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give very poor results. This was a, great disap- 

 pointment, as at the tojD the future seemed very 

 promising and represented a mining venture with 

 Avhicli any one might have been deceived. While 

 returning to camp we came upon about twenty 

 baboons playing at the foot of the hill, some of 

 them of great size, but they were too shy to allow 

 us to approacli nearer than about 200 yards. Mr. 

 Beit and his party left the next morning for Fort 

 Salisbury, while ^Ir. Perkins and myself, under 

 the guidance of Mr. Borrow, started on horseback 

 to visit a series of properties extending to a 

 distance of about forty miles from the jMining 

 Commissioner's camp, determining to depend 

 upon what hosj^itality Ave might hnd lor shelter 

 and food. AVe saw the ' Jumbo ' and the ' Golden 

 Quarry,' the last-named being again the property 

 of the enterprising firm before alluded to. The 

 former had but little to reconnnend it as far as 

 present development permitted to judge. The 

 latter seems to be a large burst of quartz very Avide 

 on the top, but, like all the rest, rapidly losing 

 li'rade and thickness as a loAver level is reached. 

 A spot of very rich ore Avas found on the out- 

 crop, and to Avork this a small three-stamp battery 

 has been erected. We found it busily pounding 

 nearly a ton a day, and getting very fair results, 

 in proof of which a basin was proudly produced 

 containing about fifty ounces of amalgam, and re- 

 presenting, I suppose, the first ' clean up ' as yet 

 made in Mashonaland. From there Ave rode on 

 to the camp of Count de la Panouse, Avhere we 



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