GOLDEN FLEECE LEGEND
RIVER TO BE DREDGED. London, Dec. 6 The legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece is recalled by a British firm s e ” cision to tender at £60,000 for a to be used in the auriferous bed of the River Pek, on the frontier, of Yugoslavia and Rumania. , The sand has not been touched since the days of Alexander the Great, toO years B.C. It was the Pek River up which the Argonauts sailed from the Black Sea, seeking the Golden Fleece. The peasants of the Pek Valley still use sheepskins to dredge for gold. They leave the skins in the mountam streams for weeks, sometimes- for months, enabling the alluvial gold to be caught in the wool. Some of the deposits have riot been worked since Attila’s invasion in 445 A.D.
The legend is that Jason and , many of the greatest heroes of mythological Greece sailed in the Argo in search of the fleece of a sacred ram. With the assistance of Medea, daughter of the royal owner of the Golden Fleece, they, secured it and sailed home. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1933, Page 6
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