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After enduring all the hardships entailed by life in such a wild

country, they blundered into a gully where a brief analysis of the

detritus gave a result per ton which was not to be in! What a place that was!" exclai even yet with the recollection of it "In one day we secured

old than we could carry We threay food to old to secure the food again We called it the

Golden Valley When weary of digging, ould spin coins to see who

drew corner lots in the toe had mapped out on a level piece of

land"

White ht the fever They accu no means of transport other than their own backs,

and then, all precautions being relaxed, the nomad Indians, who They were nearly

all killed by stones shot fros Suarez was only stunned, and he

and a Spaniard, with two Indians, were reserved for future slaughter

"The others were eaten," he said, "and their bones were used for

fires I saw my friend, Giacomo, felled like a bullock, and the

Indians as well By chance, I was the last I had no hope of escape