Queequeg's X Mark

Queequeg was soon enrolled among the same ship's company to which i myself belonged. When all preliminaries were over and peeleg had got everything ready for signing, he turned to me and said, i guess cohog there don't know how to write, does he? I say, cohog, blast ye. Dost thou sign thy name or make thy mark? But at this question, queequeg looked no ways abashed. He copied upon the paper in the proper place an exact counterpart of a queer, round figure,. so that, through captain peleg's obstinate mistake touching his apalative, it stood something like this, cohawk, his