burial canoe queequegs desired
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- A special canoe, made of dark wood and lacking a keel, that Queequeg explicitly desires to serve as his coffin, reflecting both Nantucket customs and his native traditions.
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- without a keel
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- dark wood, war-wood
- purpose
- coffin
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- Queequeg's desire for a canoe-coffin is partly inspired by the burial custom he observed for whalemen in Nantucket.
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- while in Nantucket he had chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all whalemen who died in Nantucket, were laid in those same dark canoes
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- 2026-03-02T00:08:02.366Z
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