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with various extraordinary and complicated diseases. Of 

 these managers there are two classes. The first kind 

 frequents the waterside camp, and this for obvious 

 reasons. The way to the back or gold placer proper is 

 a steep, muddy and difficult road to travel. It generally 

 occurs to these intelligent men that as personally they 

 were never intended for hard work, it will be an 

 economy to the capitalist for them to remain at the 

 waterside camp and keep the stores under their own eyes, 

 thus saving any waste, the expense of a watchman and 

 the cost of transporting their own food and clothing to 

 the placer. This class of man is known as the waterside 

 prospe6lor. 



The manager of the second class generally reaches the 

 back camp some time after arriving at the waterside, and 

 incontinently takes to his hammock to rest him after his 

 labours. After that, an occasional turn round the place 

 suffices. His time is divided between his draughtboard 

 and working out petty spites against offending labourers. 

 When he does go his rounds, he insists on being called 

 "Manager," and occasionally he will exhibit his personal 

 strength and prowess in an awkward struggle with some 

 tool or other, surrounded by the admiring gang in a 

 delightful state of ina6livity. The " pyjama managers," 

 of whom fortunately there is not a large proportion, are 

 thoroughly satisfied with their achievements, and 

 convinced that all their duty consists in finding gold, 

 irrespe6live of cost. Under such circumstances it is really 

 surprising that labourers work as well as they often do, 

 and the only possible explanation is that frequently, as 

 the men well know, it is : no gold, no money. Happily 

 for those providing the funds for these expeditions, 



