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Knights and Squires.
Stubb was the second mate.

He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.

A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.

Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.