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- # Narrative shift to the ultimate fates of Babo and Benito Cereno
## Overview
This section, titled "Narrative shift to the ultimate fates of Babo and Benito Cereno," is a segment of text extracted from the file `the_piazza_tales.txt`. It details the final fates of the characters Babo and Benito Cereno. The section spans from line 5481 to line 5493 of the source document.
## Context
This section is part of the larger collection titled "[Melville](arke:01KG6YCG626JN4FCG8QK17CQCF)," which contains the complete works of Herman Melville. It is directly preceded by the section "[Narrative shift to Babo's fate](arke:01KG6YH5JNS3RJP28FTD8TZPRJ)" and follows the section "[—That he believes that all the negroes, though not in the first place knowing to the design of revolt, when it was accomplished, approved it.](arke:01KG6YGRZTSHMVJG70A44QVCY4)". The text was extracted from the file `the_piazza_tales.txt`.
## Contents
This section describes the execution of Babo, whose head is displayed publicly after his death, and the subsequent demise of Benito Cereno, who follows Babo to the grave within three months of his own dismissal by the court. The narrative concludes with the fates of these two central figures.
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- Some months after, dragged to the gibbet at the tail of a mule, the
black met his voiceless end. The body was burned to ashes; but for many
days, the head, that hive of subtlety, fixed on a pole in the Plaza,
met, unabashed, the gaze of the whites; and across the Plaza looked
towards St. Bartholomew’s church, in whose vaults slept then, as now,
the recovered bones of Aranda: and across the Rimac bridge looked
towards the monastery, on Mount Agonia without; where, three months
after being dismissed by the court, Benito Cereno, borne on the bier,
did, indeed, follow his leader.
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