A Kaffir tribe to the north-east of the Rooirand had known of it, but they had never worked it, but only collected the overspill.

The closing down of one of the chief existing mines had created a shortage of diamonds in the world's markets, and once again the position was the same as when Kimberley began.

Accordingly he made a great fortune, and to-day the Aitken Proprietary Mine is one of the most famous in the country.

But Aitken did more than mine diamonds, for he had not forgotten the lesson we had learned together in the work of resettlement.

He laid down a big fund for the education and amelioration of the native races, and the first fruit of it was the establishment at Blaauwildebeestefontein itself of a great native training college.