{"id":"01KG8AKY4HDQ5S5KYHPWA32FM0","cid":"bafkreies6natskbchfcl4xxuxqwlkd7sb5qcm43pj3zy77sixzdet46n5a","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5302,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.149Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","start_line":5229,"text":"CHAPTER XXXVIII.\r\nLITTLE JULIA SAILS WITHOUT US\r\n\r\n\r\nTo make good the hint thrown out by the consul upon the conclusion of\r\nthe Farce of the Affidavits, we were again brought before him within\r\nthe time specified.\r\n\r\nIt was the same thing over again: he got nothing out of us, and we were\r\nremanded; our resolute behaviour annoying him prodigiously.\r\n\r\nWhat we observed led us to form the idea that, on first learning the\r\nstate of affairs on board the Julia, Wilson must have addressed his\r\ninvalid friend, the captain, something in the following style:\r\n\r\n“Guy, my poor fellow, don’t worry yourself now about those rascally\r\nsailors of yours. I’ll dress them out for you—just leave it all to me,\r\nand set your mind at rest.”\r\n\r\nBut handcuffs and stocks, big looks, threats, dark hints, and\r\ndepositions, had all gone for nought.\r\n\r\nConscious that, as matters now stood, nothing serious could grow out of\r\nwhat had happened; and never dreaming that our being sent home for\r\ntrial had ever been really thought of, we thoroughly understood Wilson,\r\nand laughed at him accordingly.\r\n\r\nSince leaving the Julia, we had caught no glimpse of the mate; but we\r\noften heard of him.\r\n\r\nIt seemed that he remained on board, keeping house in the cabin for\r\nhimself and Viner; who, going to see him according to promise, was\r\ninduced to remain a guest. These two cronies now had fine times;\r\ntapping the captain’s quarter-casks, playing cards on the transom, and\r\ngiving balls of an evening to the ladies ashore. In short, they cut up\r\nso many queer capers that the missionaries complained of them to the\r\nconsul; and Jermin received a sharp reprimand.\r\n\r\nThis so affected him that he still drank more freely than before; and\r\none afternoon, when mellow as a grape, he took umbrage at a canoe full\r\nof natives, who, on being hailed from the deck to come aboard and show\r\ntheir papers, got frightened, and paddled for the shore.\r\n\r\nLowering a boat instantly, he equipped Wymontoo and the Dane with a\r\ncutlass apiece, and seizing another himself, off they started in\r\npursuit, the ship’s ensign flying in the boat’s stern. The alarmed\r\nislanders, beaching their canoe, with loud cries fled through the\r\nvillage, the mate after them, slashing his naked weapon to right and\r\nleft. A crowd soon collected; and the “Karhowree toonee,” or crazy\r\nstranger, was quickly taken before Wilson.\r\n\r\nNow, it so chanced that, in a native house hard by, the consul and\r\nCaptain Guy were having a quiet game at cribbage by themselves, a\r\ndecanter on the table standing sentry. The obstreperous Jermin was\r\nbrought in; and finding the two thus pleasantly occupied, it had a\r\nsoothing effect upon him; and he insisted upon taking a hand at the\r\ncards, and a drink of the brandy. As the consul was nearly as tipsy as\r\nhimself, and the captain dared not object for fear of giving offence,\r\nat it they went—all three of them—and made a night of it; the mate’s\r\ndelinquencies being summarily passed over, and his captors sent away.\r\n\r\nAn incident worth relating grew out of this freak.\r\n\r\nThere wandered about Papeetee, at this time, a shrivelled little fright\r\nof an Englishwoman, known among sailors as “Old Mother Tot.” From New\r\nZealand to the Sandwich Islands, she had been all over the South Seas;\r\nkeeping a rude hut of entertainment for mariners, and supplying them\r\nwith rum and dice. Upon the missionary islands, of course, such conduct\r\nwas severely punishable; and at various places, Mother Tot’s\r\nestablishment had been shut up, and its proprietor made to quit in the\r\nfirst vessel that could be hired to land her elsewhere. But, with a\r\nperseverance invincible, wherever she went she always started afresh;\r\nand so became notorious everywhere.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJJG54C6959Y4BR95JNM6","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1H7Y803CZ7X80F0QFHZ","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKY4CHTD1HQF3242AWXNA","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:20.625Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:27.887Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}