Frontispiece.
IN AN UNKNOWN
PRISON LAND
AN ACCOUNT OF CONVICTS AND
COLONISTS IN NEW CALEDONIA
WITH JOTTINGS OUT AND HOME
BY
GEORGE GRIFFITH
AUTHOR OF “MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE
EMPIRE,” “THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN,”
A TALE OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU,
“BRITON OR BOER?” A STORY OF THE
FIGHT FOR AFRICA, ETC., ETC.
WITH A PORTRAIT AND NUMEROUS
ILLUSTRATIONS
London: HUTCHINSON & CO
Paternoster Row 
1901
PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD.
LONDON AND AYLESBURY
To
THE EARL OF DUNMORE
WHOSE KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY MADE MY
SOJOURN IN PRISON-LAND MUCH MORE
PLEASANT THAN IT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Part I A STREAK THROUGH THE STATES | ||
| I. | DUTIES AND DOLLARS | 3 |
| II. | CONCERNING CITIES, WITH A PARENTHESIS ON MANNERS | 17 |
| III. | THE QUEEN OF THE GOLDEN STATE | 34 |
| A SEA-INTERLUDE | 51 | |
| Part II PRISON LAND | ||
| A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON CONVICTS AND COLONISTS | 83 | |
| I. | SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS | 96 |
| II. | SOME SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS | 109 |
| [vii]III. | ILE NOU | 128 |
| IV. | MEASUREMENT AND MANIA | 143 |
| V. | A CONVICT ARCADIA | 160 |
| VI. | SOME HUMAN DOCUMENTS | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |