25 MAY 1872, Page 3

The hurricane in Zanzibar, the accounts of which we at

first believed to have been exaggerated, appears to have been of the most frightful kind. Not only were the Sultan's vessels all wrecked, and 150 loaded dhows or native coasters, but the tem- pest ruined the clove and cocoa-nut plantations, cutting the trees down as it sometimes in India cuts down a jungle. The clove cultivation is believed to be irreparably destroyed, as the natives will scarcely replant such slow-growing trees, and the sufferings of the people will be terrible. They have lost their houses, their cultivations, and their little capitals all in a night, and will "only escape a famine by a miracle."