200 sheep; 4 kangaroo dogs; 2 sheep dogs.
The box of instruments sent from England for the use of the expedition had been received, and opened in Adelaide.

The most important of them were two sextants, three prismatic compasses, two false horizons, and a barometer.

One of the sextants was a very good instrument, but the glasses of the other were not clear, and unfortunately the barometer was broken and useless, since it had the syphon tube, which could not be replaced in the colony.

I exceedingly regretted this accident, for I had been particularly anxious to carry on a series of observations, to determine the level of the interior.

I manufactured a barometer, for the tube of which I was indebted to Captain Frome, the Surveyor-General, and I took with me an excellent house barometer, together with two brewer's thermometers, for ascertaining the boiling point of water on Sykes' principle.