url for book review: Indians & English: Facing Off in Early America

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Thomas Eckhardt schrieb:

> And it is not an accident that Ahab's whaler is named "Pequod". Or is it?


  no, it isn't: "... p e q u o d, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a 
  celebrated tribe of massachusetts indians, now extinct as the ancient medes."

                                                    (chapter 16, the ship)

    kai, readin' moby dick, leavin' for the sea again soon ... 

ps: the interaction between peleg and bildad reminds me of dixon & mason.