SgF^S**? 42 that was upon the Dividing Range, somewhere in the Kilraore dis trict. He was then saluted by a black with the cry of “ Batman!" accompanied with the usual glucking sound of astonishment. His lubra was a tall noble looking woman, with very handsome features, and an olive complexion. The travellers immediately set her down for a daughter of the gigantic Wild White Man, Buckley. Their native Stock-keeper from Sydney fell desperately in love with the lady, and would have her on any terms. He very seriously deliberated upon the best means of rendering her a widow, that he might become her protector. The Quaker Missionary, James Backhouse, tells the following singular story respecting this Overlander, which he heard from that gentleman, on the Yarra, in 1837. “ In one of J. Gardiner’s journies from Sydney, one of his men was bitten by a venomous serpent. The wound was sucked, hut the man showed symptoms of faintness of alarming character. The party had received inti mation from a native woman, that some of her countrymen intended to attack them in the night; and at the juncture, when the poison seemed to be takino- effect, the lights of the natives were seen
