: Incwadi Yami; or twenty years' personal experience in South Africa by Matthews J W Josiah Wright - South Africa Description and travel; Diamond mines and mining South Africa

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Prevailing diseases in Natal--Incident at Mr. Tom Milner's, Redcliffe--Interesting medico-legal case--Coffee Planting--Marriage--Rev. D. Lindley, D. D.--His early work--Diamond fever, outbreak of--Sail for India. 15-32

Zulu Customs--Ukulobola--Umkosi--Inteyezi--Insomyama--Kafir Doctors--Fate of the Witch Doctor, Kongota, and his victims--Bishop Calloway and Zulu "Folk-Lore." 35-51

Trip to Tugela--Maritzburg--Bishop Colenso--Umgeni Falls--Estcourt--Lidgetton--Curious absence of fish in Mooi River--Capt. Allison's Border Residency--Usidinane's Cannibal Caves--Mont aux Sources--Umbundi's Pass--Return journey. 52-69

Leave Natal--First impression of the Diamond Fields--Sickness at the Dry Diggings--Father Hidien--Hospital arrangements--Quacks--Medical registration in South Africa--Curious decision of Capetown Medical Board--A "Mendacious" practitioner--Sanitary condition, 1878--Threatened small-pox, 1882--so-called small-pox, 1883-84--Madmen and their treatment--Climate of Griqualand West. 94-115

Gambling at the Diamond Fields--Mr. Dodd's advice on gambling--Speculative value of diggings--The Fields in the early days--Gambling hells in 1872--Mr. Jones "at home"--Governor Southey's proclamation--Exodus to the Free State--Rondo en colo--Collapse. 116-125

O'Reilly's account of Niekerk--Dr. Atherstone and the first diamond--The river diggings--Influx of population--The dry diggings--Discovery of the Kimberley Mine--Early discomforts of the diggers--Present condition of Kimberley. 126-135

Geology of the mine and surroundings--Section of reef strata--Surface soil--Calcareous tufa--Light colored shales--Black carboniferous shale--Limonite--Landslips--Burning reef--Sulphur vapors--Natives afraid to work--Coal plants--Fire and choke-damp--Igneous rocks--Contraction and expansion of mine--Strata of mine itself--Red sand, tufa, yellow ground--Blue ground--Rich and poor claims--Remarkable boulders--Greasy slips--Maskelyne and Flight's observations. 136-150

Source of diamondiferous soil--Extracts from Messrs. Bain, Ure, Dana, and Osborne's geological theses--Various theories advanced--None entirely satisfactory or conclusive--The origin of the precious stone veiled in mystery. 151-171

The process of diamond mining from start to date--The "Long Tom"--The "cradle" and the "baby"--The sorting table and scrapers--Van Doussa's invention--The scene in the Kimberley mine--The roads, "stages," "whims," and "whips"--The rotary washing machine--The cylinders and the elevators--Singular mistakes--Statistics of labor employed--Steam power--Fuel--The Kimberley waterworks. 172-184

Diamond legislation--Resume of Sir Henry Barkly's Proclamations--Epitome of the ordinances of the Legislative Council of Griqualand West--Review of the Acts passed by the Cape Assembly--Description of Trapping system--Adoption of "onus probandi" clause by Orange Free State--Searching Department--The Compound system. 207-225

Description of the company and share mania in 1881--Events of the "Bubble Year"--Causes which brought the mania about--Why companies were first formed--The Barnato Co.--The Central Co.--The Frankfort mine--The Cosmopolitan Co.--Wonderful investments--Slow return of confidence. 243-256

The early history of the Diamond Fields--Adam Kok, Cornelius Kok, "Dam Kok," Andreas and Nicholas Waterboer--The Diamond Fields and their Governments--The hoisting of the British Flag--The Keate award--Rush from the river to the dry diggings--Pniel deserted--The commencement of diamond stealing--Judge Lynch puts in an appearance--Discovery of the new Rush Kopje --British rule proclaimed--Free State courts closed. 257-274

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