The Golden Canyon Contents: The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest

room?" Dick Said when he

day after you were brought in, so that the place should be quiet, but they come in by turns

of gold. At any rate, after being four months under Collet, I think we have a right to

or want of tryi

en saw that they were really bent upon accompa

It is just the Injuns-they are the worst kind, and have always set themselves against gold-seekers. That is natural enough, for they know that if gold mines were once opened in their

California, and have brought with them sacks of nuggets to prove it. These are men who have had the luck to get in and out without ever having been seen by the Injuns; the large parties have never succeeded. So you see, young fellows, the odds are strongly agin

t too great for you and your comrades, it is not too great for us. Ther

shall be glad to have two more with us, and we intended to g

we take

to get first-rate ones, for if the Indians come on us it is fighting that we shall have to do, not riding. Among those mountains no shod horse of the plains has a chance with those Indian ponies, which can climb like goats and go at a gallop along places wher

rs for twenty-five pounds each. The Consul here has, of course, heard of my

to be on the right side. If we don't find any gold up there, we shall w

told him that should he recover from his wounds, he could cash a draft for him without any fear. Therefore in half an hour the lads

your horses yet,

nd colts; they are things one can't very well do without in knocking about among the hills. I will go round the town, and I have no doubt I shall

e town, both knew of men who had rifles or revolvers to dispose of, and in a couple of h

"to rig yourselves out miner fashion. Them uniforms looks very nice on board ship, but they aint much good

red shirts and high boots, in which were tucked the bottom of the thick mole

gets pretty cold up in the mountains when the sun is

re shirt, and two or three pairs of stockings, a couple