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161 pages of information about Elissa.   The world is full of
ruins, but few of them have an origin so utterly lost in mystery
as those of Zimbabwe in South Central Africa.  Who built them? 
What purpose did they serve?  These are questions that must have
perplexed many generations, and many different races of men.
The researches of Mr. Wilmot prove to us indeed that in the
Middle Ages Zimbabwe or Zimboe was the seat of a barbarous
empire, whose ruler was named the Emperor of Monomotapa, also
that for some years the Jesuits ministered in a Christian church
built beneath the shadow of its ancient towers.  But of the
original purpose of those towers, and of the race that reared
them, the inhabitants of mediaeval Monomotapa, it is probable,
knew less even than we know to-day.  The labours and skilled
observation of the late Mr. Theodore Bent, whose death is so
great a loss to all intereste