A Pleasant Prospect. 



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Quarry " still fresh in my mind I passed on, not 

 even going two miles out of my way to view the 

 mine, which had been thoroughly examined by 

 Mr. H. Perkins. The weather for the first two 

 days of our journey was most agreeable. The 

 air had been cooled, the summer heat moderated 



The outspan ou the Tokwe River. 



by recent heavy thunderstorms, the sky was over- 

 cast y/ith clouds, and travelling even at midday 

 was easy for the teams and pleasant to ourselves. 

 In appearance the bush had greatly changed since 

 I travelled up the road. Kow the vast tracts 

 of charred and blackened ground, the result of 



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