...slowly to death without uttering a complaint or making a sign. All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their...till at length no buyer of children could be found ;w they eat the leaves of trees88 and the grass of the field; and in June 1770 the Resident at the...

...fell again into inaction. Meanwhile, says Mr. Hunter : — ' All through the stifling summer of 1770, the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their...their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...

...accompaniment of destruction of human life continued ; and in the summer of 1770, as Mr. Hunter writes : ' The people went on dying, the husbandmen sold their...their implements of agriculture, they devoured their need-grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...

...functions of tUpolice. AU through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husU'ic<lmen sold their cattle; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of chibir» :¡ could bo found...

...slowly to death without uttering a complaint or making a sign. "All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their...of children could be found ; they ate the leaves of trees and the grass of the field ; and in June, 1770, the Kesident at the Durbar affirmed 195 that...

...province of Purniah, and in other parts the misery is equal.' All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their...of children could be found ; they ate the leaves of trees and the grass of the field ; and in June 1770, the Resident at the Darbar affirmed that the living...

...China stripped large tracts of half their inhabitants." " In 1770 a terrible famine desolated Bengal. All through the hot season the people went on dying....their implements of agriculture; they devoured their seed grain; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...

...picture of the famine of 1770. "All through the hot season," says Hunter, " the people went a-dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...

...picture of the famine of 1770. " All through the hot season," says Hunter, " the people went a-dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle ; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...

...slowly to death without uttering a complaint or making a sign, i All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their...they devoured their seed-grain ; they sold their sons -'an^ lUaJnjjhters, till at length no buyer of children CQua'd be found;88 they ate the leaves of trees83...