There were eighteen men in all.

H.C.Gregory was second in command, Ferdinand von Mueller was botanist, J.S.Wilson geologist, J.R.Elsey surgeon and naturalist, and J.Baines artist and storekeeper.

They had on board fifty horses, two hundred sheep, and provisions and stores calculated to last them eighteen months on full rations.
They did not reach Point Pearce, at the mouth of the Victoria River, until the 24th of September.

There they separated, the schooner taking the stores up the river, and the Monarch proceeding on her voyage to Singapore.

The horses had been landed at Point Pearce, whence Gregory, his brother, and seven men took them on overland by easy stages.