#anglishlite

There was good ground for Britain to close down the painel colony and start to unforbind itself from the island as much as able, as it had come to be known for its harsh and unlawful handling of the guiltimen. The sadish apainings they tholed were well gotten down by the writer Robert Hughes in his book “The Fatal Shore” in which he beshrives a guiltiman being flogged until “quite bare of flesh, and his [collarbones] were exposed looking like two Ivory Polished horns.” Other guiltimen were locked in a water pit below ground where, if they fell asleep, they would drown. Strifes about the rights of the Pitcairn folk and their afterbears to Norfolk Island go back to this after-painel-colony time, with forthgoing grievances over the breadth to which islanders were bequeathed ownership and mastery of the island by the British and Queen Victoria – many claim the land was given to them as a gift, and that papers stating...