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Yeo बौद्म-कारिबो । বে রিপোর্ট দেন তাহা পাঠ করিলে দুঃখে হৃদয় বিদীর্ণ হইয়া যায়। এই রিপোর্টের ফলে শীঘ্রই অনেক স্থানে সাহায্য ভাণ্ডার স্থাপিত হইল এবং instances of how long many minst go without food and what sort of material they con rive to couvert into fod, you could not believe it, fur it is really incredible and yet it is tru" neve "thess ” Another missionary the Rev. F. Sehtar of Kapasdanga stated that-Respectatole far ters are so much reduced in ci cumstances that they cannot employ so many day labourers as they usad to do in former tims and consequently the labouring class is are reduced to the oint of starva. ton. They are now ( March 1866) ahie to glean a litt a wha', grain ete, hr t after a month all the cro: s wii r ave been rather • d in when no hing cari be citained hy gleaning in the fields. The are now thr win on roots, herries, ete for their chief support and when that supply is exhi used, they will be forced to eat the rini of troes, grasset. never witnessed such misers in my life. Hunter's Statistical Account of Bengal. Vol. II. page 89. t The collector on the 30th April, 1866, reported that the suff-ling was much less in the neighdourhood of Rtistia and Chooada nga and Meherpur than in other arts. Regarding the rost of the district the collector stated, nil accounts agre, that there is great distress. There is no fa nine, for grain is to be hid, but there is very little money to buy it the prevailing prices. For some months the poor ( and in this word I include sil most all the worhing cins Fes ) iba vo not had more than one meal a day and it is to be that many have not had even that Nor can there be any doubt that there is a good deal of illness ; and I am ตfruid, there have already been a few deaths owing to a want of sufficient food for so long. Hiter statis, Aco, Vul II. pag'