{"id":"01KG8AKWA1AS9NZE3CKQ5MEGST","cid":"bafkreihghx5f2o2edxxp5vbjz3amthe7nfynwwga7hqxcwnaaf63frbshe","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7375,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.539Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":7316,"text":"transported with grief; so, in some countries, teeth are stricken out\r\nunder the sway of similar emotions. To a very great extent, this was\r\nonce practiced in the Hawaiian Islands, ere idol and altar went down.\r\nStill living in Oahu, are many old chiefs, who were present at the\r\nfamous obsequies of their royal old generalissimo, Tammahammaha, when\r\nthere is no telling how many pounds of ivory were cast upon his grave.\r\n\r\nAh! had the regal white elephants of Siam been there, doubtless they\r\nhad offered up their long, hooked tusks, whereon they impale the\r\nleopards, their foes; and the unicorn had surrendered that fixed\r\nbayonet in his forehead; and the imperial Cachalot-whale, the long\r\nchain of white towers in his jaw; yea, over that grim warrior’s grave,\r\nthe mooses, and elks, and stags, and fallow-deer had stacked their\r\nantlers, as soldiers their arms on the field.\r\n\r\nTerrific shade of tattooed Tammahammaha! if, from a vile dragon’s\r\nmolars, rose mailed men, what heroes shall spring from the cannibal\r\ncanines once pertaining to warriors themselves!—Am I the witch of\r\nEndor, that I conjure up this ghost? Or, King Saul, that I so quake at\r\nthe sight? For, lo! roundabout me Tammahammaha’s tattooing expands,\r\ntill all the sky seems a tiger’s skin. But now, the spotted phantom\r\nsweeps by; as a man-of-war’s main-sail, cloud-like, blown far to\r\nleeward in a gale.\r\n\r\nBanquo down, we return.\r\n\r\nIn Valapee, prevails not the barbarous Hindoo custom of offering up\r\nwidows to the shades of their lords; for, bereaved, the widows there\r\nmarry again. Nor yet prevails the savage Hawaiian custom of offering up\r\nteeth to the manes of the dead; for, at the decease of a friend, the\r\npeople rob not their own mouths to testify their woe. On the contrary,\r\nthey extract the teeth from the departed, distributing them among the\r\nmourners for memorial legacies; as elsewhere, silver spoons are\r\nbestowed.\r\n\r\nFrom the high value ascribed to dentals throughout the archipelago of\r\nMardi, and also from their convenient size, they are circulated as\r\nmoney; strings of teeth being regarded by these people very much as\r\nbelts of wampum among the Winnebagoes of the North; or cowries, among\r\nthe Bengalese. So, that in Valapee the very beggars are born with a\r\nsnug investment in their mouths; too soon, however, to be appropriated\r\nby their lords; leaving them toothless for the rest of their days, and\r\nforcing them to diet on poee-pudding and banana blanc-mange.\r\n\r\nAs a currency, teeth are far less clumsy than cocoanuts; which, among\r\ncertain remote barbarians, circulate for coin; one nut being\r\nequivalent, perhaps, to a penny. The voyager who records the fact,\r\nchuckles over it hugely; as evincing the simplicity of those heathens;\r\nnot knowing that he himself was the simpleton; since that currency of\r\ntheirs was purposely devised by the men, to check the extravagance of\r\ntheir women; cocoanuts, for spending money, being such a burden to\r\ncarry.\r\n\r\nIt only remains to be added, that the most solemn oath of a native of\r\nValapee is that sworn by his tooth. “By this tooth,” said Bondo to\r\nNoojoomo, “by this tooth I swear to be avenged upon thee, oh Noojoomo!”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJTRHA8V1GX4JW08V2MXR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKW9TF2FS62VN73322AEW","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.753Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:31.388Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}