INE PARTICULAR FORKON THAT ROAD. STRETCHES DEEP INTO AFRICA ~-INTO THE (BEEN DISCOVERED ON FIER LONG DAYS OF JOUNCING ALONG THE RUGGED TRAIL INA BULLOCK CART... ‘AHL! THERE'S KIMBERLEY! I’M OVER HALFWAY TO THE RAND! "AND THERE'S THE FAMOUS DIAMONOMINE, STILL A-BOOMING! IT'S THE BIGGEST MAN-MADE HOLt EARTH, WITH HUINOREDS OF MINERS ON TINY CLAIMS: DIGGING STRAIGHT DOWN! JOO MUCH HUBBLIB! TOO MANY PEOPLE! T'LL FINDA HOLE THAT BIG FILLED WITH GOLD,,, AND ALL MINE!LOOK OUT, KRUGER! THAT LITTLE SNEAI KIS TRYING TO STEAL YOUR POKE AGAIN! YOU VIPER 1 TaNG ¥ No! I JUST WANTED A COLD STEAL DIAMONDS _) DRINK AND I THOUGHT THEY ‘AGAIN, BH? WERE ICE! I SWEAR IT! ‘THIS WILL SEN YOU FAR ENOUGH INTO THE VELD THAT YOU'LL NEVER COME BACK-- EVEN IF YOU DO GET LOOSE! Z es TIED TO THAT WEIRD-LOOKING STEER! CRO EeRTS ‘SOMEBODY'S “35 HANG ON, BUDDY!) (“HANGING ON IS THE LEAST IM A- COMING! OF MY PROBLEMS! THIS IS A MIGHTY UGLY COW, BUT BULL-DOGEIN IS THE SAME ON THE ROAD TO RAND AS IT ISON ‘THE CHIGHOLM TRAIL! FRIEND, PSHAW! A TEXAS LONGHORN: ld SAVED WOULD MAKE 7WO OF THIS MY LIFES ‘SQUAREHORNED CRITTER!PERHAPS T CAN REPAY YOUR KINONESS BY TEACHING YOu A LESSON AS WELL! YOU? YOU'RE NO OLDER YOU TURN INE T!LL STAND WATCH FoR PROWLING LIONS£ THANKS! IT'S SONICETO FIND A FRIEND IN SUCH ‘AREMOTE AND FEARSOME WILDERNESS! YESGIR, MR. MCDUCK--I DO HAVE A LESSON TO TEACH You ABOUT LIFE!T00 BAD YOU WONT EVER BE ABLE TO ‘AH, THAT WAS A GRAND SLEEP! IT WAS EASY 10 RELAX KNOWING YOU WERE WATCH- ING OUT FOR. NK MEL HEY! HE'S GONE! 1-I'M ALL ALONE, ABANDONED IN THE MIDDLE OF AFRICAL ‘THAT AFRIKANER --HE STOLE MY CART! HE STOLE MY GEAR! YIPES! HE EVEN STOLE THE CAMPFIRE! I SAVED HIS LIFE AND SHARED: MY FOOD WITH HIM, AND THIS IS. HOW HE REPAYS ME! WHAT A.A VIPERSJ. SURVIVED BEING LOST IN THE WILDER- NESS BEFORE, BUT THAT WAS IN KANSAS / *2Gulpl Z WONDER IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING HERE AS FEROCIOUS AS A COUGARS ATLEAST THERE'S NOTHING AROUND AS BIG AS A MONTANA GRIZZLY BEAR! |EREVER T GO, THERE ARE: LACKGUARDS WHO WANT TO STEAL THEIR FORTUNE RATHER THAN WORK EVEN SO, THERE WAS NO MISTAKING THE INTENT OF CROOKS LIKE THE BEAGLE BOYS WITH THEIR CORNY MASKS! THEY WERE VILLAINS AND PROUD OF IT BUT FOR His SHEER TREACHERY, THAT AFRIKANER WELL, HE TAUGHT ME A "AL RIGHT: KID IS THE WORE CCOUNDREL TVE EVER MET AND Ih'? SOMEHOW MANAGE OLIVE THROUGH TH, TLL TEACH HIM ONE IN RETURN! NAMELY.DO YOUR WORST, YOU GOOFY-LOOKING, ‘SNAKY- SN f ONE TIME IN WYOMING I TURNED 10,000 JOOTED MONSTROSITIES / STAMPEDING LONGHORNS! COMPARED TO THAT, YOU'RE NOT SO MUCH! ‘AND YOU'RE NO WORSE THAN A CHARGING BISON, INFACT, GREAT PLAINS BUFFALO ‘JUST THAT YOUR HORNS ARE FRONT ARE HAIRIER, AND SMELL A RSE Le SPIKE-NOSE! ITS lh ANC BACK INSTEAD OF LEFT AND RIGHT!SORRY, SPIKE, BUTI CAN'T VE THAT VARMINT THAT'S SHAPED LIKE A Play ANYMORE! I NEED TO TELEGRAPH POLE WILL COME IN HANOY! TRACK DOWN THE SIDEWINDER WHO STOLE MYCART! BAH! I CAN'T GO RIDING AROUND ON ONE OF THEM STRIPEDY RUNT HORSES! I NEED. SOMETHING TO MATCH MY MOODS ‘SAY! THIS BEATS ROPIN' MUSTANGS FROM HORSE BACK! ITS LIKE RIDING IN A GALLOPIN' TREEHOUSE! THAT PUMA WITH THE FRIGHT How Do you FEEL ABOUT WOON MELE BO! GIVING A LAD FROM GLASGOW A PHOOEY! MYOLD HORSE: HORTENSE WAS A MEANER THAN YOU!FIRST MASTER OF THE MISSISSIPPI! THEN BUCKAROO OF THE BADLANDS! TRANSVAAL GIDDYAP! T'LL SHOW iY THE HOTTENTOTS HOW = TO ROOT'N’TOOT! YEEHAWL Buck. DUCK RIDES AGAIN! JOHANNESBURG! LOCATED IN THE SEMI-DESERTOF HMPH! T RECKON THESE YOKELS HAVE NEVER, THE TRANSVAAL FRONTIER, IT'S INDISTINGUISHABLE SEEN A REAL COWBOY BEFORE! FROM SIMILAR TOWNS IN THE AMERICAN WEST! BUT THIS AFRICAN BOOMTOWN SOON EXPERIENCES SOMETHING NEVER SEEN ON THE WILDEST DAY AT THE O.K. CORRAL... é > Ze Ze HAH! THERES MY CART! FIRSTOFF, I NEED HE SAID HE WAS GONG TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF MY BAGS / TO THE PUB TO FINDA 5 ‘CART HERE? BUYER FOR THAT CART AND GEAR! DON'T LET HIM GET UP ON THE FURNITURE! HES GOT CLAWS LIKE NOBODY'S BUSINESS! THEN Tm GOING THERE TopIscuss YF CERTAINLY! THAT'S ‘THE OWNERSHIP OF THESE S/X- My JOB! WITH HIM. WILL YOU WATCH MY MOUNT FOR A | FEW MINUTES? .BLIMEY! SO APTER YOU SAVED THE BLOKES LIFE, "THE FILTHY BEGGAR TRIED TO STEAL YOUR CART? :) FLSA > / a ») aD Seo Wy LA) eel SY Yes! BUT I FOUGHT HIMOFE! UC ANP HiS GANG OF THUGS, TOO! YESSIR! MINE 1S AG THE NGTH OF TEN BECAUSE ) SOMETHING, ALL RIGHT! MY HEART IS PURE! 7” NO, 11'S YOUR WORET NIGHTMARE, YOU No- GOOD, LOW-DOWN, BACK-STABBING, DIRTY- DEALING’ S0-AND-50! V you're Fut oF pure A "COWBOY"? WHATS ‘THAT? SOME KIND OF. APPRENTICE MILKMAN?_ SCROOGE! I'M $0 GLAD YOU'RE ALL RIGHT! T WAS ABDUCTED BY A BAND OF ZULU WARRIORS WiTH BIG, NASTY SPEARS! I SWEAR IT! JT TOLD YOU I LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE ! TWICE! FROM NOWON, WON'T TRUST You I WON'T TRUST ANYBODY ONCE! 8wneee’s mat FIRST THAT LION, Now A GIANT. MEDUCK HADA RIFLE CHICKEN! 7M GOING BACK omy J IN HERE SOMEWHERE! TULIP FARM IN AMSTERDAM, SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOu GORY, J BEFORE! YOULL HAVE To KEEP THAT HALIOy COUGAR, OFF rie FURNITURE AND THE CUSTOMERS: Yi SOUTH OF THE ECOS Wer LIMPOPO, ACTUALLY!JILL GET You FOR THIS, MeDUCK ! SOMEDAY I'LL BE SOMEBODY, AND TLL EAT LITTLE NOBODIES LIKE YOU FOR AFTERNOON TEA! YOU'LL NEVER BE SOMEBODY, SONNY! NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU MIGHT MAKE, IT WON'T MEAN SHUCKS UNLESS YOU MAKE’ NIT SQUARE-- THE WAY I PLAN TO! ‘BUT SeRORGEMCPUCK NEVER NUDE HIS FORTHNE | [>THE TRaNGvAAl ORE WAS-100 LOW-GRADE FOR A IN THE AFRICAN GOLDFIELDS, EVEN THOUGH HE LONE MINER 70 EXPLOIT-~TONS OF IT NEEDED 10 TOILED THERE FOR THREE LONG YEARS. BEMINED AND PROCESSED TO EXTRACT ASINGLE OUNCE aps LOL ‘A RESULT, ONLY RANDLORDS ALREADY WEALTHY FROM INALLY IT CAME TIME FOR YOUNG SCROOGE TO THE KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINE COULD AFFORD THE PACK UP AND MOVEON, TO AGAIN SET OUT ON WORKERS AND EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO MAKE A PROFIT ‘AQUEST FOR THE END OF HIS RAINBOW. MINING GOLD ON THE RAND.