LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author[Frontispiece.]
Two Snapshots up and down the Rio Sacramento, taken as the train was crossing the bridgePage[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]

Part I
A STREAK THROUGH THE STATES

I
DUTIES AND DOLLARS