Description Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts of the Eruption and the environmental effects Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "On my trip towards the western part of the island, I passed through nearly the whole of Dompo and a considerable part of Bima.
Instead, most lay dormant, while those hardier varieties did finally push their ways to the e.
For in 1816, the seeds planted in the ground to sprout and grow usually did neither, because temperatures were never warm enough to nurture their progress.
In the end, their decisions made little difference, except perhaps that those who waited could survive a little longer by eating the seeds they had been saving.
In the weeks that followed, each faced a critical decision: go forward and plant as usual, trusting that the sun would again warm the earth, or continue to wait.
By the first of May, they were outright concerned.
Farmers who had been growing the same crops for decades began to be curious when, in April of that year, the snow still fell.
They only knew that the time for planting, the longed for and planned for last days of winter, never came.
Consider, for example, the Year 1816, known as the "Year Without a Summer," which found the working poor in both Europe and America facing starvation caused by factors that few, if any, of them understood.
As too many have learned, the best they could often do was cope with nature, and the various natural disasters produced around the globe.
Philips at Sumbawa In many ways History is the story of human beings trying to control their destinies by overcoming the effects of their physical surroundings.
There were still on the road side the remains of several corpses, and the marks of where many others had been interred: the villages almost entirely deserted and the houses fallen down, the surviving inhabitants having dispersed in search of food." - Lt.
The extreme misery to which the inhabitants have been reduced is shocking to behold.
Description Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts of the Eruption and the environmental effects Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "On my trip towards the western part of the island, I passed through nearly the whole of Dompo and a considerable part of Bima
