Show DESOLATED JAVA APPEARANCE OF THE COUNTRY AF TEB TER THE GREAT VOLCANIC ERUPTION A correspondent from java who traversed the be country soon boon after the recent volcanic eruption describes the desolated deao region as follow follows for miles there was not a tree standing and where formerly were numerous cambonga cam campo ponga native villages surrounded by paddy fields and cocoanut coco anut grovac grov aF there was nothing but a wilderness more resembling the bottom of the sea than anything else rocks nocks of coral stones anti rpsa arsa shells sheila strewn everywhere some home of these solid masses of coral lying miles inward could not be less jess than tons weight arriving at me path was wat strewn with pieces of iron tron while here hero and there were portions of the bedding and furniture of the houses of the european europeans we were informed officially that the u umber number of bodies buried in thedia thedla the fla fia lia brict triot we came through was 2700 the volcanic wave mustin must in my opinion tap lap have been even higher than the general estimate of feets feet and I 1 base my opinion on the fact that hat the official height of the small smail hill hlll of is 85 35 metres feet while the wave which swept away the houses housea must of course counse c 0 unee uree have been still higher than tharl the top of the hill and this additional height I 1 estimate to be twenty feet on the top of the hill bill at the whole community of workmen took refuge when we first wave came at 6 am and fancying themselves safe there they return ed again when the second and much higher wave at 9 am came and swept them ail away oar our next point was to get back to our kabars and make for adjer we soon boon again came cama on the trace of destruct tion the sea here having entered a long iong valley vailey just juat below as far as a six bix miles inland forming a great lagoon Proceed proceeding ing log far her on the road from Tji legon to anjer we came camo to co the old post station or of illa ilia dieng ng not one htone ot of it re main maln maindog lug log duil null building dino ding men and boraas 0 having baving been yeen carried away pushing on we w found the road had been very well repaired till within three miles of anjer and altogether the energy displayed everywhere every where by the govern ment lb ib beyond all praise hun run deeds of people were at work in all ali direction remaking roads clearing away trees burning and strewing the ashes on the sea swept bol soi soja aoi in itt the hope at af future improve i ment munt everywhere every where in fact there ere activity and energy and where our road ended and we had to walk there were rows of rice carts and the grain was being given out by native blIff alila to the barlou headman for distribution in their village villager the appearance of the country was even more wretched than beforehand before and from the hill on the anjer anier Bhore shore looking northeast toMer ak akil aall I 1 I 1 miles dis diat anand inland to the toot foot fostof of the hauff four roun to five miles this plain of sri nil area of about 40 f baie miles la Is one vast scene ol desolation being completely swept from end to end annot one house or tree to be seen many lost hete hero around thia this hill hili vo mc came camo at once into the valley of ander adder a semicircle of four miles from point to point and extending two miles in ja jaad ad with a fine range jf if hills closing all 11 II in in the centre of this thie plateau and fronting the sea bea was origin liy ily lly situated the town of an jer jers but from where we stood at on birst turning taming the corner of the pato there was nothing to be ba been seen bui but lagoons with here and there grat great boulde boulders boul durs duro nj cast about and not a ver ves oisa oise of a house houge we proceeded proceed ed however and at length came up narn n the bite site of the town and fort of the fort there la Is almost nothing iett left great blocks of maoury ma onry oury being car ear inland of the town still less leea for not one stone atone la Is to be been above an other mr who loat oat seven beven of hla his relations went to look for hi house but could coald not find a trace of it and after a time he concluded that the riven river which formerly borni ed tho the creek had bad changed its course coarse and ana was wab flowing over the spot where his hia home and that of the assistant arit atit resident once stood there wab was not even a ruin everything having been beel razed to the ground aud it was dinn diff cult to dealza that the town otan afan of an jer jec had ever a a |