Pierre Auguste Renoir Seating Girl painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Seating Girl paintingPierre Auguste Renoir By the Water paintingThomas Kinkade The old fishing hole painting
The islanders apparently never joined in the search. In fact, some baffled diamond hunters claimed that the natives buried diamonds when they found them. If I understood the treatise, some that had been found were immense by our standards: they were described as lumps, usually black or dark, occasionally clear, and weighing up to five pounds. Nothing was said about cutting these huge stones, what they were used for, or their market price. Evidently the Yendians didn't prize diamonds as we do. There , almost furtive tone to the treatise, as if it concerned something vaguely shameful.
Surely if the islanders knew anything about "the secret of ," there'd be a bit more about them, and it, in the library?
It was mere stubbornness, or reluctance to go back to the sullen travel agent and admit my mistake, that impelled me to the docks the next morning