“That darkesome glen they enter, where they find
That cursed man low sitting on the ground,
Musing1 full sadly in his sullein mind;
His griesly lockes long gronen and unbound,
Disordered hong about his shoulders round,
And hid his face, through which his hollow eyne
Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound2;
His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine,
Were shronke into the jawes, as he did never dine.
His garments nought3 but many ragged4 clouts5,
With thornes together pind and patched reads,
The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts.”
Southeast of Crossman’s Isle6 lies Hood’s Isle, or McCain’s Beclouded Isle; and upon its south side is a vitreous cove7 with a wide strand8 of dark pounded black lava9, called Black Beach, or Oberlus’s Landing. It might fitly have been styled Charon’s.
It received its name from a wild white creature who spent many years here; in the person of a European bringing into this savage10 region qualities more diabolical11 than are to be found among any of the surrounding cannibals.
About half a century ago, Oberlus deserted12 at the above-named island, then, as now, a solitude13. He built himself a den14 of lava and clinkers, about a mile from the Landing, subsequently called after him, in a vale, or expanded gulch15, containing here and there among the rocks about two acres of soil capable of rude cultivation16; the only place on the isle not too blasted for that purpose. Here he succeeded in raising a sort of degenerate17 potatoes and pumpkins18, which from time to time he exchanged with needy19 whalemen passing, for spirits or dollars.
His appearance, from all accounts, was that of the victim of some malignant20 sorceress; he seemed to have drunk of Circe’s cup; beast-like; rags insufficient21 to hide his nakedness; his befreckled skin blistered22 by continual exposure to the sun; nose flat; countenance23 contorted, heavy, earthy; hair and beard unshorn, profuse24, and of fiery25 red. He struck strangers much as if he were a volcanic26 creature thrown up by the same convulsion which exploded into sight the isle. All bepatched and coiled asleep in his lonely lava den among the mountains, he looked, they say, as a heaped drift of withered27 leaves, torn from autumn trees, and so left in some hidden nook by the whirling halt for an instant of a fierce night-wind, which then ruthlessly sweeps on, somewhere else to repeat the capricious act. It is also reported to have been the strangest sight, this same Oberlus, of a sultry, cloudy morning, hidden under his shocking old black tarpaulin28 hat, hoeing potatoes among the lava. So warped29 and crooked30 was his strange nature, that the very handle of his hoe seemed gradually to have shrunk and twisted in his grasp, being a wretched bent31 stick, elbowed more like a savage’s war-sickle than a civilized32 hoe-handle. It was his mysterious custom upon a first encounter with a stranger ever to present his back; possibly, because that was his better side, since it revealed the least. If the encounter chanced in his garden, as it sometimes did—the new-landed strangers going from the sea-side straight through the gorge33, to hunt up the queer green-grocer reported doing business here—Oberlus for a time hoed on, unmindful of all greeting, jovial34 or bland35; as the curious stranger would turn to face him, the recluse36, hoe in hand, as diligently37 would avert38 himself; bowed over, and sullenly39 revolving40 round his murphy hill. Thus far for hoeing. When planting, his whole aspect and all his gestures were so malevolently41 and uselessly sinister42 and secret, that he seemed rather in act of dropping poison into wells than potatoes into soil. But among his lesser43 and more harmless marvels44 was an idea he ever had, that his visitors came equally as well led by longings45 to behold46 the mighty47 hermit48 Oberlus in his royal state of solitude, as simply, to obtain potatoes, or find whatever company might be upon a barren isle. It seems incredible that such a being should possess such vanity; a misanthrope49 be conceited50; but he really had his notion; and upon the strength of it, often gave himself amusing airs to captains. But after all, this is somewhat of a piece with the well-known eccentricity51 of some convicts, proud of that very hatefulness which makes them notorious. At other times, another unaccountable whim52 would seize him, and he would long dodge53 advancing strangers round the clinkered corners of his hut; sometimes like a stealthy bear, he would slink through the withered thickets54 up the mountains, and refuse to see the human face.
