In 1901 there were about 5000 negroes employed in the Bahia mines; methods were still primitive; the cascalho was dug out from the river beds or tunnelled out from the valley side, and washed once a week in sluices of running water, where it was turned over with the hoe, and finally washed in wooden basins and picked over by hand; sometimes also the diamantiferous material is scooped out of the bed of the shallow rivers by divers, and by men working under water in caissons. [Please select]
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Nest--tunnelled out of bank--six to eight feet deep--at the extreme end of tunnel is the nest made of fish-bones and scales. [Please select]
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They fled hand in hand till they reached a road that spanned ravines, and ran along the edge of precipices, and was tunnelled through mountains. [Please select]
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Does she know how to make use of houses which she has not tunnelled herself. [Please select]
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All the tunnelled-out dirt is brought to the surface and forms a large mound to prevent the water from entering the cities. [Please select]
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'The waves tunnelled their way easily enough until they ran up against those five mountains and then they had to fall back.' [Please select]
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Her face looked quite pale in the green shade of the tunnelled-out syringa bushes. [Please select]
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They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each rail. [Please select]
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Chimneys tunnelled the thick walls, and the cupboards glittered with glass and silver. [Please select]
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Into that tunnelled hole he inserts his long finger, and squash it goes into a large, pulpy, fat, sweet grub. [Please select]
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For three hundred miles there were only four gaps through that mighty mountain chain--three at water level, and one at historic Cumberland Gap which was not at water level and would have to be tunnelled. [Please select]
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