Hunting for Gold
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All of the camps were occupied but luckily for us some occupants of one of them, were leaving the same day and as they were friends of Concorde, they authorized us to occupy the camp. As we were almost exhausted from our long and somewhat dreary walk, we resorted to resting ourselves. Later in the afternoon we decided to visit the work place to see what the activities were really like. We followed the track and arrived there in a few minutes. It was a fairly large area with men working and talking continuously. There were men selling canned beer, sweet drinks, fish and bread, sardines, corned beef, cakes and other foodstuff that could be readily eaten.
There was a high hill about six hundred feet to the east of the lower plain where most of the men worked. Steps were made to climb the hill. The men dug a pit within the hill and dug gravel from within it. This gravel was rich in gold. Men dug gravel from within the pit and filled bags. A few stood around the hill to ensure that unauthorized persons did not enter the pit and also there were two men at intervals along the steps to ensure that the bags of gravel were taken to their correct destination. There was the head of the group, sometimes on the hill with his gun, overlooking the entire operation. At other times he is at the lower level overlooking the processing of the gravel. Here there is another set of men washing the gravel, then extracting the gold from it with quick silver.
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It is about my travels and experiences in a few gold mining districts in
I first visited a town, known as Bartica, the gateway to the mining districts . I took some consumer articles with me , to sell and defray my travelling expenses . There , at the town, I met new friends, who advised me to sell these commodities in the mining districts . I seized the challenge and immediately ventured to some of these areas .
One year later, I returned to some of these areas to sell to miners , and did this on a regular basis for approximately one year. Twice during that year (1987), I stopped selling and engaged in routine working for gold, being allured to the activity by the apparent large gains to be obtained .
All the experiences gained during those travels are narrated in this monograph .
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I was born on