1 They were stains of some sort or other.
2 By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz.
3 But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
4 Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.
5 In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
6 I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer.
7 If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
8 With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
9 But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
10 It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
11 For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.
12 I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
13 Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
14 All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.
15 And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads ME that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to ME, as a pilot of the living God.
16 But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.
17 Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room.
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