Prologue: Heading North -- Misery point -- Cap aux Diamants -- The coppermine -- "A deathly stillness" -- Golconda -- The great hoax -- Crater of diamonds -- De Beers in America -- Broken skull river -- Deliverance -- The secret of the anthill -- A nunatak -- Blackwater lake -- Tree line -- The sandman -- The barren lands -- The great staking rush -- The corridor of hope -- An esker runs through it -- Ekati.