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tics as are the Irish.' Is there not a great deal of 

 Irish history in Dlirer's sketch?" 



II. This is from a photograph of young North- 

 Mayo harvesters, taken by Dr. Browne. 



III. Is from a photograph of poor North-Mayo 

 people, taken by Dr. Browne. 



IV. Is from a photograph of a Mayo fisherman 

 and his mother, taken by Dr. Browne. 



V. There are other pictures of North Mayo 

 peasants which I have seen, but cannot give here : 

 1st. Fifty photographs containing about 200 

 figures by my friend, Charles R. Browne, M.D., 

 Member of the Ethnographic Survey Committee of 

 the British Association ; 2nd. A group of nine 

 photographed by a French Jesuit, Pere Mallac, 

 referred to at p. 95 of this book ; 3rd. A group 

 of five, photographed by Mr. Prescott, optician, of 

 Dublin ; 4th. About twelve photographs reproduced 

 in '" The Starving West," published by the Dublin 

 Mansion House Committee for the Relief of 

 Distress ; 5th. Several photographs of Sligo pea- 

 sants published by Mr. Welch, photographer, of 

 Belfast. Now these 250 portraits are documents of 

 the first importance they confirm the testimony 

 of Dr. Browne, given at pp. 118-124 above; and 

 not one of them suggests, even remotely, the Irish- 