Except his occasional visitors from the sea, for a long period, the only companions of Oberlus were the crawling tortoises; and he seemed more than degraded to their level, having no desires for a time beyond theirs, unless it were for the stupor55 brought on by drunkenness. But sufficiently56 debased as he appeared, there yet lurked57 in him, only awaiting occasion for discovery, a still further proneness58. Indeed, the sole superiority of Oberlus over the tortoises was his possession of a larger capacity of degradation59; and along with that, something like an intelligent will to it. Moreover, what is about to be revealed, perhaps will show, that selfish ambition, or the love of rule for its own sake, far from being the peculiar60 infirmity of noble minds, is shared by beings which have no mind at all. No creatures are so selfishly tyrannical as some brutes61; as any one who has observed the tenants62 of the pasture must occasionally have observed.
“This island’s mine by Sycorax my mother,” said Oberlus to himself, glaring round upon his haggard solitude. By some means, barter63 or theft—for in those days ships at intervals64 still kept touching65 at his Landing—he obtained an old musket66, with a few charges of powder and ball. Possessed67 of arms, he was stimulated68 to enterprise, as a tiger that first feels the coming of its claws. The long habit of sole dominion69 over every object round him, his almost unbroken solitude, his never encountering humanity except on terms of misanthropic70 independence, or mercantile craftiness71, and even such encounters being comparatively but rare; all this must have gradually nourished in him a vast idea of his own importance, together with a pure animal sort of scorn for all the rest of the universe.
The unfortunate Creole, who enjoyed his brief term of royalty72 at Charles’s Isle was perhaps in some degree influenced by not unworthy motives73; such as prompt other adventurous74 spirits to lead colonists75 into distant regions and assume political preeminence76 over them. His summary execution of many of his Peruvians is quite pardonable, considering the desperate characters he had to deal with; while his offering canine77 battle to the banded rebels seems under the circumstances altogether just. But for this King Oberlus and what shortly follows, no shade of palliation can be given. He acted out of mere78 delight in tyranny and cruelty, by virtue79 of a quality in him inherited from Sycorax his mother. Armed now with that shocking blunderbuss, strong in the thought of being master of that horrid80 isle, he panted for a chance to prove his potency81 upon the first specimen82 of humanity which should fall unbefriended into his hands.
Nor was he long without it. One day he spied a boat upon the beach, with one man, a negro, standing83 by it. Some distance off was a ship, and Oberlus immediately knew how matters stood. The vessel84 had put in for wood, and the boat’s crew had gone into the thickets for it. From a convenient spot he kept watch of the boat, till presently a straggling company appeared loaded with billets. Throwing these on the beach, they again went into the thickets, while the negro proceeded to load the boat.
Oberlus now makes all haste and accosts85 the negro, who, aghast at seeing any living being inhabiting such a solitude, and especially so horrific a one, immediately falls into a panic, not at all lessened86 by the ursine87 suavity88 of Oberlus, who begs the favor of assisting him in his labors90. The negro stands with several billets on his shoulder, in act of shouldering others; and Oberlus, with a short cord concealed91 in his bosom92, kindly93 proceeds to lift those other billets to their place. In so doing, he persists in keeping behind the negro, who, rightly suspicious of this, in vain dodges94 about to gain the front of Oberlus; but Oberlus dodges also; till at last, weary of this bootless attempt at treachery, or fearful of being surprised by the remainder of the party, Oberlus runs off a little space to a bush, and fetching his blunderbuss, savagely95 commands the negro to desist work and follow him. He refuses. Whereupon, presenting his piece, Oberlus snaps at him. Luckily the blunderbuss misses fire; but by this time, frightened out of his wits, the negro, upon a second intrepid96 summons, drops his billets, surrenders at discretion97, and follows on. By a narrow defile98 familiar to him, Oberlus speedily removes out of sight of the water.
On their way up the mountains, he exultingly99 informs the negro, that henceforth he is to work for him, and be his slave, and that his treatment would entirely100 depend on his future conduct. But Oberlus, deceived by the first impulsive101 cowardice102 of the black, in an evil moment slackens his vigilance. Passing through a narrow way, and perceiving his leader quite off his guard, the negro, a powerful fellow, suddenly grasps him in his arms, throws him down, wrests103 his musketoon from him, ties his hands with the monster’s own cord, shoulders him, and returns with him down to the boat. When the rest of the party arrive, Oberlus is carried on board the ship. This proved an Englishman, and a smuggler104; a sort of craft not apt to be over-charitable. Oberlus is severely105 whipped, then handcuffed, taken ashore106, and compelled to make known his habitation and produce his property. His potatoes, pumpkins, and tortoises, with a pile of dollars he had hoarded107 from his mercantile operations were secured on the spot. But while the too vindictive108 smugglers were busy destroying his hut and garden, Oberlus makes his escape into the mountains, and conceals109 himself there in impenetrable recesses110, only known to himself, till the ship sails, when he ventures back, and by means of an old file which he sticks into a tree, contrives111 to free himself from his handcuffs.
