To The Cape For Diamonds

A Story Of Digging Experiences In South Africa With Comments and Criticisms, Political, Social and Miscellaneous, Upon the Present State and Future Prospects of the Diamond Fields. The book's opening is a chapter that is both a brilliant description of Boyle's voyage to South Africa and a scathing indictment of the Union Mail Company, its steamship, Cambrian [and its chief engineer], which was inadequately coaled, which developed a dangerous list, and which eventually reached the coast off Saldanha Bay, which the author and others reached by boat and made the remaining 72 miles to Cape Town overland (described in Chapter II). Twenty-four further chapters follow, and then: Supplementary. A. On some peculiarities of the diamond as found in South Africa. Supplementary. B. Prospect of the diamond fields. and four valuable Appendices (but no index): I. Proclamations annexing and regulating the Territory Griqualand West. II. The Free State Ordinance for administering affairs upon the diamond fields. III. Rules and regulations for the Dorstfontein (Dutoitspan) diggings. IV. The second New Rush riots.

Hardcover. English. Chapman & Hall, London. 1873. 415 pp. Rebacked in the original green cloth with gilt title on spine and upper cover with new end papers. A couple of light marks here and there but a clean copy, corner of pp 91 and 413 pp torn, textblock untouched. Book No: 2504546