scourgee

Updated: May 20, 2025

In New South Wales the number of officers in the cat-o'-nine tails department was about thirty. The danger attached to the office consisted in the certainty of the scourger being murdered by the scourgee, if ever the opportunity was given. Joe Kermode had once been a hutkeeper on a station.

George Dunderdale - The Book of the Bush: Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial: Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others: Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned