{"id":"01KG8AKTGTA673QTYZM9Z58CGA","cid":"bafkreifg22k5yczmgi3ujnf3yf7jpdf55bykbnwnet6nuocf4ydhmibrfq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2258,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:14.838Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","start_line":2208,"text":"CHAPTER XII.\r\nHE GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF ONE OF HIS SHIPMATES CALLED JACKSON\r\n\r\n\r\nWhile we sat eating our beef and biscuit, two of the men got into a\r\ndispute, about who had been sea-faring the longest; when Jackson, who\r\nhad mixed the _burgoo,_ called upon them in a loud voice to cease their\r\nclamor, for he would decide the matter for them. Of this sailor, I\r\nshall have something more to say, as I get on with my narrative; so, I\r\nwill here try to describe him a little.\r\n\r\nDid you ever see a man, with his hair shaved off, and just recovered\r\nfrom the yellow fever? Well, just such a looking man was this sailor.\r\nHe was as yellow as gamboge, had no more whisker on his cheek, than I\r\nhave on my elbows. His hair had fallen out, and left him very bald,\r\nexcept in the nape of his neck, and just behind the ears, where it was\r\nstuck over with short little tufts, and looked like a worn-out\r\nshoe-brush. His nose had broken down in the middle, and he squinted\r\nwith one eye, and did not look very straight out of the other. He\r\ndressed a good deal like a Bowery boy; for he despised the ordinary\r\nsailor-rig; wearing a pair of great over-all blue trowsers, fastened\r\nwith suspenders, and three red woolen shirts, one over the other; for\r\nhe was subject to the rheumatism, and was not in good health, he said;\r\nand he had a large white wool hat, with a broad rolling brim. He was a\r\nnative of New York city, and had a good deal to say about\r\n_highlanders,_ and _rowdies,_ whom he denounced as only good for the\r\ngallows; but I thought he looked a good deal like a _highlander_\r\nhimself.\r\n\r\nHis name, as I have said, was Jackson; and he told us, he was a near\r\nrelation of General Jackson of New Orleans, and swore terribly, if any\r\none ventured to question what he asserted on that head. In fact he was\r\na great bully, and being the best seaman on board, and very overbearing\r\nevery way, all the men were afraid of him, and durst not contradict\r\nhim, or cross his path in any thing. And what made this more wonderful\r\nwas, that he was the weakest man, bodily, of the whole crew; and I have\r\nno doubt that young and small as I was then, compared to what I am now,\r\nI could have thrown him down. But he had such an overawing way with\r\nhim; such a deal of brass and impudence, such an unflinching face, and\r\nwithal was such a hideous looking mortal, that Satan himself would have\r\nrun from him. And besides all this, it was quite plain, that he was by\r\nnature a marvelously clever, cunning man, though without education; and\r\nunderstood human nature to a kink, and well knew whom he had to deal\r\nwith; and then, one glance of his squinting eye, was as good as a\r\nknock-down, for it was the most deep, subtle, infernal looking eye,\r\nthat I ever saw lodged in a human head. I believe, that by good rights\r\nit must have belonged to a wolf, or starved tiger; at any rate, I would\r\ndefy any oculist, to turn out a glass eye, half so cold, and snaky, and\r\ndeadly. It was a horrible thing; and I would give much to forget that I\r\nhave ever seen it; for it haunts me to this day.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQ10JKKQP0HG6GFFSHC0","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKTH0THGKTZ04WX8YQE1F","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:16.922Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.711Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}