The Gippsland men were the only bushmen we knew at all well, and perhaps that door might shut soon.

But Mr. Tyers could not afford to allow Gippsland to sink into obscurity; his official life and salary depended on his finding it.

To the south were the wide spreading plains of Gippsland, with its abundant gold-fields and tall forests.

I knew him after he returned to Gippsland and settled there.