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Ch. 5: Camps on the Vaal

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156 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
yellow streak above the horizon, and the rapid spreading over the blue sky dome of rolling masses of heavy, lurid clouds.
Then from the coppery bosom of this pall there came such blaz­ing streams of lightning in sheets and contorted shafts, such rending explosions of thunder peals, that the awful flare and crash would shake the nerves of hardened men. With this
appalling discharge there poured from the clouds torrents of rain, or a volley of huge hailstones rattling on the canvas roofs
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