December 1781 17th Monday. I received the Disagreeable News of that Devouring Disorder the small pox rageing amongst the Natives & is carrying all off before It… “Copy of a Letter received from Mr William Walker, Hud- sons House [built by William Tomison in 1788, 370 km upstream from Cumberland House on the North Saskatchewan [...]
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