...Ashira,' he says, ' had now become a gloomy valley of the dead ; each village was a charnel house — wherever I walked the most heartrending sights met...and swarms of carrion flies buzzed about the living hut putrid carcases. The stench in the neighbourhood of the huts was insupportable. Some of the sick...

...Ashira,' he says, 'had now become a gloomy valley of the dead ; each village was a charnel house — wherever I walked the most heartrending sights met...were raving and others, emaciated, with sunken eyes, vjctims of hunger as well as of disease. Many wretched creatures from other villages were abandoned...

...would come from time to time to see how they were going on. The once cheerful prairie of Ashira hud now become a gloomy valley of the dead ; each village...with sunken eyes, victims of hunger as well as of discas". ' Many wretched creatures from other villages were abandoned to die in the bush. How I bewailed...

...and died. It soon spread throughout the Ngosi district: The once cheerful prairie of Ashira had now become a gloomy valley of the dead; each village was...of carrion flies buzzed about the living but putrid carcasses. The stench in the neighborhood of the huts was insupportable. Some of the sick were raving,...