The navy, the artillery, the infantry, each has its own particular streets, without mentioning the penitentiary, which covers a whole district of the city.

Seven parallel streets ending at its walls, compose what is called Keravel, and are filled by the mistresses of jailers and convicts.

They are old frame houses, crowded together, with every door and window closed tight.

No sound issues from them, nobody is seen coming out, and there are no lights in the windows; at the end of each street is a lamp-post which the wind sways from side to side, thus making its long yellow rays oscillate on the sidewalk.

The rest of the quarter is in absolute darkness.