It is recorded that during this time the first Lebanese pioneer arrived in the Transvaal. He did not come accidentally, as is foolishly suggested by some, having lost direction on his way to America. In fact, he came like thousands of others from Europe and elsewhere because of the discovery of precious stones and minerals at this end of the African continent. As far as is known, it was Elias Mansour Eid from Beiteddine, south east of Beirut, who worked in Ferreira’s Mining Camp (as early Johannesburg was called or precisely its cradle) for 10 years and amassed a tidy stash of gold sovereigns in that short time, then he returned to his hometown. His financial success story inspired hundreds of husbands and fathers, courageous adventurers, to make similar sea voyages on cattle boats sailing between Port Said and Lourenço Marques / Delagoa Bay (as early Maputo Bay was called).