{"id":"01KG8AKYQBZR5WJWP2AKDPN1AK","cid":"bafkreibmquogypskazioqtnxlrxyq74f5ldacp64nhirp5lq3b5nsh6oea","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":2695,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.535Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":2624,"text":"CHAPTER XXIII.\r\nSailing From The Island They Pillage The Cabin\r\n\r\n\r\nThere was a small carronade on the forecastle, unshipped from its\r\ncarriage, and lashed down to ringbolts on the deck. This Samoa now\r\nloaded; and with an ax knocking off the round knob upon the breech,\r\nrammed it home in the tube. When, running the cannon out at one of the\r\nports, and studying well his aim, he let fly, sunk the boat, and buried\r\nhis dead.\r\n\r\nIt was now late in the afternoon; and for the present bent upon\r\navoiding land, and gaining the shoreless sea, never mind where, Samoa\r\nagain forced round his craft before the wind, leaving the island\r\nastern. The decks were still cumbered with the bodies of the Lahineese,\r\nwhich heel to point and crosswise, had, log-like, been piled up on the\r\nmain-hatch. These, one by one, were committed to the sea; after which,\r\nthe decks were washed down.\r\n\r\nAt sunrise next morning, finding themselves out of sight of land, with\r\nlittle or no wind, they stopped their headway, and lashed the tiller\r\nalee, the better to enable them to overhaul the brigantine; especially\r\nthe recesses of the cabin. For there, were stores of goods adapted for\r\nbarter among the Islanders; also several bags of dollars.\r\n\r\nNow, nothing can exceed the cupidity of the Polynesian, when, through\r\npartial commerce with the whites, his eyes are opened to his nakedness,\r\nand he perceives that in some things they are richer than himself.\r\n\r\nThe poor skipper’s wardrobe was first explored; his chests of clothes\r\nbeing capsized, and their contents strown about the cabin floor.\r\n\r\nThen took place the costuming. Samoa and Annatoo trying on coats and\r\npantaloons, shirts and drawers, and admiring themselves in the little\r\nmirror panneled in the bulk-head. Then, were broken open boxes and\r\nbales; rolls of printed cotton were inspected, and vastly admired;\r\ninsomuch, that the trumpery found in the captain’s chests was\r\ndisdainfully doffed: and donned were loose folds of calico, more\r\ncongénial to their tastes.\r\n\r\nAs case after case was opened and overturned, slippery grew the cabin\r\ndeck with torrents of glass beads; and heavy the necks of Samoa and\r\nAnnatoo with goodly bunches thereof.\r\n\r\nAmong other things, came to light brass jewelry,—Rag Fair gewgaws and\r\nbaubles a plenty, more admired than all; Annatoo, bedecking herself\r\nlike, a tragedy queen: one blaze of brass. Much mourned the married\r\ndame, that thus arrayed, there was none to admire but Samoa her\r\nhusband; but he was all the while admiring himself, and not her.\r\n\r\nAnd here must needs be related, what has hitherto remained unsaid. Very\r\noften this husband and wife were no Darby and Joan. Their married life\r\nwas one long campaign, whereof the truces were only by night. They\r\nbilled and they cooed on their arms, rising fresh in the morning to\r\nbattle, and often Samoa got more than a hen-pecking. To be short,\r\nAnnatoo was a Tartar, a regular Calmuc, and Samoa—Heaven help him—her\r\nhusband.\r\n\r\nYet awhile, joined together by a sense of common danger, and long\r\nengrossed in turning over their tinsel acquisitions without present\r\nthought of proprietorship, the pair refrained from all squabbles. But\r\nsoon burst the storm. Having given every bale and every case a good\r\nshaking, Annatoo, making an estimate of the whole, very coolly\r\nproceeded to set apart for herself whatever she fancied. To this, Samoa\r\nobjected; to which objection Annatoo objected; and then they went at\r\nit.\r\n\r\nThe lady vowed that the things were no more Samoa’s than hers; nay, not\r\nso much; and that whatever she wanted, that same would she have. And\r\nfurthermore, by way of codicil, she declared that she was slave to\r\nnobody.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQXPTDRHMNH18DAK7Q79","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKYQHFJ7B6VD5E44QB4PK","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:21.227Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:27.649Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}