Where in Your Wisdom Do You Go, Ishmael?

"I was made up to sail in no other than nantucket craft. Because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island," he writes. "Where else but from nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen first sally out in canoes to give chase to the leviathan? And where but from nantsucket too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones, to throw at the whales?" says Ishmael.