"You are an ignorant impostor, and your science a humbug.
"He's a humbug," said another; "preaching to us and then doing the same himself."
Naturally, the last comers of '58 were too late to get a place on the gold-bars, and they went back to the coast in disgust, calling the gold stampede 'the Fraser River humbug.' Nevertheless, men were washing, sluicing, rocking, and digging gold as far as Lillooet.