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of the sand keep flying out with the water. 

 Then when only little left in the bottom of 

 that pan, that man puts it on white paper 

 and he looks at it for some time through 

 little round things he takes out of his 

 pocket. Then he throws it all away and 

 then he tries again, and then he goes some- 

 where else and tries same as this, and then 

 when night is coming on and he throws his 

 last sand away, he says bad words and goes 

 back to his camp. 



" Then some other day another white 

 man comes into our country, and there be 

 three, four of them. And they pitch their 

 tent by the great rocks where there are 

 some lines of white rock mixed with the 

 rest. There some days these men with their 

 hammers and chisels, hammer and break 

 away pieces of this white rock [quartz]. 

 Then they break it up fine and they do 

 many things with it, all very strange to us. 

 Then they try in some more places all 

 around their camp and some even go miles 

 away, looking for this white rock, and they 

 bring to the camp some loads of it on their 

 backs. They then all work at it and when 

 done they throw it all away, and then they 



