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2 unusual facts about Cat O'Nine Tales


A Prison Diary

It was here that he apparently encountered another character inspiring a short story in Cat O'Nine Tales, Maestro.

One such prisoner apparently spoken of is the inspiration to one of his short stories from Cat O'Nine Tales, "It Can't Be October Already".


Captain's daughter

The Cat o' nine tails, a multi-tailed instrument of corporal punishment; compare gunner's daughter

Cat o' nine tails

Especially harsh floggings were given with it in secondary penal colonies of early colonial Australia, particularly at such places as Norfolk Island (apparently this has 9 leather thongs, each with a lead weight, meant as the ultimate deterrent for hardened life-convicts), Port Arthur and Moreton Bay (now Brisbane).

Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst

A mutiny took place among the garrison at Fort Amherst in 1762, resulting in courts-martial at Louisbourg for the main people involved; demotions and hundreds of lashes by cat o'nine tails and one execution.


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