Note 9 — Chapter XXXVII · THE CONVICT MINES OF KARA.

The house had cost £200; and he informed me that for another £100 he could put up a house for girls, of whom there were 20 about the place, whose fathers were prisoners. About £4 10s. per year was allowed by Government for each child, and to educate, clothe, and care for them as the colonel was doing costs about £5 a year extra for each; and this money he raised, I understood, among his friends.