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Letter 12. Port Elizabeth
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Port Elizabeth—Algoa Bay—Diamonds—Kafir Nobility.
Port Elizabeth may be described as the first-born city of the Eastern Province of the Cape1 of Good Hope. It came into being in 1820. It is now a flourishing seaport2, full of energetic, busy, money-making men. It is the principal seaport of the Eastern Province, and the nearest point on the coast to the Diamond-fields—420 miles from De Beer’s New Rush, a distance which was traversed in about six days by coaches.
Among its more useful enterprises it has the honour of having sent out one pioneer of future commercial prosperity in the Eastern Province, for Port Elizabeth is the starting-point of one branch of that great railway system which is to revolutionise Africa. I do not say South Africa, but advisedly use the title of wider scope.
It is not every day that one can boast of having handled a tumbler full of diamonds. Being anxious to see a mass of those precious gems3 in an uncut condition, I appealed to a friend who had come out with me in the “Windsor Castle.”
He introduced me to a broker4, who took me into a back office, opened a strong-box, took out a small packet, and, untying5 it, poured out a tumblerful of diamonds! They ranged from the size of a pin-head to that of a bean, and were varied6 in shade, from pure crystal to straw-colour. The broker then opened one or two separate parcels, each of which contained a specially7 large or fine diamond, varying in size from a pea to a hazelnut.
“That one,” he said, “may be worth four hundred pounds, and this, perhaps about five or six hundred.”
Looking at them, it was difficult to believe that they were other than paltry8 pebbles
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cape
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n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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gale
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dignified
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wilderness
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grandeur
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n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华 | |
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trifling
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accomplished
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wrecked
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gallant
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adj.英勇的,豪侠的;(向女人)献殷勤的 | |
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regiments
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(军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物 | |
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inaccessible
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seamen
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Letter 11. Algoa Bay
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