the heathenish sharked waters

Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.

On the majority's account, a Fourth Amendment seizure takes place whenever an officer merely touches a suspect.

Looking after chooks and feeding dogs were bad enough, but having to empty the dunny can? That was the final straw!