Colonial Experiences Or Sketches of People And Places in the Province of Otago

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219 unwonted exercise of riding, and very sleepy from the exposure to the fresh air; but the horrible thought would intrude itself, that if I did fall asleep, I should only awake to feel a cold steel at my throat, and then know nothing more. Two hundred ounces of gold, besides several hundred pounds in cash, was a prize worth securing. I strapped my valise to my leg, and lay with my hand on the butt of my revolver, ready for any emergency, and thus passed a sleepless but uneventful night. Very ...soon I got accustomed to this kind of work, and laughed at myself for my idle fears, but the acquisition of the experience in the first instance was not pleasant.
I think it says a good deal for the honesty of our population, that in Otago there have been almost no cases of highway robbery, or " sticking up, " as it is spoken of in the colonies. In the first few years of the diggings there were, I think, two, or at most three cases of gold buyers being stuck up, and, considering the number of opportunities, and the facilities 220 COLONIAL EXPERIENCE.

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