could they tell what the character might be. This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of the stone and the absence of... 