[4] Although fictional, the plot is based on a historical incident in 1836, when naturalist Charles Darwin brought to England four natives from the island of Tierra del Fuego, near South America.

[2] The Reverend William Dill, his wife Augusta and daughter Anne are preparing to meet the curate Edward Parslowe and his friend Charles Darwin for dinner.

[5] The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that: [It] was an oddly contrived story produced in that stilted solemn atmosphere to which "period" plays often conform.

The fact that Charles Darwin once brought a few sad and sorry natives from Terra del Fuego to England could possibly be the basis for a seriously realistic glimpse of early colour problems, or else, perhaps, be artificially brightened into a spirited comedy... Morgan attempted to provide humour and also facile generalisations in a play which neither illuminates nor 'sparkles.

[7] The Age called it "good television... an unpretentious play, well mounted and with straight forward production.