11/12 We shall soon have furnaces at work and be smelting our ore and converting some of it into silver. You don't care to go down ?" he said, leaning his hand upon a windlass over the trap-doors. Look!" He threw open a trap-door, and I gazed into a well-like place with a couple of ropes hanging down it, and I noted that the walls were made of the stone that had been dug and broken out. The place looked dark and damp, and there was the trickling of dripping water. That was all. |