It will be asked, 'How far have the Euahlayi been brought under the influence of missionaries, and of European ideas in general ?' The nearest missionary settlement was founded after we settled among the Euahlayi, and was distant about one hundred miles, at Brewarrina.
None of my native informants had been at any time, to my knowledge, under the influence of missionaries.

They all wore shirts, and almost all of them trousers, on occasion; and all, except the old men, my chief sources, were employed by white settlers.

We conversed in a kind of LINGUA FRANCA.

An informant, say Peter, would try to express himself in English, when he thought that I was not successful in following him in his own tongue.

With Paddy, who had no English but a curse, I used two native women, one old, one younger, as interpreters, checking each other alternately.