MISCELLANIES. 
more analogous to those that are 
to take place at the last judgment? 
The animals of the mountain de- 
scendedprecipitatelyto thevillages 
to seek in them a secure asylum. 
’ The domestic animals ran terrifi- 
ed with the greatest disorder and 
affright, uttering cries that indi- 
cated their approaching end. No- 
thing interested us in those dread- 
_ ful moments but the preservation 
of our own lives. But, alas! Di- 
vine justice has already marked 
and pointed out, with the finger 
of Omnipotence, a great number 
of victims, who were to perish in 
this day of wrath and fury, in 
every respect very similar to what 
we read in the holy Scriptures 
concerning the day of the last 
judgment. 
‘* At about ten in the forenoonit 
ceased to rain heavy stones, and 
each one endeavoured to remain 
in the situation he then was, wait- 
ing until the rain of thick sand 
which succeeded it should also 
cease, or until some new and un- 
foreseen calamity should termi- 
nate the existence of us all. 
«We thus continued until half 
past one in the afternoon, at which 
hour the noise of the volcano be- 
gan to diminish, and the horizon 
to clear a little, at sight of which 
there was revived in us the hope 
‘of life, which until then had been 
almost wholly extinguished. At 
about two in the afternoon it be- 
came entirely clear, and we began 
to perceive distinctly the lament- 
able and dreadful ravages that the 
darkness had hitherto concealed 
from us. We saw with terror the 
ground covered with dead bodies 
part of whom had been killed by 
the stones, and the others con- 
sumed by the fire. Two hundred 
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of those perished in the church of 
Budiao; thirty-five in a single 
house in that village. The joy 
that all felt at having preserved 
life through such imminent dan- 
gers was, In many, instantly con- 
verted into the extremity of sor- 
row at finding themselves deprived 
of their relations, friends, and ac- 
quaintances. There, a father 
finds his children dead; here a 
husband his wife, and a wife her 
husband; particularly in the vil- 
lage of Budiao, where there are 
very few who have not lost some 
of their nearest connexions. In 
another place, at every step one 
meets innumerable other unhap- 
py wretches extended upon the 
ground, who though not depriv- 
ed of life, are wounded or bruised 
in a thousand ways. Some with 
their legs broken, some without 
arms, some with their sculls frac- 
tured, and others with their whole 
bodies full of wounds. Such were 
the mournful objects that pre- 
sented themselves to us during 
the remainder of that afternoon, 
many of whom died immediately, 
and others on the following days; 
the rest remaining abandoned to 
the most melancholy’ fate, with- 
out physicians, without medicines, 
and in want even of necessary 
food. 
“‘ The sad result of the misfor- 
tunes of that day has beenthe to- 
tal ruin of five villages in the pro- 
vince of Camarines, and the prin- 
cipal part of Albay ; the death of 
more than twelve hundred unfor- 
tunate persons, and many others 
severely wounded; the loss of 
every thing that the survivors 
possessed in the world, being left 
without houses, without clothing, 
nei 9 animals, without the pros- 
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