1879
Upon October 10, 1879, a deluge fell upon the island of Jamaica, and drowned one hundred of the inhabitants. A flood that slid out from this island was surfaced with jungles - tangles of mahogany logs, trees, and bushes; brambled with the horns of goats and cattle; hung with a moss of the fleece of sheep. Incoming vessels ploughed furrows, as if in a passing cultivation of one of the rankest luxuriences that ever vegetated upon an ocean. Passengers looked at tangles of trees and bodies, as if at picture puzzles. In foliage, they saw faces.
London Times, November 8, 1879, p.5 c.5.
