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PREFACE. “I asked for several men thad known well here. Many of them were drowned and the tales of the survivors were pitiful. Wealthy Talukdars were wandering about aimlessly. One man who had 12,000 “aris” of paddy (about 2850, maunds) in his godown had been drowned with all his family, a large one. Nothing was standing of his houses, even the muc plinth had been was ed away, and the clods lay strewn over the neighbouring fields, The chly remnant of the once comfortable homestead was the timber posts, on which the godown had stood. In this village as în Raja-khali, Ujantia, and Pekua, there are very few men surviving, and practically no w.men or children. There is therefore, but little present need of relief.” DIARY OF MR, C. G, H, ALLEN, Settlement Officer, Chittagong, Ajent the Chittagong Cyclone of the 2nd October, 1897.