Diamond Digging

The South African diamond fields are seven days hard travel from the coast. Reaching them, you find a city of 40,000 peopie in a desert. The buildings are all one story in height, homo of canvas, others of iron or wood, and a few of briok. Not a tree is to be seen. On the ontsldrts of the town are the lvuts of the Hottentots and wagons which st-rve as honses for the diggers. There are five clmrches, a Jewish synagogne, two theaters, and a skating rink. Pianos are in many of the houses ; dress snits and other requireineiits of fashionable life are insisted on. Digging for diamonds is very expensive, yet two-thirds of the diggers have realized moderate fortunes.