Eora - Demise

Demise

When the First Fleet of 1,300 convicts, guards, and administrators arrived in January 1788, the Eora numbered about 1,500. Smallpox in conjunction with other pathogens and viruses and the destruction of their natural food sources, saw approximately 70 per cent of the Eora people die out during the nineteenth century.

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