For the next 20 years, the settlement consisted of makeshift tents and temporary dwellings — many of them just huts and hovels — for originally it was to be no more than a penal settlement.
Nākamos 20 gadus šī apmetne, ko veidoja pagaidu mitekļi — pa lielākai daļai būdas —, bija vienīgi katordznieku kolonija.