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Mortality among tho Natives.
„ \ tMter pijf iieksi spates the^natires "of\Na*Cera and certain* other towp|f|op the south end hare bVen" svibjecWd 4 tb a singular mortality which carried them off like the plague. The sickness has the appearance of commencing in feyer.r then assuming the form of an acute*attack vdf dysentery, which "invariably terminates fatally in three or four days. It is supposod that upwards of 70 succumbed to it during the past month. The white residents attribute this mortality to the: excessive rainfall and the swampy situa-; tion of the towns. The people, almost to a man, have been engaged for some time: past in 1 telling and dragging out immense , Dnkira logs with which to build canoes for.Vuni Valu, and after wearyingjind I heating themselves with their labor, returned to wet houses and damp mats,; fever then attacks tuem,.dysentery follows; and death ensues. i
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3220, 14 June 1879, Page 2
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