ying dead, and two, all but dead,
lying along with them. When we enquired how it was that they did not
bury them, a woman told us that they did not know, and that one of them
had been dead for five days. As we were coming down to the boat, we told
the boat's crew if they wanted to see a sight, to go up the street. When
they went, there were four men with hand-barrows there, and the men
belonging to the boats helped to carry the corpses to the burial ground,
where they dug holes, and put them in without coffins."

At this period of the Famine, things had come to such a pass, that
individual cases of death from starvation were seldom reported, and when
they were they failed to attract much attention, deaths by wholesale had
become so common. To be sure, when Dr. Crowley wrote from Skibbereen
that himself and Dr. Donovan had interred, in a kitchen garden, the
corpse of a person eleven days dead, the case, being somewhat peculiar,
had interest enough to be made public; but an ordinary death from hunger
would be deemed a very ordinary affair indeed. I will here give a
specimen or two, of the way in which the progress of the Famine was
chronicled at the close of 1846, and through the winter and spring of
1847. The correspondent of the _Kerry Examiner_, writing from Dingle
under date of February the 8th says: "The state of the people of this
locality is horrifying. Fever, famine and dysentery are daily
increasing, deaths from hunger daily occurring, averaging weekly
twenty--men, women and children thrown into the graves without a
coffin--dead bodies in all parts of the country, being several days dead
before discovered--no inquests to inquire how they came by their death,
as hunger has hardened the hearts of the people. Those who survive
cannot long remain so--the naked wife and children of the deceased,
staring them in the face--their bones penetrating through the skin--not
a morsel of flesh to be seen on their bodies--and not a morsel of food
can they procure to eat. From all parts of the country they crowd into
the town for relief, and not a pound of meal is to be had in the
wretched town for any price."

"This parish (Keantra, Dingle) contained, six months since, three
thousand souls; over five hundred of these have perished, and
three-fourths of them interred coffinless. They were carried to the
churchyard, some on lids and ladders, more in baskets--aye, and scores
of them thrown beside the nearest ditch, and there left