{"id":"01KG6YH8ZFQ3E6FC0SB4RQF0CA","cid":"bafkreifihhcu5u4q24iifv2mf7dlc2vm6jgjhp4zvm6pavyynexp5es4vi","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6831,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T07:57:55.413Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG6YDDF6PTWG4P7JTS5THSTD","start_line":6759,"text":"SKETCH SEVENTH.\r\nCHARLES’S ISLE AND THE DOG-KING.\r\n\r\n—So with outragious cry,\r\nA thousand villeins round about him swarmed\r\nOut of the rocks and caves adjoining nye;\r\nVile caitive wretches, ragged, rude, deformed;\r\nAll threatning death, all in straunge manner armed;\r\nSome with unweldy clubs, some with long speares.\r\nSome rusty knives, some staves in fier warmd.\r\n\r\n\r\nWe will not be of any occupation,\r\nLet such vile vassals, born to base vocation,\r\nDrudge in the world, and for their living droyle,\r\nWhich have no wit to live withouten toyle.\r\n\r\n\r\nSouthwest of Barrington lies Charles’s Isle. And hereby hangs a history\r\nwhich I gathered long ago from a shipmate learned in all the lore of\r\noutlandish life.\r\n\r\nDuring the successful revolt of the Spanish provinces from Old Spain,\r\nthere fought on behalf of Peru a certain Creole adventurer from Cuba,\r\nwho, by his bravery and good fortune, at length advanced himself to\r\nhigh rank in the patriot army. The war being ended, Peru found itself\r\nlike many valorous gentlemen, free and independent enough, but with few\r\nshot in the locker. In other words, Peru had not wherewithal to pay off\r\nits troops. But the Creole—I forget his name—volunteered to take his\r\npay in lands. So they told him he might have his pick of the Enchanted\r\nIsles, which were then, as they still remain, the nominal appanage of\r\nPeru. The soldier straightway embarks thither, explores the group,\r\nreturns to Callao, and says he will take a deed of Charles’s Isle.\r\nMoreover, this deed must stipulate that thenceforth Charles’s Isle is\r\nnot only the sole property of the Creole, but is forever free of Peru,\r\neven as Peru of Spain. To be short, this adventurer procures himself to\r\nbe made in effect Supreme Lord of the Island, one of the princes of the\r\npowers of the earth.[1]\r\n\r\n [1] The American Spaniards have long been in the habit of making\r\n presents of islands to deserving individuals. The pilot Juan Fernandez\r\n procured a deed of the isle named after him, and for some years\r\n resided there before Selkirk came. It is supposed, however, that he\r\n eventually contracted the blues upon his princely property, for after\r\n a time he returned to the main, and as report goes, became a very\r\n garrulous barber in the city of Lima.\r\n\r\n\r\nHe now sends forth a proclamation inviting subjects to his as yet\r\nunpopulated kingdom. Some eighty souls, men and women, respond; and\r\nbeing provided by their leader with necessaries, and tools of various\r\nsorts, together with a few cattle and goats, take ship for the promised\r\nland; the last arrival on board, prior to sailing, being the Creole\r\nhimself, accompanied, strange to say, by a disciplined cavalry company\r\nof large grim dogs. These, it was observed on the passage, refusing to\r\nconsort with the emigrants, remained aristocratically grouped around\r\ntheir master on the elevated quarter-deck, casting disdainful glances\r\nforward upon the inferior rabble there; much as, from the ramparts, the\r\nsoldiers of a garrison, thrown into a conquered town, eye the\r\ninglorious citizen-mob over which they are set to watch.\r\n\r\nNow Charles’s Isle not only resembles Barrington Isle in being much\r\nmore inhabitable than other parts of the group, but it is double the\r\nsize of Barrington, say forty or fifty miles in circuit.\r\n\r\nSafely debarked at last, the company, under direction of their lord and\r\npatron, forthwith proceeded to build their capital city. They make\r\nconsiderable advance in the way of walls of clinkers, and lava floors,\r\nnicely sanded with cinders. On the least barren hills they pasture\r\ntheir cattle, while the goats, adventurers by nature, explore the far\r\ninland solitudes for a scanty livelihood of lofty herbage. Meantime,\r\nabundance of fish and tortoises supply their other wants.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6YGBW6KM24V82VYQXVPCED","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6YDDF6PTWG4P7JTS5THSTD","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6YH8ZFEHF75MNMGERZHKK4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T07:57:56.079Z","ts":"2026-01-30T07:58:06.864Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}