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might render them, would, it was hoped, do away the evil 

 impressions they had received of us. Two elderly men, a 

 boy, and a girl were brought up, and placed in a separate hut 

 at the hospital. The men were too far overcome by the dis- 

 ease to get the better of it ; but the children did well from 

 the moment of their coming among us. 



"From, the native who resided with us we understood 

 that many families had been swept off by this scourge, and 

 that others, to avoid it, had fled into the interior parts of the 

 country. Whether it had ever appeared among them before 

 could not be discovered, either from him or the children ; but 

 it was certain that they gave it a name (gal-gal-la) ; a circum- 

 stance which seemed to indicate a previous acquaintance with 

 it. . . . 



"May. — Of the native boy and girl who had been brought 

 up in the last month, on their recovery from the small-pox 

 the latter was taken to live with a clergyman's wife, and the 

 boy with Mr. White, the surgeon, to whom, for his attention 

 during the cure, he seemed to be much attached. 



"While the eruptions of this disorder continued upon the 

 children, a seaman belonging to the 'Supply,' a native of North 

 America, having been to see them, was seized with it, and 

 soon died ; but its baneful effects were not experienced by any 

 white person of the settlement, although there were several 

 very young children in it at the time. 



"From the first hour of the introduction of the boy and 

 girl into the settlement it was feared that the native who 

 had been so instrumental in bringing them in, and whose 

 attention to them during their illness excited the admiration 

 of everyone that witnessed it, would be attacked by the 

 same disorder ; as on his person were found none of these 

 traces of its ravages which are frequently left behind. 

 It happened as the fears of everyone predicted ; he 

 fell a victim to the disease in eight days after he was seized 

 with it, to the great regret of everyone who had witnessed 

 how little of the savage was found in his manner, and how 

 quickly he was substituting in its place a docile, affable, and 

 truly amiable deportment." 



The same writer again refers, with a few additional but 

 not essential details, to the outbreak in a chapter dealing with 

 the disease of the natives (p. 596). 



In the foregoing account the following points are of 

 importance and will be further noticed : — 



1. The long period — fifteen months — elapsing between the 

 departure of the English ships and the outbreak of the dis- 

 ease, or, in the case of the French, thirteen months. 



