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PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 
obliging manner in which he has furnished me with 
many of his own important and well-arranged 
notes on various points of interest in their history. 
By this aid, I am enabled, in the following pages, 
to combine my own observations and experience 
with those of Mr. Moorhouse, especially on points 
connected with the Adelaide Tribes. In some cases, 
extracts from Mr. Moorhouse’ s notes, will be copied 
in his own words, but in most I found an alteration 
or rearrangement to be indispensable to enable me to 
connect and amplify the subjects : I wish it to be par- 
ticularly understood, however, that with any deduc- 
tions, inferences, remarks, or suggestions, that may 
incidentally be introduced, Mr. Moorhouse is totally 
unconnected, that gentleman’s notes refer exclusively 
to abstract matters of fact, relating to the habits, 
customs, or peculiarities of the people treated of, 
and are generally confined to the Adelaide Tribes.* 
In the descriptions given in the following pages, 
* Some few of these notes were printed in the Colony, in a de- 
tached form, as Reports to the Colonial Government, or in the Vo- 
cabularies of the Missionaries, and since my return to England I 
find others have been published in papers, ordered to be printed 
by the House of Commons, in August 1844. From the necessity, 
however, of altering in some measure the phraseology, to combine 
Mr. Moorhouse’s remarks with my own, and to preserve a uni- 
formity in the descriptions, it has not been practicable or desirable 
in all cases, to separate or distinguish by inverted commas, those 
observations which I have adopted. I have, therefore, preferred 
making a general acknowledgment of the use I have made of 
the notes that were supplied to me by Mr. Moorhouse. 
