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Frank and Alick Jardine, young men of 22 and 20, took a mob of cattle overland for the supply of the newly established settlement at Somerset, where their father was Government resident. To their own equipment the Government added a surveyor and his outfit. They left Carpentaria Downs, then the northmost cattle station, on October 11, 1864, when the party numbered six whites and four blacks, with forty-two horses, and reached Somerset on March 2, 1865.
Although less of a drag than Kennedy's carts and sheep, the cattle were responsible for serious delays. The brothers were seldom with the cattle, which generally travelled slowly behind, while the brothers pioneered the route.