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occasion, which may have had something to do with her death. 
Most singular to say, as far as I have been able to learn, this was 
the first and only instance of twins being born known to these 
aborigines, and these were by a white father. 
SMALL-POX. 
All the very old men in these tribes show distinct small-pox 
es. In speaking of this scourge they say that it came with 
in a short time the whole atmosphere became tainted with the 
fetid odours arising from the decomposing bodies. The poor 
grag the bright torrid summer displaced the moister spring, 
leaving but 
genuine horror as it is impossible for any other evil to elicit from 
inherent stolidity. 
small-pox infliction seems to be the only occasion upon 
