People in Bangalore, India, suffering from starvation. Wood engraving, 1877.

"The Indian famine.,We are happy to learn from recent telegrams that there is now a definite prospect of the end of this dreadful visitation. … It may be well to warn the English public, though there is every prospect of the Madras famine terminating by February,-that a vast amount of misery will still be endured, and the need of alleviation is as pressing as ever. It is most desirable that the flow of charity should not cease through a mistaken notion. Reports from Madras speak in the highest terms of the wise and provident distribution of the famine fund. We are indebted to an officer of one of her Majesty's regiments now stationed at Bangalore for an illustration of the natives waiting for the distribution of rice at the great relief camp there, in which about four thousand of these poor people are collected to live on the bounty of Government."—Illustrated London news, loc. cit.