Convict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… ordered by Governor Napier to visit Robben Island, for the purpose of "inquiring into the working of the convict system … the Cape by the Colonial Secretary, John Montagu, for the purpose of building the pass, and he continued to work in the … river, or the scaling of a mountain range, the drudgery of common-day road building is scarcely ever mentioned. It seems …