mercial adventure--Chief Sandile--Discovery of diamonds--Start for
Golconda--Traveling companions--Manslaughter narrowly escaped--Old De
Beers--Life at the Diamond Fields--Scarcity of water--First case of
diamond stealing--I nearly discover Kimberley Mine--The rush to Colesberg
Kopje--My first diamond--Its loss and my humiliation--Kimberley claims
dear at 10--Camp-life in early days--I. D. B.--Canteen burning.

CHAPTER V

My claim a disappointment--Good results attained elsewhere--A surprised
Boer--"Kopje wallopers"--Thunderstorms--A shocking spectacle--"Old Moore"
and his love affair--The morning market--Attack of enteric--I go to King
William's Town to recruit Toby once more--A venture in onions--Return to
Kimberley--The West End mess--The Rhodes brothers--Norman Garstin--H. C.
Seppings Wright--"Schipka" Campbell--Cecil John Rhodes--A game of euchre
The church bell--Raw natives--Alum diamonds--Herbert Rhodes and the cannon
His terrible end.

CHAPTER VI

Big gambling--Von Schlichmann--Norman Garstin--The painter of St.
Michael's Mount--Start for the gold fields--"I am going to be hanged"
Plentifulness of game--Snakes in an anthill--Nazareth--Game in the High
Veld--Narrow escape from frost-bite--A shooting match--Lydenburg--Painful
tramping--"Artful Joe"--Penalty for suicide--Pilgrim's Rest--Experiences of
"a new chum"--Tent-making--Explorations--The Great Plateau--Prospect of the
Low Country--Elands.

CHAPTER VII

Extended rambles--View from the mountain top--An unknown land--The deadly
fever--Gray's fate--Lack of nursing--Temperature rises after death
Pilgrim's Rest in early days--The prison--The stocks--No color line--John
Cameron in trouble--The creek "lead"--Plenty of gold--Wild peaches
Massacres of natives in old days--Kameel--His expressions--Life on the
creek--Major Macdonald--The parson--Boulders--Bad accidents--A quaint
signboard--"Reefing Charlie".

CHAPTER VIII

Work on "the Reef"--Shaft-sinking in a swamp--Wolff and McGrath--A case of
snake-bite--Tunneling--Humping green timber--John Mulcahy--His Gargantuan
breakfast--His peculiar habits--His end--The rush to "the Reef"
Cunningham's lead--My bad luck--Peter and his appetite--"Mr. William
Bogis" Fabayne, the cave-dweller--A bellicose bridegroom--Knox and his
revolver practice--A senseless toast and its sequel--A terrible accident
Alick Dempster and the Police News.

CHAPTER IX

Expedition to Delagoa Bay--A rencontre at Consta