I Tested The Stone
On My Watch Glass And Found That It Cut My
Initials Quite Easily, And Though I Knew That
Quartz Would Do This As Well, It Did Not Seem
To Me To Have Either The General Appearance Or
Angles Of Any Quartz I Had Ever Seen.
For a
moment or two I was greatly delighted with my
discovery, and began to have rosy dreams of
A
diamond mine; but I am sorry to say that on
closer examination and testing I was forced to
the conclusion that my find was not a diamond,
though unlike any other mineral I had ever come
across.
My hopes of rapidly becoming a millionaire
having thus been dashed to the ground, we
proceeded on our way, getting further and further
into the depths of a gloomy forest. A little
distance on, I noticed through a break in the
trees a huge rhino standing in full view near the
edge of a ravine. Unfortunately he caught sight
of us as well, and before I could take aim, he
snorted loudly and crashed off through the tangled
undergrowth. As I followed up this ravine,
walking stealthily along in the delightful shade of
the overhanging palms, I observed on my left
a little nullah which opened out of the main
channel through a confused mass of jungle and
creeper. Through this tangle there was a
well-defined archway, doubtless made by the regular
passage of rhino and hippo, so I decided to
enter and explore what lay beyond.
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