William’s Creek, Cariboo--The Discoverers--The Position and Nature of the Gold Country--Geological Features--The Cariboo District--Hunting the Gold up the Fraser to Cariboo-- Conjectured Position of the Auriferous Quartz Veins--Various kinds of Gold--Drawbacks to Mining in Cariboo--The Cause of its Uncertainty--Extraordinary Richness of the Diggings--“The Way the Money Goes”--Miners’ Eccentricities--Our Quarters at Cusheon’s--Price of Provisions--The Circulating Medium--Down in the Mines--Profits and Expenses--The “Judge”--Our Farewell Dinner--The Company--Dr. B----l waxes Eloquent--Dr. B----k’s Noble Sentiments--The Evening’s Entertainment--Dr. B----l Retires, but is heard of again--General Confusion--The Party Breaks Up--Leave Cariboo--Boating down the Fraser--Camping Out--William’s Lake--Catastrophe on the River--The Express Wagon--Difficulties on the Way--The Express-man prophesies his own Fate--The Road beyond Lytton--A Break Down--Furious Drive into Yale--Victoria once more. William’s Creek takes its name from one of its discoverers, William Dietz, a Prussian, who, with his companion, a Scotchman, named Rose, were amongst the most adventurous of the pioneers of the Cariboo country. Neither of them ever reaped any reward from the discovery of perhaps the richest creek in the world. When a crowd of miners rushed to the place, they left in search of fresh diggings. The Scotchman disappeared for months, and his body was found at length by a party of miners in a journey of discovery, far out in the Wilds. On the branch of a tree hard by hung his tin cup, and scratched upon it with the point of a knife was his name, and the words, “Dying of starvation.” William Dietz returned unsuccessful to Victoria, and, struck down by rheumatic fever, was dependent on charity at the time of our visit.