Note 7 — Chapter XXXVII · THE CONVICT MINES OF KARA.
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He paid each of the convicts, as perquisites, 4d. per sajen for the wood they cut, increased their allowance, and if, at the end of a job, all had gone well, he gave them each 1½d. a day extra. This helped the poor fellows to get sundry little extras, especially tobacco, which was encouraged; for the colonel, though he did not smoke himself, yet had imbibed the notion that it was good for the health of the prisoners.