Page:Letter from James Anderton Hall to his brother, 7 December 1879 02.tif

load up the hill and then I started for the Millstream to get horses to help me up the hill I and (illegible text) had got close to the big hill with his two teams we met (illegible text) and another man of Mr Hickes, George Craggs which he had sent off at once to our place to render any assistance they could Craggs volunteered to stay with my team and bring it along and I and Redge to proceed to (illegible text) a distance of thirty miles where Lilly and the dear children were we (illegible text) them all sight thank God but very much fatigued after a long tramp of thirty miles of rough country of spinifex and shones they started in the evening after (illegible text) had got a prick in the hand fron a natives spear Barlow went on like a fool and a madman he told Lilly when he (illegible text) she did not intend