One or two bald facts will perhaps give to anyone possessing any faculty of visualisation as clear an idea as they could get from any number of dithyrambic pages.

The distance from the Ulster Club to the quay where the Liverpool steamer is berthed is ordinarily less than a ten minutes' walk.

The wagonette in which the Ulster leader and his friends were drawn by human muscles took three minutes short of an hour to traverse it.

It was estimated that into that short space of street some 70,000 to 100,000 people had managed to jam themselves.
Movement was almost out of the question, yet everyone within reach tried to press near enough to grasp hands with the occupants of the carriage.

When at last the shed was reached the people could not bear to let Carson disappear through the gates.