{"id":"01KG8AJRBWMRD0ARR29GR0G241","cid":"bafkreibfwc6jhhuiscfi4ju2m53vuhdrgmggjjuqyo4zwgbfgubmdfvy5u","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# CHAPTER XXXVII. Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned\n## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)\nChapter XXXVII, titled \"Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned,\" is a chapter from the novel [Mardi: And a Voyage Thither](arke:01KG8AJ8ZNB03D0FWFP362WQEN) by Herman Melville. This chapter, extracted from the text file [mardi_vol2.txt](arke:01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9), comprises lines 5028 to 5067 of the novel. It was extracted on January 30, 2026, as part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection.\n\n## Context - Background and provenance from related entities\nThis chapter is part of Melville's novel *Mardi: And a Voyage Thither*, which is contained within the larger \"Melville Complete Works\" collection. The text was extracted from the file \"mardi_vol2.txt\". It follows [CHAPTER XXXVI. They Attend The Games](arke:01KG8AJRBWN0BRQCNFT0CX6SN6) and precedes [CHAPTER XXXVIII. They Embark From Diranda](arke:01KG8AJRBWV0SKNHZVG3CGPQC6).\n\n## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details\nThe chapter opens with Taji and his companions being hunted in the woods. They encounter the damsels and syrens, who offer them gifts and try to tempt Taji. Taji, however, rejects their advances, choosing to face his fate.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:49:05.469Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"CHAPTER XXXVII. Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned","end_line":5067,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:38.723Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"CHAPTER XXXVII. Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":5028,"text":"CHAPTER XXXVII.\r\nTaji Still Hunted, And Beckoned\r\n\r\n\r\nPrevious to the kings’ flight, we had plunged into the neighboring\r\nwoods; and from thence emerging, entered brakes of cane, sprouting from\r\nmorasses. Soon we heard a whirring, as if three startled partridges had\r\ntaken wing; it proved three feathered arrows, from three unseen hands.\r\n\r\nGracing us, two buried in the ground, but from Taji’s arm, the third\r\ndrew blood.\r\n\r\nOn all sides round we turned; but none were seen. “Still the avengers\r\nfollow,” said Babbalanja.\r\n\r\n“Lo! the damsels three!” cried Yoomy. “Look where they come!”\r\n\r\nWe joined them by the sumach-wood’s red skirts; and there, they waved\r\ntheir cherry stalks, and heavy bloated cactus leaves, their crimson\r\nblossoms armed with nettles; and before us flung shining, yellow,\r\ntiger-flowers spotted red.\r\n\r\n“Blood!” cried Yoomy, starting, “and leopards on your track!”\r\n\r\nAnd now the syrens blew through long reeds, tasseled with their\r\npanicles, and waving verdant scarfs of vines, came dancing toward us,\r\nproffering clustering grapes.\r\n\r\n“For all now yours, Taji; and all that yet may come,” cried Yoomy, “fly\r\nto me! I will dance away your gloom, and drown it in inebriation.”\r\n\r\n“Away! woe is its own wine. What may be mine, that will I endure, in\r\nits own essence to the quick. Let me feel the poniard if it stabs.”\r\n\r\nThey vanished in the wood; and hurrying on, we soon gained sun-light,\r\nand the open glade.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"CHAPTER XXXVII. Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ8ZNB03D0FWFP362WQEN","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJRBWN0BRQCNFT0CX6SN6","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJRBWV0SKNHZVG3CGPQC6","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:41.948Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:06.144Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}