 Camp after camp, village after village, was left desolate.The remains of which, said the old man, in answer by my queries on this, are found today in the old camp sites or midden-heaps over which the forest has been growing for so many generations.Little by little the remnant left by the disease grew into a nation again, and when the first white men sailed up the Squamish in their big boats, the tribe was strong and numerous again” The epidemic of the 1770s was the first and the most devastating, with more to follow.