ABSTRACT
The purchase by a trader of a glittering stone, with which a child was playing, in that country, once described in the British Parliament, as “ The most barren and worthless desert on the earth’s crust,” was the beginning of that industry, which has planted a British Colony in that wilderness—has flooded the markets of the world with diamonds—and now bids fair to fertilise the desert itself, with the water that impedes the diggers, by collecting in the mines, during the rainy season, and saturating the surrounding earth. The Portuguese Government has recently remitted all duties on goods passing from Delagoa Bay into the Trans-Vaal, and the harbour being accessable to vessels of considerable draught, there is no doubt but some mode of transport to meet the exigencies of the case will be devised. All young animals, while living on milk, are safe.
