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borne along with it ; a yam-ground, contain- 
ing 1,000 yams, totally disappeared ; several 
fishing-boats were destroyed, and large pieces 
of rock were found blocking up the harbour 
in several parts. In the interior, all the 
plantain patches were levelled, and about 
4,000 plantain-trees destroyed, one-half in 
full bearing, the other designed for the year 
1846. " So that," says the annalist, " this 
very valuable article of food we shall be 
without for a long time. The fact is, that 
from this date until August, we shall be 
pinched for food. But God tempers the 
wind to the shorn lamb; and we humbly trust 
that the late monitions of Providence, namely, 
drought, sickness, and storm, which severally 
have afflicted us this year, may be sanctified 
to us, and be the means of bringing us, one 
and all, into a closer communion with our 
God. May we remember the rod, and who 
hath appointed it. May we flee to the cross 
of Christ for safety and succour in every 
time of need, always bearing in mind that 
our heavenly Father doth not willingly afflict 
the children of men." 
The details which follow, respecting a 
