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pended, 343, i; large shaft started,
343. i-Dynamite Works, see Explosives Works.
East
India Company (Dutch) take possession of the Cape, 61, i; build Fort
Good Hope, 61, i; revive search for the source of gold from Ophir, 61,
i; urges exploration, 61-70, i; stimulates industries, 78, i;
Huguenots come to the Cape,, 78, i; the Dutch East India Company's back
broken, 83, i; becomes bankrupt in 1794, 84, i; its rule ends after 143
years, 86, i.
East India Company (English), Table Bay, a stopping for ships of, 61, i; gives up this station for St. Helena, 61, i.
Eclogite, 148, 327, ii.
Elma Company, 279, i.
Emancipation of slaves, 91, i.
Emeralds, found in mine, 15-16, i; column of, in temple of Hercules, 21, i; in Peru,
21, i; mines of, 21, i; drinking cups of,
22, i; as eyes of a lion, 22, i; early descriptions of, 12, 22, i.
"Empress Eugenie, The," 15, i. Engineering, errors in, 307-308, i; lack of
cooperation in, 308, 310, i. Engines, see "Winding engines"; "Steam
engines"; " Pumping engines." Explosives Works, De Beers, 238, ii. Exports, of Cape Colony, 113, i.
Fauresmith, Free State settlement, 164, i.
Fire, in De Beers mine, 28-40, ii.
Fish, in Vaal River, 157, i.
Floating reef, 353-354, i.
Floors or depositing places, 1, ii.
Flora of the High Veld, 130, i.
" Florentine, The," 30, i.
Food, cost of, 210, i.
Forlorn Hope, diamond diggers' camp on the Vaal, 158, i.
Formation of the diamond, 119—150, ii.
Fort Good Hope, built by East India Company, 61, i.
Fortune tellers and wizards, 217, i.
Fossils, lizard, and fish, 125-126, ii, Appendix VII.
Frank Smith mine, 123, 326, ii.
Fraser and Chalmers, 337, i.
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French Company " (Compagnie Francaise des Mines de Diamant du Cap de
Bon Esperance), mine workings, 239, 246, i; holding of, 281, i;
purchase of, 286-289, i ; amalgamated with the Central Company, 291, i;
Rhodes gets one-fifth of Kimberley mine by purchase of,
293. i-Fuel, cost of, 211, i.
Game, wild, herds of antelope, 136, i; on the market, 210, 211, i, 50, ii.
Gani-Coulour, the famous diamond mine, 18, i.
Gani-Parteal, the famous diamond mine, 18, i.
Gas, in the shales, 26, ii; explosions of, 26-27, ii.
Genesis,
the, of the diamond, Sir Isaac Newton's conjecture, 126, ii ; theory
of Dr. Atherstone, 127-131, ii; Prof. Lewis's proposition, 132-133, ii;
Prof. Molen-graaff's monograph, 134-136, ii ; Dr. Stelzner's opinion,
137, ii; experiments of Prof. Dewar and Sir W. Crookes, 137, ii; Mr.
Hannay's experiments, 138, ii; Sir W. Crookes's theory and
experiments, 138-140, ii; Meydenbauer's bizarre theory, 141, ii; Mr.
Friedel's experiment (Appendix VIII); Herr Luzi corrodes diamonds,
143-146, ii; Prof. Bonney's conclusions, 148-149, ii; the author's
views, 127, 131-132, 133, 134, J38, 139, 140, 142, 146, 147, 148, 150, ii.
Geological
sections, the red soil, 119, ii; basalt, 119, ii; black shale, 119, ii;
conglomerate, 120, ii; melaphyre or olivine diabase, 121, ii ;
quartzite, 121, ii; quartz porphyry, 121, ii.
Godaveri River, 17, i.
Golconda, 17-18, i; rush to the fancied, 128, i.
Gold,
from East Africa, 36, i; Phoenician sailors brought back, 43, i; Arab
traders brought from Sofala, 44, i; of Ophir, 48, i; flow of, to
Arabia and Judrea, 71, i; the mining of, 72, i; came from Havi-lah, 74,
i; at Smithfield, 117, i; a little leaf of, in a diamond, 148, ii.
Gold fields, of California and Australia, 184, i; in South Africa, 212-218, ii.
Gong Gong, diggings on the Vaal, 158, i.
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