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Edmund. Kennedy, a surveyor, who had been with Sir Thomas Mitchell's expedition to the Maranoa in 1845-46, was appointed in 1848 by the Government of New South Wales to the leadership of an expedition instructed to explore the coast country from Rockingham Bay to Cape York. Unfortunately he did not live to complete his task, and his journal and maps were lost. The record has, for the most part, to be gleaned from the narratives of two of the three survivors.
The party was thirteen in number -- the unlucky thirteen. The equipment included everything that could possibly be wanted. There were three carts, 28 horses, 100 sheep, four dogs, a ton of flour, 130 pounds of shot, 588 feet of rope, and a canvas sheepfold, and this load proved singularly applicable to the country to be explored.