INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

82 RECENT FAMINES.
less, their movements are to a slight extent
limited., ~hey travel, as it were, in a living
mass overbroad tracts of country, eating up
every green thing in their path, leaving a
b1'QWn dry track to mark their progress. "As
, ,
thel.ipcreased in size, they became more raven-
OltS in their appetites, and when they got their
wings and could fly, more ubiquitous." In
short, Colonel Brooke calculated that by the
time they finally quitted the country, seventyfive
per cent of the crops had been destroyed
by them.