On the shoulders of these mountains are unnamed glaciers and little valleys that have scarcely ever been seen except by some hardy prospector or inquisitive explorer.

Gold prospector.

There were no poker games in Patmos, and a discouraged prospector happened along at the right moment, which accounts for it.

And he goes to his educational tasks not as a prisoner weighted down by ball and chain, but as an eager prospector infatuated by the lust for gold.

One of the first results of this campaign will be to bring the enterprising prospector from Rhodesia and the Malay States to what was once the "Schöne Ost-Afrika" of the German colonial enthusiast.

Some of the more fortunate prospectors had their footsteps dogged by watchful bands bent on sharing their good luck.

With assumptions the intellectual prospector stakes out the infinite.

Some prospector not so lucky as he, thought Casey, with swift, soon forgotten sympathy.

I was reminded of a pleasant prospector's camp in Alaska.

From the far North, traveling by way of the Mackenzie and the Liard, came a smaller number of seasoned prospectors and adventurers from the Yukonmen who knew what it meant to starve and freeze and die by inches.

"I found out that it was one thing to go down there as a skilled prospector might go to examine a mine that was to be valued according to his report of the indications, but that it was entirely another thing to go and play the spy in a poor devil's house in order to buy something he didn't know he was selling and wouldn't sell if he did.

The Inca, fearing that his reports might encourage others to enter Uilcapampa, put the unfortunate prospector to death, notwithstanding the protestations of Friar Diego.

"Don't remember your namebut you're the very man Judge Harney pointed out to me as the unluckiest prospector in Montana.

One day a Spaniard named Romero, an adventurous prospector for gold, was found penetrating the mountain valleys, and succeeded in getting permission from the Inca to see what minerals were there.

A few venturesome prospectors from the west side of the Rocky Mountains had found gold in small quantities on the bars bordering the stream, and a few traders had followed in their wake with a limited supply of the bare necessaries of life, risking the dangers of Indian attack by the way to obtain large profits as a rightful reward for their temerity.

"I'll show yuh what drives prospectors crazy.