Knights and Squires

           ThechiefmateofthePequodwasStarbuck,anativeofNantucket,andaQuakerbydescent.Hewasalong,earnestman,andthoughbornonanicycoast,seemedwelladaptedtoendurehotlatitudes,hisfleshbeinghardastwice-bakedbiscuit.TransportedtotheIndies,hislivebloodwouldnotspoillikebottledale.Hemusthavebeenborninsometimeofgeneraldroughtandfamine,orupononeofthosefastdaysforwhichhisstateisfamous.Onlysomethirtyandsummershadheseen;thosesummershaddriedupallhisphysicalsuperfluousness.Butthis,histhinness,sotospeak,seemednomorethetokenofwastinganxietiesandcares,thanitseemedtheindicationofanybodilyblight.Itwasmerelythecondensationoftheman.Hewasbynomeansill-looking;quitethecontrary.Hispuretightskinwasanexcellentfit;andcloselywrappedupinit,andembalmedwithinnerhealthandstrength,likearevivifiedEgyptian,thisStarbuckseemedpreparedtoendureforlongagestocome,andtoendurealways,asnow;forbeitPolarsnowortorridsun,likeapatentchronometer,hisinteriorvitalitywaswarrantedtodowellinallclimates.Lookingintohiseves,youseemedtoseetheretheyetlingeringimagesofthosethousand-foldperilshehadcalmlyconfrontedthroughlife.Astaid,steadfastman,whoselifeforthemostpartwasatellingpantomimeofaction,andnotatamechapterofsounds.Yet,forallhishardysobrietyandfortitude,therewerecertainqualitiesinhimwhichattimesaffected,andinsomecasesseemedwellnightooverbalancealltherest.Uncommonlyconscientiousforaseaman,andenduedwithadeepnaturalreverence,thewildwaterylonelinessofhislifedidthereforestronglyinclinehimtosuperstition;buttothatsortofsuperstition,whichinsomeorganizationseemsrathertospring,somehow,fromintelligencethanfromignorance.Outwardportentsandinwardpresentimentswerehis.

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