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Title: Stanley and the white heroes in Africa; being an edition from Mr. Stanley's late personal writings on the Emin Pasha relief expedition ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, D. M., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: St. Louis and Philadelphia, Scammel & company
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must dig for dia-monds, or secure a medical practice. He chose the latter;and established himself in a rude hut containing two rooms;here he kept bachelors hall, with all the discomforts impliedin that term. Servant he had none, and his housework wasdone after night and by stealth, that his professional dignitymight not suffer. Yet even his poverty did not secure him from attempts at theft. Countries where wealth may, possi- 238 DR. HOLUB, THE AUSTRIAN EXPLORER. 239 bly be accumulated suddenly, as in rich mines of every kind,are infested with many disorderly characters; and here, in ad-dition to those who came from the various countries of Europe,were the natives who had learned the white mans vices, with-out losing any of their own, or acquiring any of his virtues.Police supervision was so slight that once, at least, he had oc-casion to eject from his hut a thief w^hose arms showed that hewas prepared to commit a greater crime than theft, if suchshould be necessary to attain his end.
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Dr. Emil Holuh. The whole of the diamond-fields of South Africa may bedivided into three districts. The oldest fields are on the VaalEiver, and extend from Bloemhof to the confluence of theVaal and the Harts; the next are the so-called dry-diggings,where the pebbles were originally obtained by sifting theearth, instead of washing it; of this district the town of Kim-berley is the center; and here it was that Dr. Holub was estab- 240 DK. HOLUB, THE AUSTRIAN EXPLORER. lished; the third district lies in the Orange Eiver Free State.His residence here was shortly after the palmiest days of themines, which were in 1870 and 1871. It is not that the aggregateprofits have diminished, but while the yield has largely in-creased, the cost of working has also increased. Since thisperiod, however, when a swaggering adventurer would some-times light his pipe with a five-pound note, the rush of adven-

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