Part II

_PRISON LAND_

A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON CONVICTS AND COLONISTS 83

I. SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS 96

II. SOME SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS 109

III. ILE NOU 128

IV. MEASUREMENT AND MANIA 143

V. A CONVICT ARCADIA 160

VI. SOME HUMAN DOCUMENTS 176

VII. THE PLACE OF EXILES 194

VIII. A PARADISE OF KNAVES 202

IX. USE FOR THE USELESS 219

X. A LAND OF WOOD AND IRON 236

XI. MOSTLY MOSQUITOS AND MICROBES 262