THE SEVEN LOST TRAILS OF AFRICA . Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure. - 1932

Cloth. PpXIII, 241 pages, incl. index, + 8 b&w illus. by Alfred palmer and 8 maps.

Book Condition: Poor. Owners inscription to front end-paper. No Jacket. Cloth is tatty and frayed on the edges of the spine and a bit moth-eaten on the top edge of the front cover, corners bumped. Cover is grubby with some ink staining to back cover. Sporadic foxing to text pages. No dust-jacket.

The exploits of African treasure-hunters. Seven lost treasures: the way to the great valley of precious stones said to be in the wild hills to the North of the bend of the Orange River; the old diamond craters, the source of the diamonds scattered over S. Africa; the diamonds and gold bars said to have been buried by the murderer Swartz in 1903 in the banks of the Blyde River, Transvaal; the precise site of the shipwreck of the Grosvenor which sank with a great Indian treasure on the Pondo Coast in 1782; the \"Rhodesian\" treasure, in diamonds, gold and ivory buried by Lobengula, King of the Matabele, in 1893; the old silver mines of Chicova or Chicoa, on the North side of the Zambesi; the whereabouts of the second & larger half of the Cullinan diamond. Also, the missing Kruger millions, the lost goldfield of Madagascar.