Ships were pouring out their passengers at the Long Wharf.

They would tent for a time on the shore, then hurry off to the mines.

In those days you could meet in the streets men of various nationalities.

Here were gold seekers from New England and old England, from our own Southland and the sunny land of France and Italy, from Germany and Sweden and Norway, from Canada and other British possessions, from China and Japan.

And it was gold which brought them all here, the statesman and the soldier, the labouring man and the child of fortune, sons of adversity and sons of prosperity, rich and poor, lawyers, doctors, merchants, sailors, scholars, unlettered,--all are here for gold.