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 stockade had been erected as protection against the aborigines. On 9 February the expedition left Cooper Creek with 12 camels, 5 horses, nearly two tons of stores and six men: Duncan McIntyre, John McCalman, William Barnett, Belooch, Welbo and Myola (three aborigines). They arrived at the Cloncurry River on Sunday 18 March. The tree marked with 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. Death at Grave Hole To make good the loss of equipment that occurred at Cooper Creek, McIntyre went to Burketown towards the end of April 1866. A fever of plague proportions was sweeping the town, thought to have been brought in by a ship, the Margaret and Mary. It was the wet season, the climate oppressive, there was a want of proper provisions and medicines, and resistance to the disease was low. On 21 May, McIntyre showed the first symptoms of the fever. Two days later, still unwell, he rode back to the base camp on the Gilliat River 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 Julia Creek. 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 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. Celtic Cross In 1918 a Celtic Cross was erected over McIntyre's grave. Ulick Browne Snr remembered the occasion: I am pleased to have