Chapter 23: The Lee Shore

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌⁠Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.

When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voya