A 70 THE CRY OF THE LAND. 



There is no sound of water in the land, 



Upon the mere's dry bed the cattle die, 

 The voices fail from the deserted street ; 

 Shall all things fail ? 



Higher than heav'n, hear Thou the desolate ; 

 Command Thy clouds that they do visit us, 

 And bid Thine earth bring forth that we may 

 live 



That we may live. 

 GANJAM, 1866. 



NOTE. Of the numerous orphans and deserted 

 children left homeless during the famine, some 

 were provided for in the Roman Catholic and 

 Baptist Mission orphanages. Many others found 

 an asylum in an orphanage instituted at Chetterpur 

 by the Rev. Warner Ottley, M.A., chaplain of 

 the district, entirely at his own. expense, in a 

 building purchased by him for the purpose. 

 Here the orphans were maintained and educated 

 till they grew up. 



