(D) Q. How many domestic animals drowned A 4,533.
The figures appear to me a. little exaggerated, especially for Hongkiaotseng (1,000), Liouchetseng (1,266), and Barziangshiang (741), when in other places there are none or scarcely any. It is because these good people wish to include not only their ox, their pig, and their goat, but also their fowls, their geese, and their ducks, whilst others! de not include such things. It sounds peculiar to say that geese and ducks were drowned, but, in) any case, they disappeared as a, result of the flood. You will understand the sorrow of their owners, when I tell you that those who reared flocks of two and three hundred ducks and geese have los all they had, and have thus been reduced to the ranks of the famine-stricken. They are as unfortunate as the others. Do not refuse them your dole.
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