The ‘Jack and Jim country’ to which Buntine refers relates to the stockmen who ran Cobungra station on behalf of the Gray family of Pelican Lagoons (Wangaratta) from 1851 onwards: John (Jack) Wells and James (Jim) Brown. These men ‘were employed to look after the run at Cobungra which was taken up by George Gray in 1851… they crossed into the valley of the Cobungra and established their first camp at Dick’s Creek (now Crown Allotment 28, Parish of Bingo-munjie). In the course of the next few years they moved further upstream and settled on the Victoria River (Crown Allotment 11, Parish of Bingo-munjie).’51 This area of open plains, referred to by Buntine as ‘Jack + Jim’ country is the current site of Cobungra Station Pty Ltd.52 ‘Butcher’s’ country refers to the area now associated with Butcher’s Creek, between Cobungra and Cassilis. Butcher’s Creek Track adjoins Jim and Jack Track, south-west of Omeo. Although other sites on the high plains are also named after John (Jack) Wells and James (Jim) Brown (J.B. Plain and Mount Jim being two examples), we can be confident that the former stockmen John Buntine is referring to the land that constituted the pastoral lease of which ‘Jim + Jack’ had been placed in charge, rather than the entirety of the Bogong High Plains. This is because he qualifies his description by specifying the ‘Victoria Plains’.