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The Glamour of Prospecting; Wanderings of a South African Prospector in Search of Copper, Gold, Emeralds, and Diamonds

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII TRIP IN SEARCH OF "EMERALD VALLEY" FEVER AND FAILURE BACK TO GORDONIA SECOND TRIP TO BAK RIVER "SOME GUN I" THE PACK-COW SURLY NATIVES "ROUGHOtG IT." One of our greatest disappointments in the Kalahari had been our failure to reach the pan of "bright green stones," which we believed to be emeralds, and when on my return to Cape Town I found a man awaiting me who claimed to have found a rich deposit of them in Portuguese East Africa, I decided to fill in the time of waiting the Government's decision as to my desert discoveries by making a dash for "Emerald Valley." Rumour as to the existence of this valley has for many years been current amongst prospectors and mining men in the Barberton district, and many a man has heard the tale in Johannesburg. It is alleged that a party of Boers, hunting on the Portuguese side of the Lebombo Mountains, which form the boundary between Portuguese territory and the North-Eastern Transvaal, came upon some ancient workings which they failed to penetrate, owing to noxious gas; but that at the mouth of one they found skeletons, and with the bones a small skin bag full of rough emeralds. They got away with the stones, which fetched a large sum in Europe, but for some unexplained reason were never able to reach the spot again. My merchant, who had a small rough emerald to help his tale, claimed to have found the spot again, and wanted to make a dash for it from the Transvaal side of the Sabi Game Reserve; but as it was in Portuguese territory, I would only undertake the trip with a proper licence from the Portuguese. As the upshot of negotiations, within a month of leaving the desert I was on my way to Delagoa Bay, accompanied by Telfer, another white miner from Johannesburg, and the " discoverer." We had been prepared ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458876812
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458876810
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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