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Smallpox Calamity Among Alert Bay Indians

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 31, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 44.

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Smallpox Calamity Among Alert Bay Indians

A TRIBE of Indians on Alert Bay, Canada, are rapidly dying off with smallpox and consumption. The Indians attribute the calamity to witchcraft on the part of an Indian boy. The chief ordered the boy killed, but the one appointed to execute the youth took him into another part of the country. The Indians believe that the continuance of the calamity is due to the fact that the order was not obeyed.