Soon after he [Arabanoo] was taken the small-pox raged among them with great fury and carried off vast numbers of them. Every boat that went down the harbour found them lying dead on the beaches and in the caverns of the rocks, forsaken by the rest as soon as the disease is discover'd on them. They were generally found with the remains of a small fire on each side of them and some water left within their reach. How this disease got among them it is impossible to tell, but it is supposed that they had it among them before any European visited the country, as they have a name for it.