'Tis the Beginning of a Manx'

Stubb: I see nothing here but a round thing made of gold. Whoever raises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. It's about worth 16 dollars, and at two cents the cigar, that's 960 cigars. The lion is the horseshoe sign, the roaring and devouring lion ship. There's another rendering now, but still one text. All sorts of men in one kind of world. Here comes queakweg all tattooing. Looks like the signs of the zodiac himself. What says the cannibal? As i live, he's comparing notes, looking at his thigh bone. Thinks the sun is in the thigh, or in the calf