The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26

They are 60 miles long and from 10 to 2U miles wide, and they wind their way in and out over the plain, look ing as though they might have been thrown up by volcanoes. In some places they remind me of the Saxon Switzerland, and in others of the Gar den of the Gods on the edge of the Rockies in Colorado. Upon many of them are boulders piled one upon. an other And such boulders You will find nothing like them in any oth ar part of the world. You have seen peb- bles so worn by the waters that they are as round as marbles and as smooth. On these Matopos hills there are boulders as big as a haystack ly- ing on these granite rocks which are as smooth as the pebbles. The rocks upon which they lie are smooth. In places they made me think that they might be great wens on the bald head of old Mother Earth, which is here push ing Itself toward the sky.
 A Great Glacial Garden.
 Indeed, the whole range is one mighty glaclal garden. The hills, where I vis- tied them, are about Il miles wide, and all are scared and worn, with these mighty boulders lying here and there upon them. In some places the rocks are piled up lik,
 
 though the gods had been the masons and Tad here worked at their trade. Some of the rocks are beautifully colored, and their hues change as the sun moves over them. Some contain caves, and in these caves the natives of generations ago have paint ed pictures which are now the wonder of the archeologists.
 The hills contain beautiful valleys. Cas- cades flow down them and springs here s.nd pF the living water which spouted when Moses smote the rock.
 Cecil Rhodes Tomb.
 We drove the automobile right into the hills and wound our way among the boulders to the foot of the rocky mass which the great African hero chose as his last resting place. It is more than mile lip length, and it rises above the valley for hundreds of feet. Like all hills, it is composed of red granite and is ground SIS smooth as floor With staff in hand climbed up, bending half double in places and setting my feet flat for fear might slip. The view broadened at every step, until at last on the top 1 was far above the Matopos hills, which extende iip and down the country as far as my eyes could reach.
 On the summit the rock is smooth, form ing q level space, which covers perhaps 6 quarter of an acre. About this space lie a score of the mighty boulders I have de- scribed, so placed by nature that the" seem to guard it. Right in the center ot this space, on the very summit, is the tomb of Rhodes It is the rock itself The grave was gouged out by mallet and ohisel, and the granite was so hard that it required the masons ten days to do the work. There was no blasting for fear that | might crack the rock but the square I.nIa c dttO ntt+ |, l.x,I kit l deep enough to hold the coffin. This was tnen covered with cement and a granite slab placed over it, the whole being her medically sealed. Upon the top of the slab there is now bronze plate three feet wide and five feet long, and upon 1t are en- graved the simple words which MT, Rhodes ordered for the monument They "IIere Lie the Remains of Cecil JoLn
 Rhodes"
 There is no date of birth or death nor any inscription mentioning the wonderful work that Rhodes did for South Africa and Great Britain. The very simplicity of the monument adds to it's grandeur, and the fact that 1t lies out here in the open, in the wilds of the vast country which he has given to the English crown seemed to me monument enough. It was impressive, and as l looked at it l in- voluntarily took off my hat, for I seemed to be upon holy ground.
 Guarded by the MatabeIes.
 As I climbed up the rocks and walked here and there about the grave I was followed by two Matabele boys. They made no noise as they slipped in their bare feet around the mighty boulders which guard the tomb, and 1t was only when I changed my course that I was able to see them. They were, I am told. two of the guards whom Dom Jaahn, the chief of whom have written keeps