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"Dalgonally". McIntyre (1832-1866), pastoralist and explorer, was born in Argylshire, Scotland and migrated to Australia early in the 1860s, with his brotherDonald. He took up Dalgonally station on Julia Creek, in the Cloncurry district of NW Queensland. In June 1864 he set out to discover a route for strock to new settlements in the north, and on the way found two horses that apparently had belonged to the lost explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and also two trees marked with and L. His discoveries roused fresh interest in Leichchardt's fate, and the following year women in Melbourne organised what was known as the Ladies Search Expedition and sent him to look for relics in the far north. McIntyre established a depot with camels and horses at Dalgonally and went on to Bourketwon to buy stores. He contracted "Gulf" fever and died on the 4 June 1866 on his return to his camp by a water hole in Eastern Creek about 3 miles south of the Cloncurry River and nine miles north west of Dalgonally homestead. A monument built much later on this spot commemorates both him and his brother Donald, who lived at Dalgonally until 1905 and died in Sydney in 1907