The Spouter-Inn

[ladychapel]

There's no room at the inn so Ishmael has to share a bed with a mysterious, tattooed, heathen harponeer who has been going around town selling embalmed heads. That would be Queequeg. Ishmael is at first reluctant to bunk with such a man but eventually agrees. "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian," he reasons.