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; Smith, that he thought that was a bad place for work, as there was danger of the prisoners escaping.
He ordered "Burnside" to remove the party to a different location.
22 by Mr. Smith; I think about 8 yards further to the Eastward. Mr. Smith also spoke to the prisoners in Chinese.
That party did not go to work until Saturday. I was at Scandal Point again on Monday, the 12 instant at 7:30 A.M. The Guard Alves was also there in charge of a party of Convicts consisting of 19 men; they were employed at the same work and in the same place that the Governor had ordered Burnside to remove the party away from.
On the 29th, Antonio Machado, the Overseer of Convicts, came up about the same time and I heard him speak to the men in Portuguese and also in English to remove the oven further to the West, about 28 yards. Mr. Smith also told Alves what the Governor had said, and the men were removed; I then went to visit other parties at work in the Queen's Road, and returned in about an hour and found that Alves and the Convicts were...