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Tagore on " Frecious Stones of India," 16, i,
Tavernier, travels of, iS, i.
Thompson, Rev. James, his sketch of modern Kimberley, 90-91, ii.
Thompson, Frank, visits Lobengula, 219, ii.
Thomson, Joseph, the explorer, visits country north of the Zambesi, 230, ii.
Thomson, Wyville, experiments of, 130, ii.
Timour the Tartar, the line of, 26, i,
Toit, Abraham Pauls du, granted title to farm Dorstfontein, 166, 168, i; sells farm to Van Wyk, 166, i.
Triechard, Louis, leads first company of the Great Trek, 91, i.
Trotter, Col., chief staff officer, visits Kimberlev before the siege, 242, ii.
Tschudi, J. J. von, describes diamond with gold leaf, 147-148, ii; derivation of the word "carat," 160, ii.
Turner, Col. Scott, re defence
of, 242, ii; appointed to command the mounted corps, 264, ii; skirmish
with Boers, October 24, 266—272, ii; first engagement at Carter's
Ridge, 276-277, ii; slightly wounded, 276, ii ; second engagement,
277-282, ii; death of, 282, ii.
Tymms, E. R., London secretary De Beers, 306, i.
Tyson, Capt. T. G., organizes siege soup kitchen, 260, ii.
L'msilikazi,
the revolting Zulu chief, reference to, 32, i; description of, 97, i;
engagement with the companies of the Great Trek, 102-103, i; defeat of, 104, i; his country claimed by the Boers, 109, i.
Uys, Pieter, attacks Umsilikazi, 104-105, i; killed in ambuscade, 106, i.
Victoria, Queen of England, receives the
Koh-i-nur, 28, i. Visser, Cornells Johannes, owner of farm
Jagersfontein, 164, i.
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Visser, Mrs. (widow), works the mine, 164, i; method of working, 165, i.
Ward, Henry A., discovery of Premier mine, 345-346; early history of mine, 345-
352, i
Ward, Walter, inspector of claims, photograph, 2, ii.
Waterboer,
Nicholas, chief of the Griquas, claims Pniel and Klip-drift diggings,
178, i; British government supports cause of, 180, i; awarded the
country by arbitration, 1S1, i.
Watkins, Dr. Arnold, services during siege, 282, ii.
Webb, Henry Barlow, buys farm Bultfontein, 167, i.
Webster, Lieut., in charge of armored train, 266, ii.
Weinschenk, found diamonds in "Ava" meteorite, 141, ii.
Wessels, Johannes Jocobus, owned farm on which Premier mine was discovered, 345, i; agreement with Ward, 346, i.
Wessels, Commandant, sends message to Col. Kekewich, 273, ii.
Whiting, S. B., inventor of the Whiting system of winding, 333, i.
Whitworth, Sir J., machinery from, 337, i.
Williams, Gardner F., Barnato's reference
to. 37-39. ii Wilson, Major, fight with Lobengula, 226—
228, ii; death of, 228, ii. Winsor, Justin, mention of the Catalan map,
40, i. Wyk, Adriaan J. van, buys Dorstfontein, 166,
i; diamonds found on farm, 166, i; sells
farm, 166, i; discovery puts new face
on scrubby farms, 167, i. Wyley, colonial geologist, visits Orange Free
State, 117, i.
Zaman, Shah, blinded by his brother, 27, i.
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