imself the main attraction of the show and hogged the show and all of the applause, until a kindly stage manager decided that Barney should also receive some credit and after a show yelled out from the wings "and Barney, too!". The brothers liked the sound of Barneytoo and adopted it as their name, and were from then on known as the Barnato Brothers.
             The Barnato Brothers show would not last long, however, because very soon Harry was touched by diamond fever after hearing about the glowing reports of diamonds coming from South Africa. He left in September of 1872, but Barney did not yet have enough money to leave. He worked all sorts of odd jobs he could find to save up enough money, he even gave up smoking. Finally he made £4000 and left on his twenty first birthday, July 5, 1873, for South Africa, traveling steerage.
             Once he got to South Africa he could not afford a wagon seat for his trip to Kimberly. Kimberly was the center of the diamond mining industry, and he would set off that way to find his fortune. He was able to book on his luggage, but had to make the 700-mile trek by foot. Once in Kimberly he began to work as a laborer for the boers living in the area. He would carry their products to market, and work on their farms. He also found work as a clown. Finally he had saved up enough money to enter the diamond business. He began at the bottom, as a kopje-walloper (literally: hill basher). These people would go from digger to digger buying diamonds right there on the spot.
             His first big break in the business began with the retirement of another kopje-walloper he had befriended. He was selling all of his tools, including his pony for £27.10s. The reason this was such a find was that, Barnato noticed, the man would ride his pony with very loose reigns, the pony was so familiar with the route it was taking it would take it by habit. He reckoned that by buying what the man ha...