mstances attending this epidemic. The people, huddled
together in small hordes, were destitute of medical assistance or of even
the most ordinary requirements of the hospital. During the period of
delirium incidental to small-pox, they frequently wandered forth at night
into the open air, and remained exposed for hours to dew or rain; in the
latter stages of the disease they took no precautions against cold, and
frequently died from relapse produced by exposure; on the other hand,
they appear to have suffered but little pain after the primary fever
passed away. "I have frequently," says Pere Andre, "asked a man in the
last stages of small pox,-whose end was close at hand, if he was
suffering much pain; and the almost invariable reply was, None
whatever." They seem also to have died without suffering, although the
fearfully swollen appearance of the face, upon which scarcely a feature
was visible, would lead to the supposition that such a condition must of
necessity be accompanied by great pain.

The circumstances attending the progress of the epidemic at Carlton House
are worthy of notice, both on account of the extreme virulence which
characterized the disease at that post, and also as no official record
of this visitation of small-pox would be complete which failed to bring
to the notice of your Excellency the undaunted: heroism displayed by a
young officer of the Hudson Bay Company who was in temporary charge of
the station. At the breaking out of the disease, early in the month of
August, the population of Carlton: numbered about seventy souls. Of these
thirty-two persons caught the infection, and twenty-eight persons died.
Throughout the entire period of the epidemic the officer already alluded
to, Mr. Wm. Traill, laboured with untiring perseverance in ministering to
the necessities of the sick, at whose bedsides he was to be found both
day and night, undeterred by the fear of infection, and undismayed by the
unusually loathsome nature of the disease. To estimate with any thing
like accuracy the losses caused among the Indian tribes is a matter of
considerable difficulty. Some tribes and portions of tribes suffered much
more severely than others. That most competent authority, Pere Lacombe,
is of opinion that neither the Blood nor Blackfeet Indians had, in
proportion to their numbers, as many casualties as the Crees, whose
losses may be safely stated at from 600 to 800 persons. The Lurcees, a
small tribe in close al