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A first-person account of two sea voyages transporting convicts to distant penal settlements, blending shipboard diary entries, medical observations, and administrative commentary. The narrator documents daily life and health aboard the transports, the behaviour and management of male and female prisoners, and the application of humane measures and religious instruction as tools for reform. Visits ashore report on colonial conditions and institutional arrangements, while reflective passages consider the causes and consequences of moral decline and offer practical recommendations for improving discipline, welfare, and prospects for rehabilitation.

ERRATA.

Page 21, line 7 from bottom, for banisheh read banished
  67, line 12 from bottom, for the many read them any
  71, line 12 from top, for tA. M. read A. M. Same line for weathe read weather
  114, line 9 from top, for human heart read human beast
  241, line 7 for Sorrell read Sorell
  296, line 14 from bottom, for th mmonness read the commonness
  343, line 1 for ha read had

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Moved advertising from first four pages to the end.
  2. Changed ‘births’ to ‘berths’ on p. 22.
  3. Changed ‘consistently’ to ‘consistent’ on p. 34.
  4. Changed ‘bing’ to ‘being’ on p. 105.
  5. Changed ‘to’ to ‘the’ on p. 192.
  6. Changed ‘cel’ to ‘feel’ on p. 310.
  7. Changed ‘he’ to ‘be’ on p. 335.
  8. Corrected errors mentioned in ‘ERRATA.’
  9. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  10. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.