Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — Remarkable If True. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable If True.

The following “incident of the famine,” reported by the Collector of Mongnyr, is, says the 7Ywes of India , certainly remarkable: “ A woman of the fishing caste,” writes Mr. Lockwood, “ was sitting by the side of the Ganges, some 100 miles from here, in the Patna District, about daylight of the 16th of August. Suddenly the bank on which she was sitting gave way, and she fell into the water, dragging with her a large bundle of castor-oil sticks which she was carrying at the time. She managed to support herself on these sticks, which formed a kind of life-buoy, and she was carried down by the current, which is now running at a great pace. As each village or boat was passed she shouted to the villagers to help her, but no one came to her relief. In this way she was carried nearly 100 miles, and, fortunately for her, when she had been twenty-four hours in the water she passed by Monghyr, and was rescued by Col. Murray, who, seeing her floating by, sent his private boat and rescued her. The woman did not appear much the worse for her prolonged stay in the water, but naturally was much impressed by the fact of her being rescued by a European, when so many of her own caste had declined to help her. She was provided with a railway ticket to Patna, together with food and clothing from the relief funds.

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