Note 228 — Chapter LII · LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN, 1689

‘One pound of oatmeal and 1 lb. of tallow served a man a week, sometimes salt hides. It was as bad as Samaria, only we had no pidgens’ Dunge. I saw two shillings a quarter given for a little dog, horse blood at 4d. per pint, all the starch was eaten, the graves of tallow, horse flesh was a rarity, and still we resolved to hold out ... I believe there died 15,000 men, women, and children, many of whom died for want. A great fever—all the children died, almost whole families, nor one left alive.’ Narrative of George Holmes in Le Fleming Papers, p. 265. Macpherson i. 312.