INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A MINING ENGINEER - 1918 - PREFACE - MY
aim in this book is as modest as my method is informal. I have
often been asked to publish my Reminiscences, but have refrained.
from attempting the task, rather from diffidence as to my literary
powers than from lack of interesting incident or useful experience.
My present decision to put together in consecutive order a certain
number of those incidents and experiences, is not to be mistaken as
an endeavour to compile a conventional volume of reminiscences. I
am fully aware that my book will rely for its value on its matter,
not on its manner. There is plenty of daily matter in the life of a
mining engineer, and I have had my full share of adventure in many
lands. But I doubt if I should have been induced to make a book out
of my own life, except in the hope of helping the noble work of the
St. Dunstans Hostel for BlindedSoldiers and Sailors, to whose funds
it will be my privilege to contribute all the sale-proceeds of the
first edition of this volume. My object is to assist our blinded
heroes, and if some invalid soldiers derive an hours relaxation
from, these pages. I shall be amply rewarded for the many hours
which I have given to the writing of them. The informal character
of the book, which has been written from diaries and letters, seems
to render it inappropriate to refer otherwise than casually to many
friends and companions of former days and for the same reason I
have avoided set descriptions of the countries which I have
visited, or of the mines and the many technical problems connected
therewith that make the profession of a mining engineer so
interesting. E. T. M. TO THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE. CONTENTS CHAP.
tPAGE I. SOUTHERN STATES - - - - - I I 11 COLORADO - - - - 33 111.
ALONG WEST AFRICAN SHORES - - 56 IV. PIONEERING WITH THE FRENCH ON
THE GOLD COAST - - - - - 73 V. EXPLORING IN WASSAU AND APPOLONIA,
WEST AFRICA - - - - - m 95 I L VI. FROM THE GOLD COAST TO MOROCCO -
- I19 VII. ACROSS THE GREAT LONE LAND TO FORT MCLEOD - - - - - - -
131 VIII. FORT MCLEOD TO MONTANA AND VANCOUVER - 149 IX. X. XI.
XII. XIII. XIV. xv. XYI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. VANCOUVER
ISLAND AND THE SOUTHERN STATES 166 TO CENTRAL AMERICA - - - 182
SETTLING DOWN TO LIFE IN NICARAGUA - Ig8 A STORMY PERIOD - - - - -
- 21.5 MOMO TOMB0 AND RETURN TO ENGLAND - 244 MALAY PENINSULA-MOUNT
OPHIR - - - 263 MALAY PENINSULA-MALACCA - - 282 CHINA-AUSTRALIA-NEW
ZEALAND - - - 292 URUGUAY - - - - - - - 301 URUGUAY CONTINUED - - -
- - 318 URUGUAY CONTINUED - - - - 338 URUGUAY CONTINUED - - 363 IN
THE LOW COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA - - 373 INCIDENTS AND EXPERIENCES
LIFE IN THE MINING ENGINEER CHAPTER I. . IT was in 1872, in the
Isle of Nright, looking out of a window towards the Solent, that I
suddenly heard an old friend of my fathers say to him, Uhat are you
going to do with that boy Has he any special bent to which my
father replied, Something in the engineering line I think is his
bent. Then send him to me, and if he is any good I will tnrn him
into a Coal Mining Engineer. And so it was decided I was to go to a
leading Colliery in the North. In due course it was arranged I was
also after some pract al experience, to enter for the R. S. M.
Course. s I remember so well my first three weeks underground, they
are to this day deeply ingrained in my mind, as they proved to be
three weeks of what led me to think that coal mining was not onlya
very risky life, but one that would soon end it, for in that short
period I was within an ace of four times losing it and thus it
happened...
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
