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Reminiscence by an old pioneer of his early days in Australia on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, around Forest Creek/Castlemaine. The Gloucestershire immigrant with his friend falls in love with an Irish girl on the trip out; they work together prospecting to find enough gold to marry; the narrator kills a Chinese gold robber by accident, flees to Melbourne and marries his girl. Money bribes the Chinese and several years later he sees the supposed dead man in Castlemaine. Anti-Chinese sentiments very strong. Includes passing references to his wife's loyalty; woman's selfishness; and the superiority of men's friendship. (PB)
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- Castlemaine, Castlemaine area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
- 1850s
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