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To the foregoing may be added the discovery of a prospecting hole, which had been dug, evidently, by some one in the hope of finding mineral; a yak with a brand on it; wreckage of a boat, which, undoubtedly, belonged to their ill-fated ship; a gruesome skeleton on the seashore; and finally one of the lifeboats of the schoolship and a companion to their own, found on the shore of the stream where they now were.
Never making much money, and never very "hard up," he had always managed to provide for his mother and sisters; and when he formed his prospecting party to Cape York and sailed from Brisbane, he knew that they would not suffer from any financial straits for at least two years.
Wyllard's face hardened as he mentioned the mining boss, and a curious little sparkle crept into his eyes, but after a pause he proceeded quietly: "We did what we could for the boy. In fact, it rather broke up the prospecting trip, but he was too far gone. He hung for a week or two, and one of us brought a doctor out from the settlements, but the day before we broke camp Jake and I buried him."
"Well, it beats all," he mused aloud. "Why, man, there's gold in those mountains! You had an inside track on prospecting, placed as you were. And there's cocoa and some day they'll coin money in rubber, too. All that country's waiting for is better communications.
"Shall we pass our young friend in to see the show?" said Demorest to Stacy. "Yes, if he'll be perfectly quiet and not breathe on the glasses," returned Stacy. They each gravely took one of Barker's hands and led him to the corner of the cabin. There, on an old flour barrel, stood a large tin prospecting pan, in which the partners also occasionally used to knead their bread.
Virginia had told Bill that her lover seemed to have some definite place in view for his prospecting: he had simply come to search for the same lost mine that Bill had discovered the previous day.
"You know better now, don't you?" Curly made no reply, but kept his eyes fixed upon the floor. "It seems to me that you were prospecting for something more valuable than gold, weren't you?" Weston queried. "What do you mean?" and Curly lifted his head. "You were prospecting for a woman, and that woman happens to be my daughter. Deny it, if you dare." "I do deny it," Curly stoutly protested.
In one gruesome spot on the Ohio bank, where a projecting log fortunately served as a pier, the Doctor landed for a prospecting tour; while I ascended a zigzag path, through steep and rugged land, to a nest of squalid cabins perched by a shabby hillside road.
That had happened only a few days before, but they were long days. He too must have been well occupied. There was still a bruise on his temple. "I I wasn't quite right in the head after those fellows had beat me up, and I kind of wanted to show you that I am something like a gentleman." "Have you been in Hidden Creek?" "Yes, ma'am. I was thinking of prospecting around.
Having therefore made up my mind that I would begin exploring as soon as shearing was over, I thought it would be a good thing to take Chowbok with me; so I told him that I meant going to the nearer ranges for a few days' prospecting, and that he was to come too. I made him promises of nightly grog, and held out the chances of finding gold.
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