CONTENTS

NOTE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Part I A STREAK THROUGH THE STATES

Part II PRISON LAND

Part III HOMEWARD BOUND

FOOTNOTES

IN AN UNKNOWN
PRISON LAND

AN ACCOUNT OF CONVICTS AND
COLONISTS IN NEW CALEDONIA
WITH JOTTINGS OUT AND HOME

BY
GEORGE GRIFFITH

AUTHOR OF “MEN WHO HAVE MADE THE
EMPIRE,” “THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN,”
A TALE OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU,
“BRITON OR BOER?” A STORY OF THE
FIGHT FOR AFRICA, ETC., ETC.

WITH A PORTRAIT AND NUMEROUS
ILLUSTRATIONS

London: HUTCHINSON & CO
Paternoster Row 1901

PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD.
LONDON AND AYLESBURY

To
THE EARL OF DUNMORE
WHOSE KINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY MADE MY
SOJOURN IN PRISON-LAND MUCH MORE
PLEASANT THAN IT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN.