 Hong-Kong, the aborigines of New Holland, West Indian blacks, Greeks, Caffres, and Malays, soldiers for desertion, idiots, madmen, pigstealers, and pickpockets. The dreadful place seems set apart for all that is hideous and vile in our common nature....  For the Term of His Natural Life - Page 382by Marcus Clarke - 1886 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles White - Australia - 1889 - 710 pages
...There are creatures who openly defy authority, whose language and conduct is such as was never before seen or heard out of Bedlam. There are men who are...it realizes to my mind the popular notion of hell." Such was the place which formed one of the lower depths of that system which at its best was a maelstrom... | |
 | Marcus Clarke - 1907 - 498 pages
...of perjury or mistake, are indiscriminately herded. With them are mixed Chinamen from Hong-Kong, *j the aborigines of New Holland, West Indian blacks,...its insubordination, its filth, and its despair, it v realizes to my mind the popular notion of hell May 2 ist. — Entered to-day officially upon my duties... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1847 - 498 pages
...victims of perjury or mistake, are indiscriminately herded. With them are mixed Chinamen from Hong Kong, the aborigines of New Holland, West Indian blacks,...desertion ; idiots, madmen, pig-stealers, and pickpockets. In the open day the weak are bullied and robbed by the stronger. At night the sleeping-wards are very... | |
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