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1835 A. Smith Diary 22 Jan. (1939) I. 225 [The Bechuana] mix fat with the blink klip and rub it over the body in moderate quantities, but in great quantities upon the head.

1887 J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami xiii. 186 The natives had not yet acquired a knowledge of the value of diamonds or klips as they were then termed.

1892 J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity vi. 48 Flogged to death for stealing a ‘klip’ (as the Dutch and many of the Kaffirs call a diamond).

1893 T. Reunert Diamonds & Gold S. Afr. i. 6 By this time the attention of every one in that neighbourhood was turned to seeking blink klippe..and during the following year several diamonds were picked up.

1897 Pearson's Mag. July 67/1 Fifteen years on that blathted breakwater, just for being found with a few little klips on you.

1911 L. Cohen Reminisc. Kimberley ii. 35 ‘I'll show you the klip. Here it is.’ With that he pulled out his snuffbox..; inside was a fairly sized beautiful octahedron diamond.

1967 L. G. Green Like Diamond Blazing xiii. 144 I met old Hottentots who remembered Luderitz; they said he had two little boxes of blink klippies..and that he carried these diamonds with him.