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THE EARLY FORTIES.
8.1.ANGAS McMILLAN AND GIPPSLAND.
Angas McMillan, who was the discoverer of what is now so widely-known as Gippsland, in Victoria, was a manager of the Currawang station, in the Maneroo district.

On the 20th of May, 1839, he started from the station on a trip to the southward to look for new grazing land.

He had with him but one black boy, named Jimmy Gibbu, who claimed to be the chief of the Maneroo tribe, so that if the party was small, it was very select.

On the fifth day McMillan got through to the country watered by the Buchan River, and, from the summit of an elevation which he called Mount Haystack, he obtained a most satisfactory view over the surrounding region.