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itself was all going. But towards nine A.M. the wind gradually 

 subsided, after having blown from about three-quarters of the 

 circle of the compass. 



Scores of country chapels as well as houses were unroofed 

 and greatly damaged by this storm. A day or two after it we 

 tried to take one of our usual walks through the woods, but the 

 paths were almost obliterated by fallen trees and branches. 

 In the valleys scores of great trees had been torn up by the 

 roots, with masses of soil clinging to them ; in other places they 

 had been broken off short, snapped as if they had been mere 

 twigs ; and in the prostrate branches were numbers of arboreal 

 creatures chameleons, lizards, serpents and tree-frogs dashed 

 down from their homes. It was all striking evidence of the 

 force with which the fierce wind had roared, especially up the 

 valleys, and had laid low everything in its path. 



1 For most of the information here given about the Mada- 

 gascar bee, I am again indebted to the the Rev. C. P. Cory, 

 formerly of the Anglican Mission in Madagascar. 



