"Through Johannesburg, the city of gold, through Kimberley, the city of diamonds, we passed to Leichfelt, and saw the great diamond rush. When diamonds were discovered there the government staked off claims and people raced for them, It was an actual race, and life and death were written on the faces of the people. White men engaged native runners to run for them, for to be last in the race would be to lose a claim, and they staked everything, they' gambled fon winning a diamond field. Tt was tense, it wae horrible, men became animals and as animals they ran for their life, and many lost their lives in the rush that followed.
"After staying some time in Cape Town I went to Nigeria and raw the wonderful work that was being done by the Mission amongst the slaveowners and slave raiders. Travelling in a ramshackle motor car driven by a native driver suffered my worst accident. were going up a hill when the brakes refused to work; the car slipped backwards and then overturned; the driver was killed and I lay for hours pinned beneath the wreckage, semicuncorseious, and T remember singing over and over regain the old Sunday school hymn "Deliveranee Shall: Corse," Night fell, dark, dark night, and out of the darkness appeared a tall figure: rested in white robes. The figure approached me—it wae a noble-0 PIR (oe insee Beans Im Herd Yi ip eat osone Bait, had no serious miries bat Shes and blos gees ana] MOH Erin nerve hocks' fate and hi earn ie tore fenlat elephants there mast] "Yen" ars. the reply, "bit not lat 300 of thems The [to Africa. Tram returaiey fo China Hing and He teeer-inthe meat fate"
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