by incandescent lamps.

The beds were all singly arranged in rows and well furnished with
mattresses, blankets, sheets and pillows, and the room had nine large
wash basins at one end of the room, where all the company could wash
their hands and faces and comb their hair.

The captains were required to sleep in the same rooms with the
prisoners, and to eat with them in the dining-room, and were held
responsible for their care and good conduct. He could sentence them for
misconduct to three days on bread and water, but for serious offences
they were tried by a Court of three Judges, appointed by the Minister of
Justice.

The regimental dining-room where all the companies dined was divided
into three sections, with partitions eight feet high between them, each
section having a door connecting with the kitchen, and the food
furnished of good quality, but differing in degree according to grade.

The hospital was on one side of the square, and was fitted with every
modern appliance and at the distance of half a mile was a pest house, to
which all prisoners suffering from leprosy, cancer, syphilis and other
malignant diseases, were consigned. What most attracted my attention was
the bath house, a one-story building, one hundred feet long, adjoining
the laundry. It had a swimming tank in the middle of it sixty feet long,
forty feet wide and twelve feet deep. At the two ends were porcelain
bathtubs for the old and feeble, with hot and cold water faucets, and on
one side were shower-bath nozzles overhead, with hot and cold water
connections; on the side next the laundry were rows of shelves reaching
to the ceiling and numbered from one to eighteen hundred, holding a