Prisoners their own warders
PRISONERS THEIR OWN WARDERS
GENERAL MONTHLY MUSTER OF THE CONVICTS, SINGAPORE JAIL.
Frontispiece
A RECORD OF THE CONVICT PRISON AT SINGAPORE IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS ESTABLISHED 1825, DISCONTINUED 1873, TOGETHER WITH A CURSORY HISTORY OF THE CONVICT ESTABLISHMENTS AT BENCOOLEN, PENANG AND MALACCA FROM THE YEAR 1797
BY MAJOR J. R A. McNAIR Late Royal Artillery, C.M.G., A.M.I.C.E., F.L.S., and F.R.G.S Late Colonial Engineer and Surveyor General and Comptroller of Indian Convicts Straits Settlements from 1857 to 1877 Author of Perak and the Malays (Sarong and Kris)
Assisted by W. D. BAYLISS Mem. Soc. Engineers Lond., Late Superintendent of Works and Surveys and Superintendent of Convicts, Singapore
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
A willing bondman. —Shakespeare ( Julius Caesar , Act I., Sc. 3)
WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO 2 WHITEHALL GARDENS 1899 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.
John Frederick Adolphus McNair
W. D. Bayliss
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Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations and Plates
Description of the Singapore Convict Jail.
Industries (Intra-mural).
Industries (Extra-mural).
Well Digging.
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 7
No. 8
Feigned Diseases
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
APPENDIX VI
APPENDIX VII
APPENDIX VIII
APPENDIX IX
Index