Tashtigo, the Squire of Little Flasks

Tashtigo was stubb, the second mate's squire. Third among the harpooners was dago, a gigantic, coal black man with a lion like tread. Suspended from his ears were two golden hoops so large that the sailors called them ring bolts and would talk of securing the topsail halliards to them. In his socks, there was a corporal humility in looking up at him. And a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, dago was the squire of little flask who looked like a chessman beside him. As for the residue of the pequods company, be it