Excerpt from The Story of the Bushrangers: Published in Numbers I to VII; No. 3 At the time that Gardiner crossed the border into Vic toria that part of the country was infested with prowling bands of well-mounted men, ostensibly in search of employ ment, but really on the look out for horses and cattle that admitted of easy lifting. It was the custom in those days for the station-holder to extend hospitality to all callers, and it is said that on some stations the cost of entertaining the callers amounted to over 1000 per annum. It was a fortu nate thing, indeed, for the colony that the discovery of gold was made, and that the periodical wanderers were drawn off by the excitment to different and widely separated fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.