156:. After a journey of nearly 500 miles I arrived at the station to take delivery. Everything was in great confusion. We had to put up cattle yards before we could do anything – and no water where the station and yards were. After a month’s hard work we got the cattle together and started them. I intended to go a week with them to see how McLeod would shape. In a few days I saw he was not capable of taking the cattle on alone, and as I would not be able to continue with him (I had to return to the Darling River for the horses) we drove the cattle back to the station and let them go again – for the place had been deserted by the owners...
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317:] who, while leading an expedition in search of Leichhardt organised by the Ladies of Melbourne, died here on 4th June 1866 aged 34 years. He was a man of promise, of courage and integrity, and whilst beset with difficulties, pushed on faithfully until struck down by fever and death, being attended at the last by his brother, Donald MacIntyre of Dalgonally, to whom also this stone stands in memory. He took up this country with his brother in 1863, lived here until 1906, and died in
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164:... I learned ... for the first time that I had been appointed leader of the Ladies’ Leichhardt Search Expedition ... The camels and stores left here yesterday for Mount Murchison – 90 miles without water. I am going up the river to get horses and to sell the rubbish they sent up. Had they been the best horses in Victoria they would not be fit to go northward after getting here in such a season as this.
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who accompanied McIntyre on his first trip to the Gulf ) became the new leader. Starting in
January 1867 and finishing in May, the expedition made a sweep of the country between latitudes 20° and 21° south, and longitudes 142° to 140° east. No evidence of Leichhardt was found and the search was terminated.
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28th. Started to crawl and we made to save our own lives. Donald McIntyre, Barnett, McCalman, Dr Murray, a Black Boy and I travelled until our horses gave out. Dr Murray went on and left us. We let the horses go and we tried to walk but we were not able, so we laid down for dead. When the cool of the
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Duncan McIntyre was successful in finding suitable grazing land near the
Flinders River – it became known as Dalgonally – and he found something else of significant historical interest: evidence of Ludwig Leichhardt's third, and final, expedition of 1848 from which Leichhardt never returned. McIntyre
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in 1831. He was the fifth child of James McIntyre and his wife Mary, they were a Gaelic agricultural based society. In 1839, he came to
Australia with his father's eldest brother, Archibald, his Aunt Elizabeth and five of their children. A sixth child, Donald (who later settled on Dalgonally Station)
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After McIntyre's death, W.S. Sloman took over as leader. Dalgonally
Station (then occupied by Duncan's brother, Donald McIntyre) became the base for the expedition and several rivers were investigated in the search for Leichhardt. In the latter part of 1866 Sloman died. William Barnett (the same man
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When it became known that McIntyre had found evidence of
Leichhardt, a group of Melbourne society ladies formed a committee, the Leichhardt Search Committee, and sought contributions for a new search. McIntyre was appointed leader, probably in May 1865, though he was unaware of his appointment – he
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and planning to return with water; the second group, led by Dr James Murray, coming along behind with the horses and stores. When the two groups met again, the expedition in its original composition was at an end: 66 horses dead in the desert, and stores and equipment scattered. In his diary for
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Several members of the party returned to the settled districts while McIntyre and the remainder of the party once again moved ahead to Cooper Creek. The whole of
December was spent finding permanent water in Cooper Creek and collecting the scattered stores. By 14 January 1866 a
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and died there on 4 June. He was buried on the morning of 6 June beside a waterhole now known as Grave Hole. The letters DM LE (Duncan McIntyre, Leichhardt
Expedition) were carved into a tree near the grave. A section of this tree is now in the Duncan McIntyre Museum in
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Townsville supplied and engraved the stone, but by 1957 the inscription was well-nigh illegible. Bill Horton, teamster, carted the monument on his tabletop waggon with a 19-horse team (no lorries then); and Bill Norton, butcher and handyman of Julia Creek, erected
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Leichhardt's initials on the Flinders River was about 60 kilometres distant in a south-easterly direction. For several days McIntyre and Welbo searched the Flinders River for other traces of Leichhardt but were unsuccessful.
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In late August 1865, with fresh horses and in drought conditions, the expedition led by McIntyre started from the
Darling. It was to proceed to that part of the Flinders where McIntyre had seen traces of Leichhardt. Fresh stores could be obtained as needed from
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night came on we got a little stronger and we crawled along the tracks until we met Belooch with a little water which gave us great ease. We walked into camp about 10. Sixty hours without a drop of water, 86 hours without anything to eat, 97 hours on half a
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was in the Queensland bush buying cattle to stock Dalgonally. With McIntyre somewhere in Queensland – and still oblivious of his new role as leader – the Leichhardt search party left Glengower on Monday, 3 July 1865, at midday.
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I am pleased to have witnessed in 1918 the arrival at Julia Creek of the monument now erected at the Grave Hole, put there by the family, the proceedings directed by Mrs Annie McKay.
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Found between Burke and Sturt tracks about 200 miles from Carpentaria two old horses, and saw very old tracks of a party going south west. Also two trees marked L about 15 years old.
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