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Ch. 14: The Workers in the Mines

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THE WORKERS IN THE MINES                  63
labor day in and out without any apparent injury to their health. As a matter of fact, nearly all gain strength and flesh in the mines. All the " drill boys" in De Beers mines are now natives, and are scattered through the mines on various levels
while working, the number at any one point depending upon the size of the working face or stope of blue ground. At points half a dozen boys may be working together with drills, indus­triously pecking away at the diamond-bearing ground. Natives are also employed in clearing away the excavated ground, and loading the trucks, which run on tramways to the hoisting shafts
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