337l

Updated: June 17, 2025

I have already alluded in the preceding pages to sundry silver-lodes said to have been worked by the old Hollanders. As is well known, there is no African gold without silver, and this fact renders the legend credible. Even in these dullest of dull days 63,337l. worth was the export of 1880. Iron is everywhere, the land is stained red with its oxide; and manganese with cobalt has been observed.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II: A Personal Narrative