ueensland Exploring Expedition from
Brisbane.

To the Honourable Secretary Exploration Committee of Royal Society
Victoria.

List of provisions received at the depot, Gulf of Carpentaria, on the 8th
February 1862:

40 pounds of peas.
96 pounds of salt beef.
40 pounds of rice.
268 pounds of damaged beef, jerked.
27 pounds of damaged bacon.
650 pounds of damaged flour.
10 pounds of broken biscuits.
18 pounds of tobacco.
Left from previous expedition to south-west.
90 pounds of flour.
40 pounds of sugar.

These provisions were all our party, consisting of six, had up to the
21st May, the date of our arrival at the station of Messrs. Williams on
the Warrego.*

...

(*Footnote. I may state here that, on the expedition to the south-west
when our party consisted of five, we started with ninety days' rations of
flour, beef, tea, and sugar, and five gallons of rum. These and the
rations, a list of which is given above, were all that were furnished for
the land expedition; and it was a source of much discouragement that my
requisition for tea, sugar, and rum for the journey across the continent
was not complied with, more especially as the allowance supplied at
Brisbane was very liberal, as the annexed list will show:

List of stores sent by the Queensland Government for Landsborough's
Expedition. (Cost in pounds/shillings/pence.)

August 15 1861.

12 bags (14 shillings) flour, 200 pounds each at 18/10 per ton (22/4):
22/18.
1 chest and half chest congou, at 7/15, in bond: 11/12.
9 bags Mauritius sugar, gr. tons: 14/0/16.
Tare: 0/1/26.
Nett: 13/2/18 at 50 shillings, in bond: 34/3/0.

1 package tobacco, nett 250 pounds, at 0/2/6, in bond: 31/5/0.
3 bags rice, 1 hundredweight each, at 24 pounds: 3/12/0.
1 cask oatmeal (224 pounds): 2/14/0.
2 hhds. rum, 112 gallons, at 5 shillings, in bond, shipped on board of
the Victoria: 28/0/0.
7 drums (0/17/6) colza oil, 35 gallons, at 8 shillings (14/0): 14/17/6.
43 bales lucerne hay, nett 6 tons 10 hundredweight 2 qrs. 18 pounds at
10/0: 65/6/7.
45 bales oaten hay, nett 8 tons 11 hundredweight 2 qrs. 1 pound, at 12/0:
102/18/1.
Freight paid captain of the Gem for same: 14/0/0.
15 bags (0/17/6) bran, gross 19/1/15.
Tare: 0/1/17.
Nett: 18/3/26 at 0/1/10 per bushel of 20 pounds: 9/14/11.
60 tons coals, in bulk, at 1/5 per ton: 75/0/0.
106 bags ditto, containing 10 12-20 tons, at 1/5 per ton: 13/5/0.
106 bags, at 0/1/2: 6/3/8.
Total: 436/7/9.

After the wreck of a Fi