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Q-Twenty-four.
A-The gluteal region gets very much swollen.
Q-Have you ever been present at a flogging of thirty-six strokes?
A-Several times.
Q-What is the effect in that case?
A-The inflammation is great in the gluteal region and sometimes deep wounds are produced.
Q-Have you seen any Europeans flogged in Victoria Gaol?
A-Yes.
Q-How are they affected as compared with Chinamien and according to strokes?
A-Just the same.
Q-Same bodily effects?
A-Yes. I know some Chinese are able to bear more pain than the Europeans. We will come to that by and by. According to your experience how long time elapses before a Chinaman who receives a flogging of six strokes is fit to receive a severer flogging?
A-One week; it depends. If his skin is not broken and there is no wound, I consider a man is fit after three or four days.
Q-Have you ever sanctioned a second flogging before a wound resulting from the first flogging had entirely healed up?
A-No.
Q-Do you know whether a flogging has taken place under such circumstances?
A-No.
Q-I want you to be careful in answering this question. Has pressure from any source of any kind been brought to bear upon you to sanction a flogging of a prisoner doubtfully fit to bear it, but where misconduct made flogging desirable?
A-No.
Q-You always acted as a free agent?
A-Yes.
Q-Have your directions respecting the flogging of a prisoner ever been disregarded?
A-No.
Q-Is the Gaol hospital sufficiently supplied with liniments and medicines for curing the wounds?
A-Yes.
Q-Can you suggest anything that ought to be done in that respect?
A-In regard to the hospital?
Q-No, in regard to the medicine and things in the hospital-things likely to cure.
A-No.
Q-Nothing can be done?
A-No, we have everything we want for our use.
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