Part III

_HOMEWARD BOUND_

I. “TWENTY YEARS AFTER” 279

II. DEMOS AND DEAR MONEY 290

III. A COSMOPOLITAN COLONY 303

NOTE

The last sentence on p. 137 should read:

“The Cachots Noirs were never opened except at stated intervals,—once every morning for inspection, and once every thirty days for exercise and a medical examination of the prisoner.” I am glad to be able to state on the authority of the Minister of Colonies that this terrible punishment has now been made much less severe. Every seventh day the prisoner is placed for a day in a light cell; he is also given an hour’s exercise every day; and the maximum sentence has been reduced to two years, subject to the medical veto. In the text I have described what I saw; but this atrocity is now, happily, a thing of the past.—G. G.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author _Frontispiece._

Two Snapshots up and down the Rio Sacramento, taken as the train was crossing the bridge _Page_ 30

Diamond Head, Honolulu ” 54

Sanford B. Dole. First Governor of the Territory of Hawaii ” 62

A Lake in the interior of New Caledonia ” 86

The Plague Area at Noumea. Offices of the Messageries Maritimes, with Sentries in front ” 100

The Convict Band playing in the Kiosk in the Place des Cocotiers, Noumea ” 116

The Town and Harbour of Noumea ” 120

In the Harbour, Noumea ” 122

The Inner Court of the Central Prison, Ile Nou ” 136

The Central Prison, Ile Nou ” 142

The Bureau of Anthropometry, Ile Nou ” 146

An Arab Type of Convict. A combination of Ideality and Homicidal Mania ” 148

The Courtyard of a Disciplinary Camp, Ile Nou ” 150

The Avenue of Palms, leading to the Hospital, Ile Nou ” 154

Part of the Hospital Buildings, Ile Nou ” 156

The Island of “Le Sphinx,” one of the tying-up places on the south-west coast of New Caledonia ” 162

A Native Temple, New Caledonia ” 168

Permit to visit a Prison or Penitentiary Camp _en détail_ ” 176

The Kiosk in which the Convict Courtships were conducted at Bourail ” 180

Berezowski, the Polish Anarchist who attempted to murder Napoleon III. and the Tsar Alexander II. in the Champs Elysées ” 184

One of the Lowest Types of Criminal Faces ” 190

The Peninsula of Ducos ” 194

The remains of Henri Rochefort’s House ” 200

The Bedroom of Louis Chatelain, ”The Caledonian Dreyfus” in Ducos ” 200

The “Market” in the Convent, Isle of Pines ” 212

The Convict Railway at Prony ” 240

The Mines of the International Copper Co., Pilou, New Caledonia ” 266

The Saloon of the Ballande Liner, _St. Louis_ ” 270

The Quarantine Station, North Head, Sydney ” 282

The Storage House at Seppeltsfield, forty years ago ” 309

The Present Storage House ” 308

Grape-crushing by machinery, at Seppeltsfield ” 312

A Vineyard at Seppeltsfield, South Australia ” 316