. Pioneers in South Africa . bwe, of course, had notonly been known to and mentioned by the early Portu-guese, but its existence had been heard of by the natives,and recorded by Dr. Livingstone twenty years beforeMauchs discovery.] Mauch, accompanied by an Englishman (Phillips),travelled from Zimbabwe to Sena on the Zambezi, whencehe returned to his native land (Wiirttemberg); but he diedthere in 1875 as the result of his hardships. Thomas Baines, who was born at Kings Lynn inNorfolk and had been a sailor, had a considerable giftfor drawing and painting, but never having had anyproper training
. Pioneers in South Africa . bwe, of course, had notonly been known to and mentioned by the early Portu-guese, but its existence had been heard of by the natives,and recorded by Dr. Livingstone twenty years beforeMauchs discovery.] Mauch, accompanied by an Englishman (Phillips),travelled from Zimbabwe to Sena on the Zambezi, whencehe returned to his native land (Wiirttemberg); but he diedthere in 1875 as the result of his hardships. Thomas Baines, who was born at Kings Lynn inNorfolk and had been a sailor, had a considerable giftfor drawing and painting, but never having had anyproper training, his work was sometimes a little hard andgrotesque, wanting in perspective and in proportion. Hefirst came out to South Africa in 1842. His attempt todo survey work in the Transvaal led to his being declaredan outlaw by the Boers. He accompanied a surveyingexpedition to North Australia, and in 1857 was selected toserve with Livingstone on his second Zambezi he quarrelled with Charles Livingstone (secretary to. 87 MAUCH DISCOVERING THE RL INS OF ZIMBABWE Mosilikatsi and the Boers 231 his much greater brother) and was dismissed most un-fairly. He afterwards journeyed throughout Damaralandand along the Zambezi with the expeditions of JamesChapman and other travellers. In the sixties of lastcentury he set himself to work to follow up the truth ofthe many native stories regarding the existence of goldin south-east Africa, and in these researches he derivedmuch information from Karl Mauch. Baines in 1873 obtained a concession for gold miningfrom Lobengula, the son and successor of Mosilikatsi,and the company which he founded continued in variousforms to work the gold supply of Tati, and to keep alivethe idea of the supposed wealth in gold in Matebelelanduntil the great Rhodesian movement in the followingdecade, the eighties; but Baines himself died of dysenteryat Durban in 1875. He was a pioneer of right goodquality, and has never yet received his due recognition. Wha
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