



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


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