SKYPOOF

Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord... I have hinted that I would often jerk poor Queequeg from between the whale and the ship-where he would occasionally fall, from the incessant rolling and swaying of both. But this was not the only jamming jeopardy he was expo... So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that while earnestly watching his motions.

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