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226 Lower Diggings, where they were divided into gangs of twenty-five men each and shut up in four large kámeras. Their life, as described in letters surreptitiously written by

some of them to their friends, was hard and hopeless, but not absolutely intolerable. They were allowed to exercise every day in the courtyard, they were permitted to receive small sums of money from their friends, they had in the prison a fairly good library consisting of books purchased