'There's your ignorant Britisher,' he cried.

'If you had ever been to Kimberley you would know the look of a diamond country.

You're as likely to find diamonds here as ocean pearls.

But go out and scrape in the spruit if you like; you'll maybe find some garnets.' I made cautious inquiries, too, chiefly through Mr Wardlaw, who was becoming a great expert at Kaffir, about the existence of Aitken's wizard, but he could get no news.

The most he found out was that there was a good cure for fever among Sikitola's men, and that Majinje, if she pleased, could bring rain.
The upshot of it all was that, after much brooding, I wrote a letter to Mr Colles, and, to make sure of its going, gave it to a missionary to post in Pietersdorp.