Famagosta

Seaport of e. Cyprus, once important commercially; now the harbor is choked up by sand and does not ate the bark of trees 272; you sands died 306; 40,000 perished 310; great mortality 729, 823, 954-8, 1016, 1087, 1193-95, 1251, 1315, 1335, 1353, 1438, 1565, 1748, 1795 and 1801. Parents ate their children in Italy 450; France suffered very much 1695; Bengal was devastated 1771; 16,000 died at Cape de Verde 1775; 800,000 perished in n.w. India 1837-38; a million in Bengal 1865-66; 1,500,000 in Rajpootana 1868-69; in Bengal $32,500,000 were spent on relief 1874; 500,000 died in India 1877; and ab. 9,500,000 in China 1877-78.