100 Albany Museum Hecords. 



objects or phenomena, the taste for recording ol)servati()ns and 

 collecting specimens (juickly follows, and the late victim of ennui 

 now 'all eye, all ear,' finds that time no longer lags, but i-unsonly 

 too quickly away. I am happy to say that I have made more than 

 one S. African ' convert,' but if my little book had produced no 

 other result than the pleasure it has afforded to my excellent 

 correspondent, and the interesting specimens she has conti-ibated 

 for what she calls ' value received, ' I should consider myself 

 amply repaid." 



May her collection of pictures, a lasting monument of her 

 'conversion' bj-ing us many more such converts. 



Pictures of Historical Interest. 



1. The COLESBERG KOP.JE or New Rush, 1S71. 



This i)icture was painted a few months before Colesberg Kopje 

 was recognised as being diamondiferous. It forms, as everybody 

 knows, the site of Kimberley mine. The two figures near the top 

 of the Kopj':' represent Messrs. F. H. and H. M. ]>arl)er, who were 

 then boys travelling with their parents. 



2. General view of KlMBERLEY in the " early days." 

 A town of tents. 



3. Residence of Madame Favre — NEW RUSH, DiAMONDFIELDS 



(Kimberley). 



4. A street in New Rush, DlAMONDFIELDS (KIMBERLEY) 

 where Mrs. Ijarber lived with her family in the early days. 



5. St. Cyprian's Church, New Rush, DlAMONDFIELDS 



(Kimberley). 



6. The grave of William Edward Hoys, son of Major Boys, 



New Rush, Diamondfields (Kimberley). 



70 One of Mrs. Barber's encampments at De Beers (1<S71) 

 showing amongst other things the cask in which the water had to 

 be carried from a distance of three or four miles, the cart used 

 for riding the ground off the mine and also Lor genercd purposes, 

 sieves for sifting the ground, &c. 



