>>I've never been so miserable in my life.
>>I haven't gone on a ship since and never will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7DgREshAk(tolerate the long intro, lyrics are OK if you can handle the kiwi accent and the twee 1980s choreography is a blast)
Men were tough and women were tougher when NZ was colonized by the Brits. The Australians had it worse: being criminals, they were shackled. The Maori who crossed the Pacific in open canoes, were the most impressive of all.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
