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''Diamonds'' is an article published in [[The Bystander]] on 22 august 1906.

Article about [[The Xema Expedition]] in which [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] was one of the shareholders.


== Diamonds ==
[[File:the-bystander-1906-08-22-p366-diamonds.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Bystander]] (22 august 1906, p. 366)]]

Were it not that the latest treasure-hunting expedition has such serious and solemn names on its list of promoters, or rather financiers, one would be inclined to look upon it rather in the light of a fairy-tale. A fairy-tale come true, it will indeed be, if, as is confidently expected, the ''[[The Xema Expedition|Xema]]'', on arriving at her secret destination, picks up diamonds, and brings them home and hangs them round the necks of the brave, if rather plunging, diamond-digging promoters. These include, first of all, two Scotchmen — Lord Ardwall, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, and the Marquis of Tweeddale — and then Lord Aberdare, Prince F. Duleep Singh, [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir A. Conan Doyle]], and Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne, while on the Collis Diamond Syndicates (as it is called) Board of Directors are Sir Alexander Muir-MacKenzie, Bart., Captain Frederick Jackson, and Captain Hughes, R.N. The only detail about the expedition withheld from a palpitating public is the name and location of that island on the West Coast of Africa where the shiny stones lie hidden. As the capital of the Syndicate is £50,000, the brave treasure-hunters will, at least, not be handicapped by any lack of funds. 




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