The great gold lands of South Africa

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Smith, Ronald

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Cape Town -- Port Elizabeth -- Up country to Kimberley -- Kimberley diamond fields -- The great diamond group -- Diamond finding on the Vaal -- Illicit diamond buyers -- Coach to Johannesburg -- At the gold diggings -- Johannesburg -- The gold fields -- Pretoria -- Coach to Biggarsburg -- Durban -- Isandhlani and Ulundi -- To the Kaap gold fields -- Eureka city - The famous Sheba reef -- Swazieland -- Baines' adventures in Matabeleland -- The Mashonas -- Expedition to Mashonaland -- The 'Gates' of St. John's river -- Grahamstown -- Ostrich farming in the Karoo.

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Sub-title: Vacation run in Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal, visiting the diamond mines and the gold fields,the scenes of the Boer War and the war in Zululand; and the country of the Swazies,to which are added narrative of adventures in Matabeleland, and an account of the expedition to Mashonaland.

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Gold fields

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