[DUMBGRUNT]

It’s signed by a Jacob Anderson, who was noted in port record upon departure from the U.S. as an 18-year-old African-American, an ethnicity he shared with one in six American whalers by the 1850s.

So now my hero, Queequeg is African-American???

Say it ain't so!

[Fred Nerks]

Queeqeug, the fictional character was the son of a South Sea cannibal chieftan...

[Fred Nerks]

HERE BE CANNIBALS

CANNIBALISM IN POLYNESIA: THE DEMISE OF CAPTAIN COOK

http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/polynesi.html