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practicable, the nature and extent of the marsh or marshes above 
mentioned. 
In the prosecution of this service, you will be guided generally 
by the following instructions. 
] . You will be accompanied on this expedition by Mr. Hamilton 
Hume, whose great experience in travelling through the re- 
mote parts of the Colony, cannot fail to be highly useful to 
you. You will also be attended by two soldiers and six 
convicts, of whom one is to understand the shoeing of horses, 
one to be a carpenter, one a harness-maker, and three stock- 
men, and you will be provided with six horses and twelve 
bullocks. 
'2. A small boat has been built here for the use of the expedition, 
and for its conveyance, there is provided a light four-wheeled 
carriage to be drawn by two bullocks. 
The deputy Commissary General has received orders for 
supplying the expedition with provisions of the best quality 
sufficient for six months’ consumption, together with tents, 
blankets, clothing, pack-saddles, utensils, instruments, tools, 
and necessaries of all kinds of which you are likely to stand 
in need. Orders are also given for providing you with arms 
and ammunition, with rockets for signals, and an ample sup- 
ply of simple medicines — You are to consider it an impor- 
tant dut to attend to the providing of all these supplies, and 
to take care that not only every article is of the best quality 
that can be procured, but also that no article be wanting 
with which you may desire to be provided. 
3. Orders are given for forwarding without delay all your pro- 
visions, stores and supplies of every kind to Wellington 
Valley, at which place, you, Mr. Hume, and all your men 
