...other equally civilised nations. The cause of this taciturnity will afterwards be clearly explained ; but no one who is acquainted either with the past...till at length no buyer of children could be found ;32 they eat the leaves of trees33 and the grass of the field ; and in June 1770 the Resident at the...

...emotional part of his nature is in strict subjection ; his resentment 26 THE ANNALS OF RURAL BENGAL. enduring, but unspoken ; his gratitude of the sort...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...

...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...

...seats in the rural courts, and nativo officers still discharged the whole 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...

...of half their inhabitants." " In 1770 a terrible famine desolated Bengal. All through the hot season 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...

...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...

...and many a rural household starved slowly to death without uttering a complaint or making a sign, i All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people...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...

...died. The following is an account of the famine in Bengal last century : "All through the hot season 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...

...carry off lone individuals for their food." The famine in Bengal last century is thus described : " All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people...their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seea grain ; they sold their softs and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...