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| 'If the emigrant has pre-determined to take his chance at the diggings, or finds, on reaching Melbourne, that there is nothing else for him, he must form a party, which he will probably have done on shipboard, and start immediately, without losing a day in Melbourne... Gold mining cannot well be pursued by any single individual. There must be a party working in concert... The implements and other requisites for such a party of miners are a tent, a few picks and shovels, with one or two crow bars, two or three prospecting pans and tin pots, and a cradle... These, with a few cooking utensils, and such articles of personal baggage as cannot well be dispensed with, constitute the outfit of a party of miners; and they must just make the best bargain they can with some carrier or drayman to convey them to the mines.' |
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