This work combines several works published separately. The main one, catalogued in the Battye Library of Western Australia as "Report for the Information of His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia, and the Promoters of the North-Western Expedition of 1864, on the Voyage and the Resources of the Districts Explored", contains reports dated 1864 to WA Governor Hampton by James Martin (published separately in the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London) and Frederick Panter, together with Martin's 1863 and 1864 Journals. To these have been added a journal of the captain of the ship Flying Foam, undertaking the first voyage, and Panter's Journal of the 1864 voyage.
All were originally published in the Perth Gazette or The Inquirer and Commercial News and are available on the Trove website.
The contents of the original have been reordered to fit more logically and chronologically. A table of contents has been provided, together with a series of five charts available through the State Records Office of Western Australia website, bearing on th
