ESTIMATED COST OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 

 1907 UP TO AUGUST, 1909 



£ s. d. £ s. d. 



Purchase price of A^imroc? 5000 0 0 



Cost of irnprovements, alterations, and repairs in dry 



dock, London 2550 0 0 



Cost of improvements, alterations, additions and 



repairs at Lyttelton, New Zealand 740 19 9 



Cost of repairs at Lyttelton, New Zealand, after her 



return from the Antarctic on her first voyage when 



she was damaged during heavy weather 957 3 3 



9248 3 0 



Equipment for ship, engine, carpenters, deck and 



galley stores, &c 2540 4 8 



Relief equipment ship 490 6 7 



Food-supplies, ship 1821 6 11 



Wages: captain's, officers', and crew of ship 5161 3 3 



Coal account for ship at London, Torquay, St. Vincent, 

 Cape Town, Lyttelton, New Zealand (three sup- 

 plies) and Monte Video 1520 8 8 



General expenses of ship, including labour, pilotage, 



shipbrokers' charges, &c 1365 15 1 



Insurance on ship, &c 863 12 0 



Equipment shore-party for sixteen men for two years 4296 18 4 



Relief equipment shore- party ". 328 16 11 



Food-supplies shore-party, sixteen men for two years 2005 14 7 



Relief food-supplies for whole expedition, forty men 



for one year 1807 10 7 



Salaries shore-party 6055 10 4 



Cost of fifteen Manchurian ponies, including purchase 

 price, freight from China to New Zealand, harness, 



two years' forage, &c 1517 17 8 



Cost of nine Esquimau dogs and food 126 0 0 



Interest account at bank on guarantees, &c., and bank 



charges 2021 11 5 



Passage of shore-party and manager of expedition to 



New Zealand and back 1016 15 10 



Travelling expenses , 443 4 9 



General expenses: manager's salary, office rent, tele- 

 grams, postages, typewriting correspondence, 

 exhibition of equipment, wages district messenger- 

 boy, telephone, rent, &c., &c 1484 19 7 



Cost of cablegrams between London and Australia, 

 and New Zealand before the expedition sailed and 



on its return 264 14 7 



£44,380 14 9 



445 



