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FATAUTy OF THE AilSEA^K. 



were iniiiblii to walk for a long- time, owing to 

 tlie tc'inlcriKs.s of t\nAv feet, froiii wljicli tlio vn- 

 ticle liad entirely separated, lu many cases the 

 Otiier sequelse of tlie disease were very distress- 

 Iz^t some lost their eye-sight, dth«?& had 

 abscesses in difTerent parts of tlie body, or foul 

 ami tedious ulcers, witli great debility and ema- 

 ciation. Death was said to liappeii generaily 

 among the Lachlau and Wellington Valley 

 hlmlm Bhmi the third day dt&t the' a|¥p$p;r- 

 met of the ertiptiioii; the tongue be^&ote 

 much swollen, and covered with livid spots, 

 the l)reathing greatly oppressed, and deglnti- 

 tion impracticable. Secondary fever was sel- 

 4<im <)1mir«dy mA ivh^en it o^iiri!^ 

 Qswiag 1^ J htt^ the J!ai3% rfs^xkmdaiy i^'^fm 

 is easily explained by the early fatality of the 

 disease in the severe cases in wliieb only it 

 could have been expected. Some were said to 

 have p<g3fished at the ^^Btf msxi ^ ih^ mitadj, 

 h^mi t&^'o^ the dight^ Bmpi6mu 



Among the tribes to -ther itoMPth-west of Liver- 

 pool Plains, the disease seems fo Inive ap- 

 proaelu^d more nearly to the description of con- 

 fluent small-pox, as it is met with in Europe, 

 The i^irptiott ^^oalesdiig m tb^ aixd being 

 followed in a day or two hy salivation^ (or as 

 Ckrk describes it, water pouring from the 



