(B) Q. How many houses destroyed?
A. 25,986 rooms; 3,664 houses.
I have included in this total bute, as well as houses properly so-called. Could I pass them over in silence, when they are the dwellings of the poor? The rich and the well-to-do do not live in straw huts. I have kept to my helpers' way of counting. In the east of the sub-prefecture they have counted by "hains" or rooms, the figures being 25,986. In the west they counted by houses, 3,664 having been demolished. The greater part, I should say almost the whole, of this destruction. was caused by the typhoon of unprecedented violence which raged on September 11, through the afternoon and the following night until 3 a.m. the next morning. Not a single dwelling-place remain intact, but notice has been taken only of those rendered uninhabitable, and of which there remain merely heaps of ruins, covering not infrequently the corpses of those imprudent enough to insist on remaining under their own roofs.
L heard from the people that the east had suffered especially from
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