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More bizarre physical punishments apparently existed. Nicolas Casteloir, who stole a fishing shallop, was sentenced to "avoir la cale mouillé", that is, to be tied into a rope and harness and dropped three times into the sea from a spar of the mainmast of a vessel in the harbour. The Superior Council replaced this sentence with three hours in the carcan, but since the Admiralty sentence had ordered that the punishment be administered "à la manière ordinaire", this ordeal may have been inflicted on other occasions perhaps as a naval or shipboard punishment. [Christopher Moore, "Law. Order and Street Life," (March, 1977) in Second Draft Report, Contract Research 1977, Unpublished Report H F 39R (Fortress of Louisbourg, 1977), p. 12.]