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PERSONAL INDEX
132, ii; birthplace of the diamond,
148, ii. Lilienfeld Brothers buy "The Star of South
Africa," 123, i. Lilienfeld, Leopold, interested in purchase
of farm Bultfontein, 167, i. Lindsay, Clarence S., manager De Beers
mine, 28-29, ii ; goes down the mine
just before the alarm of tire, 29, ii; loses
his life, 30, ii; buried beneath debris,
34, ii
Linschoten, traveller and author, on the traditions of Monomotapa, 63, i.
Lippert, Ludwig, assists in the purchase of French Company, 288, i.
Livingstone, Dr., describes Kafir musical instruments, 76, ii.
Lobengula, grants Rhodes mineral rights in Matabeleland, 219, ii; receives Dr. Jameson, 221, ii; allows expedition to enter Mashonaland, 222, ii ; dislikes white man's entrance, 224, ii ; persecutes the Mashonas, 225, ii; attacked by force under Dr. Jameson, 226, ii; abandons his capital, 226, ii ; nearly captured, 228, ii; his power broken and soon after died a fugitive, 228, ii.
Lollia Paulina, wife of Caligula, adorned with pearls and emeralds, 23, i.
Louis XIV. buys the " Sancy," 25, i; revokes the Edict of Nantes, 78, i.
Luzi, W., experiments of, production of arti­ficial figures of corrosion on diamonds, 143-146, ii.
Lynch, Thomas, buys farm Bultfontein, 167, i.
MacArthur and Forrest, process of, 218, ii. Macartney, Earl, defines the boundary of the
Cape Colony, 87, i. McFarlane, George, burned by explosion of
mine gas, 27, ii. Mclnnes, Lieut., 242, ii. McKenzie, Dr., assists during the siege,
282, ii. McXab, Francis, on land grants, 176, i. Madeira, Diogo Sinoes, takes command of
Portuguese expedition, 58, i. Maguire, Rochfort, visits Lobengula, 219,
ii; the siege of Kimberley, 248, ii. Maguire, the Hon. Mrs., arrives in Kimber-
ley, 248, ii; attends to the distribution of soup during the siege, 260, ii.
Manderville, John, observation about: the diamond, 3, i.
Manilius, the astronomer, identification of the diamond by, 14, i.
Mankoroane, Batlapin chief, disputes loca­tion of northern boundary of Griqualand West, 285, i; places his country under the Cape Colony, 286, i.
Maritz, Gert, leads Great Trek, 103, i.
Mathias, Dr., assists during the siege, 282, ii.
Mauch, Karl, first to give description of the Zimbabwe ruins, 53, 71, i; marks Lydenburg as probable gold field, 70, i.
May, Capt., in charge of diamond fields artillery, 251, ii; at the Dronfield fight, 268, 269, 272, ii.
Mazarin, Cardinal, protects the Jews, 188, ii; encourages diamond cutting, 190, ii.
Meerhoff, Corporal, leads expedition into the interior, 66, i.
Methuen, Lord, expected to relieve Kimber­ley, 276, ii; first message from, 283, ii; loses battle of Magersfontein, 284, ii; re­sents Rhodes's suggestions, 306, ii.
Meunier, Stanislas, theory of formation of the diamond, 134, ii.
Meydenbauer, advances theory that dia­monds came from heaven, 141, ii.
Meyer, Carl, assists Rhodes in purchase of the French Company, 287, i.
Michaelis, Max, joins Wernher, Beit and Company, 290, i; assisted in the fusion of large interests in Kimberley mine, 290, i.
Milner, Lord, High Commissioner of South Africa, 203, 264, ii.
Mithradates, 22, i.
Moissan, experiments of, 137, ii; discovered that iron was best dissolvent for carbon, 139, ii; makes artificial diamonds, 148, ii; method of making diamonds, Appen­dix VIII.
Molengraaff, Prof., on formation of blue ground and diamonds, 134-135, 329-
332, ii-Monomotapa, Lord of the Mountain, 54, i; chief of the Kalangu tribe, 54, 1; see foot-note by Bent, 54, i; myths re, 55, i; details of palace of, by Dapper, 56, i; hunted for by adventurers, 58, i.