{"id":"01KG8AKW69QQQKAK1B3W2K3SPA","cid":"bafkreia4sdjnorgc6vjfc3l24deujzven2t43tc7ekue5aozbw2nxnvmjy","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":3658,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.149Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","start_line":3587,"text":"CHAPTER XXVII.\r\nA GLANCE AT PAPEETEE—WE ARE SENT ABOARD THE FRIGATE\r\n\r\n\r\nThe village of Papeetee struck us all very pleasantly. Lying in a\r\nsemicircle round the bay, the tasteful mansions of the chiefs and\r\nforeign residents impart an air of tropical elegance, heightened by the\r\npalm-trees waving here and there, and the deep-green groves of the\r\nBread-Fruit in the background. The squalid huts of the common people\r\nare out of sight, and there is nothing to mar the prospect.\r\n\r\nAll round the water extends a wide, smooth beach of mixed pebbles and\r\nfragments of coral. This forms the thoroughfare of the village; the\r\nhandsomest houses all facing it—the fluctuation of the tides being so\r\ninconsiderable that they cause no inconvenience.\r\n\r\nThe Pritchard residence—a fine large building—occupies a site on one\r\nside of the bay: a green lawn slopes off to the sea: and in front waves\r\nthe English flag. Across the water, the tricolour also, and the stars\r\nand stripes, distinguish the residences of the other consuls.\r\n\r\nWhat greatly added to the picturesqueness of the bay at this time was\r\nthe condemned hull of a large ship, which, at the farther end of the\r\nharbour, lay bilged upon the beach, its stern settled low in the water,\r\nand the other end high and dry. From where we lay, the trees behind\r\nseemed to lock their leafy boughs over its bowsprit; which, from its\r\nposition, looked nearly upright.\r\n\r\nShe was an American whaler, a very old craft. Having sprung a leak at\r\nsea, she had made all sail for the island, to heave down for repairs.\r\nFound utterly unseaworthy, however, her oil was taken out and sent home\r\nin another vessel; the hull was then stripped and sold for a trifle.\r\n\r\nBefore leaving Tahiti, I had the curiosity to go over this poor old\r\nship, thus stranded on a strange shore. What were my emotions, when I\r\nsaw upon her stern the name of a small town on the river Hudson! She\r\nwas from the noble stream on whose banks I was born; in whose waters I\r\nhad a hundred times bathed. In an instant, palm-trees and elms—canoes\r\nand skiffs—church spires and bamboos—all mingled in one vision of the\r\npresent and the past.\r\n\r\nBut we must not leave little Jule.\r\n\r\nAt last the wishes of many were gratified; and like an aeronaut’s\r\ngrapnel, her rusty little anchor was caught in the coral groves at the\r\nbottom of Papeetee Bay. This must have been more than forty days after\r\nleaving the Marquesas.\r\n\r\nThe sails were yet unfurled, when a boat came alongside with our\r\nesteemed friend Wilson, the consul.\r\n\r\n“How’s this, how’s this, Mr. Jermin?” he began, looking very savage as\r\nhe touched the deck. “What brings you in without orders?”\r\n\r\n“You did not come off to us, as you promised, sir; and there was no\r\nhanging on longer with nobody to work the ship,” was the blunt reply.\r\n\r\n“So the infernal scoundrels held out—did they? Very good; I’ll make\r\nthem sweat for it,” and he eyed the scowling men with unwonted\r\nintrepidity. The truth was, he felt safer now, than when outside the\r\nreef.\r\n\r\n“Muster the mutineers on the quarter-deck,” he continued. “Drive them\r\naft, sir, sick and well: I have a word to say to them.”\r\n\r\n“Now, men,” said he, “you think it’s all well with you, I suppose. You\r\nwished the ship in, and here she is. Captain Guy’s ashore, and you\r\nthink you must go too: but we’ll see about that—I’ll miserably\r\ndisappoint you.” (These last were his very words.) “Mr. Jermin, call\r\noff the names of those who did not refuse duty, and let them go over to\r\nthe starboard side.”\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJHQ7NGMBY907R6DK1CHJ","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKWQZFATK9ZQWKFAREVVQ","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.633Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:26.351Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}