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Title: Prisoners Their Own Warders
A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits
Settlements Established 1825

Author: J. F. A. McNair
W. D. Bayliss

Release Date: October 20, 2008 [EBook #26974]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Ronald Lee

PRISONERS THEIR OWN WARDERS

[Illustration: _Frontispiece_

GENERAL MONTHLY MUSTER OF THE CONVICTS, SINGAPORE JAIL.]

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)

WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO
2 WHITEHALL GARDENS
1899

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

BUTLER & TANNER,
THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS,
FROME, AND LONDON.

[Illustration: DUFFADAR ARJOON, SENIOR PETTY OFFICER
OF ARTIFICERS.

_McNair._]

Preface

Some explanation appears to be due from us for writing this account of
the Singapore Convict Jail so long after the date of its final
abolition.

The truth is, that for several years it has been our opinion that it
ought to be written by some one, and the same suggestion had often been
made to one of us by the late Doctor Mouat, Inspector General of Jails,
Bengal, and others who were well acquainted with its administration.

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