In an Unknown Prison Land

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George Chetwynd Griffith. In an Unknown Prison Land

In an Unknown Prison Land

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Part I. A STREAK THROUGH THE STATES

I. DUTIES AND DOLLARS

II. CONCERNING CITIES, WITH A PARENTHESIS ON MANNERS

III. THE QUEEN OF THE GOLDEN STATE

A SEA-INTERLUDE ACROSS THE PACIFIC ON A STEAM-ROLLER

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Part II. PRISON LAND

A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON CONVICTS AND COLONISTS

I. SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS

II. SOME SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS

III. ILE NOU

IV. MEASUREMENT AND MANIA

V. A CONVICT ARCADIA

VI. SOME HUMAN DOCUMENTS

VII. THE PLACE OF EXILES

VIII. A PARADISE OF KNAVES

IX. USE FOR THE USELESS

X. A LAND OF WOOD AND IRON

XI. MOSTLY MOSQUITOS AND MICROBES

Part III. HOMEWARD BOUND

I “TWENTY YEARS AFTER”

II. DEMOS AND DEAR MONEY

III. A COSMOPOLITAN COLONY

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George Chetwynd Griffith

An account of convicts and colonists in New Caledonia with jottings out and home

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I didn’t make the calculation, because when we subsequently exchanged cards I found I was talking to the President of the Mercantile Transportation Company, a man who knows just about as much of travel by land and sea as there is to be learnt.

After this we got on to railroading generally. I learnt much, and in the learning thereof came to think even less of British railway methods than I had done before. I learnt why it was cheaper to carry grain a thousand miles from Chicago to New York than it is to carry it a couple of hundred miles from Yorkshire to London; why cattle can be carried over thousands of miles of prairie at less cost than over hundreds of miles of English railroads; and many other things all bearing on the question of the dollar and how to save it—for your true American is just as keen on saving as he is lavish in spending—which I thought might well be taught and still better learnt on this side.

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