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Excerpt from Mohawk Peter: Legends of the Adirondacks and Civil War Memories Henry G. Dorr's life of more than four score years has covered many interesting and unusual events. As a young man, not as yet out of his teens, having chosen to engage in business rather than enter college, he sailed on the Samuel Appleton from New York bound for Hong Kong. He was not destined to reach Cathay: the long voyage was interrupted by rough weather off the Cape of Good Hope and the ship was obliged to put into Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay. Opportunity seemed to offer for an enterprising Yankee in the Cape Colony and he remained there for two years and a half. On one occasion, in July, 1859, while making a pleasure-trek with an acquaintance into the country, he picked up an odd-looking pebble in the bed of an arroyo on the bank of which he was camping for the night. Later a jeweler recognized it as a diamond in the rough. Out of this incident might have developed a train of sequences which would have changed history. He had discovered the diamond-fields of South Africa, and if it had not been for the sudden death of one of his friends in London the two might have returned to the Cape Colony provided with ample funds to make explorations and exploit the mines which have since provided the world with half a billion dollars' worth of precious stones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.