nt“3.r .half the fijrg, ;\yhigb they 'ha§l colle&ed dtysipg jhg inter ^nd | |hs
JpriPg.
About the fame time, twox>fthe;pftabHlhments on tfie A^nihoin
river, were attacked with left juftme, wben Tevepblwhibel menyJanda
greater number of Indians were killed. In Ihprt, it appeared, that the
natives had formed a réfdurion ip extirpate the traders; and, without
entering into any further reafonings on thé fubje% it appears to be py
controvertible, that the irregularity purfued in carrying am the trade has
brought it into its prefent forlornfituatian; and nothing but the greateft
calamity that could have befallen the pad ves,- faved the i traders from
4 eftruaion: this was the fmaM- pox, which fpnead ita deREuSpve and
debating power, as the fire confumes the dry grafsa©E:the JBe|d, i Thé
fatal infeSion Spread around with a baneful rapidity which no flight
could efcape, and with a fatal effe& that nothing cpold refifi. It de-
ftroyed with its peftilential breath whole families fand^bes^tandj the
horrid fcéne prefented to thole who had the melancholy and afflifting
opportunity of beholding it, a combination of the dead, the dying, and
fuch as to avoid the horrid fate o f their friends around them, pret
pared to difappoint the plague of its prey, by terminating their , 0^0
exiftence.
The habits and lives of thefe devoted people, which provided not today
for the wants ’o f to-morro.w, mull have, heightened'the pains of fitch
an affliction, by leaving them not only without remedy, but even without
alleviation. Nought was left them but to fubmit ip agopy and defpair,
O f THÉ ÉÜR Ï& A Ö Ë , &c. xv
Td h f ' ^ f l e b t C t ¥ r g , Wf e F e poflible, ftiay be added,
the putrid carcafes which the wolves, with a VofaCity, dfaggtd*
forth from the huts, or which1'were’Wangled within them by the dogs,
.whofd'flu.Bg©p%fe d i s ^ i^ f d ^ r ^ r t h ^ W s i f e r s !
* * * uncommon o f $ ^h&rfr iHbI ihfh^on
hkd not5 Reacheds to cdll-fcbgto ariftind him, to fuffefffSuit
Wfhd'W^ S H i |> themft6
timb, % if tfeif« idat-M* fkflgd - * Sa! * I hithfelf
ready ■ %«' pe¥2britt ; tfie' deed 8f! h?gft ƒ -teM? a$s<tfe'Taft S&
Of shfe hffeCibny hhd'feflaMly l&'fdfloW f t t n edihmfoh place of
ifeA g$M."n
.tt' ta&oriiy afcerlainediy wMf means this malignant
d i f o M ^ a s ^ i f waFgenerajiy fuppbfed to [be from the
Mifliflbaic, o y a war parly ƒ ’
T 'h f’c b n f^ e lc e of this melancholy' even^tb^e^raders muftte
fem M eh t S U R M B
furs were obtdmed, but fuch as
^ th4 S eaS i fnd^ Ss W h w B S B B B m ■ ■ nor did
fhgy look fr&nthg'lofffis o ttffl
pfeHatioris to ’ thbfe’'ivhi^fiHvlil 1b%me.' T h b ^ ly 'f o f to n ^ people
confifted Of d party who' had pgngfrdfced' to the Northward and
Weftwafdth,'fgo,i at Tbrne-'diflatce up*fhh!Miffinipi, or Englifh River,