| William Wilson Hunter - 1868 - 504 páginas
...husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed-grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found ;w they eat the leaves of trees88 and the grass of the field; and in June 1770 the Resident at the... | |
| 1869 - 622 páginas
...Meanwhile, says Mr. Hunter : — ' All through the stifling summer of 1770, the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their...of children could be found ; they ate the leaves of trees and the grass in the field, and, in June 1770, the Resident at the Durbar, affirmed that the... | |
| Meadows Taylor - 1871 - 962 páginas
...human life continued ; and in the summer of 1770, as Mr. Hunter writes : ' The people went on dying, the husbandmen sold their cattle, they sold their implements of agriculture, they devoured their need-grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found... | |
| 1874 - 864 páginas
...functions of tUpolice. AU through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husU'ic<lmen sold their cattle; they sold their implements of agriculture...their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of chibir» :¡ could bo found ; they ate the leaves of trees and tho prass of tiie field ; and in Jone... | |
| John Fiske - 1876 - 374 páginas
...husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed-grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length...of children could be found ; they ate the leaves of trees and the grass of .the field; and in June, 1770, the Eesident at the Durbar affirmed that the... | |
| John Fiske - 1876 - 360 páginas
...uttering a complaint or making a sign. "All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed-grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found... | |
| William Wilson Hunter - 1881 - 160 páginas
...other parts the misery is equal.' All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed-grain; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found... | |
| John Murdoch - 1886 - 164 páginas
..." In 1 770 a terrible famine desolated Bengal. All through the hot season the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their...they ate the leaves of the trees and the grass of the field, and in June ifc was reported that the living were feeding on the dead. Two years after the dearth,... | |
| 1887 - 998 páginas
...evil. The husbandmen sold their cattle, their implements of agriculture, devoured their seed grain, sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer...they ate the leaves of the trees and the grass of the field, and in June it was reported that the living were feeding on the dead. Two years after the dearth,... | |
| James Shepard Dennis - 1897 - 602 páginas
...husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seedgrain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length...they ate the leaves of the trees and the grass of the field, and in June it in a recently published volume on Indian Famines, states that there have been... | |
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