"It is true that the British Government have ceased to deport the criminals of England, but the method of punishment, of which deportation was a part, is still in existence. Port Blair is another Port Arthur, filled with Indian men instead of Englishmen; and New Caledonia, the French penal settlement, will probably repeat in its own annals the fearful history of Macquarie Harbour and of Norfolk Island." - Marcus Clarke, Preface to For the Term of His Natural Life.
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- "It is true that the British Government have ceased to deport the criminals of England, but the method of punishment, of which deportation was a part, is still in existence. Port Blair is another Port Arthur, filled with Indian men instead of Englishmen; and New Caledonia, the French penal settlement, will probably repeat in its own annals the fearful history of Macquarie Harbour and of Norfolk Island." - Marcus Clarke, Preface to For the Term of His Natural Life.