He put his shoes on the wrong feet!?! What a fuckwad.

Although the power of a king is lesser in degree than an emperor, it is the similar in specie.

to pick feathers from a fowl

... the sails are of Matting and are made narrow at the head and Square at the foot,... Besides Cloth they [Tahitians] make several different sorts of matting, both better and finer than any we have in Europe; the stuff they make it on is the Produce of the Palm tree.