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Exercise Moby Dick
Exercise Moby Dick
Exercise Moby Dick
The place in New Bedford where Ishmael chooses to stay during the time he must wait
for a ship to take him to Nantucket.
Nantucket
It is the original center of the whaling business and where the first dead American whale
was stranded.
QueeQueg's harpoon
A whaling weapon that the cannibal harpooner uses for many things.
Yojo
A small black idol to which QueeQueg pays homage each night.
The Pequod
The whaling ship upon which QueeQueg and Ishmael sign up for a three-year whaling
voyage.