NARRATIVE OF MR. WM. CARRON. 



We left Sydney on the 29th of April, 1848, in 

 the harque " Tam O'Shanter" (Captain Merionberg), 

 in company with H.M.S. " Rattlesnake." 



Our party consisted of the following persons : 

 Mr. E. B. Kennedy, (leader), Mr. W. Carron, 

 (botanist), Mr. T. Wall, (naturalist), Mr. C. Niblet, 

 (storekeeper), James Luff, Edward Taylor, and 

 William Costigan, (carters), Edward Carpenter, 

 (shepherd), WiUiam Goddard, Thomas Mitchell, 

 John Douglas, Dennis Dunn, (labourers), and 

 Jackey-Jackey, an aboriginal native of the Pa- 

 trick'sTPlains tribe, of the Hunter River district. 



Our supphes and equipment for the journey had 

 been most fully considered, and were estimated by 

 Mr. Kennedy as amply sufficient for a journey so 

 short as what we then anticipated. Our live stock 

 consisted of twenty-eight horses, one hundred sheep, 

 three kangaroo dogs, and one sheep dog. Our dry 

 provisions comprised one ton of flour, ninety lbs. of 

 tea, and six hundred lbs. of sugar. Besides these 

 necessar}'- supplies for subsistence on the road, we 

 took -with us twenty-four pack-saddles, one heavy 

 square cart, two spring carts, with harness for nine 

 horses, four tents, a canvas sheepfold, twenty-two 



