As the wind blows, they pass from one side of the lake to the other, and often carry cattle and horses as passengers.
When we arrived at the mine, I was struck by the pale appearance of many of the men, and inquired from Mr.Nixon respecting their condition.

The mine is 450 feet deep, and each man brings up about 200 pounds weight of stone.

With this load they have to climb up the alternate notches cut in the trunks of trees, placed in a zigzag line up the shaft.

Even beardless young men, eighteen and twenty years old, with little muscular development of their bodies (they are quite naked excepting drawers) ascend with this great load from nearly the same depth.

A strong man, who is not accustomed to this labour, perspires most profusely, with merely carrying up his own body.