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284 ''The twenty-three patients consist of nine men, six women, and eight children. It has not been found possible to identify them all, as some of the childrenleft with no surviving relativesare infants; and two men and one woman are not yet able to make rational replies, the brain-powers being entirely in abeyance. Among a more well-to-do-race, there would no doubt have been names marked on the clothes; but here no such evidence is forthcoming.''

''Besides the poor fishermen and their families, there were but five persons to be accounted for: and it was ascertained, beyond a doubt, that all five are numbered with the dead. It is a melancholy pleasure to place on record the names of these genuine martyrsthan whom none, surely, are more worthy to be entered on the glory-roll of England's heroes! They are as follows:''

''The Rev. James Burgess, M.A., and Emma his wife. He was the Curate at the Harbour, not thirty years old, and had been married only two years. A written record was found in their house, of the dates of their deaths.''

Next to theirs we will place the honoured name of Dr. Arthur Forester, who, on the death