This biographical study concerns a Kaurareg man named Gida (c.1849-1899), who resided on Muralag (Prince of Wales Island), in Torres Strait in the late nineteenth century. It is part of a larger research project on the so-called 'Meston's Wild Australia' or 'Wild Australia Show' of 1892-93 which was conceived by Queensland entrepreneur Archibald Meston. Meston conscripted a travelling troupe of Aboriginal people from the Queensland frontier whom he presented to the public as 'wild' but 'magnificent' both physically and in relation to particular skilled customs, yet doomed to extinction, being in the 'dying days of their race'. The tour climax was planned to be their appearance at the Chicago World Fair in late 1893, but the troupe were left stranded by Meston in Melbourne.