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Voyage of the U.S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842; Together with Explorations and Discove - Softcover

 
9781234494957: Voyage of the U.S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842; Together with Explorations and Discove

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...Land. Some of these accounts have, no doubt, been somewhat too highly colored; but the unvarnished truth possesses dark and repulsive features in abundance. Vice and licentiousness, in every form and shape, may be witnessed among tho convicts in the penal settlements, and with these odious characteristics, drunkenness, of the most bestial character, pretty surely goes hand in hand. Criminals of the worst description are either confined in prisons, or sent to the penitentiary on Norfolk Island. The mode of discipline practiced here is what is called the social system: the convict is first placed in solitary confinement for a certain time, and then put at hard labor, in company with his fellows. During the latter period, he is supplied with books, and allowed numerous privileges and recreations, which, unless he is beyond tho reach of moral influences, are calculated to bring him back to a correct way of life. All the public work in Sydney and other towns in New South Wales, is performed by convicts, and a strong body of mounted police, and a large military force, are required to keep them in subjection. They are driven through the streets in gangs, accompanied by guards and sentinels, and work chained together in pairs. Their dress consists of a coarse canvas jacket and trowsers, of a peculiar fashion, with " chain-gang" conspicuously marked on the back of the former, and a jockey cap. Those convicts whose crimes are of an inferior grade, are assigned to the settlers, on their application, who put them to such labor as they please, and are at the expense of their maintenance alone. Those who behave well, for, perhaps, half their term, often have their sentences mitigated, and arc furnished with tickets of leave. They are then...

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