Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . -what relieved. About this time the pris-oners were employed a little more. Asweeper was allowed for each room, andreceived 3d. a day; one man out of everytwo hundred kVod. per day for acting ascook; as barber 3d. a day; and as hospitalnurse 6d. a day. All these positions weregiven by preference to Frenchmen, whoalso worked as mechanics, receiving day. The winter set in with great severity,smallpox and measles raged, while manyin despair entered the British service. The crew of the United States brigArgus was sent now to Dar
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . -what relieved. About this time the pris-oners were employed a little more. Asweeper was allowed for each room, andreceived 3d. a day; one man out of everytwo hundred kVod. per day for acting ascook; as barber 3d. a day; and as hospitalnurse 6d. a day. All these positions weregiven by preference to Frenchmen, whoalso worked as mechanics, receiving day. The winter set in with great severity,smallpox and measles raged, while manyin despair entered the British service. The crew of the United States brigArgus was sent now to Dartmoor andput in prison No. 4. Captain Congreveordered all French to be removed fromthat prison, to the great relief of theAmericans, who were allowed more lib-erty; two of their number attended themarket, and they were allowed to minglemore with the French prisoners. TheFrench prisons resembled little villages,with shops where hat-making in strawwas carried on, and bone-work of allkinds—for from meat bones these clevermen carved full-rigged ships, boxes, and. Prince Town Prisons, from the westThe lower buildings are the old war prisons, just under the Plantation Tor Royal Church at Prince TownBuilt by the French and American prisoners of war many things that the market - peopleeagerly bought. There were also manyFrench officers, who, having privatemeans, lived well and had the Londonpapers, which they allowed the Amer-icans to see. On December 22 Captain Congreve wassuperseded by Captain Thomas G. Short-land. Tie was at first not so indifferentto the prisoners sufferings as CaptainCongreve, and said he would do all hecould and send any letter they mightwrite to Beasley or Congress. He alsoinformed the Board of Transport of theirstate, and ordered the assistant surgeonsto visit the prisons daily and to send allsick to the hospital. The prisoners ad-dressed a letter to Beasley and told himthat they did not believe America wouldlet her citizens starve or freeze, and thathe, bein
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