Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: The explorers left on 3 October 1824 with six men . They reached Hume 's station on the 13 October , and on 17 October began the expedition proper with five bullocks , three horses and two carts .
Simplified: Hume and Hovell left Sydney on October 3 1824 , with six men , five bullocks , three horses and two carts .