Great Convict Stories by Graham Seal

Author:Graham Seal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2017-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

Anderson was fastened to the rock with a 26-foot chain secured to his waist. His legs were weighted with irons. A hollow was chiselled out of the rock just big enough for him to squeeze into. At night a wooden lid pierced with holes was secured over his head until the next morning. In this living grave, he was fed like a zoo animal, meagre meals pushed to him by a long pole. None were allowed to come near him or communicate with him on pain of flogging. A convict mate managed to get the chained man a quid of tobacco and received a hundred lashes for his mercy.

Regarded as a wild beast, people passing in boats would throw him bits of bread or biscuit.

Exposed to all weathers, and without clothing on his back and shoulders, which were covered with sores from repeated floggings, the maggots rapidly engendered in a hot climate feeding upon his flesh, he was denied even water to bathe his wounds, such denial being not an unusual portion of the punishment to which he had been condemned; and when rain fell, or by any other means he could obtain liquid, he would lie and roll in it in agony.

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