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Frederick Boyle

The Savage Life: A Second Series of Camp Notes

Paperback (Forgotten Books Jan. 30, 2018)
Excerpt from The Savage Life: A Second Series of Camp NotesThe finding of diamonds along the Vaal River is only a re-discovery. I am informed that an old Dutch mission map, preserved in the library of the Chamber of Commerce at Port Elizabeth, records an early knowledge of them. Hz'er be diamazztm is written across the territory we now call Griqualand West. Two hundred years ago, in a folio published at London, 16 5 7, Van Riebeek mentioned diamonds as found near the rich city Momotopata. He says that the stones brought from thence sparkled like stars in a night sky. Of this historical, yet most mysterious city, the ruins appear to have been just discovered by our digging prospectors, below Bloemhof, in the lands of the Coranna Chieftain, Monkoran, some fifty miles from Pniel. Casts of column, sculpture, and frieze from thence, de scribed as beautiful, have already reached Cape Town, but since my departure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
ISBN
1332409342 / 9781332409341
Pages
346
Weight
17.6 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.7 in.

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