Queequeg - A New Bedford, Chapter Six, the Street

New bedford beats all water street and wapping. In these last mentioned haunts, you see only sailors. But in new bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners. It makes a stranger stare. No town bred dandy will compare with a country bred one. Many are as green as the green mountains. Whence they came in? Some you would think them but a few hours old. Look there, that chap strutting round the corner. He wears a beaver hat and sallow tailed coat,. girdled with a sailor belt and sheaf knife. Here comes another with a sioux wester and a bombazine cloak. They are mostly young