AITMKANCE AWgNS; TIIK AUOllIOiJfES. 



with tlie pits left by the siiiall-pox. From that 

 distant period no siinJIjir disciisr had fxM ii (>I»- 

 sorvc'd among' them, till alH<iit the ntmith ui' 

 August, 1830, when Mr. Brown, of W'allero- 

 wang, ^Tst saw this erupiivfe imala/dy in fi^ve 

 blacks, luar the river Castlereagh, two in 

 the incipient, and three in niori' ailvanced 

 stages. lie had, however, heard of its existcm-t: 

 among the tribes to tlie northward six mouths 



bjr Mt> iBumtn with pits like those ©f '^^aEialZ-iKi'X,. 



Oa different parts of his body ; and he ascer- 

 tained that tilt* others liad died oF the disease. 

 Mr. Brown did not meet witij any more eases 



vfhea it mariife!^ itidf in thw Mafelcs, who 

 had been in cim^ commimieation with some 

 others recently arrived from the Laelilan, and 

 wlio liad but a sJiort time recovered snfHt'icnlly 

 to be able to travel. These men stated tliat the 

 ctimB^ hM bee^DL i^giiag m their ptrt (»f the 

 e(HHitry, and that Several had died of it. Snnir 

 of the W'allerowaii!^' idaeks, convinced <d' its 

 contagions iiatnre, had Hei! to Eiini [ilaiiis to 

 escape infection ; three of the number having 

 Stewards ifetum^d wene selaed wit!) it. 



At WriBftgl<&iJ tlie mm m^hdy was 



first reiunrked, (as hear as ctmld be ascertfdtied,^ 



