{"id":"01KG8AM1QY624RTH6J061G5KQY","cid":"bafkreihtdw4oiq7aw4yfhsfd7v7zebzi2xf4n7552sm72aknqj6kvesn6a","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6045,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:18.535Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","start_line":5976,"text":"CHAPTER LV.\r\nTiffin In A Temple\r\n\r\n\r\nUpon at last drawing nigh to Odo, its appearance somewhat disappointed\r\nme. A small island, of moderate elevation.\r\n\r\nBut plumb not the height of the house that feasts you. The beach was\r\nlined with expectant natives, who, lifting the Chamois, carried us up\r\nthe beach.\r\n\r\nAlighting, as they were bearing us along, King Media, designating a\r\ncanoe-house hard by, ordered our craft to be deposited therein. This\r\nbeing done, we stepped upon the soil. It was the first we had pressed\r\nin very many days. It sent a sympathetic thrill through our frames.\r\n\r\nTurning his steps inland, Media signed us to follow.\r\n\r\nSoon we came to a rude sort of inclosure, fenced in by an imposing\r\nwall. Here a halt was sounded, and in great haste the natives proceeded\r\nto throw down a portion of the stones. This accomplished, we were\r\nsigned to enter the fortress thus carried by storm. Upon an artificial\r\nmound, opposite the breach, stood a small structure of bamboo, open in\r\nfront. Within, was a long pedestal, like a settee, supporting three\r\nimages, also of wood, and about the size of men; bearing, likewise, a\r\nremote resemblance to that species of animated nature. Before these\r\nidols was an altar, and at its base many fine mats.\r\n\r\nEntering the temple, as if he felt very much at home, Media disposed\r\nthese mats so as to form a very pleasant lounge; where he deferentially\r\nentreated Yillah to recline. Then deliberately removing the first idol,\r\nhe motioned me to seat myself in its place. Setting aside the middle\r\none, he quietly established himself in its stead. The displaced\r\nciphers, meanwhile, standing upright before us, and their blank faces\r\nlooking upon this occasion unusually expressive. As yet, not a syllable\r\nas to the meaning of this cavalier treatment of their wooden godships.\r\n\r\nWe now tranquilly awaited what next might happen, and I earnestly\r\nprayed, that if sacrilege was being committed, the vengeance of the\r\ngods might be averted from an ignoramus like me; notwithstanding the\r\npetitioner himself hailed from the other world. Perfect silence was\r\npreserved: Jarl and Samoa standing a little without the temple; the\r\nfirst looking quite composed, but his comrade casting wondering glances\r\nat my sociable apotheosis with Media.\r\n\r\nNow happening to glance upon the image last removed, I was not long in\r\ndetecting a certain resemblance between it and our host. Both were\r\ndecorated in the same manner; the carving on the idol exactly\r\ncorresponding with the tattooing of the king.\r\n\r\nPresently, the silence was relieved by a commotion without: and a\r\nbutler approached, staggering under an immense wooden trencher; which,\r\nwith profound genuflexions, he deposited upon the altar before us. The\r\ntray was loaded like any harvest wain; heaped up with good things\r\nsundry and divers: Bread-fruit, and cocoanuts, and plantains, and\r\nguavas; all pleasant to the eye, and furnishing good earnest of\r\nsomething equally pleasant to the palate.\r\n\r\nTransported at the sight of these viands, after so long an estrangement\r\nfrom full indulgence in things green, I was forthwith proceeding to\r\nhelp Yillah and myself, when, like lightning, a most unwelcome query\r\nobtruded. Did deities dine? Then also recurred what Media had declared\r\nabout my shrine in Odo. Was this it? Self- sacrilegious demigod that I\r\nwas, was I going to gluttonize on the very offerings, laid before me in\r\nmy own sacred fane? Give heed to thy ways, oh Taji, lest thou stumble\r\nand be lost.\r\n\r\nBut hereupon, what saw we, but his cool majesty of Odo tranquilly\r\nproceeding to lunch in the temple?\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJT0E6EZHV7S45B01Y9HC","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM1QXE1TTEG4XPGXBMME7","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.318Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:30.477Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}