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The settlement on the Brisbane River, twenty miles from where it pours into Moreton Bay, was comprised within certain prescribed limits beyond which no prisoner was permitted to wander, except on special service.
The utmost strictness was manifested, and the intentions of Governor Brisbane, through his despotic commandant, Captain Lannigan, were ably carried out so far as rigour of discipline and the severity of punishment were concerned. Any convict who was bold enough to venture outside the prescribed limits of the camp--for the settlement was little more than a camp--had to risk the hazard of a sentry's bullet.