{"id":"01KG8AKW620Z80CKVR2R7FD325","cid":"bafkreihfcfk5eyk5rlpfmsakzvkfmb33ow2lz4lrevibxl5vib5cnvdrui","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":3428,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.149Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","start_line":3380,"text":"Some fifteen years previous, they had sailed together as officers of\r\nthe barque Jane, of London, a South Seaman. Somewhere near the New\r\nHebrides, they struck one night upon an unknown reef; and, in a few\r\nhours, the Jane went to pieces. The boats, however, were saved; some\r\nprovisions also, a quadrant, and a few other articles. But several of\r\nthe men were lost before they got clear of the wreck.\r\n\r\nThe three boats, commanded respectively by the captain, Jermin, and the\r\nthird mate, then set sail for a small English settlement at the Bay of\r\nIslands in New Zealand. Of course they kept together as much as\r\npossible. After being at sea about a week, a Lascar in the captain’s\r\nboat went crazy; and, it being dangerous to keep him, they tried to\r\nthrow him overboard. In the confusion that ensued the boat capsized\r\nfrom the sail’s “jibing”; and a considerable sea running at the time,\r\nand the other boats being separated more than usual, only one man was\r\npicked up. The very next night it blew a heavy gale; and the remaining\r\nboats taking in all sail, made bundles of their oars, flung them\r\noverboard, and rode to them with plenty of line. When morning broke,\r\nJermin and his men were alone upon the ocean: the third mate’s boat, in\r\nall probability, having gone down.\r\n\r\nAfter great hardships, the survivors caught sight of a brig, which took\r\nthem on board, and eventually landed them at Sydney.\r\n\r\nEver since then our mate had sailed from that port, never once hearing\r\nof his lost shipmates, whom, by this time, of course, he had long given\r\nup. Judge, then, his feelings when Viner, the lost third mate, the\r\ninstant he touched the deck, rushed up and wrung him by the hand.\r\n\r\nDuring the gale his line had parted; so that the boat, drifting fast to\r\nleeward, was out of sight by morning. Reduced, after this, to great\r\nextremities, the boat touched, for fruit, at an island of which they\r\nknew nothing. The natives, at first, received them kindly; but one of\r\nthe men getting into a quarrel on account of a woman, and the rest\r\ntaking his part, they were all massacred but Viner, who, at the time,\r\nwas in an adjoining village. After staying on the island more than two\r\nyears, he finally escaped in the boat of an American whaler, which\r\nlanded him at Valparaiso. From this period he had continued to follow\r\nthe seas, as a man before the mast, until about eighteen months\r\nprevious, when he went ashore at Tahiti, where he now owned the\r\nschooner we saw, in which he traded among the neighbouring islands.\r\n\r\nThe breeze springing up again just after nightfall, Viner left us,\r\npromising his old shipmate to see him again, three days hence, in\r\nPapeetee harbour.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJHQ7K1CPKY0BSA8EQ3RV","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKW62JWAJ9BKMHBBHTK0Q","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.626Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:26.045Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}