Travel Diaries and Journals

Travel Diaries and Journals

Pages That Mention Mr. Johnston

James Adam diary: 1857-1863 (Ms. Codex 1948)

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p. 128

we put back & anchored in Kyauk Phyoo at 9 0clock in the evening an earthquake occurred the particulars of which I must duly chronicle, [in it struck through]] the first suspicious indications of there being some convulsion about to place was that given by the barometer which as the weather was threatening was frequently referred to the mercury jumped a good deal & Mr. Johnston reported having ob served the slow wave at the entrance to Kyauk Phyoo harbour instead however of the atmosphere having that closeness & oppresivness usually said to precede an earthquake the rain was incessant accompanied with some wind. At 1/2 past three in the afternoon [while struck through] we > had just been [sitting struck through] > sat to dinner in the gun room when a trembling

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