John Bodewins Testimony

e to lean their cone-shaped mounds against. He reckoned the cost of a wagon-road to the nearest camp, two miles away, which formed the nucleus of many lesser camps and outlying mines scattered far and near along the sides of the range or concealed in the folds of its forest garment. An old hunters and prospectors trail, starting in the valley, took its may deviously but always upwards in the direction of the pass. A short distance beyond the two claiins it was joined by a trail froin the camp. Thus the new mines, though loilely in their situation, mere not inaccessible. One afternoon, about four oclock, a man came out of the Eagle Bird tunnel, extinguished his candle as its rays turned siclrly in the daylight, and, mounting his horse, followed the trail which led onward into the forest. The sun stood nearly opposite across the valley, and he raised his hand to his hat-brim, as if blinded by the glare... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.