{"id":"01KG8AKW62JWAJ9BKMHBBHTK0Q","cid":"bafkreibffbh7xug3ls5nzkua76fu62agzux4oitj6n5ip2qfvjhnfm5eda","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":3386,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.149Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","start_line":3320,"text":"CHAPTER XXV.\r\nJERMIN ENCOUNTERS AN OLD SHIPMATE\r\n\r\n\r\nDuring the morning of the day which dawned upon the events just\r\nrecounted, we remained a little to leeward of the harbour, waiting the\r\nappearance of the consul, who had promised the mate to come off in a\r\nshore boat for the purpose of seeing him.\r\n\r\nBy this time the men had forced his secret from the cooper, and the\r\nconsequence was that they kept him continually coming and going from\r\nthe after-hold. The mate must have known this; but he said nothing,\r\nnotwithstanding all the dancing and singing, and occasional fighting\r\nwhich announced the flow of the Pisco.\r\n\r\nThe peaceable influence which the doctor and myself had heretofore been\r\nexerting, was now very nearly at an end.\r\n\r\nConfident, from the aspect of matters, that the ship, after all, would\r\nbe obliged to go in; and learning, moreover, that the mate had said so,\r\nthe sailors, for the present, seemed in no hurry about it; especially\r\nas the bucket of Bungs gave such generous cheer.\r\n\r\nAs for Bembo, we were told that, after putting him in double irons, the\r\nmate had locked him up in the captain’s state-room, taking the\r\nadditional precaution of keeping the cabin scuttle secured. From this\r\ntime forward we never saw the Mowree again, a circumstance which will\r\nexplain itself as the narrative proceeds.\r\n\r\nNoon came, and no consul; and as the afternoon advanced without any\r\nword even from the shore, the mate was justly incensed; more especially\r\nas he had taken great pains to keep perfectly sober against Wilson’s\r\narrival.\r\n\r\nTwo or three hours before sundown, a small schooner came out of the\r\nharbour, and headed over for the adjoining island of Imeeo, or Moreea,\r\nin plain sight, about fifteen miles distant. The wind failing, the\r\ncurrent swept her down under our bows, where we had a fair glimpse of\r\nthe natives on her decks.\r\n\r\nThere were a score of them, perhaps, lounging upon spread mats, and\r\nsmoking their pipes. On floating so near, and hearing the maudlin cries\r\nof our crew, and beholding their antics, they must have taken us for a\r\npirate; at any rate, they got out their sweeps, and pulled away as fast\r\nas they could; the sight of our two six-pounders, which, by way of a\r\njoke, were now run out of the side-ports, giving a fresh impetus to\r\ntheir efforts. But they had not gone far, when a white man, with a red\r\nsash about his waist, made his appearance on deck, the natives\r\nimmediately desisting.\r\n\r\nHailing us loudly, he said he was coming aboard; and after some\r\nconfusion on the schooner’s decks, a small canoe was launched\r\nover-board, and, in a minute or two, he was with us. He turned out to\r\nbe an old shipmate of Jermin’s, one Viner, long supposed dead, but now\r\nresident on the island.\r\n\r\nThe meeting of these men, under the circumstances, is one of a thousand\r\noccurrences appearing exaggerated in fiction; but, nevertheless,\r\nfrequently realized in actual lives of adventure.\r\n\r\nSome 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","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJHQ7K1CPKY0BSA8EQ3RV","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKW620Z80CKVR2R7FD325","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.626Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:26.118Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}