What this disease was, that so generally and mortally swept away, not only these, but other Indians, their neighbors, I cannot well learn. Doubtless it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths; who... Collections of the American Statistical Association - Page 181by American Statistical Association - 1847Full view - About this book
| Samuel Abbott Green - 1881 - 130 pages
...2 Gookin, who wrote many years later, and who had talked with those who remembered the cases, says that " the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died, and afterwards." 3 According to Winslow, 4 the same disease prevailed 1 Magnalia, Book i., Chap. ii. 7. 2 Wonder Working... | |
| Samuel Abbott Green - 1881 - 130 pages
...2 Gookin, who wrote many years later, and who had talked with those who remembered the cases, says that " the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died, and afterwards." 3 According to Winslow,4 the same disease prevailed 1 Magnalia, Book i., Chap. ii. 7. 2 Wonder Working... | |
| Charles Brooks - Digital images - 1886 - 738 pages
...that were then youths (in the time of the plague), who say that the bodies all over were exceedingly yellow, describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards. Gov. Dudley, in 1631, the year after the first settlers came to Meclford, says, — "Upon the River... | |
| Deloraine Pendre Corey - Malden (Mass.) - 1898 - 920 pages
...Doubtless it was some pestilential disease. I have conversed with some old Indians, that were then youths ; who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...garment they showed me, both before they died, and afterward.*4 What the hatchet and the knife of the Tarratines had spared of the nation of the Pawtuckets,... | |
| Francis Randolph Packard - Medicine - 1901 - 636 pages
...it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths ; who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died and afterwards." He then speaks of the Massachusetts, the next great people to the northward of the Pawkunnawkutts.... | |
| Francis Randolph Packard - Medicine - 1901 - 636 pages
...it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths ; who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died and afterwards." He then speaks of the Massachusetts, the next great people to the northward of the Pawkunnawkutts.... | |
| Herbert Upham Williams - Epidemics - 1909 - 40 pages
...century. Gookin, writing in 1674, says : " I have discoursed with old Indians, who were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow,...showed me, both before they died and afterwards." From this statement Noah Webster ™ concluded that the pestilence was yellow fever ; Hirsch,M however,... | |
| William Bradford - History - 1912 - 550 pages
...from some old Indians, who had been youths at the time of the pestilence, answering to that fever. " The bodies all over were exceeding yellow, describing...showed me, both before they died and afterwards." I Mass. Hist. Collections, i. 148. That the disease did not attack Europeans and was not stayed by... | |
| George Chandler Whipple - Massachusetts - 1917 - 424 pages
...mortally swept them away, I cannot learn. I have discoursed with some old Indians that were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow...showed me), both before they died, and afterwards." It has been inferred from this that it was the yellow fever; but whether correctly or not seems undetermined.1... | |
| George Chandler Whipple - 1917 - 424 pages
...mortally swept them away, I cannot learn. I have discoursed with some old Indians that were then youths, who say that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow...showed me), both before they died, and afterwards." It has been inferred from this that it was the yellow fever; but whether correctly or not seems undetermined/... | |
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