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Ch. 19: An Uplifting Power

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AN UPLIFTING POWER
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wash of the Vaal glittered like the diamond-strewn valley of Sindbad. No Man's Land had the sparkle of diamond founts. No part of the world was too remote to be dazzled by the vision of the novel Golconda, and the black face of the despised karoo changed in a twinkling to one of transcendent promise.
Then came the rush from every quarter of the globe of ardent visionaries and fortune-hunters, streaming over the desert
sands of South Africa from every coast port to the Diamond Fields, while from far inland the tribesmen flocked to the same glittering beacon. Bitter experience rubbed the glamour from the eyes of thousands of visionaries, who trooped back dis­heartened, but the plucky and the lucky held their ground and thousands came streaming in to take the places of the faint­hearted. It followed naturally, too, that thousands who would never have come to South Africa except at the beckoning of the
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