{"id":"01KG8AKQ157EXTW8VA189EBVCW","cid":"bafkreie4uyksg4coxskybmuoufsj6el2wr72ljlus4ekt5k2lhjq5vzoia","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4566,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.927Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":4473,"text":"CHAPTER XXXIII.\r\nWherein Babbalanja And Yoomy Embrace\r\n\r\n\r\n“How the isles grow and multiply around us!” cried Babbalanja, as\r\nturning the bold promontory of an uninhabited shore, many distant lands\r\nbluely loomed into view. “Surely, our brief voyage, may not embrace all\r\nMardi like its reef?”\r\n\r\n“No,” said Media, “much must be left unseen. Nor every where can Yillah\r\nbe sought, noble Taji.”\r\n\r\nSaid Yoomy, “We are as birds, with pinions clipped, that in\r\nunfathomable and endless woods, but flit from twig to twig of one poor\r\ntree.”\r\n\r\n“More isles! more isles!” cried Babbalanja, erect, and gazing abroad.\r\n“And lo! round all is heaving that infinite ocean. Ah! gods! what\r\nregions lie beyond?”\r\n\r\n“But whither now?” he cried, as in obedience to Media, the paddlers\r\nsuddenly altered our course.\r\n\r\n“To the bold shores of Diranda,” said Media.\r\n\r\n“Ay; the land of clubs and javelins, where the lord seigniors Hello and\r\nPiko celebrate their famous games,” cried Mohi.\r\n\r\n“Your clubs and javelins,” said Media, “remind me of the great battle-\r\nchant of Narvi—Yoomy!”—turning to the minstrel, gazing abstractedly\r\ninto the water;—“awake, Yoomy, and give us the lines.”\r\n\r\n“My lord Media, ’tis but a rude, clanging thing; dissonant as if the\r\nnorth wind blew through it. Methinks the company will not fancy lines\r\nso inharmonious. Better sing you, perhaps, one of my sonnets.”\r\n\r\n“Better sit and sob in our ears, silly Yoomy that thou art!—no! no!\r\nnone of your sentiment now; my soul is martially inclined; I want\r\nclarion peals, not lute warblings. So throw out your chest, Yoomy: lift\r\nhigh your voice; and blow me the old battle-blast.—Begin, sir\r\nminstrel.”\r\n\r\nAnd warning all, that he himself had not composed the odious chant,\r\nYoomy thus:—\r\n\r\nOur clubs! our clubs!\r\nThe thousand clubs of Narvi!\r\nOf the living trunk of the Palm-tree made;\r\nSkull breakers! Brain spatterers!\r\nWielded right, and wielded left;\r\nLife quenchers! Death dealers!\r\nCausing live bodies to run headless!\r\n\r\nOur bows! our bows!\r\nThe thousand bows of Narvi!\r\nRibs of Tara, god of War!\r\nFashioned from the light Tola their arrows;\r\nSwift messengers! Heart piercers!\r\nBarbed with sharp pearl shells;\r\nWinged with white tail-plumes;\r\nTo wild death-chants, strung with the hair of wild maidens!\r\n\r\nOur spears! our spears!\r\nThe thousand spears of Narvi!\r\nOf the thunder-riven Moo-tree made\r\nTall tree, couched on the long mountain Lana!\r\nNo staves for gray-beards! no rods for fishermen!\r\nTempered by fierce sea-winds,\r\nSplintered into lances by lightnings,\r\nLong arrows! Heart seekers!\r\nToughened by fire their sharp black points!\r\n\r\nOur slings! our slings!\r\nThe thousand slings of Narvi!\r\nAll tasseled, and braided, and gayly bedecked.\r\nIn peace, our girdles; in war, our war-nets;\r\nWherewith catch we heads as fish from the deep!\r\nThe pebbles they hurl, have been hurled before,—\r\nHurled up on the beach by the stormy sea!\r\nPebbles, buried erewhile in the head of the shark:\r\nTo be buried erelong in the heads of our foes!\r\nHome of hard blows, our pouches!\r\nNest of death-eggs!  How quickly they hatch!\r\n\r\nUplift, and couch we our spears, men!\r\nRing hollow on the rocks our war clubs!\r\nBend we our bows, feel the points of our arrows:\r\nAloft, whirl in eddies our sling-nets;\r\nTo the fight, men of Narvi!\r\nSons of battle! Hunters of men!\r\nRaise high your war-wood!\r\nShout Narvi! her groves in the storm!\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJRBNZE8XWYAJ1RHW142G","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKQ1A4XAPW607C6D7M0P8","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:13.349Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:22.278Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}