Today's installment concludes Diamonds Discovered in South Africa,our selection from The Diamond Mines of South Africa by Gardner F. Williams

When the prospectors crossed the karroo and entered the stretches of pasture-land which the Dutch called “veld”, the scenes of their marches were much

Day after day, as the diamond-seekers from Cape Town plodded on with their creaking wagons, the same purpled brown face was out spread before them of

Everything in the form of a carriage, from a chaise to a buck wagon, was pressed into service, but the best available transport was the big trekking

The first systematic digging and sifting of the ground were begun by a party of prospectors from Natal at the mission station of Hebron.Continuing

It was ten months from the time of the discovery at Hopetown before a second diamond was found, and this was in a spot more than thirty miles away, on

This report was a revelation that transformed the despised karrooland as the grimy Cinderella was transfigured by the wand of her fairy