{"id":"01KG8AKZAKWTQSQNB924QPFQ9G","cid":"bafkreiea6rqqjmj4o4dwaamdw5brkilijypobyklehlamdzjr7ztj6y4pq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":3364,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.535Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 2","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":3307,"text":"But one could not but be struck by a tragical occurrence, which the\r\npage very briefly recounted; as well, as by a noteworthy pictorial\r\nillustration of the event in the margin of the text. Save the cut,\r\nthere was no further allusion to the matter than the following:— “This\r\nday, being calm, Tooboi, one of the Lahina men, went overboard for a\r\nbath, and was eaten up by a shark. Immediately sent forward for his\r\nbag.”\r\n\r\nNow, this last sentence was susceptible of two meanings. It is truth,\r\nthat immediately upon the decease of a friendless sailor at sea, his\r\nshipmates oftentimes seize upon his effects, and divide them; though\r\nthe dead man’s clothes are seldom worn till a subsequent voyage. This\r\nproceeding seems heartless. But sailors reason thus: Better we, than\r\nthe captain. For by law, either scribbled or unscribbled, the effects\r\nof a mariner, dying on shipboard, should be held in trust by that\r\nofficer. But as sailors are mostly foundlings and castaways, and carry\r\nall their kith and kin in their arms and their legs, there hardly ever\r\nappears any heir-at-law to claim their estate; seldom worth inheriting,\r\nlike Esterhazy’s. Wherefore, the withdrawal of a dead man’s “kit” from\r\nthe forecastle to the cabin, is often held tantamount to its virtual\r\nappropriation by the captain. At any rate, in small ships on long\r\nvoyages, such things have been done.\r\n\r\nThus much being said, then, the sentence above quoted from the Parki’s\r\nlog, may be deemed somewhat ambiguous. At the time it struck me as\r\nsingular; for the poor diver’s grass bag could not have contained much\r\nof any thing valuable unless, peradventure, he had concealed therein\r\nsome Cleopatra pearls, feloniously abstracted from the shells brought\r\nup from the sea.\r\n\r\nAside of the paragraph, copied above, was a pen-and-ink sketch of the\r\ncasualty, most cruelly executed; the poor fellow’s legs being\r\nrepresented half way in the process of deglutition; his arms firmly\r\ngrasping the monster’s teeth, as if heroically bent upon making as\r\ntough a morsel of himself as possible.\r\n\r\nBut no doubt the honest captain sketched this cenotaph to the departed\r\nin all sincerity of heart; perhaps, during the melancholy leisure which\r\nfollowed the catastrophe. Half obliterated were several stains upon the\r\npage; seemingly, lingering traces of a salt tear or two.\r\n\r\nFrom this unwonted embellishment of the text, I was led to infer, that\r\nthe designer, at one time or other, must have been engaged in the\r\nvocation of whaling. For, in India ink, the logs of certain whalemen\r\nare decorated by somewhat similar illustrations.\r\n\r\nWhen whales are seen, but not captured, the fact is denoted by an\r\noutline figure representing the creature’s flukes, the broad, curving\r\nlobes of his tail. But in those cases where the monster is both chased\r\nand killed, this outline is filled up jet black; one for every whale\r\nslain; presenting striking objects in turning over the log; and so\r\nfacilitating reference. Hence, it is quite imposing to behold, all in a\r\nrow, three or four, sometime five or six, of these drawings; showing\r\nthat so many monsters that day jetted their last spout. And the chief\r\nmate, whose duty it is to keep the ship’s record, generally prides\r\nhimself upon the beauty, and flushy likeness to life, of his flukes;\r\nthough, sooth to say, many of these artists are no Landseers.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 2"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJRHGF2HZDP4MNWTGF642","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKZACXH3WSZZGR0NV65C4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKZAKRFRHFJ5503D4E1JF","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:21.843Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:28.770Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}