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Added 2022-06-05 01:17:28 +0000 UTCAh yes, the good ol' triangle. Flagellation was pretty commonly doled out for any number of transgressions and ranged between 12 and 100 lashes (The 100 maximum was only per offence, so if you really pissed them off they would get around that max bu just giving multiple charges) Say you lazed off a bit and they decided you needed to be put in line, you're unpopular with the authorities so are given a hefty 100 lashes. Unfortunately, you are also unpopular with the flagellator who decides to really go all-in on you. Blood runs down your back, filling your shoes as you helplessly slump and your vision blurs. Finally it's over. You are carted off to pass out in the hospital. You come to the next day. Now that you are awake of course, it's time to return to your hard labor. You will not get time to heal. You are sent back to the road gang clearing the towering gum trees. (Some of the tallest trees on earth, in modern times still giants generally 30-45 meters, but at the time the Tasmanian Blue Gum were regularly 80-100 meters tall) You are, of course, in extreme pain. The guard notices you aren't working as hard as the other boys, uhoh, someone's neglecting their duties again, better send them back to the triangle for another 100 lashes. Thus the cycle continues. Better toughen up quick, princess.
Interestingly enough flogging as a punishment wasn't outlawed in Australia until 1957.