Brooding among the ruins of his hut, and the desolate112 clinkers and extinct volcanoes of this outcast isle, the insulted misanthrope now meditates113 a signal revenge upon humanity, but conceals his purposes. Vessels114 still touch the Landing at times; and by-and-by Oberlus is enabled to supply them with some vegetables.
Warned by his former failure in kidnapping strangers, he now pursues a quite different plan. When seamen115 come ashore, he makes up to them like a free-and-easy comrade, invites them to his hut, and with whatever affability his red-haired grimness may assume, entreats116 them to drink his liquor and be merry. But his guests need little pressing; and so, soon as rendered insensible, are tied hand and foot, and pitched among the clinkers, are there concealed till the ship departs, when, finding themselves entirely dependent upon Oberlus, alarmed at his changed demeanor117, his savage threats, and above all, that shocking blunderbuss, they willingly enlist118 under him, becoming his humble119 slaves, and Oberlus the most incredible of tyrants120. So much so, that two or three perish beneath his initiating121 process. He sets the remainder—four of them—to breaking the caked soil; transporting upon their backs loads of loamy earth, scooped122 up in moist clefts123 among the mountains; keeps them on the roughest fare; presents his piece at the slightest hint of insurrection; and in all respects converts them into reptiles124 at his feet—plebeian garter-snakes to this Lord Anaconda.
At last, Oberlus contrives to stock his arsenal125 with four rusty126 cutlasses, and an added supply of powder and ball intended for his blunderbuss. Remitting127 in good part the labor89 of his slaves, he now approves himself a man, or rather devil, of great abilities in the way of cajoling or coercing128 others into acquiescence129 with his own ulterior designs, however at first abhorrent130 to them. But indeed, prepared for almost any eventual131 evil by their previous lawless life, as a sort of ranging Cow–Boys of the sea, which had dissolved within them the whole moral man, so that they were ready to concrete in the first offered mould of baseness now; rotted down from manhood by their hopeless misery132 on the isle; wonted to cringe in all things to their lord, himself the worst of slaves; these wretches133 were now become wholly corrupted134 to his hands. He used them as creatures of an inferior race; in short, he gaffles his four animals, and makes murderers of them; out of cowards fitly manufacturing bravos.
Now, sword or dagger135, human arms are but artificial claws and fangs136, tied on like false spurs to the fighting cock. So, we repeat, Oberlus, czar of the isle, gaffles his four subjects; that is, with intent of glory, puts four rusty cutlasses into their hands. Like any other autocrat137, he had a noble army now.
It might be thought a servile war would hereupon ensue. Arms in the hands of trodden slaves? how indiscreet of Emperor Oberlus! Nay138, they had but cutlasses—sad old scythes139 enough—he a blunderbuss, which by its blind scatterings of all sorts of boulders140, clinkers, and other scoria would annihilate141 all four mutineers, like four pigeons at one shot. Besides, at first he did not sleep in his accustomed hut; every lurid142 sunset, for a time, he might have been seen wending his way among the riven mountains, there to secrete143 himself till dawn in some sulphurous pitfall144, undiscoverable to his gang; but finding this at last too troublesome, he now each evening tied his slaves hand and foot, hid the cutlasses, and thrusting them into his barracks, shut to the door, and lying down before it, beneath a rude shed lately added, slept out the night, blunderbuss in hand.
It is supposed that not content with daily parading over a cindery145 solitude at the head of his fine army, Oberlus now meditated146 the most active mischief147; his probable object being to surprise some passing ship touching at his dominions148, massacre149 the crew, and run away with her to parts unknown. While these plans were simmering in his head, two ships touch in company at the isle, on the opposite side to his; when his designs undergo a sudden change.
