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Highfields
16 Feby 1877

Dear Sir
I hope you will
excuse my not having
written to you
before
to tell you how I have
been getting on up
here, this has been
owing to our unsettled
life scarcity of
time and of writing materials
I arrived at Mr Delisser's
camp about the middle
of last month and shortly
afterwards he shifted
camp - a few days after
I had been working
with him he told me
[word deleted] he could not give me
any wages as I did not
know enough of the
work so at the first
opportunity I left him
which occurred about
a week ago when the
two other pupils and a
hired man he had [indecipherable]

[See E A Delisser - surveyor - named the Nullabor?]