Flood at Victoria West

Flood at Victoria West

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

|han≠kass'o relates the story of the flood at Victoria West, observed by ≠kuken-an and |han≠kass'o's wife, Ssuobba-||ken (Sara), who were both at Victoria West at the time it happened. The rain carried all the things and the people away down the river bed and some where crushed by collapsing houses.

1) This story is found in Book VIII-23

story

24 November 1878

History (personal)

The Rain and Rain's water

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