AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS.
HOW THEY WERE DECIMATED.
(Received Last Night, 8.35 o'clock.)
ADELAIDE, June 8
The director of the Museum reports that Aboriginal remains found recently in the Murray River showed evidences of a virulent disease, apparently small-pox, which was prevalent amongst the aboriginals in 1789, and re-appeared between 1834 and 1835. The disease swept the Continent, coming from North to East.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10258, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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61AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10258, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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