The East.
A dreadful calamity is reported. A hinall island, Sugalonda, in the Malay Archipelago, has been visited by a volcanic outburst at Puwang, accompanied by a fearful earthquake convulsion. A sea wave, 40 yards high, swept human beings and cattle oft". 410 people perished. A letter from a Jewish Rabbi in Persia says the country is suffering the direst calamity to which the worst situation is trifling. Mothers and fathers are eating their children ; husbands doing the same to their wives ; grown-up brothers killing their younger brothers and sisters, and sometimes their fathers and mothers ! Food is all their cry !
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Otago Witness, Issue 1033, 16 September 1871, Page 15
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101The East. Otago Witness, Issue 1033, 16 September 1871, Page 15
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