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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Even when cut, often trees cannot be got to fall without great force, nor brushwood when cut removed, owing to the intricate binding by creepers of great strength. There is great difficulty even during the present dry weather in getting brushwood that has been several days felled to horn, and the largest heaps are constantly extinguished at night by the very heavy dews that fall, drenching everything exposed." Dr. "Walker worked with great energy and was most sanguine about the future of the Settlement, offering to take almost any number of convicts which the Government of India chose to send. Up to this time, however (6th April, 1838), he had neither experienced the effect of the rainy season, nor the hostility of the aborigines who were as yet holding aloof and had not hegun to give any trouble; nor did he appreciate the amount of trouble (by repeated escapes, etc.) the convicts had already commenced to give, and afterwards gave, showing him that his guard was insufficient for even the small number of convicts he then had (773 by the end of June, 1858). His following remarks on the convicts and their behaviour will show that immediately after their arrival they commenced to escape, and the tale of their delusions and sufferings is the same as that of their fellow-prisoners up to the present day: --" Considering all things, I have reason to be satisfied with the general conduct of the convicts. On the fourth day after arrival, convict No. 61, Naraia, sentenced on the 31st July last to transportation for life for having excited sedition in the cantonment of Dinapore, where he was camp follower.in the bazar, after failing in an attempt to excite the convicts with whom he was working to rebel, attempted Co escape from Chatham Island by swimming to...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154073348
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154073343
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 372 gr


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