First Use of Horses

First Use of Horses

2 August 1830

Having arranged our different packages and reduced them as much as possible, I proceeded with my Party consisting or MrBrockman, one soldier & a stockeeper, the two latter each leading a pack-horse to carry our baggage across the Plain which extends from the left bank of the Swan to the base of Darling range, ….

Shoobert J. (Principal Editor), Western Australian Exploration Volume 1 1826-1835, Hesperian Press, Carlisle, 2005, p. 164.