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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1 February 1849, Page 1

You were made acquainted in our last paper, of the fearful ravages committed upon mankind by Small Pox. You were told that that dreadful disorder had nearly been brought into Auckland. And you had the means pointed out by which you may avoid n disgusting and a deadly sickness, which, should it once find its way among you, will sweep you from the earth, in tenfold greater numbers, and with more certainty, than spear or gun. Your friend, the Governor, is mosl anxious that you should not be exposed to this peril. He has taken every means to convince you of the loathsome and mortal character of the disease. And ha has spa*ed no pains to acquaint you of a preventive, and to place that preventive within the reach of every one. Let not any indifference of an evil you know not, cause you to reject the safety placed within your reach- Should the malady be, unhappily, brought into the country, anJ you slionlt! become its victims, h-iw bitterly would you not then regret that you refused to take counsel from the experience oI the European, and turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of liis friendly solicitude. We hope tbat you will be wise, and tlut you will not only go »ith»ut delay to be yourselves protected, but that you will learn ■lie art. so that you may, in turn, become the protectors of your friends and relations. AW are earnest 111 persuading you to this, because men ure generally very flow to perceive tint which is for their good ; whilst they eagerly fly to any means of gratifying their appetites I or their p:issi»ns. Ii is hardly to be supposed that you who have never sceu that h»riibie ilivnsu "ill b."

nicya roger to secure yumse'ves against il■ titan the people of liuiope were; who, although carried ofl by it by thousands, for n Ion;* time obstinately resisted that remedy which we now entreat you to receive. '1 he great and wise man who made the ble-sed discovery, was mocked and despised by the vain and sbo foolish. li»t lis was liot In be daunted, and be pi'r»e«l'red, uiitil vaccination was not only universally adopted throughout b'nglir.d, but introduced in'o every civil zed nation in the world. In fuel, it is a qNC'tion, whether the disorder iiiijjit not have been extirpated, but lor the few ignorant ii'id silly people who chose to run th< - . risk of death or disfigurement, rather than be brought to believe in the certainty of a cure, for which the discoverer, J)r. lidward Jenuer, j receiwl ■abundant wealth, and honours ; bcinu styled, ihe " Benefactor of the Human R. cc,'' and having had twenty thousand pounds a year ranted by the Iving of I'nuland, and an order ol nobility ofl'orcd by the limpcror Alexander of Russia, Do not hesitile, dear /u'ends ; you will discover below where this valuable remedy, more precious than gold, ii to bj had. 'J he pain is nothing. It is momentary, and not so sharp a« the prick of a pin or nrcdlc. Should Small Pox come into New Zealand.it will save you from cruel torments, in nil probability from death. Go —I'e wise —Wo desire your health and hnnphics'; —not your iniseiy and destruction ! f / 4