CABRE`RA, one of the Balearic Isles, used as a penal settlementby Spain, produces wild olives.
The Chilian Government have turned it into a penal settlement, and the chief residents are the convicts and their guards.
It belongs to the empire of the Brazils, and is used as a penal settlement.
It is also under contemplation to make it a penal settlement, for which it is in many respects particularly adapted, if sufficient employment for the convicts can be found.
He was seized by the commander of a vessel and delivered to the Phoenix hulk, New South Wales, where, loaded with irons of unusual weight, his clothing branded, he was confined with prisoners destined for a penal settlement.
By the first governors it was held a venial offence: before the law provided any specific penalty, it was usually flogging or a penal settlement.
A colonial law, of 1827, made it capital to escape from a penal settlement.
Port Jackson, or Botany Bay as it was generally called, was then and long afterwards merely a penal settlement.
In 1778, Botany Bay was selected by Sir Joseph Banks, who had sailed with Captain Cook as a naturalist and scientific observer, as a most eligible site for a penal settlement.
Uniacke and Lieutenant Stirling, left Port Jackson to investigate the coast north of Sydney, with the view of forming a penal settlement.
It lies right across the entrance of the Strait, about forty miles from either shore, and from its isolated position is well adapted for a penal settlement.
Their accounts were so satisfactory, that, in 1789, the latter was sent to establish a penal settlement in what was then called Port Cornwallis--now Port Blair.
Mouat, who has given an account of his visit in Adventures and Researches among the Andaman Islanders, was sent, as head of a Commission, to examine the islands and select a suitable locality for the establishment of a penal settlement.
Red Jason and Michael Sunlocks were together at last, within the narrow stockade of a penal settlement.
On the order of Jorgen Jorgensen, the "late usurper of the Government of Iceland" was sent for the term of his natural life to the Sulphur Mines that he had himself established as a penal settlement.
Some hundreds of years ago, the Portuguese had a penal settlement on this side of Trinidad, and this, no doubt, was what remained of one of their roads.
This must have been a picturesque little village in its day--whenever that day was, for, though I have searched diligently, I can find no record to show at what period Trinidad was used as a penal settlement by the Portuguese.
Fernando Noronha is used as a penal settlement by the Brazilians, and is commanded by a major who has a hundred black troops under him.
Yet, be it remembered, the colony was a penal settlement.
In 1856 the greater portion of the Pitcairn families were removed to Norfolk Island, which the English Government had abandoned as a penal settlement, giving up to them all the prison buildings as a new home.
Spain had a penal settlement at Ceuta on the north African shore as far back as the fifteenth century, and has more recently added large stations at Melilla and Alhucemas.
By and by it was again re-occupied, but then only as a penal settlement.
Although for years it had been more or less a penal settlement, as now constituted it became essentially a colonial prison.
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