Amongst these early leaders of civilisation in the central state are to be found the names of Hawker, Hughes, Campbell, Robinson, and Heywood.

But unfortunately the details of their expeditions in search of grazing country have not been preserved.
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John Ainsworth Horrocks.] John Ainsworth Horrocks is one of those whose accidental death at the very outset of his career plunged his name into oblivion.

Had he lived to climb to the summit of his ambition as an explorer, it would have been written large in Australian history.

That he had some premonition of the conditions necessary to successful exploration to the west is shown by his having been the first to employ the camel as an aid to exploration.
He took one with him on his last and fatal trip, and it is an example of fate's cruel irony that the presence of this animal was inadvertently the cause of his death.
Horrocks was born at Penwortham Hall, Lancashire, on March 22nd, 1818.