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Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then\r\njerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what\r\nseemed a peculiarly ferocious shark—he was provided with still another\r\nprotection. Suspended over the side in one of the stages, Tashtego and\r\nDaggoo continually flourished over his head a couple of keen\r\nwhale-spades, wherewith they slaughtered as many sharks as they could\r\nreach. This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and\r\nbenevolent of them. They meant Queequeg’s best happiness, I admit; but\r\nin their hasty zeal to befriend him, and from the circumstance that\r\nboth he and the sharks were at times half hidden by the blood-muddled\r\nwater, those indiscreet spades of theirs would come nearer amputating a\r\nleg than a tail. But poor Queequeg, I suppose, straining and gasping\r\nthere with that great iron hook—poor Queequeg, I suppose, only prayed\r\nto his Yojo, and gave up his life into the hands of his gods.\r\n\r\nWell, well, my dear comrade and twin-brother, thought I, as I drew in\r\nand then slacked off the rope to every swell of the sea—what matters\r\nit, after all? Are you not the precious image of each and all of us men\r\nin this whaling world? That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those\r\nsharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks\r\nand spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.\r\n\r\nBut courage! there is good cheer in store for you, Queequeg. For now,\r\nas with blue lips and blood-shot eyes the exhausted savage at last\r\nclimbs up the chains and stands all dripping and involuntarily\r\ntrembling over the side; the steward advances, and with a benevolent,\r\nconsolatory glance hands him—what? Some hot Cognac? No! hands him, ye\r\ngods! hands him a cup of tepid ginger and water!\r\n\r\n“Ginger? Do I smell ginger?” suspiciously asked Stubb, coming near.\r\n“Yes, this must be ginger,” peering into the as yet untasted cup. Then\r\nstanding as if incredulous for a while, he calmly walked towards the\r\nastonished steward slowly saying, “Ginger? ginger? and will you have\r\nthe goodness to tell me, Mr. Dough-Boy, where lies the virtue of\r\nginger? Ginger! is ginger the sort of fuel you use, Dough-boy, to\r\nkindle a fire in this shivering cannibal? Ginger!—what the devil is\r\nginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what\r\nthe devil is ginger, I say, that you offer this cup to our poor\r\nQueequeg here.”\r\n\r\n“There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this\r\nbusiness,” he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just\r\ncome from forward. “Will you look at that kannakin, sir: smell of it,\r\nif you please.” Then watching the mate’s countenance, he added, “The\r\nsteward, Mr. Starbuck, had the face to offer that calomel and jalap to\r\nQueequeg, there, this instant off the whale. Is the steward an\r\napothecary, sir? and may I ask whether this is the sort of bitters by\r\nwhich he blows back the life into a half-drowned man?”\r\n\r\n“I trust not,” said Starbuck, “it is poor stuff enough.”\r\n\r\n“Aye, aye, steward,” cried Stubb, “we’ll teach you to drug a\r\nharpooneer; none of your apothecary’s medicine here; you want to poison\r\nus, do ye? You have got out insurances on our lives and want to murder\r\nus all, and pocket the proceeds, do ye?”\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFNR84F5XSSB9Y6NYRZZS5MA","peer_label":"72","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFNR84F5XSSB9Y6NYRZZS5MA","peer_label":"72","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR81RMVAX2BBMMBW51V97D","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR0H0Q791Y1SMZWEQ09FGV","peer_label":"Moby Dick","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KFNR89H2RKE227AD2CG33T6A","peer_label":"Chunk 4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"},{"peer":"01KFNR89KG4KM0NC95WYZ5AJTT","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:05.533Z","ts":"2026-01-23T15:41:17.691Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}