{"id":"01KG8AM40FN299X387MEVXCTM5","cid":"bafkreies7byy3xnprhx2uvsnl22vhhuuz5hufg42vpkjtspntxigia5xuu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":6521,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.203Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","start_line":6459,"text":"CONCEIT OF MARHEYO--PROCESS OF MAKING TAPPA\r\n\r\n\r\nThe knowledge I had now obtained as to the intention of the savages\r\ndeeply affected me.\r\n\r\nMarnoo, I perceived, was a man who, by reason of his superior\r\nacquirements, and the knowledge he possessed of the events which were\r\ntaking place in the different bays of the island, was held in no little\r\nestimation by the inhabitants of the valley. He had been received with\r\nthe most cordial welcome and respect. The natives had hung upon the\r\naccents of his voice, and, had manifested the highest gratification at\r\nbeing individually noticed by him. And yet despite all this, a few\r\nwords urged in my behalf, with the intent of obtaining my release from\r\ncaptivity, had sufficed not only to banish all harmony and good-will;\r\nbut, if I could believe what he told me, had gone on to endanger his own\r\npersonal safety.\r\n\r\nHow strongly rooted, then, must be the determination of the Typees\r\nwith regard to me, and how suddenly could they display the strangest\r\npassions! The mere suggestion of my departure had estranged from me,\r\nfor the time at least, Mehevi, who was the most influential of all\r\nthe chiefs, and who had previously exhibited so many instances of his\r\nfriendly sentiments. The rest of the natives had likewise evinced their\r\nstrong repugnance to my wishes, and even Kory-Kory himself seemed to\r\nshare in the general disapprobation bestowed upon me.\r\n\r\nIn vain I racked my invention to find out some motive for them, but I\r\ncould discover none.\r\n\r\nBut however this might be, the scene which had just occurred admonished\r\nme of the danger of trifling with the wayward and passionate spirits\r\nagainst whom it was vain to struggle, and might even be fatal to do go.\r\nMy only hope was to induce the natives to believe that I was reconciled\r\nto my detention in the valley, and by assuming a tranquil and cheerful\r\ndemeanour, to allay the suspicions which I had so unfortunately aroused.\r\nTheir confidence revived, they might in a short time remit in some\r\ndegree their watchfulness over my movements, and I should then be the\r\nbetter enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself\r\nfor escape. I determined, therefore, to make the best of a bad\r\nbargain, and to bear up manfully against whatever might betide. In this\r\nendeavour, I succeeded beyond my own expectations. At the period\r\nof Marnoo’s visit, I had been in the valley, as nearly as I could\r\nconjecture, some two months. Although not completely recovered from my\r\nstrange illness, which still lingered about me, I was free from pain\r\nand able to take exercise. In short, I had every reason to anticipate a\r\nperfect recovery. Freed from apprehension on this point, and resolved\r\nto regard the future without flinching, I flung myself anew into all the\r\nsocial pleasures of the valley, and sought to bury all regrets, and\r\nall remembrances of my previous existence in the wild enjoyments it\r\nafforded.\r\n\r\nIn my various wanderings through the vale, and as I became better\r\nacquainted with the character of its inhabitants, I was more and more\r\nstruck with the light-hearted joyousness that everywhere prevailed. The\r\nminds of these simple savages, unoccupied by matters of graver moment,\r\nwere capable of deriving the utmost delight from circumstances which\r\nwould have passed unnoticed in more intelligent communities. All their\r\nenjoyment, indeed, seemed to be made up of the little trifling incidents\r\nof the passing hour; but these diminutive items swelled altogether to an\r\namount of happiness seldom experienced by more enlightened individuals,\r\nwhose pleasures are drawn from more elevated but rarer sources.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKTA29R7ANCYRE9W48Z6H","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM40FSEJP5BC4NKA8M8R5","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:26.639Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:38.910Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}