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1. Melville, like this character from his novel "Typee," jumped ship and lived with the cannibals.
2. A one time school teacher, this sailor reasons that idol worship is in accord with the golden rule.
3. "He was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
4. He "lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly bears lived in settled Missouri."
5. He is "pitiably respectable" and intends no insolence, and yet he would "prefer not."
6. This "unblest foundling" is a great artist "wrapped in lofty schemes."
7. He is cleanly cut as a Greek medallion and has silken jet curls and a foreign accent.
8. He is blonde, with a rosy complexion, and looks like a statue of young Adam before the fall.
9. This small, rude faced man in wide trousers asks, "From its skeleton, can you tell it is a white man's?"
10. His heart is broken by his friend's death, and he is like one flayed alive; there is no spot where he can be touched without smarting. He constantly chews on his fingernails, and his voice has degenerated to a mere husky whisper.
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