{"id":"01KG8AM7Y9WE2F7P2EFSNP743C","cid":"bafkreih267ylwce2vrengaxns7rwnwbg3z2br4fnm7vmsq4fuvxenp7gyu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4633,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.200Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","start_line":4568,"text":"CHAPTER THIRTEEN\r\n\r\nATTEMPT TO PROCURE RELIEF FROM NUKUHEVA--PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF TOBY IN\r\nTHE HAPPAR MOUNTAINS--ELOQUENCE OF KORY-KORY\r\n\r\n\r\nAmidst these novel scenes a week passed away almost imperceptibly. The\r\nnatives, actuated by some mysterious impulse, day after day redoubled\r\ntheir attentions to us. Their manner towards us was unaccountable.\r\nSurely, thought I, they would not act thus if they meant us any harm.\r\nBut why this excess of deferential kindness, or what equivalent can they\r\nimagine us capable of rendering them for it?\r\n\r\nWe were fairly puzzled. But despite the apprehensions I could not\r\ndispel, the horrible character imputed to these Typees appeared to be\r\nwholly undeserved.\r\n\r\n‘Why, they are cannibals!’ said Toby on one occasion when I eulogized\r\nthe tribe. ‘Granted,’ I replied, ‘but a more humane, gentlemanly and\r\namiable set of epicures do not probably exist in the Pacific.’\r\n\r\nBut, notwithstanding the kind treatment we received, I was too familiar\r\nwith the fickle disposition of savages not to feel anxious to withdraw\r\nfrom the valley, and put myself beyond the reach of that fearful death\r\nwhich, under all these smiling appearances, might yet menace us. But\r\nhere there was an obstacle in the way of doing so. It was idle for me\r\nto think of moving from the place until I should have recovered from the\r\nsevere lameness that afflicted me; indeed my malady began seriously to\r\nalarm me; for, despite the herbal remedies of the natives, it continued\r\nto grow worse and worse. Their mild applications, though they soothed\r\nthe pain, did not remove the disorder, and I felt convinced that without\r\nbetter aid I might anticipate long and acute suffering.\r\n\r\nBut how was this aid to be procured? From the surgeons of the French\r\nfleet, which probably still lay in the bay of Nukuheva, it might easily\r\nhave been obtained, could I have made my case known to them. But how\r\ncould that be effected?\r\n\r\nAt last, in the exigency to which I was reduced, I proposed to Toby that\r\nhe should endeavour to go round to Nukuheva, and if he could not\r\nsucceed in returning to the valley by water, in one of the boats of the\r\nsquadron, and taking me off, he might at least procure me some proper\r\nmedicines, and effect his return overland.\r\n\r\nMy companion listened to me in silence, and at first did not appear to\r\nrelish the idea. The truth was, he felt impatient to escape from the\r\nplace, and wished to avail himself of our present high favour with\r\nthe natives to make good our retreat, before we should experience some\r\nsudden alteration in their behaviour. As he could not think of leaving\r\nme in my helpless condition, he implored me to be of good cheer; assured\r\nme that I should soon be better, and enabled in a few days to return\r\nwith him to Nukuheva.\r\n\r\nAdded to this, he could not bear the idea of again returning to this\r\ndangerous place; and as for the expectation of persuading the Frenchmen\r\nto detach a boat’s crew for the purpose of rescuing me from the Typees,\r\nhe looked upon it as idle; and with arguments that I could not answer,\r\nurged the improbability of their provoking the hostilities of the clan\r\nby any such measure; especially, as for the purpose of quieting its\r\napprehensions, they had as yet refrained from making any visit to the\r\nbay. ‘And even should they consent,’ said Toby, ‘they would only produce\r\na commotion in the valley, in which we might both be sacrificed by these\r\nferocious islanders.’ This was unanswerable; but still I clung to the\r\nbelief that he might succeed in accomplishing the other part of my plan;\r\nand at last I overcame his scruples, and he agreed to make the attempt.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJQ7NG6PG70DYJZZQ91FA","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM7YVH2ZQ4TK1Z989XMZP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:30.665Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:37.014Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}