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 had got close to the big hill with his two teams we met  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  a distance of thirty miles where Lilly and the dear children were we  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  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  she did not intend 