{"id":"01KG8AKY5423WMSYVD5RJWKXB9","cid":"bafkreignxap2mfkyluayc2fagpf67nkpkydjsvd324tgcjgfmykevs4nlq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9628,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.539Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":9577,"text":"CHAPTER LXXXIX.\r\nBraid-Beard Rehearses The Origin Of The Isle Of Rogues\r\n\r\n\r\nJudge not things by their names. This, the maxim illustrated respecting\r\nthe isle toward which we were sailing.\r\n\r\nOhonoo was its designation, in other words the Land of Rogues. So what\r\nbut a nest of villains and pirates could one fancy it to be: a\r\ndownright Tortuga, swarming with “Brethren of the coast,”—such as\r\nMontbars, L’Ollonais, Bartolomeo, Peter of Dieppe, and desperadoes of\r\nthat kidney. But not so. The men of Ohonoo were as honest as any in\r\nMardi. They had a suspicious appellative for their island, true; but\r\nnot thus seemed it to them. For, upon nothing did they so much plume\r\nthemselves as upon this very name. Why? Its origin went back to old\r\ntimes; and being venerable they gloried therein; though they disclaimed\r\nits present applicability to any of their race; showing, that words are\r\nbut algebraic signs, conveying no meaning except what you please. And\r\nto be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.\r\n\r\nBut how came the Ohonoose by their name?\r\n\r\nListen, and Braid-Beard, our Herodotus, will tell.\r\n\r\nLong and long ago, there were banished to Ohonoo all the bucaniers,\r\nflibustiers, thieves, and malefactors of the neighboring islands; who,\r\nbecoming at last quite a numerous community, resolved to make a stand\r\nfor their dignity, and number one among the nations of Mardi. And even\r\nas before they had been weeded out of the surrounding countries; so\r\nnow, they went to weeding out themselves; banishing all objectionable\r\npersons to still another island.\r\n\r\nThese events happened at a period so remote, that at present it was\r\nuncertain whether those twice banished, were thrust into their second\r\nexile by reason of their superlative knavery, or because of their\r\ncomparative honesty. If the latter, then must the residue have been a\r\nprecious enough set of scoundrels.\r\n\r\nHowever it was, the commonwealth of knaves now mustered together their\r\ngray-beards, and wise-pates, and knowing-ones, of which last there was\r\na plenty, chose a king to rule over them, and went to political\r\nhousekeeping for themselves.\r\n\r\nAnd in the fullness of time, this people became numerous and mighty.\r\nAnd the more numerous and mighty they waxed, by so much the more did\r\nthey take pride and glory in their origin, frequently reverting to it\r\nwith manifold boastings. The proud device of their monarch was a hand\r\nwith the forefinger crooked, emblematic of the peculatory propensities\r\nof his ancestors.\r\n\r\nAnd all this, at greater length, said Mohi.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJWVXCG5G43NP3NSJ9A32","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKY54GNH4WCC6DF8V1PN0","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:20.644Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:33.031Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}