Many trees and valuable plants and shrubs have been destroyed; many trees have been cut down and used for fuel. Brick walkways ar? in ruins. The compound wall was} broken down in several places. The expensive artesian well is destroyed. Two of our four native well: fare ruined; one by defilement from horses and men, and another,. the best of all the. dug wells and the only one with unfailing dry-weath-jer flow, has been filled upy it having been. within the space developed for a drill ground. A. lone cement cistern for rain-water, appertaining to one of the foreign residences, [s: full of a slimy: pollution, whose very disposal without, pestilential consequences is a preblem. It can of course never be: redeemed to its proper use,
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