{"id":"01KG8AKY5BMFSYPE5EV55SYSY7","cid":"bafkreifnabvxhe7wbnoxhfxzpu73gshlezpd2ikunt2ppbhl4zljvmo6iq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2303,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.534Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":2243,"text":"resembled my Right Reverend friend, Bishop Berkeley—truly, one of your\r\nlords spiritual—who, metaphysically speaking, holding all objects to be\r\nmere optical delusions, was, notwith- standing, extremely\r\nmatter-of-fact in all matters touching matter itself. Besides being\r\npervious to the points of pins, and possessing a palate capable of\r\nappreciating plum-puddings:—which sentence reads off like a pattering\r\nof hailstones.\r\n\r\nNow, while we were employed bracing round the yards, whispering Jarl\r\nmust needs pester me again with his confounded suspicions of goblins on\r\nboard. He swore by the main-mast, that when the fore-yard swung round,\r\nhe had heard a half-stifled groan from that quarter; as if one of his\r\nbugbears had been getting its aerial legs jammed. I laughed:—hinting\r\nthat goblins were incorporeal. Whereupon he besought me to ascend the\r\nfore-rigging and test the matter for myself But here my mature judgment\r\ngot the better of my first crude opinion. I civilly declined. For\r\nassuredly, there was still a possibility, that the fore-top might be\r\ntenanted, and that too by living miscreants; and a pretty hap would be\r\nmine, if, with hands full of rigging, and legs dangling in air, while\r\nsurmounting the oblique futtock- shrouds, some unseen arm should all at\r\nonce tumble me overboard. Therefore I held my peace; while Jarl went on\r\nto declare, that with regard to the character of the brigantine, his\r\nmind was now pretty fully made up;—she was an arrant impostor, a shade\r\nof a ship, full of sailors’ ghosts, and before we knew where we were,\r\nwould dissolve in a supernatural squall, and leave us twain in the\r\nwater. In short, Jarl, the descendant of the superstitious old\r\nNorsemen, was full of old Norse conceits, and all manner of Valhalla\r\nmarvels concerning the land of goblins and goblets. No wonder then,\r\nthat with this catastrophe in prospect, he again entreated me to quit\r\nthe ill-starred craft, carrying off nothing from her ghostly hull. But\r\nI refused.\r\n\r\nOne can not relate every thing at once. While in the cabin, we came\r\nacross a “barge” of biscuit, and finding its contents of a quality much\r\nsuperior to our own, we had filled our pockets and occasionally regaled\r\nourselves in the intervals of rummaging. Now this sea cake- basket we\r\nhad brought on deck. And for the first time since bidding adieu to the\r\nArcturion having fully quenched our thirst, our appetite returned with\r\na rush; and having nothing better to do till day dawned, we planted the\r\nbread-barge in the middle of the quarter-deck; and crossing our legs\r\nbefore it, laid close seige thereto, like the Grand Turk and his Vizier\r\nMustapha sitting down before Vienna.\r\n\r\nOur castle, the Bread-Barge was of the common sort; an oblong oaken\r\nbox, much battered and bruised, and like the Elgin Marbles, all over\r\ninscriptions and carving:—foul anchors, skewered hearts, almanacs,\r\nBurton-blocks, love verses, links of cable, Kings of Clubs; and divers\r\nmystic diagrams in chalk, drawn by old Finnish mariners; in casting\r\nhoroscopes and prophecies. Your old tars are all Daniels. There was a\r\nround hole in one side, through which, in getting at the bread, invited\r\nguests thrust their hands.\r\n\r\nAnd mighty was the thrusting of hands that night; also, many and\r\nearnest the glances of Mustapha at every sudden creaking of the spars\r\nor rigging. Like Belshazzar, my royal Viking ate with great fear and\r\ntrembling; ever and anon pausing to watch the wild shadows flitting\r\nalong the bulwarks.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQXJFB4YHJ7F6QGR48FR","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKY5KC65EX7BTCB71AS7M","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:20.651Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:27.451Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}