Several persons--men and women--most of them carrying small

bundles, stood at this turning, about 100 steps from the prison.

To the right there were several low wooden buildings; to the

left, a two-storeyed house with a signboard. The huge brick

building, the prison proper, was just in front, and the visitors

were not allowed to come up to it. A sentinel was pacing up and

down in front of it, and shouted at any one who tried to pass

At the gate of the wooden buildings, to the right, opposite the