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young children are peculiarly liable, such as dy sen- 
try, cold, and their consequences, 
Fourthly. Wars and quarrels, occurring some- 
times from the most trivial circumstances, and 
often ending in deaths, or wounds that terminate 
in death. 
The diseases to which the natives are subject, are 
with the exception of those induced by artificial 
living, as gout, rheumatism, &c. very similar to 
those which afflict Europeans, the principal being 
the result of inflammation, acute, or chronic, arising 
from exposure to the cold, and which affects most 
generally the bronchise, the lungs, and the pleura. 
Phthisis occasionally occurs, as does also erysipelas. 
Scrofula has been met with, but very rarely. A 
disease very similar to the small- pox, and leaving 
similar marks upon the face, appears formerly to 
have been very prevalent, but I have never met 
with an existing case, nor has Mr. Moorhouse ever 
fallen in with one. It is said to have come from 
the eastward originally, and very probably may 
have been derived in the first instance from Euro- 
peans, and the infection passed along from one tribe 
to another : it has not been experienced now for 
many years.f 
* Huic accedit, ex quo illis sunt immisti Europsei, lues ve- 
nerea. Morbum infantibus matres affiant, et ingens multitudo 
quotannis inde perit. 
f Ex morbis quos patiuntur ab adventu Europseorum longe 
frequentissima et maxime fatalis est lues venerea. An hie mor- 
