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His purchase of the land had betrayed to general knowledge the location of his treasure, of which he continued to bring in new specimens. One October day he had just come from vainly attempting to induce the postmaster to join him in the enterprise of exploiting his gold-field. In front of the post-office, he was met by some boys coming noisily from school.
He was meaner than a gold-field Chinaman, and sharper than a sewer rat: he wouldn't give his own father a feed, nor lend him a sprat unless some safe person backed the old man's I.O.U. We knew that we needn't expect any mercy from Stiffner; but something had to be done, so I said to Bill: "Something's got to be done, Bill! What do you think of it?"
Kind Reception from the Commandant His Generosity to my Men The Village of Tete The Population Distilled Spirits The Fort Cause of the Decadence of Portuguese Power Former Trade Slaves employed in Gold-washing Slave-trade drained the Country of Laborers The Rebel Nyaude's Stockade He burns Tete Kisaka's Revolt and Ravages Extensive Field of Sugar-cane The Commandant's good Reputation among the Natives Providential Guidance Seams of Coal A hot Spring Picturesque Country Water-carriage to the Coal-fields Workmen's Wages Exports Price of Provisions Visit Gold-washings The Process of obtaining the precious Metal Coal within a Gold-field Present from Major Sicard Natives raise Wheat, etc.
Rich ground is denoted by a peculiar vegetation, especially of ferns. Gold is guarded here not by a dragon, but by a monstrous baboon; and when golden dogs are found the finder dies. In 1862 I visited with Major de Ruvignes Great Sankánya, a village west of the Volta, where a large gold-field was reported.
I left them working on it while I went and proclaimed it and got our reward claims registered. Now we're safe we don't care who knows of it. There's men in hundreds coming out along the road behind us, though we have got two days' start. But what is that to us? There will be thousands soon thousands all seeking our gold-field, for there's gold across the ridge, boys gold for the lot of us."
The discovery in the new land of the jade or greenstone far above rubies in the eyes of men of the Stone Age would at once give the country all the attractiveness that a gold-field has for civilized man. The Maori stories of their migration to New Zealand are a mixture of myth and legend. Among them are minute details that may be accurate, mingled with monstrous tales of the utterly impossible.
But such occasions were rare too rare, some thought and, as a general thing, Birralong had a reputation for sobriety, and maintained it with dignity. A few days before, there had arrived at the Carrier's Rest a party of three men, who were on their way to the West, where, according to the story they told, they had found a wonderfully rich gold-field.
"What's your peculiar charm?" "I'd put it up to him as a business proposition. I'd say, 'The moving-picture field is the greatest gold-field in the world. I'd tell him how many hundred thousand theaters there are in the world, all of them eager for your pictures and only needing to be told about them.
Moreover, within its boundaries was embraced all the great American gold-field, just on the eve of discovery, for Marshall had detected the shining particles in the mill-race at the foot of the Sierra Nevada nine days before Mexico signed away her rights in California and in all the vague, remote hinterland facing Cathayward.
When I got back I found Gawdor with Gordineer. He said he had come north to hunt. His Indian had left, and he had lost his way. Gordineer believed him. He never lied himself. I said nothing, but watched. After a time he asked where the gold-field was. I told him, and he started away it was about fifty miles to the north. He went, and on his way back he come here.
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