Origin of the natives--consanguinity--stature--general appearance--families--infanticide--half-caste--tribes--huts--food--dress and ornaments--arms and implements--corrobories and dances--language--disposition--religious ideas--the sick--funeral--conclusion--right of occupation--native rights--exposure to robbers--necessity for protecting the whites--lamentable results of colonization--inevitable.
Exile--Roman custom--abjuring the realm--Spaniards the first who transported--practice in the time of Elizabeth--James--Charles the second--James the second--George the first--America--kidnapping--America resists--numbers transported.
State of English gaols--Howard--labor bill.
Bentham's project--New South Wales occupied.
Voyage--surgeon-superintendents--convict ship--treatment of women--abuses--systems of management--Dr. Reid--Cunningham--Browning--general safety of convict vessels--loss of the _George the Third_--the _Neva_--the _Governor Phillip_.
Early difficulties of convict management--assignment established--disposal of the prisoners.
The colonies re-act on each other--N. S. Wales--state of Parramatta--rocks--allurements of transportation--Macquarie's views--wealth and claims of emancipists--Biggs's views--pardons--emancipists form associations--petition parliament--their alleged reformation--Bigge's commission--Macquarie's recall--character--Rev. S. Marsden.
Bigge's recommendations--his reports--Macquarie Harbor--emigration proposed--demand for labor.
Land granted to settlers employing convicts--large immigration of capitalists.
Assignment established in America--debarkation of prisoners--their identification--curious practice--law of assignment--transfer of servants.
Escapes from Macquarie Harbor--Brady--executions--state of colony--causes of bushranging.
Macquarie Harbor--visit of Backhouse and Walker--seizure of the _Cyprus_--_Frederic_--_Badger_.
Escape of prisoners--seek for China--curious narrative--the _Young Lachlan_ seized--penalty of escape.
Arthur's principles of penal government--number reclaimable--Arthur's system--view of the real state of prisoners--representation of society--of transportation--idea of New South Wales at home--writings of Archbishop Whately--Mr. Secretary Stanley's "certain and severe" system--tickets-of-leave.