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A view of the front of the Round House Hotel, at the corner of Esigodini Road/ Hope Fountain road, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Dark sky and bushes in the foreground. On the reverse 'The Round House Hotel which I have talked a lot about'.

During the Second…

John sitting outside a grass walled building. One is annotated 'To mother and father with fondest love John'.

Four men wearing towels as turbans with one shrouded in a sheet. Two are holding knives pointed at one man kneeling in front. The groups is outside a single storey corrugated roofed building with canvas openings.

John, dressed in desert uniform with short and rolled up sleeves. He is leaning on an oil barrel outside a grassed walled building with a rolled up canvas doorway. On the reverse 'This was taken outside my old hut'.

A man suspended off the ground by the shoulders of two others. All three are wearing desert uniform and holding pith helmets. Two of the men are holding cigarettes and they are arranged in front of a single storey, grass roofed building.

John dressed in uniform and his white banded side cap standing in front of a pitched grass roofed single storey building.

Men, women and children sitting around and swimming in a rectangular swimming pool with diving board. One man is wearing a pith helmet with a towel covering his back. The area is bordered by floodlights and trees. On the reverse of the second…

Four men in uniform with long woollen socks, shorts, buttoned jackets, shirt and ties with half caps all with white bands. On reverse 'The lads out for a stroll'.

One man sat crossed legged on the ground, John kneeling behind him, one standing and a fourth man sat the shoulders of the man in front. He is holding a pile of books.

Four uniformed men in shorts, shirts with rolled up sleeves and ties. They are standing in a row outside a grass roofed building with John, far right. All are holding a number of books.

Three uniformed men in pith helmets. On the reverse 'Three of my party crossing one of the many streams that flowed in between the hills'.

A group of four men in desert uniform, three of whom are sitting and one standing, overlooking open hilly scrubland. on the reverse 'My party taking a rest on top of one of the hills. This photograph illustrates the country we had to cross on the 35…

A group of five men dressed in uniform, studying a map. All are wearing long trousers apart from John, standing far right, who's is wearing shorts with a camera slung across his body. On the reverse 'This was taken on the eve of bash, and shows the…

A view of rolling scrubland and trees with a road passing through. On the reverse 'View of country we crossed'.

A group of six men in uniform, five of whom are leaning over looking at a map. The group are in scrubland with trees beyond. On the reverse 'My party studying maps on the eve of the "bash" '.

A group of fourteen men in desert uniform holding enamel cups. On the reverse 'Chaps getting tea round the camp fire on the evening before the great "Bundu bash" '.

Sixteen men in uniform around the ashes of a camp fire. Thirteen of the men are standing and three are sat in front. Eight are holding enamel cups. John is standing second from the right with a camera slung across his body. On the reverse 'This was…

A view of open scrubland with flowers and shrubs. A rough road crosses the landscape. On the reverse 'The is picture was taken from the back of the lorry, when driving over the Bundu before reaching the camping site'.

A man standing over a cooking pot holding a long handle. A man in desert uniform can be seen sitting on a dead bench to one side. They are in scrubland with trees around. On the reserve 'The native cook who came with us on the "bash" '.

Five men in desert uniform, with long wooden socks, shorts, skirts with rolled up sleeves and topees, with John third from the right. Between them they are carrying a dead tree through knee high grass in an open landscape. On the reverse 'Carrying a…

A group of 14 men, 11 of whom are wearing tepees and three holding them. Some of the helmets have feathers decorating them with John is standing second right, On the reverse 'Can you see me? I'm second from the right. Before starting out on the…

Four bareheaded, uniformed men changing the wheel of a car with the top up, having removed their jackets. The registration of the car begins B 57 and there is a wheel separate to the car. John is crouching at the back of the group. On the reverse…

The hut stands in open ground with a pitched grass roof and a multi paned glass window. It has rocks around its base and a notice at its entrance. On the reverse 'The hut that Rhodes stayed in when visiting Bulawayo. Now in the grounds of the…

Three uniformed service men standing under the tree. The man in the centre is holding the sign for the tree. On the reverse 'Chief Lobangula's conference tree. Rhodes visited him when he was the chief of the Bulawayo Kraal and stayed in the hut that…

Three uniformed men, wearing side caps with white bands sitting on a leather Chesterfield style sofa. The sofa is against a wall under a framed photograph of Cecil Rhodes with a framed citation below.