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The boatmen there rightly calculated that lucky gold-diggers wouldn't mind paying a pound a-piece to get ashore, so they charged that, and got plenty of customers notwithstanding. On Sunday, the 27th of February, I again set foot on my native land. It was evening when we reached the shore, and there was only an open vehicle to convey us to the town of Deal itself.
News of the gold discoveries had reached England some time before the ship sailed, and a great number of her passengers were intended gold-diggers a mixed and ill-matched assemblage, all inspired, however, with the one ruling passion, an eager to grow rich suddenly.
It quite carries me away with it, quite." He walked a few steps, thinking over this delightful gayety and ingenuous frankness; and then burst out afresh, "And what a remarkable life she has had too! She actually told me, that, once in her childhood, she lived for months in a gold-diggers' camp, the only woman there. She says the men were kind to her, and made a pet of her.
After the squatters in Australia came the gold-diggers. Gold was discovered in Victoria and in New South Wales. At first, strangely enough, an effort was made to prevent the fact being known that gold was to be found in Australia. Some of the rulers of the colony feared that the gold would ruin and not help the country.
"Ah!" said Mollie. The Gold-diggers or The Miracle "This is exactly what happened yesterday. Young Outram says that it is very important for us to keep notes, in case the Thingummy Society should want to know all about it one of these days. "To begin with I was late for breakfast, so I grabbed your letter and stuck it in my pocket, along with a roll, and bolted.
Seeing that he was well armed, and judging from external appearances that he would prove a valuable accessory, the miners were nothing loth in accepting his services. Of the others grouped about the camp-fire only one is specially noticeable, for, as Mark Twain remarks, "the average of gold-diggers look alike."
As the Indians of the interior had committed several murders a short time before, and had come at various times into collision with the gold-diggers, it was deemed prudent to expend a considerable sum on arms and ammunition. Each man, therefore, was armed with a rifle or carbine, a pistol of some sort, and a large knife or short sword.
But the guide had ascertained that both gold-diggers and dragoons disgusted with their saintly compagnons du voyage had separated from them; and, having gone far ahead, in all probability knew nothing of the sanguinary scene that had been enacted in the valley of the Huerfano! We resolved to pass the night on the ground of the deserted encampment.
"Yes, gold-diggers in their idle moments, and at other times road-agents, making their retreat here, where they deem themselves safe." "They did not see you?" "No, indeed; but I got within fifty feet of one of their camp-fires, and where they had a captive." "Ah! a prisoner?" "Yes." "Did you know him?" "It was a young girl." "The devils!"
The men returning were drinking, gambling and "treating" those who were bound for the gold-fields. It was a degrading sight, and Mary Seacole wished that she had not left Jamaica. There was nowhere for her to sleep, wash or change her travel-stained clothes, for every room in her brother's house was engaged by the homeward-bound gold-diggers.
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