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This shows but one of the many disasters to lighthouses in Sunda Straits. A Dutch man-of-war the Berouw was lying at anchor in Lampong Bay, fifty miles from Krakatoa. The great wave came, tore it from its anchorage, and carried it like the vessel of our friend David Roy nearly two miles inland! Masses of coral of immense size and weight were carried four miles inland by the same wave.
This shows but one of the many disasters to lighthouses in Sunda Straits. A Dutch man-of-war the Berouw was lying at anchor in Lampong Bay, fifty miles from Krakatoa. The great wave came, tore it from its anchorage, and carried it like the vessel of our friend David Roy nearly two miles inland! Masses of coral of immense size and weight were carried four miles inland by the same wave.
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