Three Frenchmen in Bengal: Or, the Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements ...
Three Frenchmen in Bengal: Or, the Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements ...
Hill, Samuel Charles, 1857-1926
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8 7.6. the receiver of the rent or revenue. ^ The regular winds of the various seasons are called monsoons, and are named after the point of the compass from which they blow. ii6 THREE FRENCHMEN IN BENGAL and reduced the hopes of the cultivator to nothing. When two days from Lucknow, we ourselves saw the ravages com- mitted by this insect. It was perfect weather ; suddenly we saw the sky overcast ; a darkness like that of a total eclipse spread itself abroad and lasted a good hour. In less than... no time we saw the trees under which we were camped stripped of their leaves. The next day as we journeyed we saw that the same devastation had been produced for a distance of ten miles. The grass on the roads and every green thing in the fields were eaten away down to the roots. This recurrent plague had driven away the inhabitants, even those who had survived the exactions of the military. Towns and villages were abandoned ; the small number of people who remained — I am speaking without exaggeration— only served to augment the horror of this solitude.
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