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36 On some occasions all the tribes inhabiting a large area assemble at one spot, and a stranger seeing perhaps four hundred or five hundred natives might suppose that they were usually present at the place, and that other adjacent localities were peopled in like manner.

Again, it is known that a tribe will follow white men many scores of miles. They appear at times painted in such colors, and in such places, as to lead to the belief that they are not the same men who were seen many days previously.

I have prepared a map showing some of the areas formerly occupied by the tribes of Victoria, and though necessarily imperfect and incomplete, it is interesting.

For Gippsland, my authorities are the Rev. John Bulmer and the Rev. F. A. Hagenauer.

The Rev. Mr. Bulmer gives the following account of the lands formerly held by the people:—

The area of Gippsland is, roughly, 10,000,000 acres; and assuming that there were as many as 1,500, the number of acres to each black would be 6,666.