weights
and values are recorded. The buyers for the syndicate of Holborn
Viaduct and Hat-ton Garden, diamond importers of London, pay for their
diamonds at the De Beers Company's South African diamond office in cash
or bills of exchange on London.
Upon
receiving the stones the buyers sort them over to comply with the
requirements in London, after which the diamonds, now in from three
hundred and fifty to four hundred parcels, each in a specially made
paper inscribed with a description of its contents, are packed in tin
boxes and these are securely wrapped in cloth-lined packing paper,
carefully sealed and delivered to the post-office, which forwards them
to Europe as registered mail, the diamonds all being insured during
transit in European insurance companies. The syndicate's buyers
classify the goods thus shipped as follows: Pure goods, Brown goods,
Spotted goods, Flat-shaped goods—all completely formed or crystallised
stones; Pure cleavage, Spotted cleavage, Brown cleavage—broken or split
stones; Naats °r Maacles—fiat triangular crystals or twin-stones;
Bejections or Bort—diamonds not adapted to or worthy of cutting and
used chiefly for splitting and polishing higher grade
