[227] Letter of Mr. Joseph M. M'Kenna to Lord John Russell. Mr. M'Kenna
gives the names of all the parties. Yet still more dreadful is the case
we read of as having occurred in Galway. A man having been sentenced for
sheep-stealing in that city, it was stated to the bench by the resident
magistrate "that the prisoner and his family were starving; one of his
children died, and he was, he said, credibly informed that the mother
ate part of its legs and feet. After its death he had the body exhumed,
and found that nothing but the bones remained of the legs and
feet."--_Freeman's Journal, April, 1848._
[228] Letter dated from Killybegs, 18th of 12th month, 1846. Report, p.
151.
[229] Count Strezelecki's Report to the British Association, p. 97. "In
addition to the Government aid, large sums were distributed by the
British Association, through the agency of the generous and
never-to-be-forgotten Count Strezelecki."--_MS. letter from a Mayo
gentleman, in author's possession_.
[230] Report, p. 97.
[231] MS. notes taken down from Mr. Egan.
[232] Joseph Crosfield's Report to the Society of Friends, p. 145.
[233] James H. Tuke's report to the same Committee, p.
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