urdy girls,
89-90, 96, 104.

Hope, 29, 36, 38, 42.

Horse Fly Creek, 41.

Howay, Judge, quoted, 11, 110.

Hudson's Bay Company, and the quest for gold, 1-4; and Vancouver
Island, 5-6; and the diggings on the Fraser, 16, 100; and the Indians,
34-5; and the Overlanders, 55, 57, 60, 61-3.

Indians of the Fraser, and the quest for gold, 12-13; their hostility,
33-6; and the Overlanders, 81. See Shuswaps.

Ireland, Mr, his rescue party, 50-1.

Kamloops, 86-7.

Keithley, Doc, 42-4.

Langley, 37, 100.

Lightning Creek, 45.

Long Bar, 35.

MacDonald, Sandy, 42-4.

M'Gowan, Ned, his affair on the Fraser, 37-40.

M'Kay, James, chief trader at Fort Ellice, 60.

Mackenzie, Alexander, explorer, 81.

Maclean, chief factor at Kamloops, 4.

M'Loughlin, John, 34.

M'Micking, Thomas, captain of the Overlanders, 58-9, 69, 72.

MacNaughton, Mrs, quoted, 71, 84, 110.

Mayne, Lieutenant, and the Yale riots, 38, 39, 111.

Miners, in the wilds, 26; disappointed gold-seekers, 13, 16; some lucky
prospectors, 22-5, 47-51; the miner and his boy, 26-7; their
packhorses, 27, 103; form vigilance committees, 33-5; their
rough-and-ready justice, 89; their chivalry, 89, 91; the effect of
sudden wealth on, 94-6; a device for concealing gold, 104, 106-7; an
instrument for shaping empire, 109. See Fraser river, Gold,
Gold-fields.

Moberly, Walter, his experiences on the Fraser, 16, 17, 111.

Moody, Colonel, and the Yale riots, 37-9.

Muskeg and slough, the difference between, 65 n.

Overlanders, the, at St Paul, 54; their meeting with the Sioux
warriors, 55; on the Red River steamer, 54, 55-6; and the Hudson's Bay
Company, 55, 57, 60, 61-3; at Winnipeg, 56-7; on the trail to Edmonton,
57-61; and the husky-dogs, 60, 62-3; reach Yellowhead Pass, 62, 63-7;
cross the Divide and reach the Fraser, 68-72; the party separate, 71,
73; on the Fraser, 73-81, 83-4; a question for psychologists, 77-8; a
gruesome story, 78-9; reach Quesnel, 81, 84; Kamloops, 85-7.

Prospecting for gold on the Fraser, 17-22, 25-6, 27-9, 30-32, 40; some
lucky prospectors and their fate, 47-51; theory regarding gold
deposits, 48-9.

Psychology, a question of, 77-8.

Queen Charlotte Islands, discovery of gold in, 3.

Quesnel, 81-3, 84.

Quesnel Lake, 41.

Red River, the first steamer on, 54-6; Red River carts, 56-7.

Rose, John, 42-4, 50.

Saskatchewan, the quest for gold on the, 63-4.

Shubert, Mrs, with the Overlanders