CHAPTER XIX. 



"William's Creek, Cariboo — The Discoverers — The Position and Nature 

 of the Gold Country — Geological Features — The Cariboo District 

 — Hunting the Gold up the Eraser to Cariboo — Conjectured Posi- 

 tion of the Auriferous Quartz Yeins — Yarious kinds of Gold — 

 Drawbacks to Mining in Cariboo — The Cause of its Uncertainty 

 — Extraordinary Eichness of the Diggings — " The Way the Money 

 Goes" — Miners' Eccentricities — Our Quarters at Cusheon's — Price 

 of Provisions — The Circulating Medium — Down in the Mines — 

 Profits and Expenses — The "Judge" — Our Farewell Dinner — The 

 Company — Dr. B 1 waxes Eloquent — Dr. B k's Noble Sen- 

 timents — The Evening's Entertainment — Dr. B 1 Retires, but 



is heard of again — General Confusion — The Party Breaks Up — 

 Leave Cariboo — Boating down the Eraser — Camping Out — Wil- 

 liam's Lake— Catastrophe on the River — The Express Wagon — 

 Difficulties on the Way — The Express-man prophesies his own 

 Fate — The Road beyond Lytton — A Break Down — Furious 

 Drive into Yale — Yictoria once more. 



William's Creek takes its name from one of its 

 discoverers, William Dietz, a Prussian, wlio, with his 

 companion, a Scotchman, named Rose, were amongst 

 the most adventurous of the pioneers of the Cariboo 

 country. Neither of them ever reaped any reward 

 from the discovery of perhaps the richest creek in 

 the world. When a crowd of miners rushed to the 

 place, they left in search of fresh diggings. The 

 Scotchman disappeared for months, and his body 

 was found at length by a party of miners in a journey 

 of discovery, far out in the wilds. On the branch of 



