{"id":"01KG8AKWWCXGJTQEDBFZ1WFNXD","cid":"bafkreihxa4o4z7er2pd3xokmo6fowiwm2h4xzrd3r2qv5ynkh4fzgw7dyq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":7881,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.539Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":7809,"text":"CHAPTER LXXII.\r\nA Book From The Chronicles Of Mohi\r\n\r\n\r\nMany ages ago, there reigned in Juam a king called Teei. This Teei’s\r\nsuccession to the sovereignty was long disputed by his brother Marjora;\r\nwho at last rallying round him an army, after many vicissitudes,\r\ndefeated the unfortunate monarch in a stout fight of clubs on the\r\nbeach.\r\n\r\nIn those days, Willamilla during a certain period of the year was a\r\nplace set apart for royal games and diversions; and was furnished with\r\nsuitable accommodations for king and court. From its peculiar position,\r\nmoreover, it was regarded as the last stronghold of the Juam monarchy:\r\nin remote times having twice withstood the most desperate assaults from\r\nwithout. And when Roonoonoo, a famous upstart, sought to subdue all the\r\nisles in this part of the Archipelago, it was to Willamilla that the\r\nbanded kings had repaired to take counsel together; and while there\r\nconferring, were surprised at the sudden onslaught of Roonoonoo in\r\nperson. But in the end, the rebel was captured, he and all his army,\r\nand impaled on the tops of the hills.\r\n\r\nNow, defeated and fleeing for his life, Teei with his surviving\r\nfollowers was driven across the plain toward the mountains. But to cut\r\nhim off from all escape to inland Willamilla, Marjora dispatched a\r\nfleet band of warriors to occupy the entrance of the defile.\r\nNevertheless, Teei the pursued ran faster than his pursuers; first\r\ngained the spot; and with his chiefs, fled swiftly down the gorge,\r\nclosely hunted by Marjora’s men. But arriving at the further end, they\r\nin vain sought to defend it. And after much desperate fighting, the\r\nmain body of the foe corning up with great slaughter the fugitives were\r\ndriven into the glen.\r\n\r\nThey ran to the opposite wall of cliff; where turning, they fought at\r\nbay, blood for blood, and life for life, till at last, overwhelmed by\r\nnumbers, they were all put to the point of the spear.\r\n\r\nWith fratricidal hate, singled out by the ferocious Marjora, Teei fell\r\nby that brother’s hand. When stripping from the body the regal girdle,\r\nthe victor wound it round his own loins; thus proclaiming himself king\r\nover Juam.\r\n\r\nLong torn by this intestine war, the island acquiesced in the new\r\nsovereignty. But at length a sacred oracle declared, that since the\r\nconqueror had slain his brother in deep Willamilla, so that Teei never\r\nmore issued from that refuge of death; therefore, the same fate should\r\nbe Marjora’s; for never, thenceforth, from that glen, should he go\r\nforth; neither Marjora; nor any son of his girdled loins; nor his son’s\r\nsons; nor the uttermost scion of his race.\r\n\r\nBut except this denunciation, naught was denounced against the usurper;\r\nwho, mindful of the tenure by which he reigned, ruled over the island\r\nfor many moons; at his death bequeathing the girdle to his son.\r\n\r\nIn those days, the wildest superstitions concerning the interference of\r\nthe gods in things temporal, prevailed to a much greater extent than at\r\npresent. Hence Marjora himself, called sometimes in the traditions of\r\nthe island, The-Heart-of-Black-Coral, even unscrupulous Marjora had\r\nquailed before the oracle. “He bowed his head,” say the legends. Nor\r\nwas it then questioned, by his most devoted adherents, that had he\r\ndared to act counter to that edict, he had dropped dead, the very\r\ninstant he went under the shadow of the defile. This persuasion also\r\nguided the conduct of the son of Marjora, and that of his grandson.\r\n\r\nBut there at last came to pass a change in the popular fancies\r\nconcerning this ancient anathema. The penalty denounced against the\r\nposterity of the usurper should they issue from the glen, came to be\r\nregarded as only applicable to an invested monarch, not to his\r\nrelatives, or heirs.\r\n\r\nA most favorable construction of the ban; for all those related to the\r\nking, freely passed in and out of Willamilla.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKKB6T4G8VN7ARKBN98M4","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKWWC66ETGYDPVMHFS1JN","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:19.340Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:31.573Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}