Editing Year Without a Summer (section)

=== South America ===
A newspaper account of northeastern Brazil was published in the United Kingdom:<blockquote>By an arrival at Liverpool we have received accounts from [[Pernambuco]] of the 8th of Feb. [1817], which state that a most uncommon drought has been experienced in the tropical regions of the Brazils, or that part of the country between Pernambuco and [[Rio de Janeiro|Rio Janiero]]. By this circumstance all the streams had been dried up, the cattle were dying or dead, and all the population emigrating to the borders of the great rivers in search of water. The greatest distress prevailed, provisions were wanting, and the mills completely at a stand. They have no windmills, so that no corn could be ground. Vessels have been sent from Pernambuco to the United States to fetch flour, and what had tended to increase this distress was the interruption of the coasting trade through the dread of war with [[Buenos Aires|Buenos Ayres]].<ref name=":5" /> </blockquote>