58 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [April, 



fmall importance, as the knowledge of our humanity and the benefits 

 which might be rendered them, would, it was hoped, do away the 

 evil impreffions which they had received. Two elderly men, a boy, 

 and a girl, were received, and placed in a feparate hut at the hofpital. 

 The men were too far overcome by the difeafe to derive any benefit 

 from the exertions of the medical gentlemen who attended them ; but 

 the children did well. From the native who refided in the fettlement 

 it was underftood that many families had been fwept off by this 

 fcourge of the human race ; and that others, to avoid it, had fled in- 

 to the interior parts of the country. "Whether it had ever appeared 

 among them before, could not be difcovered ; but it was certain that 

 they gave it a name (gal-gal-la) ; a circumftance which feemed to in- 

 dicate a pre-acquaintance with it. 



The convicts were at this time employed in forming a convenient 

 road on the Weft fide from the hofpital and landing-place to the ftore- 

 houfes ; and in conftru&ing a ftable at Farm Cove, with fome con- 

 Tenient out-houfes for flock. 



On the recovery of the native boy and girl from the fmall-pox, the 

 latter was taken to live with the wife of the clergyman, and the boy 

 •with the head furgeon, to whom, for his attention during the time he 

 was under his care, he feemed to be much attached. 



While the eruptions of this diforder continued upon the children, a 

 feaman belonging to the Supply was feized with it, and died ; but its 

 baneful effects were not experienced by any white perfon of the fettle- 

 ment, although there were feveral very young children in it at the 

 time. 



It had been greatly feared, from the firft introduction of the boy 

 and girl into the fettlement, that the native who had been fome time 

 there, and whofe attention to them during their illnefs excited the ad- 

 miration of every one that witneffed it, would take the diforder ; as on 

 his perfon were found none of thofe traces of its ravages which are 

 frequently left behind. It happened as had been predided ; he fell 

 a vi&im to the difeafe in eight days after he was feized with it, 



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