New York, 20th April, 1849. Since my letters by the Hermanu, I have some interesting particulars by the intermediate mails. A despatch has been received at Washington from San Francisco, dated the 20th of February last. It appears there has been a great sickness nud an unusual mortality among the Catifornian emigrants. The weather has been severe, and the 9ullorings of the people intense. Commodore Jones, of the American squadron, was engaged in making a survey of the bay of San Francisco and the Sacramento river, heading tlie expedition for that purpose in person. 13ut the most astounding information is from the Sandwich Islands. ' Upwards of ten thousand of the natives have recently been carried oil by that singular disease the mensles. It seems to have broken out in January, a month in which its appearance as an epidemic generally takes place. As medical men under these circunt-
'tances rarely look for the termination of the contagion until May, we expect to hear more of its desolating progress; and when we canI sider that the effects of the disease in this | form arc to he found afterwards in the shape |of consumption and gener.il debility, it would almost seem as it the native races were to be swept away, in order that the whites might take possession of tlic islands to fulfil gome destiny connected with the new order of things on the coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 20, 27 September 1849, Page 4
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238Untitled Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 20, 27 September 1849, Page 4
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