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lately under sentence of death. Sconsider that the garl diet

is

: already too abundant: and

I have been trying to get reduced. Pertainly, if

it

I had

been consulted in the case

of the convict in question,

I should not have advised

any improvement of diet, especially such as I witnessed Myself

in their case. This was

in March and

April last.

ཀ

and

Every day, between four

¿clock I used to see men

five

going up

to the gast loaded

with

trays of all the delicacies

of the season, such.

I never

saw in this

in

this gaol,

nor indeed

any eating house here.

These were

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107

- for the Convicts _

-

from last point. Once I was going my

rounds with Mikenzie

the gaoler, when I came upon

the Five

prisoners lying in

their blankets, with their

feet

- secured, and two policemen

wotching them. the

The prisoners

were at their dinner.

every kind of delicacy,

oranges

They

Алий

They had

even to

and mits and tobacco.

were ea

nothing,

and

eating drinking and

they laughed

and

enjoyed themselves much. McKenzie informed

ed me

that