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1816, the Year Without a Summer

In Our Time

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The Deadliest Eruption in the East Indies

In the records that we have it's the deadliest eruption that we know of. The villages were abandoned, people on the road looking for something to eat. Something like half of the population of 180,000 or so of Sombara Island is gone either through starvation. Many also migrate. People are selling their children as slaves and they move to Sullo A.C. And what you see in this period is that there's more settlements of the upland regions. The lowlands are devastated because...

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