Explains Sargent ‘sick with malignant tertian malaria’. Travel was slow going due to the first gear of the truck missing. Relates that Bob did a further two mail runs, of over five hundred miles each, in the truck before its replacement arrived from the south.

1. Photograph: ‘The departure from VRD. Mr Martin is on the left and before the truck is Bob McLennan, sitting in the cab is Sargent’.

2. Photograph: ‘Crossing a creek’

Places mentioned: VRD (NT)

People mentioned: Mr [Alf] Martin; Mr Sargent; Bob McLennan

Medical condition mentioned: Malignant tertian malaria

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 211, 212