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Q--Officers selected for the purpose? Always confined to two officers?
A-They are officers selected and paid by the Government to administer punishment.
Q-Are they Europeans?
A-European officers.
Q--And the surgeon is by the whole time?
•A-The surgeon stands-
Q-Within a few feet?
A-I should say within sixteen feet, but of course it is within his province to go
nearer.
Q-Do you remember any case where the surgeon has interposed in the middle of a flogging?
here.
A-The surgeon has certainly stopped the flogging of one man since I have been
Q-You only remember one man?
A-Only one man since I have been here.
Q-How do the Chinese take a flogging? How do they bear it?
A-They stand it tolerably well, I consider.
Q-Can you remember how many strokes are administered on an average before
a person becomes numbed, so to speak?
A-No, I cannot say a man usually shouts until the last stroke.
Q--He shouts at the beginning and right to the end ?
here?
A-Some do and some do not.
Q-You have had experience in England?
A-Yes, fifteen years.
Q-Where did you get that experience?
A-I was at Chatham twelve years and at Portland three years.
Q-How are floggings administered there?
A-With the "cat" and also with the birch.
Q-Both the "cat" and the birch are used for adults?
A-Yes; there were no juveniles in the prisons where I did duty.
Q-In what capacity were you there?
A-As warder.
Q-In both prisons?
A-Yes: discipline warder in both.
Q-And they trice the prisoners up there in the same way as they are triced up
A-Exactly, but there they use a steel triangle, and here it is of wood: that is the only difference.
Q-Here they are flogged with a rattan ?
A-Yes, there is no birch used here.
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