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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ce in doing exactly what they should nothave done. In the latter part of 1874 Thakombau, King of Feejee, and hissons went to Sydney in an English man-of-war, to pay their respectsto the Governor of Kew South Wales. At Sydney the two youngest FEEJEEANS KILLED OFF BY MEASLES. 149 boys took measles, but the disease showed itself in such a mild formthat nothing was thought of it. On the return voyage in January theKing had a slight attack, but it was considered of no consequence, andon his arrival at Levuka he went ashore at once. His relatives and subjects came to pay their respects, and accord-ing to custom smelt of his hands or his face, and thus took in the poi-son of the disease. A few days after his arrival there was a meeting ofchiefs and other high dignitaries from all the tribes of the group, andthe same ceremonies were gone through. In this way the disease wasspread through the group, and when it developed it caused the death ofnearly every chief who had attended the ceremonial.
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ANCIENT FEEJEE TEMPLE. 150 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. All through the Feejees people died by the thousand; in someinstances whole villages were struck down, and there were not enoughwell people to care for the sick or bury the dead. Medical directionswere published and sent abroad as soon as possible, but the superstitiouspeople had been told by some of the beach-combers and other scoun-drels infesting the islands that the disease had been imported in or-der to kill them off and get their lands, and that the medicines of thewhite men were intended to spread rather than check it. The medicaldirections were ignored; some tribes who had become Christian re-nounced the new religion and drove out their teachers. In one instancewhere a teacher died of measles his Christian disciples concluded that itwas best to follow the old custom and bury his Avife and children withhim, in order to propitiate the demon of the scourge. Why was the disease so fatal here Avhen it is not so in our ow

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