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the world had hitherto found little to reward them for 
their trouble. 
Amongst the discontented and disappointed whites, 
who numbered some thirty or forty, was an English 
nobleman, Sir John Swinburne, who, misled by the 
glowing accounts in the papers, and without waiting 
for their corroboration, had set out, accompanied by 
an engineer, and provided with a steam-engine for 
WAITING FOR LIONS. 
crushing the quartz, and enough provisions, clothes, 
weapons, powder, shot, &c., to fill a magazine. The 
steam-engine was dragged up to Linyanti by thirty-two 
oxen, but as the Matabeles had a superstitious dread 
of it, supposing the whites meant to take possession of 
their country by its means, Sir John was obliged to 
have it brought back to the Tati. 
The tents and huts of the miners were situated on 
the left bank of the Tati, a tributary of the Sacha. On 
the right, after passing the sandy bed of the stream, 
