tie he soon evinced himself to be linked with Ahab's peculiar fortunes; nay, so far as to have some sort
of a half-hinted influence; Heaven knows, but it might have been even authority over him; all this none
knew, but one cannot sustain an indifferent air concerning Fedallah. He was such a creature as civilized,
domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom
now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles to the east
of the continent- those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days
still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the
first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed
each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what
end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the
devils also, add the uncanonical Robbins, indulged in mundane amours.