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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (126721)	7/22/2005 11:07:48 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 793838

My interpretation was you were suggesting this was a deliberate act aimed at causing a smallpox epidemic among the Indians. If that was not your intent, I misinterpreted. Just trying to evoke an image in the mind, of how smallpox is transmitted. As to the veracity - google Sir Jeffrey Amherst, said to have written a letter discussing this in 1763 during Pontiac's Rebellion. ("You would do well to try to innoculate the Indians by means of blanketts, as well as to try every means possible to extirpate this execrable race.") nativeweb.org nativeweb.org Cecil Adams, the Straight Dope: straightdope.com

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