FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 12:  “Alice and Uua.”]

[Footnote 13:  This may be a harsh and unjust opinion; if so, no one could regret it more than myself.  In any case I wish to disclaim the idea of making a charge against the body of the Roman Catholic clergy, to some of whose members it applies.  I yet fully believe that the great majority of the priesthood would willingly die with the rest of their countrymen in struggling for the liberty of their common home.  Even of those who acted against us with such deadly success, I am sure some were influenced by pure and honourable motives:  there were others, however, whose conduct the noblest motives would fail to justify, or even extenuate.]

[Footnote 14:  I hope my friend “Desmond” (a true poet and genuine Irishman, whom God long preserve) will allow me to borrow his “graceful spirit people” to elevate to poetical dignity the otherwise unattractive and straggling waters of Lough Lua.  It is near the lone and lovely passes of Ceimeneagh, which his genius has invested with graceful immortality, and his

      “Children of the earth and sea.”

may be sometimes tempted to lave therein.

Lough Lua loses in the comparison suggested by the sublime scenery around it, of which the “green little island,” and the pass are immeasurably the greatest.  I saw it in no happy frame of mind, as I dragged my weary limbs along the rugged slopes of Shehigh.  The only real feature of interest I could discover, was the solitary swan above alluded to, to which an intellect less fanciful than that of my friend could not refuse a claim to be recognised as the genius loci, or spirit of the spot.]

[Footnote 15:  Mr. Daniel MacCarthy]

CONCLUSION

A word remains to be said in reference to the fate of those who were the special objects of the Government’s attention.  Of the six for whom a reward was offered, four escaped, namely, Mr. Dillon, Mr. O’Gorman, Mr. O’Mahony and myself.  Mr. Dillon was the first who left Ireland.  Late in August he sailed from Galway, and landed at New York after a voyage of seven weeks.  In the same vessel sailed P.J.  Smyth, who was despatched from Cashel to Dublin with directions from Mr. O’Brien.  Richard O’Gorman, accompanied by John O’Donnell and Daniel Doyle, sailed from the mouth of the Shannon on board a vessel bound for Constantinople.  After landing in the Turkish capital, they were obliged to lie concealed until able to procure passports for Algiers.  Many foolish stories have been circulated in reference to Mr. O’Gorman’s adventures and disguises in Ireland.  Not one of them has the least truth in it.  He or his companions never assumed any disguise, and though their adventures were more perilous, they were not so romantic as those that have been related.  A more detailed account of their wanderings would no doubt be as interesting to my readers as it would be agreeable to myself.  But both the time and the limits I have proposed to myself for this publication exclude it here.  I could not, without too long a delay, acquire that minute and accurate knowledge of facts and dates, which would be indispensable to such a history.