Rivers of water in a dry place, or, From Africaner's kraal to Khama's city
A Religious Tract Society book published in London in 1885, a missionary account of Robert Moffat's travels in southern Africa, aimed at a Christian readership. Its pictures are decorative horizontal borders in classical style, with rows of scrolls, palmettes, a bearded mask, a star medallion, and a profile head in a roundel. A designer could take from them ready-made Greek-revival border strips, with repeating scroll and palmette patterns that work as dividers or frames.
