Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 07, 2004 at 20:08:01 from 195.93.32.7 user ACB.
In Reply to: Grandpa Turner posted by Ed Kiser on October 04, 2004 at 19:31:42:
Grandpa Turner went off to Africa after gold, taking Slater Bob with him.
The Transvaal gold rush was the first in Africa; it started in 1886, so we may assume that this was approximately when this happened, and Slater Bob would have been a young man at the time.
Incidentally, Uncle Jim has spent quite a bit of time in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), not only did he fetch a bump in a ship's gig against the coast of Sumatra (or was it Java? - SD) but he shows knowledge of it in ML, and in PM Dick's search of his study,
"He turned once more to the bookshelves and shone his torch on the backs of the books. he had been through that shelf already, and the one above it. He searched along the next. Books on mining. Books on Peru. Books on the Dutch East Indies. And then at last he found it, pushed far in between two others, a grey book, with the lettering worn faint on its back..."