MOBY DICK.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Main Characters
Call me Ishmael.
Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little
or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I
thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part...
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MOBY DICK.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Main Characters
Call me Ishmael.
Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little
or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I
thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and
South.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something
more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
His father was a High
Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted
aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors.
There was excellent
blood in his veins—royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal
propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.
His profound desire was to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to
make his people still happier than they were; and more than that, still better
than they were.
But, alas!
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