THE GLAMOUR OF PROSPECTING
IN THE WILDS OF SOUTH
AMERICA
Six Years of Exploration in Colombia, Venezuela,British Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay,and Brazil. By LEO E. MILLER, of the AmericanMuseum of Natural History. First Lieutenant in theUnited States Aviation Corps. With 48 Full-pageIllustrations and with maps. Demy 8vo, cloth.
This volume represents a series of almost continuous explorationshardly ever paralleled in the huge areas traversed. Theauthor is a distinguished field naturalist—one of those whoaccompanied Colonel Roosevelt on his famous South Americanexpedition—and his first object in his wanderings over 150,000miles of territory was the observation of wild life; but hardlysecond was that of exploration. The result is a wonderfullyinformative, impressive, and often thrilling narrative in whichsavage peoples and all but unknown animals largely figure,which forms an infinitely readable book and one of rare valuefor geographers, naturalists, and other scientific men.
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD.
THE AUTHOR AT NAKOB, READY FOR A LONG TRIP.
Frontispiece.
THE GLAMOUR
OF PROSPECTING
WANDERINGS OF A SOUTH AFRICAN PROSPECTOR
IN SEARCH OF COPPER, GOLD, EMERALDS, AND
DIAMONDS
BY
LIEUT. FRED C. CORNELL, O.B.E.
AUTHOR OF “A RIP VAN WINKLE OF THE KALAHARI,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in 1920
(All rights reserved)
PREFACE
Most of this record of wanderings in wild parts ofSouth Africa had been written and was ready forpublication before the outbreak of war: and sincethen there has been a radical alteration in much ofthe country described; for, with the conquest ofGerman South-West by General Botha, the UnionJack now floats over the huge tract of country betweenthe lower Orange River, the twentieth degreeof east longitude, Portuguese Angola, and the SouthAtlantic.
As a result also of that campaign, new railway lineshave come into being, and with the linking-up of therailway between Prieska, Upington, and the capturedGerman system at Kalkfontein, the traveller to-daycan ride in comfort in a saloon carriage from Cape Townto the farthest extremities of the conquered territory.
And, incidentally, many of the wild spots I havedescribed have been brought within easy reach. Forinstance, the lonely little police post at Nakob (describedi