Samuel Pepys: "Warga miskin tinggal di rumah-rumah mereka selama api m...

"Warga miskin tinggal di rumah-rumah mereka selama api masih menyentuh mereka, dan kemudian berlari ke perahu atau memanjat dari sepasang tangga di tepi sungai ke yang lain. Dan di antara hal-hal lain, merpati malang yang kurasa enggan meninggalkan rumah mereka, tetapi berkeliaran di sekitar jendela dan balkon sampai mereka terbakar, sayapnya, dan jatuh."

--- Samuel Pepys

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Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.