Diamond copies in Kimberle
“Getting an insignificant – in comparison with the difficulties of work – a reward of a few dollars a week, the kafra, hating their owners for their rapid enrichment, involuntarily begin to think about the theft. The idea that one brilliant pebble can reward a hundred times for the whole months of hard labor – does not give them rest. With the insignificance of the size of the stone, it would not be very difficult to do, but it must be borne in mind that the blacks work completely naked, and with a zorkh control of as many as hundreds of eyes, it is far from so easy to hide the find. There are cases that the tiles cleverly clamped the diamonds between the fingers on the leg, put it in their mouths and hid under the tongue or between the gums and lips, and sometimes even swallowed diamonds. One cunning cafar arranged an iron boiler for cooking a double bottom; Between both plates of the bottoms, he gradually hid the found diamonds and managed to steal a whole handful of diamonds for several hundred thousand dollars. ”
Niva magazine 1900.
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