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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS, 
our misery, afflicted with a continued drought, which has known no interval through- 
out the year, but from an hurricane that visited us during the last month. It 
ravaged every thing, and occasioned many fatal accidents. Several persons were 
killed and wounded during its continuance; and, to complete our distresses, it was 
succeeded by a cloud of locusts, which devoured whatever the hurricane had not 
laid waste. Such is our present situation, Sc c. See . 
Grant. 
