 Nicker was unable to take his camels, as they didn't get along with Brown's horses and, instead, he took two station horses with him.Brown is described as an argumentative and difficult man and at Halls Creek the two parted company leaving Nicker to travel alone back to Ryan's Well.This was a very dangerous journey, in which many had died, at any time but was especially so in 1923 with the desert in the midst of severe drought and many wells in disuse.