Excerpt from Gold Coast Palaver: Life on the Gold Coast My excuse for writing this volume is that I have had eight years' experience in the Jungle of the Gold Coast Colony. It is the first attempt at putting my experiences into writing, and for any shortcomings, from a literary point of view, I plead indulgence. In the early days of the Vaal River diggings I essayed my luck at diamond washing, and afterwards drifted into the Cape Government service on railway construction. When Barberton and Johannesburg started, I joined the gold-digging fraternity. In 1886 my love of adventure took me on a prospecting expedition into Matabeleland. I was at Buluwayo when Messrs. Rudd, Thomson, and Maguire obtained the concession from Lobengula which formed the basis of the Chartered Company. In 1889 the Argus Printing Company of Cape Town published my Pioneer Prospector's Map of Matabeleland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.