Reports are coming in from the outlying districts and they tell of awful suffering and privation. The missionaries at Tating write that' the famine conditions in their district are very distressing, first the hail destroyed completely in many places both spring crops and autumn seeds. Afterwa: long continued heavy rains did the rest, so that the wheat, beans, and other cereals are nearly all gone, and the outlook for the autumn harvest is far from being a bright one, in fact it is the general opinion that next year will again see great misery and suffering.
Many people have died from hunger or diseases while others have moved from the heights to lower regions in the hope of being able find food, and still many others were unable to cultivate all their ground because, of shortage of seed corn, or want of bodily strength. Laige numbers are daily scattered over the hills in search of grass roots and other things that they may utilize as food.
is needless to remark that this form of food is not nourishing.
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