Chapter 27: Knights and Squires

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌⁠Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year. Good-humored, easy, and careless, he preside