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lator, ill partiitMsliip with .l<)s»>)>li Wood of Giaiiainstowii and \Villi;nii 

 Fiuncis, aji AlUanv man settled at Sliosliong, li<* <»l)tain»'d from 31osili- 

 katsc's successor, IjolxMigula, the Macloutsie eoncession, the district 

 Ivini; between tlie ^laeloutsie and Shasi rivers and ailjoiniiig the tei- 

 ritorv of tlie 'j'ati concession. MaeChickie, anot.lier Albany trad«'r, 

 was with Mosilikatse at Mosiga, 1)efoie that potentate moved north. 

 Wni. Saunders, who lived at Wonderfontein, near Hartley's Farm, Hoi 

 Fontein, is prolmbly one of the 1S20 settlers who wandered to the 

 Transvaal and settled there. in 1.S75 Dr. Way reported to Dr. 

 Atherstone that Saunders had as early as Lsr)5 found alluvial gold 

 in the Yokeskei liiver, which was confirmed by Struben in lf<S-t, and 

 Saunders was thus the first to find gold on the AVitwatersrand. J. W. 

 Cock later was in Tihodesia, and described the Zimbabwe ruins in a 

 letter to the Jonnial of IGth August, 1.S90. Most of the 1820 settlers 

 were mighty hunters, and travellefl into the interior; indeed (Jrahams- 

 town in the early days was the centre of tlie trade with the interior, 

 and Market Square used to be spread witli ivory, feathers and karosses. 

 But the above brief list must sutfice for the present. I will refer 

 later to the part the Barbers took in tlie development of the countiy. 

 Mention must b(> made of G. W. Stow, who arrive<l in Albany in 1S4."), 

 but left for Port Elizabeth on the outbreak of the Kafir war ; his life 

 has been recentlv published liy Prof. K. B. \''oung, and I must refei- 

 vou to tliis work for details. 



Now w<' come to the story of the discovery of the diamond, which 

 I will go into somewhat fully, as J have been able to consult much 

 original material. The first diamond from South Africa came to 

 Europe hy way of Mozauibique in the early sixties, but the first one 

 of whicli any history is preserved is that which wa.s found by a 

 Colesberg ti-ador, O'Reilly, in the early part of 1867. It was originally 

 picked up along tlie Orange River by a Bushman servant of a farmer 

 named Daniel Jacobs, and had been given to another farmer named 

 Schalck van Niekerk as a curiosity. O'Reilly outspanned at Niekerk's 

 fan)], in the Hopetown district, and noticed the stone lying with other 

 river pebbles on the table. Niekerk readily let O'Reilly have the 

 stone, and in due couise, when the latter returneil home to Coles- 

 berg, he showed it to the Acting Civil Conniiissioner, Mr. Lorenzo 

 B<jyes. Boyes posted the stone to Dr. Atherstone in Grahanistown, 

 asking his opinion ; but it was so loosely packed tliat on ai rival it 

 I'olled out on the tloor of the post-ofiice and was nearly lost. There 

 has been some difference of opinion in regard to tiiis, but Mi". Boyes, 

 who is now li\ing at Ceres, has kindly confirmed the version T give 

 here. Dr. Atherstone went over to his neighbour, the Rev. Dr. 

 Ricards, and told him he had received a genuine diamond from 

 Hopetown : togethei they examined the stone under a polariscope 

 and tried its Iiardness first on glass — the pane expi^rimented on being 

 still intact* — and then on a sapphire in a ring. In the course of the 



" Tlie pane lias heeii taken out ainl fraiiied, ami was kiii<lly lent by Fatlier 

 Kelly for exliiKition at tlie nieetinji. 



