{"id":"01KG8AJW7YAPACG2GBGV3YHJDE","cid":"bafkreihj4n2hpjdxdxoynyyg6epiljpdcclwklyiitpyoa6ulq6335w5va","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# CHAPTER LXXXIII. They Visit The Tributary Islets\n## Overview\nThis is chapter LXXXIII of the novel \"Mardi: And a Voyage Thither.\" It details the narrator's and his companions' visit to the tributary islets ruled by viceroys of Donjalolo.\n\n## Context\nThis chapter is part of the novel [Mardi: And a Voyage Thither](arke:01KG8AJA6157W2830190N652KA), a work by Herman Melville. It was extracted from the file [mardi_vol1.txt](arke:01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK) and is included within the larger collection [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW). This chapter follows CHAPTER LXXXII. How Donjalolo, Sent Agents To The Surrounding Isles; With The Result and precedes CHAPTER LXXXIV. Taji Sits Down To Dinner With Five-And-Twenty Kings, And A Royal Time They Have.\n\n## Contents\nThe chapter describes the travelers' departure from Willamilla and their subsequent exploration of the islands under Donjalolo's viceroys. The narrator observes the apparent honesty and humility of these chieftains during their visits to Donjalolo, contrasting it with their tyrannical behavior in their own domains. The text highlights the hypocrisy of the viceroys, who present themselves as pious and self-abased before their king but act as cruel oppressors towards their subjects. The chapter concludes with the group being summoned back to Willamilla by Donjalolo for a royal banquet.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:49:13.082Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"CHAPTER LXXXIII. They Visit The Tributary Islets","end_line":8945,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:39.469Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"CHAPTER LXXXIII. They Visit The Tributary Islets","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":8900,"text":"CHAPTER LXXXIII.\r\nThey Visit The Tributary Islets\r\n\r\n\r\nIn Willamilla, no Yillah being found, on the third day we took leave of\r\nDonjalolo; who lavished upon us many caresses and, somewhat reluctantly\r\non Media’s part, we quitted the vale.\r\n\r\nOne by one, we now visited the outer villages of Juam; and crossing the\r\nwaters, wandered several days among its tributary isles. There we saw\r\nthe viceroys of him who reigned in the hollow: chieftains of whom\r\nDonjalolo was proud; so honest, humble, and faithful; so bent upon\r\nameliorating the condition of those under their rule. For, be it said,\r\nDonjalolo was a charitable prince; in his serious intervals, ever\r\nseeking the welfare of his subjects, though after an imperial view of\r\nhis own. But alas, in that sunny donjon among the mountains, where he\r\ndwelt, how could Donjalolo be sure, that the things he decreed were\r\nexecuted in regions forever remote from his view. Ah! very bland, very\r\ninnocent, very pious, the faces his viceroys presented during their\r\nmonthly visits to Willamilla. But as cruel their visage, when, returned\r\nto their islets, they abandoned themselves to all the license of\r\ntyrants; like Verres reveling down the rights of the Sicilians.\r\n\r\nLike Carmelites, they came to Donjalolo, barefooted; but in their\r\nhomes, their proud latchets were tied by their slaves. Before their\r\nking-belted prince, they stood rope-girdled like self-abased monks of\r\nSt. Francis; but with those ropes, before their palaces, they hung\r\nInnocence and Truth.\r\n\r\nAs still seeking Yillah, and still disappointed, we roved through the\r\nlands which these chieftains ruled, Babbalanja exclaimed—“Let us\r\ndepart; idle our search, in isles that have viceroys for kings.”\r\n\r\nAt early dawn, about embarking for a distant land, there came to us\r\ncertain messengers of Donjalolo, saying that their lord the king,\r\nrepenting of so soon parting company with Media and Taji, besought them\r\nto return with all haste; for that very morning, in Willamilla, a regal\r\nbanquet was preparing; to which many neighboring kings had been\r\ninvited, most of whom had already arrived.\r\n\r\nDeclaring that there was no alternative but compliance, Media acceded;\r\nand with the king’s messengers we returned to the glen.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"CHAPTER LXXXIII. They Visit The Tributary Islets"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJA6157W2830190N652KA","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJW7YPH76KPVMT6QK2YS4","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJW7Y6WFAG3FMN40GAWWT","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:45.918Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:14.057Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}