Not P but Moby-Dick (53)

[Mike Jing]

>From Chapter 68:

By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in
particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian
characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of
the Upper Mississippi.

The "plate" here means a page of illustrations, is that correct? This sense
was used quite a few times in the book. The previous Chinese translations
all interpreted it as a stone tablet, which I think is wrong.