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ease in question. The name that this disease is 

 known by among the aborigines is " Thunna, 

 thunna," or " Tunna, tunna," and they describe 

 it as being attended by sore-throat, head-ache, 

 and high febrile symptoms, upon the day previous 

 to the appearance of the eruptions ; the latter 

 were described to me as commencing in a 

 similar manner, and passing through the same 

 stages as is usual in small-pox, covering the 

 face and all parts of the body, even to the 

 soles of the feet and palms of the hands : it was 

 also stated that adults were more covered with 

 eruptions, and suffered more severely from the 

 disease, than children, and the aggravation of 

 the symptoms caused much mortality among 

 them. Among the children it often occurred 

 that only a few scattered eruptions would appear, 

 and the febrile syniptoms also assume a very 

 mild character. No deaths occurred in these 

 cases. 



As far as our information at present extends, 

 it appears not to be an introduced disease, or at 

 least we have no facts to prove such being the 

 case. It is mentioned in " Tench's Account of 

 the Colony of New South Wales, 1795," that 

 several natives had marks resembling those left 

 by the eruptions of small-pox, and which I 

 have no doubt orip:inated from the disease, 



