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Part I
A STREAK THROUGH THE STATES
I. DUTIES AND DOLLARS 3
II. CONCERNING CITIES, WITH A PARENTHESIS ON MANNERS 17
III. THE QUEEN OF THE GOLDEN STATE 34
A SEA-INTERLUDE 51
Part II
PRISON LAND
A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON CONVICTS AND COLONISTS 83
I. SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS 96
II. SOME SOCIAL SIDELIGHTS 109
III. ILE NOU 128
IV. MEASUREMENT AND MANIA 143
V. A CONVICT ARCADIA 160
VI. SOME HUMAN DOCUMENTS 176
VII. THE PLACE OF EXILES 194
VIII. A PARADISE OF KNAVES 202
IX. USE FOR THE USELESS 219
X. A LAND OF WOOD AND IRON 236
XI. MOSTLY MOSQUITOS AND MICROBES 262
Part III
HOMEWARD BOUND
I. “TWENTY YEARS AFTER” 279
II. DEMOS AND DEAR MONEY 290
III. A COSMOPOLITAN COLONY 303

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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