The ships are in want of vegetables, which Oberlus promises in great abundance, provided they send their boats round to his landing, so that the crews may bring the vegetables from his garden; informing the two captains, at the same time, that his rascals—slaves and soldiers—had become so abominably150 lazy and good-for-nothing of late, that he could not make them work by ordinary inducements, and did not have the heart to be severe with them.
The arrangement was agreed to, and the boats were sent and hauled upon the beach. The crews went to the lava hut; but to their surprise nobody was there. After waiting till their patience was exhausted151, they returned to the shore, when lo, some stranger—not the Good Samaritan either—seems to have very recently passed that way. Three of the boats were broken in a thousand pieces, and the fourth was missing. By hard toil152 over the mountains and through the clinkers, some of the strangers succeeded in returning to that side of the isle where the ships lay, when fresh boats are sent to the relief of the rest of the hapless party.
However amazed at the treachery of Oberlus, the two captains, afraid of new and still more mysterious atrocities—and indeed, half imputing153 such strange events to the enchantments154 associated with these isles155—perceive no security but in instant flight; leaving Oberlus and his army in quiet possession of the stolen boat.
On the eve of sailing they put a letter in a keg, giving the Pacific Ocean intelligence of the affair, and moored156 the keg in the bay. Some time subsequent, the keg was opened by another captain chancing to anchor there, but not until after he had dispatched a boat round to Oberlus’s Landing. As may be readily surmised157, he felt no little inquietude till the boat’s return: when another letter was handed him, giving Oberlus’s version of the affair. This precious document had been found pinned half-mildewed to the clinker wall of the sulphurous and deserted hut. It ran as follows: showing that Oberlus was at least an accomplished158 writer, and no mere boor159; and what is more, was capable of the most tristful eloquence160.
“Sir: I am the most unfortunate ill-treated gentleman that lives. I am a patriot161, exiled from my country by the cruel hand of tyranny.
“Banished to these Enchanted162 Isles, I have again and again besought163 captains of ships to sell me a boat, but always have been refused, though I offered the handsomest prices in Mexican dollars. At length an opportunity presented of possessing myself of one, and I did not let it slip.
“I have been long endeavoring, by hard labor and much solitary164 suffering, to accumulate something to make myself comfortable in a virtuous165 though unhappy old age; but at various times have been robbed and beaten by men professing166 to be Christians167.
“To-day I sail from the Enchanted group in the good boat Charity bound to the Feejee Isles.
“FATHERLESS OBERLUS.
“P.S.—Behind the clinkers, nigh the oven, you will find the old fowl168. Do not kill it; be patient; I leave it setting; if it shall have any chicks, I hereby bequeath them to you, whoever you may be. But don’t count your chicks before they are hatched.”
The fowl proved a starveling rooster, reduced to a sitting posture169 by sheer debility.
Oberlus declares that he was bound to the Feejee Isles; but this was only to throw pursuers on a false scent170. For, after a long time, he arrived, alone in his open boat, at Guayaquil. As his miscreants171 were never again beheld172 on Hood’s Isle, it is supposed, either that they perished for want of water on the passage to Guayaquil, or, what is quite as probable, were thrown overboard by Oberlus, when he found the water growing scarce.
From Guayaquil Oberlus proceeded to Payta; and there, with that nameless witchery peculiar to some of the ugliest animals, wound himself into the affections of a tawny173 damsel; prevailing174 upon her to accompany him back to his Enchanted Isle; which doubtless he painted as a Paradise of flowers, not a Tartarus of clinkers.
But unfortunately for the colonization175 of Hood’s Isle with a choice variety of animated176 nature, the extraordinary and devilish aspect of Oberlus made him to be regarded in Payta as a highly suspicious character. So that being found concealed one night, with matches in his pocket, under the hull177 of a small vessel just ready to be launched, he was seized and thrown into jail.
The jails in most South American towns are generally of the least wholesome178 sort. Built of huge cakes of sun-burnt brick, and containing but one room, without windows or yard, and but one door heavily grated with wooden bars, they present both within and without the grimmest aspect. As public edifices179 they conspicuously180 stand upon the hot and dusty Plaza181, offering to view, through the gratings, their villainous and hopeless inmates182, burrowing183 in all sorts of tragic184 squalor. And here, for a long time, Oberlus was seen; the central figure of a mongrel and assassin band; a creature whom it is religion to detest185, since it is philanthropy to hate a misanthrope.
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