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Here it may be well to explain what this island was. In 29deg 2' southlatitude, and 165deg 42' east longitude, to the east of Australia, isfound a little island, six miles in circumference, overlooked by MountPitt, which rises to a height of 1, 100 feet above the level of the sea. This is Norfolk Island, once the seat of an establishment in which werelodged the most intractable convicts from the English penitentiaries. They numbered 500, under an iron discipline, threatened with terriblepunishm...ents, and were guarded by 150 soldiers, and 150 employedunder the orders of the governor. It would be difficult to imaginea collection of greater ruffians. Sometimes, --although veryrarely, --notwithstanding the extreme surveillance of which they werethe object, many managed to escape, and seizing vessels which theysurprised, they infested the Polynesian Archipelagoes. Thus had Bob Harvey and his companions done. Thus had Ayrton formerlywished to do. Bob Harvey had seized the brig "Speedy, " anchored in sightof Norfolk Island; the crew had been massacred; and for a year this shiphad scoured the Pacific, under the command of Harvey, now a pirate, andwell known to Ayrton!
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