Not P but Moby-Dick (3)

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Unbaptized?
> 
> Am 02.08.2023 um 07:02 schrieb Mike Jing:
> 
> > The following excerpt is from Chapter 6:
> > 
> > In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but 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.
> > 
> > What does "yet carry on their bones unholy flesh" mean here? All five
> > previous Chinese translations I have consulted interpreted it as being
> > naked, but I don't think it's correct.
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