Jail journal

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First Sentence

"May 27, 1848. - On this day, about four o'clock in the after noon, I, John Mitchel, was kidnapped, and carried off from Dublin, in chains, as a convicted "Felon.""

Description

Commenced on board the "Shearwater" steamer in Dublin Bay, continued at Spike Island, on board the "Scourge" war steamer, on the "Dromedary" hulk, Bermuda, on board the "Neptune" convict ship, at Pernambuco, at the Cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion), at Van Diemen's Land, at Sydney, at Tahiti, at San Francisco, at Greytown, and concluding at no.3 pier, North River, New York : with an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland. (Subtitle.)