“and why didn’t you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?”

“I thought ye know’d it; — didn’t I tell ye, he was a peddlin’ heads around town?

— but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look here — you sabbee me, I sabbee — you this man sleepe you — you sabbee?”

“Me sabbee plenty” — grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and sitting up in bed.

“You gettee in,” he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What’s