but henry was never satisfied. his desire for new land and adventure was fed by the reports of frederick walker and william landsborough who returned from their separate searches for burke and wills in 1862 with promising reports of the flinders river country. henry wanted to view this new country himself and set out from mt mcconnell on 24 november 1863 with a mr devlin and his favourite aboriginal boy, dick. on the flinders river he took up land which he named hughenden station after his mother's childhood home in england, hughenden manor. the township of hughenden was laid out in the same area in 1876.