The hunter and explorer Selous was farming in Matabeleland when the Ndebele rose against the British South Africa Company’s settlers in 1896. He describes the country before the rising, the outbreak, the forts and patrols around Bulawayo and his own service in the field force, writing wholly from the settlers’ side with the imperial assumptions of the day.
A primary source on the conquest of Zimbabwe, valuable to historians and to readers of African exploration. Download the free EPUB.