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I
say
this
continual
smoking
must
have
been
one
cause
,
at
least
of
his
peculiar
disposition
;
for
every
one
knows
that
this
early
air
,
whether
ashore
or
afloat
,
is
terribly
infected
with
the
nameless
miseries
of
the
numberless
mortals
who
have
died
exhaling
it
;
and
as
in
time
of
the
cholera
,
some
people
go
about
with
a
camphorated
handkerchief
to
their
mouths
;
so
,
likewise
,
against
all
mortal
tribulations
,
Stubb
's
tobacco
smoke
might
have
operated
as
a
sort
of
disinfecting
agent
.
The
third
mate
was
Flask
,
a
native
of
Tisbury
,
in
Martha
's
Vineyard
.
A
short
,
stout
,
ruddy
young
fellow
,
very
pugnacious
concerning
whales
,
who
somehow
seemed
to
think
that
the
great
Leviathans
had
personally
and
hereditarily
affronted
him
;
and
therefore
it
was
a
sort
of
point
of
honor
with
him
,
to
destroy
them
whenever
encountered
.
So
utterly
lost
was
he
to
all
sense
of
reverence
for
the
many
marvels
of
their
majestic
bulk
and
mystic
ways
;
and
so
dead
to
anything
like
an
apprehension
of
any
possible
danger
encountering
them
;
that
in
his
poor
opinion
,
the
wondrous
whale
was
but
a
species
of
magnified
mouse
,
or
at
least
water-rat
,
requiring
only
a
little
circumvention
and
some
small
application
of
time
and
trouble
in
order
to
kill
and
boil
.
This
ignorant
,
unconscious
fearlessness
of
his
made
him
a
little
waggish
in
the
matter
of
whales
;
he
followed
these
fish
for
the
fun
of
it
;
and
a
three
years
'
voyage
round
Cape
Horn
was
only
a
jolly
joke
that
lasted
that
length
of
time
.
As
a
carpenter
's
nails
are
divided
into
wrought
nails
and
cut
nails
;
so
mankind
may
be
similarly
divided
.
Little
Flask
was
one
of
the
wrought
ones
;
made
to
clinch
tight
and
last
long
.
They
called
him
King-Post
on
board
of
the
Pequod
;
because
,
in
form
,
he
could
be
well
likened
to
the
short
,
square
timber
known
by
that
name
in
Arctic
whalers
;
and
which
by
the
means
of
many
radiating
side
timbers
inserted
into
it
,
serves
to
brace
the
ship
against
the
icy
concussions
of
those
battering
seas
.
Now
these
three
mates
--
Starbuck
,
Stubb
and
Flask
,
were
momentous
men
.
They
was
who
by
universal
prescription
commanded
three
of
the
Pequod
's
boats
as
headsmen
.
In
that
grand
order
of
battle
in
which
Captain
Ahab
would
probably
marshal
his
forces
to
descend
on
the
whales
,
these
three
headsmen
were
as
captains
of
companies
.
Or
,
being
armed
with
their
long
keen
whaling
spears
,
they
were
as
a
picked
trio
of
lancers
;
even
as
the
harpooneers
were
flingers
of
javelins
.
And
since
in
this
famous
fishery
,
each
mate
or
headsman
,
like
a
Gothic
Knight
of
old
,
is
always
accompanied
by
his
boat-steerer
or
harpooneer
,
who
in
certain
conjunctures
provides
him
with
a
fresh
lance
,
when
the
former
one
has
been
badly
twisted
,
or
elbowed
in
the
assault
;
and
moreover
,
as
there
generally
subsists
between
the
two
,
a
close
intimacy
and
friendliness
;
it
is
therefore
but
meet
,
that
in
this
place
we
set
down
who
the
Pequod
's
harpooneers
were
,
and
to
what
headsman
each
of
them
belonged
.
First
of
all
was
Queequeg
,
whom
Starbuck
,
the
chief
mate
,
had
selected
for
his
squire
.
But
Queequeg
is
already
known
.
Next
was
Tashtego
,
an
unmixed
Indian
from
Gay
Head
,
the
most
westerly
promontory
of
Martha
's
Vineyard
,
where
there
still
exists
the
last
remnant
of
a
village
of
red
men
,
which
has
long
supplied
the
neighboring
island
of
Nantucket
with
many
of
her
most
daring
harpooneers
.
In
the
fishery
,
they
usually
go
by
the
generic
name
of
Gay-Headers
.
Tashtego
's
long
,
lean
,
sable
hair
,
his
high
cheek
bones
,
and
black
rounding
eyes
--
for
an
Indian
,
Oriental
in
their
largeness
,
but
Antarctic
in
their
glittering
expression
--
all
this
sufficiently
proclaimed
him
an
inheritor
of
the
unvitiated
blood
of
those
proud
warrior
hunters
,
who
,
in
quest
of
the
great
New
England
moose
,
had
scoured
,
bow
in
hand
,
the
aboriginal
forests
of
the
main
.
