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Balasore Roads on sending a boat ashore for
provisions. The whole country was discovered
to be devastated by the storm which had risen
over the high sea dyke, sweeping everything before
it. On steaming further up the same news was
brought from Durreapoor; the people who were left,
and had been without food for two days, were
eased only by escaping to [Koutie?] the land was
covered with the debris of the ocean, such as porpoises,
sea shells, &c. mixed up with dead buffaloes &
human bodies, & the stench already dreadful.
The following day on arriving at Kedgeree
where the "Martaban" lay dismasted. The news from
the shore was the same. The Postmasters house was
swept away, & himself & family with it
The surveying Brig "Salween" was blown inshore
off the Telegraph office which was entirely destroyed
& the loss of life there was frightful. The river the
whole night was emitting the putrid odour of
floating carcasses, & the next morning while pro-
ceeding with the "Martaban" the water all the way
up was black with wreck drift bodies of men & cattle

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