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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER XIII
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The Governor, the Commandante, the Judge, and all the chief people of the place went in state to the mountain, with Mr.
Geach's assistant and some of the workmen.

As they went up the valley Mr.Geach examined the rocks, but saw no signs of copper.

They went on and on, but still nothing except a few mere traces of very poor ore.

At length they stood on the copper mountain itself.

The Governor stopped, the officials formed a circle, and he then addressed them, saying, that at length the day had arrived they had all been so long expecting, when the treasures of the soil of Timor would be brought to light, and much more in very grandiloquent Portuguese; and concluded by turning to Mr.
Geach, and requesting him to point out the best spot for them to begin work at once, and uncover the mass of virgin copper.


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