. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 79—Summer 1839-insula suu dance. ■Pen- Fm. 80—Winter1839-40-Small-pox. MOOXEY] HAVAGEP OP SMALLPOX, 1«37-1840 275 out among the i)assengers of a steamer in the Missouri river aboveFort Leaveuwortli, aud although every effort was made to warn theIndians by sending runners in advance, the sickness was communicatedto them. It appeared first among the Mandan about the middle ofJuly, 1837, and practically destroyed that tribe, Icduciug them iu alew weeks from about sixteen hundred to thirty-one
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 79—Summer 1839-insula suu dance. ■Pen- Fm. 80—Winter1839-40-Small-pox. MOOXEY] HAVAGEP OP SMALLPOX, 1«37-1840 275 out among the i)assengers of a steamer in the Missouri river aboveFort Leaveuwortli, aud although every effort was made to warn theIndians by sending runners in advance, the sickness was communicatedto them. It appeared first among the Mandan about the middle ofJuly, 1837, and practically destroyed that tribe, Icduciug them iu alew weeks from about sixteen hundred to thirty-one souls. Theirneighboring aud allied tribes, the Arikara and Miuitari, were reducedimmediately after from aboutfour thousand to about halfthat number. The artist Gatlingives a melancholy account ofthe despair and destruction ofthe ]Mandan. From the Mandan it spreadto the north and west amongthe Crows, Asiniboin, andBlackfeet. Among the last
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