+------------+---------------------+-------+----------------------------+ | Pack-Oxen. |Load carried. | Gross |In Cart drawn by 8 Mules. | | | |Weight.| | +------------+---------------------+-------+----------------------------+ | | | lbs. | lbs.| |Ceylon |Canvass Bag, No. 1,— | |Common guns 112 | | | Peas, 45 lbs. }| |Barrel full of presents 56 | | | Sugar, 48 ” }| 97 |6 pots and 2 kettles 110 | | | | |Assegais 56 | |Stewartson’s|Canvass Bag, No. 2.— | |Hatchets and spear-heads 25 | | Ox. | Rice, 42 lbs. }| |Fore and after chests, | | | Coffee, 42 ” }| | containing small things, | | | Spelter, 25 ” }| 110 | knives, tobacco, | | | | | tinder-boxes, flints, | |Black Ox. |Skin Bag, No. 1,— | | choppers, and also | | | Spelter, 75 lbs. }| | calico and dresses 196 | | | Dresses, &c. }| 135 |Biscuits 53 | | | | |Tools 23 | |Red Ox. |Skin Bag, No. 2,— | |4 shooting guns (we | | | Bullets, }| | carried the others) 36 | | | Moleskin Clothes, }| |Clothes, books, and | | | 2 Bars lead, }| | personal effects of | | | Shot, Powder, }| 130 | Andersson and myself 120 | | | | |Astronomical | |Mule |Tent, 40 lbs. }| | instruments, &c. 50 | | |Water, &c. 20 ” }| 90 |Natural history | | | | | instruments 42 | | | | |Men’s sleeping things | | | | | and clothes, about | | | | | 30 lbs. per man 210 | | | | | ---- | | | | | 1089 | | Everything was weighed with a steel-yard that I had taken. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+