{"id":"01KG8AJH07BJY9YJ2KQZ9RF4ZY","cid":"bafkreibaz4o72otkjztmilbmo52fgvx3txiulzkxfo4bajypoaev7kla3q","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# CHAPTER XV. CHIPS AND BUNGS\n\n## Overview\n\"CHAPTER XV. CHIPS AND BUNGS\" is a chapter from Herman Melville's novel, [Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas](arke:01KG8AJ7VM7B8YZ2568YF8PQ5J). It spans lines 1967 to 2028 of the source text and was extracted on January 30, 2026.\n\n## Context\nThis chapter is part of the novel [Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas](arke:01KG8AJ7VM7B8YZ2568YF8PQ5J), which is included in the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The text for this chapter was extracted from the digital file [omoo.txt](arke:01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ). It follows [CHAPTER XIV. ROPE YARN](arke:01KG8AJH07MQM35VETZATZ3R3R3G) and precedes [CHAPTER XVI. WE ENCOUNTER A GALE](arke:01KG8AJH07TJCJFETBWFNY1DEZ).\n\n## Contents\nThe chapter details the drinking habits of two shipmates, Chips and Bungs, who are known as \"the Partners.\" It describes their discreet method of obtaining Pisco from casks in the after-hatchway, involving the cooper's ingenuity to access the liquor. The narrative also highlights Bungs's particular state of \"just about right\" inebriation and his amusing, albeit erroneous, patriotic displays concerning Lord Nelson when interacting with Dunk, a Danish sailor.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:49:09.772Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"CHAPTER XV. CHIPS AND BUNGS","end_line":2028,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:33.380Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"CHAPTER XV. CHIPS AND BUNGS","source_file":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","start_line":1967,"text":"CHAPTER XV.\r\nCHIPS AND BUNGS\r\n\r\n\r\nBound into port, Chips and Bungs increased their devotion to the\r\nbottle; and, to the unspeakable envy of the rest, these jolly\r\ncompanions—or “the Partners,” as the men called them—rolled about deck,\r\nday after day, in the merriest mood imaginable.\r\n\r\nBut jolly as they were in the main, two more discreet tipplers it would\r\nbe hard to find. No one ever saw them take anything, except when the\r\nregular allowance was served out by the steward; and to make them quite\r\nsober and sensible, you had only to ask them how they contrived to keep\r\notherwise. Some time after, however, their secret leaked out.\r\n\r\nThe casks of Pisco were kept down the after-hatchway, which, for this\r\nreason, was secured with bar and padlock. The cooper, nevertheless,\r\nfrom time to time, effected a burglarious entry, by descending into the\r\nfore-hold; and then, at the risk of being jammed to death, crawling\r\nalong over a thousand obstructions, to where the casks were stowed.\r\n\r\nOn the first expedition, the only one to be got at lay among others,\r\nupon its bilge with the bung-hole well over. With a bit of iron hoop,\r\nsuitably bent, and a good deal of prying and punching, the bung was\r\nforced in; and then the cooper’s neck-handkerchief, attached to the end\r\nof the hoop, was drawn in and out—the absorbed liquor being\r\ndeliberately squeezed into a small bucket.\r\n\r\nBungs was a man after a barkeeper’s own heart. Drinking steadily, until\r\njust manageably tipsy, he contrived to continue so; getting neither\r\nmore nor less inebriated, but, to use his own phrase, remaining “just\r\nabout right.” When in this interesting state, he had a free lurch in\r\nhis gait, a queer way of hitching up his waistbands, looked\r\nunnecessarily steady at you when speaking, and for the rest, was in\r\nvery tolerable spirits. At these times, moreover, he was exceedingly\r\npatriotic; and in a most amusing way, frequently showed his patriotism\r\nwhenever he happened to encounter Dunk, a good-natured, square-faced\r\nDane, aboard.\r\n\r\nIt must be known here, by the bye, that the cooper had a true sailor\r\nadmiration for Lord Nelson. But he entertained a very erroneous idea of\r\nthe personal appearance of the hero. Not content with depriving him of\r\nan eye and an arm, he stoutly maintained that he had also lost a leg in\r\none of his battles. Under this impression, he sometimes hopped up to\r\nDunk with one leg curiously locked behind him into his right arm, at\r\nthe same time closing an eye.\r\n\r\nIn this attitude he would call upon him to look up, and behold the man\r\nwho gave his countrymen such a thrashing at Copenhagen. “Look you,\r\nDunk,” says he, staggering about, and winking hard with one eye to keep\r\nthe other shut, “Look you; one man—hang me, half a man—with one leg,\r\none arm, one eye—hang me, with only a piece of a carcase, flogged your\r\nwhole shabby nation. Do you deny it you lubber?”\r\n\r\nThe Dane was a mule of a man, and understanding but little English,\r\nseldom made anything of a reply; so the cooper generally dropped his\r\nleg, and marched off, with the air of a man who despised saying\r\nanything further.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"CHAPTER XV. 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