PRISONERS THEIR OWN
WARDERS

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)

Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.

[Mcnair.

DUFFADAR ARJOON, SENIOR PETTY OFFICER
OF ARTIFICERS.

PRISONERS THEIR OWNWARDERS

PRISONERS THEIR OWN
WARDERS