Places like Baliarat and Forest Creek (Oastlcmaine), where the richest alluvial deposits in the world were found, were sup posed to be independent of reefs: hut sub sequent working has conclnaively proved that the enormous “ gullies ” and “ loads ” of gold were simply debris from the action of water. So with tin. In Cornwall Trenoweth worked a lode, but long ages before the alluvial, or stream, tin had been ex ploited. As the young man noticed the favorable indications of a matrix, he became more than ever convinced that bo was at last on the right path. Selecting a suilable place in the ravins, the seeker pitched his camp, for he meant to give the place the fullest trial. The spot where ho had the year before found the favorable indication? was about a mile further north, but in the same trend of country.
It was near this place that the smoke from the other prospectors’ fires rose. So far, he had not seen the first comers, but he intended going to their camp the fol lowing day. Though alone in the gloomy forest, Treno weth had no sense of lonfiness such as sat upon him like lead in hia Australian bnsh wanderings.
The feeling that human help was near if required gave him a sense of security un known in that awful journey he had made until the face of Kallakoo looked down on him on the Barrier reef.
That particular episode in his life seemed blotted out, for the tablets of his memory were unconscious at the time, and the im pression, like tbs sensitive plate of a camera, had not yet developed. After a hearty meal, the young man took off his pilot coat and commenced his work of prospecting.
