reef-ford

Updated: January 11, 2026

The ground which fronts the reef-ford reflects that of the left bank, and is pitted with diggings, large and small. In a dry torrent-bed, running north-south, was an oblong shaft, a native copy of European work, four feet by six, and timbered in the usual negro way.

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