...much of their skin flays off at once, and they will be all on a gore of blood, most sad and grievous to behold ; and then, being very sore, what with cold...and other distempers, they die like rotten sheep. This year one Capt. Stone, who had sometimes lived at Christophers, in the West Indies, came into these...

...neglect. In a few tense lines he draws an appalling picture of this loathsome disease; and then: " The condition of this people was so lamentable, and...fell down so generally of this disease, as they were not able to help one another; no, not to make a fire, nor to fetch a little water to drinke, nor any...

...skin cleaving (by reason thereof) to the mats they lie on ; when they turn them a whole side will flay off at once, (as it were) and they will be all of...what with cold and other distempers, they die like j-otten sheep. The condition of this people was so lamentable, and they fell down so generally of this...

...skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a...condition of this people was so lamentable and they fetl down so generally of this disease as they were in the end not able to help one another, no not...

...skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a gore blood, most fearful to behold. And then they being very sore, what with cold and other distempers, they die like rotten sheep." So weakened,...

...their skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a...and other distempers, they die like rotten sheep. Bradford, of course, was no great friend of the Indian, as his later comments on the massacre of the...

...skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a...other distempers, they die like rotten sheep. The survivors faced other problems. The epidemics often meant that they missed crucial phases of the annual...

...skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them a whole side will be all gore blood, most fearful to behold. And then being...cold and other distempers they die like rotten sheep. And some would crawl out on all fours to get a little water and sometimes they die by the way and not...

...skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a...and other distempers, they die like rotten sheep. — William Bradford, on post-Cortes smallpox in the Native American population1 28 H, .ernando Cortes...

...skin cleaving by reason thereof to the mats they lie on. When they turn them, a whole side will flay off at once as it were, and they will be all of a...with cold and other distempers, they die like rotten sheep.5 The utter dependence of many Europeans on the Indians is revealed by Bradford's mention that...