{"id":"01KG8AM8EG9J7A236YH2X218JD","cid":"bafkreiadacr4n5dwzyf7xfhm62xmrjjvnejw3jx2i5mk5qcrv2rfwmnwpq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10290,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:25.203Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","start_line":10223,"text":"CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE\r\n\r\nTHE STRANGER AGAIN ARRIVES IN THE VALLEY--SINGULAR INTERVIEW WITH\r\nHIM--ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE--FAILURE--MELANCHOLY SITUATION--SYMPATHY OF\r\nMARHEYO\r\n\r\n\r\n‘Marnoo, Marnoo pemi!’ Such were the welcome sounds which fell upon my\r\near some ten days after the events related in the preceding chapter.\r\nOnce more the approach of the stranger was heralded, and the\r\nintelligence operated upon me like magic. Again I should be able to\r\nconverse with him in my own language; and I resolve at all hazards to\r\nconcert with him some scheme, however desperate, to rescue me from a\r\ncondition that had now become insupportable.\r\n\r\nAs he drew near, I remembered with many misgivings the inauspicious\r\ntermination of our former interview, and when he entered the house, I\r\nwatched with intense anxiety the reception he met with from its inmates.\r\nTo my joy, his appearance was hailed with the liveliest pleasure; and\r\naccosting me kindly, he seated himself by my side, and entered into\r\nconversation with the natives around him. It soon appeared however,\r\nthat on this occasion he had not any intelligence of importance to\r\ncommunicate. I inquired of him from whence he had just come? He replied\r\nfrom Pueearka, his native valley, and that he intended to return to it\r\nthe same day.\r\n\r\nAt once it struck me that, could I but reach that valley under his\r\nprotection, I might easily from thence reach Nukuheva by water; and\r\nanimated by the prospect which this plan held, out I disclosed it in\r\na few brief words to the stranger, and asked him how it could be best\r\naccomplished. My heart sunk within me, when in his broken English he\r\nanswered me that it could never be effected. ‘Kanaka no let you go\r\nnowhere,’ he said; ‘you taboo. Why you no like to stay? Plenty moee-moee\r\n(sleep)--plenty ki-ki (eat)--plenty wahenee (young girls)--Oh, very good\r\nplace Typee! Suppose you no like this bay, why you come? You no hear\r\nabout Typee? All white men afraid Typee, so no white men come.’\r\n\r\nThese words distressed me beyond belief; and when I had again related to\r\nhim the circumstances under which I had descended into the valley, and\r\nsought to enlist his sympathies in my behalf by appealing to the bodily\r\nmisery I had endure, he listened with impatience, and cut me short by\r\nexclaiming passionately, ‘Me no hear you talk any more; by by Kanaka\r\nget mad, kill you and me too. No you see he no want you to speak at\r\nall?--you see--ah! by by you no mind--you get well, he kill you, eat\r\nyou, hang you head up there, like Happar Kanaka.--Now you listen--but no\r\ntalk any more. By by I go;--you see way I go--Ah! then some night Kanaka\r\nall moee-moee (sleep)--you run away, you come Pueearka. I speak Pueearka\r\nKanaka--he no harm you--ah! then I take you my canoe Nukuheva--and you\r\nrun away ship no more.’ With these words, enforced by a vehemence of\r\ngesture I cannot describe, Marnoo started from my side, and immediately\r\nengaged in conversation with some of the chiefs who had entered the\r\nhouse.\r\n\r\nIt would have been idle for me to have attempted resuming the interview\r\nso peremptorily terminated by Marnoo, who was evidently little disposed\r\nto compromise his own safety by any rash endeavour to ensure mine.\r\nBut the plan he had suggested struck me as one which might possibly be\r\naccomplished, and I resolved to act upon it as speedily as possible.\r\n\r\nAccordingly, when he arose to depart, I accompanied him with the natives\r\noutside of the house, with a view of carefully noting the path he\r\nwould take in leaving the valley. Just before leaping from the pi-pi he\r\nclasped my hand, and looking significantly at me, exclaimed, ‘Now you\r\nsee--you do what I tell you--ah! then you do good;--you no do so--ah!\r\nthen you die.’ The next moment he waved his spear to the islanders, and\r\nfollowing the route that conducted to a defile in the mountains lying\r\nopposite the Happar side, was soon out of sight.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJRVR9CWT9ATSR5Y6K7VV","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JYRSHWXR7JM0HYS9D4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AM8EK5PCXFP84WZDBKY72","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:31.184Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:43.294Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}