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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TATI , a See also:

district of See also:British See also:South See also:Africa forming, geographically, the S.W. corner of Matabeleland, but attached administratively to the See also:Bechuanaland See also:Protectorate. See also:Area about 2500 sq. m. The railway from Cape See also:Town to See also:Bulawayo crosses the territory with a station at Francistown, the See also:principal See also:settlement. See also:Francis-town stands 3254 ft. above the See also:sea and is 126 rn. S.W. of Bulawayo by See also:rail. The town of Tati, on the See also:river of that name, is 18 m. S.E. of Shashi river railway station. Tati owes its importance to the presence of See also:gold, first discovered by the See also:German traveller, Karl Mauch, in 1864. See also:Mining began in 1868, but it was not until 1895 that See also:work on a large See also:scale was undertaken, and it has been frequently interrupted since that date. The See also:chief mine is the Monarch, situated by the railway. A concession to work the gold-mines, and for other purposes, was obtained in 1887 by Mr S. H.

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Edwards from Lobengula, the See also:Matabele chief, and the mining rights are vested in a See also:company, thereafter formed, called the Tati Concessions Company.

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