[Footnote 74: "What chaplets are woven for men of slaughter! What
statues to men slaying conquerers! What notes of glory sounded, what
blaspheming praises to the genius of blood shedding! I have seen much of
the ceremonies dedicated to these things, and contrasting my late
feelings with my present, with what new homage do I venerate the race of
Lintleys; the men who, like minor deities, walk the earth: and in the
homes of poverty, where sickness falls with doubly heavy hand, fight the
disease beside the poor man's bed--their only fee, the blessing of the
poor! Mars may have his planet, but give me--what, in the spirit of the
old mythology might be made a star in heaven--the night lamp of
Apothecary Lintley."--_Story of a Feather, by Douglas Jerrold._]
[Footnote 75: Cunningham.]
[Footnote 76: _Two Years in New South Wales_, vol. ii, pp. 260-282.]
[Footnote 77: _Compiled from Dr. Browning's Tables._
+-----------------------------------------------+------------------------+
| At embarkation. | On debarkation. |
+--------+-------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| Year. | Ship. | Neither read nor write.|Unable to read or write.|
+--------+-------------+------------------------+------------------------+
| 1831 | Surry | 118 | 1 |
| 1834 | Arab | 194 | 1 |
| 1836 | Elphinstone | 158 | None |
| 1840 | Margaret | 102 | 6 |
+--------+-------------+------------------------+------------------------+]
[Footnote 78: "After he had examined them, and almost every prisoner had
repeated a portion of scripture, he addressed them in a most affecting
manner, and entreated them not to forget the lessons he had imparted;
and on his withdrawing, I think there was not a dry eye amongst the
whole of the prisoners."--_Col. Arthur_, 1837. _Par. Papers._]
[Footnote 79: _Browning's England's Exiles_, 1842.]
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