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The wages are, whites, £5 or
£6 a week; blacks, underground, 4s. to 5s.
a day, and aboveground, 21s. a week. [36] The Compound System With gems like diamonds, where so large
an intrinsic value is concentrated into so
small a bulk, it is not surprising that
robbery has to be guarded against in the
most elaborate manner. The Illicit Diamond
Buying (I.D.B.) laws are very stringent,
and the searching, rendered easy by the
“compounding” of the natives—which I
shall describe presently—is of the...