Chapter 12: Biographical

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​‌​​​​⁠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.

When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or