He is a strange character--a great object lesson." Suddenly he came back to David's question.

"What do you want to know about Stikine River and Firepan Creek ?" he asked.
"I was reading something about them that interested me," replied David.
"A _very_ wild country, I take it, from what Tavish has told you.
Probably no white people." "Always, everywhere, there are a few white people," said Father Roland.
"Tavish is white, and he was there.

Sixty years ago, in the gold rush, there must have been many.

But I fancy there are very few now.

Tavish can tell us.