punishment

From Geoffrey C. Ingleton, True patriots all, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1952. Logan became Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1826. He was hated by the convicts for his harsh methods. He did some exploring and was surveying the Upper Brisbane river when he was killed by Aborigines in 1830. Logan was a relentless flogger as shown in a sample record of his floggings that were noted in the diary of one of the prison clerks. This records that from February to October in 1828 Logan ordered 200 floggings with over 11,000 lashes. When Logan's body was brought back to Moreton Bay, the convicts ‘manifested insane joy at the news of his murder, and sang and hoorayed all night, in defiance of the warders’.