[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Tsunami"

[Bill Mullins]

1896 The Japan Gazette (Yokahama) 24 Jun (unpaginated clipping)

Shouting tsunami, tsunami at the top of my voice, I ran out of the house, but as the night was pitch dark I was at a loss to know in which direction to fly.

https://archive.org/details/per_despatches-united-states-ministers-japan_despatches-from-united-s_august-9-1895-september-22-/page/n646/mode/1up?q=tsunami



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