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most of them men, and four or five women; 

 these displayed misery in the extreme. Some were 

 sitting silent and sullen — others pensively await- 

 ing their doom like oxen at the slaughter, to go — 

 they knew not whither ! Lord Byron^s descrip- 

 tion of men awaiting their doom in his poem on 

 Darkness might here be truly applied. Each 

 sat sullenly apart, some lay down and wept, 

 others hurried to and fro, and looked up with 

 mad disquietude, others rest their chins upon 

 their clenched hands and smiled/^ Yes, they 

 did smile; but in that smile might be traced 

 agony and deep distress, plainly indicating the 

 misery that was working within. This scene of 

 horror created very painful feelings and asso- 

 ciations, which even the society of my fellow- 

 passengers, and the good dinner provided at 

 O'Brien's hotel, was some time in totally remov- 

 ing from my mind. 



Saturday^ June 9tk, This morning made up 

 a party to visit the botanical garden. Not being 

 a sufficient botanist to describe all I saw, I can 



