Dr Peter's Expedition.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 96, 16 January 1900, Page 3

Dr Peter's Expedition.

neuter's Ageucj is n.fonntd , tlml Dr liters, in a letter dated Umtali, Ociobar 18, juot to bai-d, announcethat during the rainy reason, when practically no proSpucti"g woik was pobbiole, Le intended to corns to En«hind. Hu adds; " I expect to auiva about tho middle cf December, accompanied by Uintete, the brother ot thtf la-nous chief "I am leaving my staff out; hei*e. One mm mi q engineer and a, trader aro lett at cno Fura, station, 'near tlu Zam bozi, and al io at the lujdugi statiod noar Uailali. " I am iv fir&fc class health, but I am feaiiug a Lttle raa d-nvu in const), quaaco of tile nj.aret.Uiig, oxploniiij a-id n regular food, etc. I htve eudo .v-_> bhat can prove we have r-slly aia c >verad ' The. Fura ol old t-.pjjiM ' ' la oxplmiarioa of Uvi, R'aii-zi s \geucy h u, routed than I>r (Jan L'etc-t-s' ts^ilu.oti wig ii> tmly bi cd on an old atlas published in Ani"', dun 11 1705 with French fcim, the author being unknown in tun ftii<j it v.as stated that " ne-ir tlm plft.cu is t'u' i^v j 'A inoaiitain of Fura, very i c'a hi gyld, which souie people reg.ird as •» > ■ 1 1 j j ( i ,n oi the word Ophir " Th.s view waa also held by the Portuguesa \/Xiter Couto, who was quoted by Yhaodya Hant in his "Burned (jitiea tf MashonaUnd." W'Ui i yiid to Fura, Oouto said i '* The vics'ipst i. lines of ail are those of iVlas-siippa, from which the Queen of shoba took the greater paro of the gold \ni"h she went to otfer to the temple ot '"-•olcinon, aid it is Ophir, for the Kafirs c*ll it Far and tho 2,1 ctiA Alar." JJr Pet?rs spates that no traveller h-w visJlad ihn region within the last 200 \ ears. He las now di&eo'\ ere I ancient rums of Semitic oiigin, including fortifications and what ha regarded as a temple or storehouse. Tiie whole tv^iou i$ p- ic.ija'ly u«i inh'fbited He also claims to have t'juud distant traces of ancient gokl woikings there.