was even greater than anticipated. At a distance the family at a doorway looked like people, but with a nearer view seemed more like frames with bees-wax-like skins drawn over them, The proportion in the most pressing distress was not half however. The money we distributed was given to 1,296 families. " This will give than a little rain to mix with the greens till harvest.
course we were allowed to see all the misery, and it was pitiful to see men who should have been strong and active so weak that the slightest exercise was burdensome. The elm trees were stripped of their bark, the lower limbs of the willows stripped of their leaves, and caterpillars and snails were eaten when they could be gotten. The fever patients, typhus and malaria, lay around in every direction. Often they were in the court on a pile of straw; often they would be groaning deliriously in the dark ill-smelling rooms.
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