"Up in the Coppermine River country, to the north and east of Bear Lake."
"How do you know?"
"The Injuns had chunks of it. That's what sent Knight and Hearne after it."
"How long ago?"
"Captain Knight started in 1719, an' Hearne about fifty years later."
"Gosh!" exclaimed Downey. "Ain't that figurin' quite a ways back?"
"Gold don't rot. If it was there then, it's there now. It's never been brought out."
"Yes—if it was there. But, maybe it ain't there an' never was—what then?"
"I talked with an Injun, a year back, that said he had seen an Injun from the North that had seen some Eskimos that had dishes made of yellow metal."
"He was prob'ly lyin'," observed Downey, "or the Injun that told him was lyin'. I've be'n north to the coast a couple of times, an' I never seen no Injuns nor Eskimos eatin' out of no gold dishes yet."