harpooneer
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- behavior
- keeps late hours
- description
- An unknown stranger, initially assigned to share a bed with the narrator, whose late hours and mysterious activities, like 'peddling his head,' cause the narrator apprehension.
- occupation
- harpooneer
- origin
- South Seas
- status
- unknown stranger
Relationships
- sellsNew Zealand Heads
- description
- The harpooneer is engaged in the business of selling 'balmed New Zealand heads as curiosities.
- source
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- source_text
- he bought up a lot of ’balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know), and he’s sold all on ’em but one, and that one he’s trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow’s Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin’ human heads about the streets when folks is goin’ to churches.
- arrived_fromSouth Seas
- description
- The harpooneer recently traveled from the South Seas, where he acquired his merchandise.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- just arrived from the south seas
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:01:53.876Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- is_subject_of_rumor_aboutpeddling his head
- description
- The Landlord tells the narrator a strange story about the Harpooneer being out peddling his head.
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- to-night he went out a peddling, you see, and I don’t see what on airth keeps him so late, unless, may be, he can’t sell his head.”
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T00:02:00.012Z
- source
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