 | Thomas Dick - 1869 - 664 pàgines
...covered with wrecks of boats and vessels, and the shore left without a vestige of its former state, and the dead and dying bodies of men, women, and children, half buried, and scattered about on every hand. Near the Cape of Good Hope such storms are preceded by an extraordinary cloud called... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1875 - 610 pàgines
...the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and destroyed buildings in one place, heaps of earth and trunks of trees in...torrents of water, and the dead and dying bodies of nien, women, and children, half buried and scattered about where crowded streets but a few hours before... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pàgines
...covered with wrecks of boats and vessels; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish and rafters in one place; heaps...children, half buried, and scattered about, where streets stood but an hour before, — present the miserable survivors with the shocking conclusion of a spectacle,... | |
 | 1904 - 240 pàgines
...boats and vessels, and the shore becomes a mass of ruins. Mounds of rubbish and destroyed buildings in one place, heaps of earth and trunks of trees in another, deep gullies formed by torrents of water, and the dead and dying bodies of men, women, and children, take the place... | |
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This dreadful tragedy ended, when it happens in a town, the devastation is surveyed with accumulated horror : the harbour is covered •with wrecks of boats and vessels ; and the shore has not a vestige of its former state remaining. Mounds of rubbish... 
