About half a century before the days I write of, the then thickly populated region surrounding these goldfields was turned into a shambles and a solitude by, the horde of the terrible Ma 'Ntatisi, chieftainess of the Bathlokua.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The great stay of law and order was the individual digger, and this element of stability has always been missing at the goldfields, except in the few instances where alluvial mining has been pursued.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
As far as they were concerned he was a broken-down Irishman who had come to make his fortune on the goldfields and lost any money he had.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard