Show GOLD IN DIG BIG CHUNKS indian chief says legend of tribe tells of it chief good of tho choi nanaimo tribe says thero there has been a legend in his tribe for several generations that about the centor center of vancouver island there la is a stream with a small falls over tile the falls gold descends all the time and it a basin Is thrust into tho the water golden grains can bo be caught therein there says tho the chief Is of the sift that tho the white man worships in blind obliteration ot of all that Is good and noble at tho the base df the falls Is almost a solid mass of 0 gold lind and in earlier days many indians cut ut away chunks to make bullets so that ho he might hunt and get his dally daily food it Is a matl r of history that in two left to hunt forthe for the midas ildas they returned some months later with well filled pokes but amney m ney or pc suasion could not induce them to mako maho tho the trip again and their faces blanched with terror tjien they saoko of this curious eldorado this bears out ont tho superstition of tho ther indians that a terrible god holds guard over tho treas treasure that hat there is something supernatural something dreadful about tho the golden river on tills this account few redskins red skins have ever been induced to joint tho the white parties which from time to time ti me have been made up to look for the source of tho gold |