FOOTNOTES:
[213] Letter from Captain Wynne, Government District Inspector to Lieutenant-Colonel Jones.—Commissariat Series, part 1, p. 438.—The italics are Captain Wynne's.
[214] Report of Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, pp. 180-2.
[215] Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. Report on tables of deaths.
[216] The circumlocutions had recourse to by relief committees and Government officials to avoid using the word Famine were so many and so remarkable, that at one time I was inclined to attempt making a complete list of them. Here are a few: "Distress," "Destitution," "Dearth of provisions," "Severe destitution," "Severe suffering," "Extreme distress," as above; "Extreme misery," "Extreme destitution," etc., etc. The Society of Friends, with honest plainspeaking, almost invariably used the word "Famine;" and they named their report, "Transactions during the Famine in Ireland."
[217] Commissariat Series, part I, p. 409.
[218] Commissariat Series, part I, p. 382.
[219] Ib. p. 442.
[220] Appendix to Report of British Association, p. 181.
[221] Report of Central Relief Committee of Society of Friends, p. 168.