| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 592 pages
...flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not... | |
| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not... | |
| Prithwis Chandra Ray - Famines - 1901 - 126 pages
...dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. Destitution at length reached such a pitch that men...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstruction in the roads.”¿ Besides all manner of individual miseries... | |
| Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...dog's flesh was sold for goats flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold, men began to devour each other and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads. Those lands which had been famous for their... | |
| William Foster - East Indies - 1910 - 492 pages
...dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not... | |
| A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 304 pages
...flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold ; men began to devour each other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love.' The same scenes of horror probably occurred at each visitation ; but so far as can be known, the famine... | |
| Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not... | |
| Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 644 pages
...flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not... | |
| Sir Theodore Morison - Famines - 1916 - 270 pages
...flesh was sold for goats' flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought...the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions in the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at last reached such a pitch that men began to devour each other, and the flesh of a son was preferred... | |
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