But the men of Forty Mile were without faith.

The diggings to the westward were good enough for them.
Then it was that Carmack, his brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Bonanza Creek.

After that, in the Sourdough Saloon, that night, they exhibited coarse gold to the sceptical crowd.

Men grinned and shook their heads.

They had seen the motions of a gold strike gone through before.