When Buck returns to the camp to find the Yeehats dancing around the shattered mine site, the rage that possesses him is overwhelming. As London writes that "for the last time in his life [Buck] allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason." Buck goes absolutely wild and his ferocity is astonishing to the Yeehat.
Buck attacks them and moves about so quickly that when the Yeehat try to shoot arrows at him, they end up shooting their friends. One man even throws a spear to hit him and ends up killing another man. They've never seen an animal like this before and when they finally run away they are convinced that it must have been an evil spirit because no animal could do what Buck did.
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