CHAPTER XXIX. What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The Resolution They Came To

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# CHAPTER XXIX. What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The Resolution They Came To ## Overview This is a chapter from the novel [Mardi: And a Voyage Thither](arke:01KG8AJA6157W2830190N652KA) by Herman Melville. The chapter, titled "CHAPTER XXIX.\nWhat They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The\nResolution They Came To," appears between lines 3246 and 3447 of the source file, [mardi_vol1.txt](arke:01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK). It is preceded by [CHAPTER XXVIII.\nSuspicions Laid, And Something About The Calmuc](arke:01KG8AJRHG3NSDGMZM626QB1ME) and followed by [CHAPTER XXX.\nHints For A Full Length Of Samoa](arke:01KG8AJRHKGBQCXXRZ958PW2D5). ## Context The chapter is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It was extracted from the text file [mardi_vol1.txt](arke:01KG89J1HYC04JWXEK48P07WPK) by a structure extraction process. ## Contents This chapter describes the narrator and Samoa's search of the brigantine for useful items, including the ship's log, captain's writing desk, and nautical instruments. They discover that Annatoo has taken apart the nautical instruments, rendering them useless, and thrown the log book overboard. Samoa finds a page from the log describing a tragic event. The narrator then gathers Samoa, Annatoo, and Jarl to discuss their course of action, deciding to head westward due to the lack of navigational tools and the impossibility of returning to the scene of the massacre or the Hawaiian Islands. The narrator assumes command of the vessel, and the crew begins to put everything in order. The chapter is further divided into four chunks: [Chunk 1](arke:01KG8AKZACXH3WSZZGR0NV65C4), [Chunk 2](arke:01KG8AKZAKWTQSQNB924QPFQ9G), [Chunk 3](arke:01KG8AKZAKRFRHFJ5503D4E1JF), and [Chunk 4](arke:01KG8AKZAYBAGFRSCJ5XPK1926).

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CHAPTER XXIX. What They Lighted Upon In Further Searching The Craft, And The Resolution They Came To