THE LATE CYCLONE IN THE BAY OF BENGAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1323, 7 April 1877, Page 21

THE LATE CYCLONE IN THE BAY OF BENGAL.

The aspect worn by all the cyclone smittenportions of the district (says a correspondent in the Times of India of December 30th) Chittagong is still very gloomy and sad. In Eattya, Sundeep, and in many other places, corpses yet remain unburied, thickly scattered about in every direction, particularly along the banks of the khals and clmrs, ana in the tanks, or in whatever places where s they settled down and found their rest on the subsiding of the floods. In very many instances the bodies are stiU perfect, with every (feature recognisable. This is owing to their - jbaving floated aboui: in the salt water and become impregnated with salb. The surviIvors of the cyclone are seen wandering about from place to place, ignorant or insensible, ' jto all appearance, as to both their present and future purposes. They seem to have 'drowned in tho thought of their present wants all ideas of the numerous losses they have so lately sustained of kindred and pro'perfcy. I myself frequently meet them with deep traces of heavy sorrow and loss in .their countenances, and enveloped apparently in some half-developed thought as to where .they shall go or what they shall do in the dark unknown region of the future,' whither they are sorrowfully wending their way. The look of the country -grows daily, more and more wretched and forlorn, in propoition as £hecold season advances, and the injured - vegetation dies and rots. I learn that in. - those localities where the cyclone proved most destructive to life, many, of t the sw- " yiving crops will shortly wither, away and spoil for want of sufficient hands to do the work of gathering them in.