“In going round this lake, Kilroy who was ahead of the party stopped, saying he saw a beautiful bird, which he recommended me to shoot to add to the collection. My gun being loaded with slugs in one barrel and ball in the other, I stopped the camel to get at the shot belt which I could not get without his laying down.
Whilst Mr Gill was unfastening it, I was screwing the ramrod into the wad over the slugs, standing close alongside of the camel. At this moment the camel gave a lurch to one side and caught his pack on the lock of my gun, which discharged the barrel; the contents of which first took off the middle finger of my right hand and entered my left cheek by my lower jaw, knocking out a row of teeth...”
“IT’S HIGHLY LIKELY WE’LL BE GOING WHERE NO EUROPEAN HAS BEEN BEFORE”
diary entry by explorer John Ainsworth Horrocks during his 1846 expedition of SA’s Spencer Gulf exemplified the frequent struggle between the camel, Horrocks died.
