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"I used to see Dr Williamson at the golf club, he looked more rugged than the picture of him over the bar. I used to collect the empty glasses, one day I saw him in the bar and I decided that I wanted to know how this great man, this immensely important man, this man who had the ability to dig a hole and find the largest diamond mine in the world made it. So I eventually plucked up courage and stammered, Dr Williamson how did you find these diamonds in the middle of nowhere. He looked at me with eyes that stared right through me, and I just wanted this diamond mine to open up and swallow me. Well, he replied, I cycled up from South Africa and dug holes. I was convinced there was a diamond pipe in central Africa. I spent years looking for this. Eventually I was ill with tropical diseases and dug a hole by this tree to light a fire, in the hole I found what I had spent years looking for, a diamond. That gave me the strength to cycle the 300 odd miles to Nairobi where an Indian doctor friend fixed me up. I then had to get to Dar-es-salam to stake my claim. I wnt by train, unfortunately a couple of Italians got wind of what I was up to and raced off to Dar-es-alam by car. Unfortunately for them they crashed and were killed. I staked my claim and some Indian friends helped me out with finances and here we are. Wow, I had spoken to this great man, this man who could find untold riches in the bush. I went to the tree, it is just out from his house. I sat at the base and thought, well I thought I will dig a hole right here where he did. I scratched around but there was nothing but dust. That tree became the Williamson Diamonds Mine logo. Life was great, I used to go out shooting from the back of a moving land rover at the airport as bambi were a problem to aircraft movement. Dr Williamson died of throat cancer in 1958, and was buried in Mwadu. "

BY DICK HYDE