The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-10-10
correspondence London Tines
Famine IN lndia-Frightiul Suf-
ferings Of the People.

l''areh ftom Midnapore, 4 civil station
about seventy miles southwest of ,hs
capital, on the morning Of the Goth Of
June, and had hardly proceeded some
seven miles wien commenced The n,ipfuI
Sights which, varying only in intensity.
CONTINUED, until again returned 10 This
place. Rain had fallen heavily dnrn,
the night, and the palk men were ,ruIq
ing slowly through the mud. when a little
After davhreak | SAW two bodies under a
Tree. AS ih"re seemed to be slipht
motion in one Of them | aIyhred, and on
going up % it found, covered under An
old cloth, with just II spark Of life left in
him, an old man slowly diving from bun
ger. lie appeared AS if he hal thin
piece Of transparent India rubber ,irh,lv
drawn over h = skeleton frame, so enaciat
ed had he become. gave him some
beer, and he slowly f,Iter"l out his tare
OF woe. He sad that he and his com
pAnion had left their homes. after se.ipo
their families die from the effects or cbol
era or famine, and bad got thus far on
their journey towar& Mrdnspore, hoping
TO get relief here, when one, struck by
damp and hunger, dies on the road unde,
tree, An! the other wakes to find his
friend a corpse, AMI himself exhausted and
drehched by the heavy rains ,h., had
fallen during the night, unable TO move
The dogs and jackals teas, off the bolv.
while TINS living ske seton, but few PAGES
OIL is po~er'ess TO prevent them. lie
f''"hy b"gs from the passers hy. but in
vain. Hunger is gnawing their vital,
also They all turn a deaf ear to his cry
The beer seemed to revive him; and
went to my pAiki To get some b scuits.
but returned I" find the poor sutfefer in
state oi coma. and in few minutes he
was dead. Tho hall picked body of hi,
companion aties'ed his tale.
continuel my iourn.v. nassin, =, ;r
tervals the dead as they lay unbured and
in every stage of decomposition on the
side Of the road Some,ine, 7 wou,d 500
cluster together. Ia one plsc. there
we-e twenty two bodies within the srocs
Of halfa mile; in mother six. close 70
ge,bsr nil ror.
oV J'ckas' dogs and vnltIres. Pushing
my wNv through the jnnges and over
PADDY heds. often obliged to swim sundry
streams swollen by the late foods. in
one OF when my paIki was upset. I
'raVer'ed one hundred and twenty miles
o, county when reached the house ofa
Mr.. f"II'' An assistant in Messrs. Watson
q Cos. indigo concern here. That gen
'eman informed me tha, woman had
died ~ the road side, and that living
chhd was said to be Al her breast lie
sent ont his servants, who returned saying
that they had found The corpse aud the
eo''o' but the mothers arm cIasped the
latter 50 tight ;hs, in bending i, back.
s''H and cold. it broke. They say the
"''hg ana the dead bad been thus linked
together tor two days; a, any rate, the
poor ''''Ie '"ian', exhausted by exposure
qua wao'' died as 1t was being releas'
e".
The above gentleman and myself we're
travelling through a dense jungle. Miles
away from any human .babitation we
perceived afa'ni'hed native, Of The South
Al 'r''e' lying on The ground. He bad
'D'o"" himself down 20 meet certain