Is simply to give them ‘Cape Smoke;’[[118]]
When mixed with tobacco, red pepper and lime,
With dagga and vitriol, too,
The draught is delicious, enchanting, sublime—
Why, it even would civilize you!”
[38]. Slang Jewish expression for an illicit or stolen diamond.
[39]. A noted detective officer.
[40]. A very much overrated mine, five miles from Kimberley, rushed on the last Sunday in April, 1876.
[41]. In the session of 1885 the diamond trade act was extended, with but trifling alterations, to the entire of Cape Colony, which in spite of all the efforts of unscrupulous men, who are themselves well known to be in the trade, still remains in force.
[42]. Some idea of the extent to which this organized system of robbery is carried on may be formed, when I tell my readers that since the passing of the diamond trade act in 1882 up to Dec. 31st, 1885, 19,272 carats of diamonds, valued at £37,829 have been recovered by the detective department.