MDMD2: Tyburn (Wapping)

[Terrance]

In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport
will
frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts
from
foreign parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets,
Mediterranean
mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent
Street is
not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the
Apollo Green,
live Yankees have often scared the natives. But New Bedford
beats
all Water Street and Wapping. In these last-mentioned haunts
you see
only sailors; in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand
chatting at
street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on
their
bones unholy flesh. It makes a stranger stare.

M-D, Chapter Six, "The Street"