But
no
longer
snuffing
in
the
trail
of
the
wild
beasts
of
the
woodland
,
Tashtego
now
hunted
in
the
wake
of
the
great
whales
of
the
sea
;
the
unerring
harpoon
of
the
son
fitly
replacing
the
infallible
arrow
of
the
sires
.
To
look
at
the
tawny
brawn
of
his
lithe
snaky
limbs
,
you
would
almost
have
credited
the
superstitions
of
some
of
the
earlier
Puritans
and
half-believed
this
wild
Indian
to
be
a
son
of
the
Prince
of
the
Powers
of
the
Air
.
Tashtego
was
Stubb
the
second
mate
's
squire
.
Third
among
the
harpooneers
was
Daggoo
,
a
gigantic
,
coal-black
negro-savage
,
with
a
lion-like
tread
--
an
Ahasuerus
to
behold
.
Suspended
from
his
ears
were
two
golden
hoops
,
so
large
that
the
sailors
called
them
ringbolts
,
and
would
talk
of
securing
the
top-sail
halyards
to
them
.
In
his
youth
Daggoo
had
voluntarily
shipped
on
board
of
a
whaler
,
lying
in
a
lonely
bay
on
his
native
coast
.
And
never
having
been
anywhere
in
the
world
but
in
Africa
,
Nantucket
,
and
the
pagan
harbors
most
frequented
by
the
whalemen
;
and
having
now
led
for
many
years
the
bold
life
of
the
fishery
in
the
ships
of
owners
uncommonly
heedful
of
what
manner
of
men
they
shipped
;
Daggoo
retained
all
his
barbaric
virtues
,
and
erect
as
a
giraffe
,
moved
about
the
decks
in
all
the
pomp
of
six
feet
five
in
his
socks
.
There
was
a
corporeal
humility
in
looking
up
at
him
;
and
a
white
man
standing
before
him
seemed
a
white
flag
come
to
beg
truce
of
a
fortress
.
Curious
to
tell
,
this
imperial
negro
,
Ahasuerus
Daggoo
,
was
the
Squire
of
little
Flask
,
who
looked
like
a
chess-man
beside
him
.
As
for
the
residue
of
the
Pequod
's
company
,
be
it
said
,
that
at
the
present
day
not
one
in
two
of
the
many
thousand
men
before
the
mast
employed
in
the
American
whale
fishery
,
are
Americans
born
,
though
pretty
nearly
all
the
officers
are
.
Herein
it
is
the
same
with
the
American
whale
fishery
as
with
the
American
army
and
military
and
merchant
navies
,
and
the
engineering
forces
employed
in
the
construction
of
the
American
Canals
and
Railroads
.
The
same
,
I
say
,
because
in
all
these
cases
the
native
American
literally
provides
the
brains
,
the
rest
of
the
world
as
generously
supplying
the
muscles
.
No
small
number
of
these
whaling
seamen
belong
to
the
Azores
,
where
the
outward
bound
Nantucket
whalers
frequently
touch
to
augment
their
crews
from
the
hardy
peasants
of
those
rocky
shores
.
In
like
manner
,
the
Greenland
whalers
sailing
out
of
Hull
or
London
,
put
in
at
the
Shetland
Islands
,
to
receive
the
full
complement
of
their
crew
.
Upon
the
passage
homewards
,
they
drop
them
there
again
.
How
it
is
,
there
is
no
telling
,
but
Islanders
seem
to
make
the
best
whalemen
.
They
were
nearly
all
Islanders
in
the
Pequod
,
Isolatoes
too
,
I
call
such
,
not
acknowledging
the
common
continent
of
men
,
but
each
Isolato
living
on
a
separate
continent
of
his
own
.
Yet
now
,
federated
along
one
keel
,
what
a
set
these
Isolatoes
were
!
An
Anacharsis
Clootz
deputation
from
all
the
isles
of
the
sea
,
and
all
the
ends
of
the
earth
,
accompanying
Old
Ahab
in
the
Pequod
to
lay
the
world
's
grievances
before
that
bar
from
which
not
very
many
of
them
ever
come
back
.
Black
Little
Pip
--
he
never
did
--
oh
,
no
!
he
went
before
.
Poor
Alabama
boy
!
On
the
grim
Pequod
's
forecastle
,
ye
shall
ere
long
see
him
,
beating
his
tambourine
;
prelusive
of
the
eternal
time
,
when
sent
for
,
to
the
great
quarter-deck
on
high
,
he
was
bid
strike
in
with
angels
,
and
beat
his
tambourine
in
glory
;
called
a
coward
here
,
hailed
a
hero
there
!
