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'They all understand,'Sam explained, 'just bashful with white man. 'That evening, Jeb's last in Desolation, they wandered for some time in the darkness,with the thermometer at minus twenty-nine. All the time I dug out that rich lateral andsent up that muck crawlin' with gold, I thought of you folks. In a straight line he was only one thousand three hundred and seventy miles fromthe Klondike, not much farther than to Chicago, but h

ten with this girl of the islands who alternately fendedoff his unspoken approaches and encouraged them. ' Trembling with an old fury, for he had had to give this lectureto many white men and women who moved among the Next night and every498night, you build yourself another fire. Hordes from below had been setin motion, and it seemed that nothing529could halt them, not even crushing death.