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Ch. 19: An Uplifting Power

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AN UPLIFTING POWER                         231
openings. Yet, in spite of all obstacles, prospecting has been pushed far enough to show the range of gold-bearing ground and ledges for hundreds of miles. Convincing evidence of the mineral richness of the country is given to the extent of the ancient workings that have been traced through Mashonaland far beyond the southern end of Lake Tanganyika. There can be no doubt that an enormous amount of gold has been taken
from this region both by placer washing and quartz mining. There are no other ancient workings, on the face of the Old World at least, of like extent, and this undeniable evidence weighs heavily for the contention that the flow of gold from this source was the main supply, for centuries, of Arabia and Asia Minor. In view of the superiority of modern appliances for mining and the extraction of gold, it would seem, at least, probable that the yield of this territory may, in time, be large. There are apparently well-verified reports also of the dis-
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