{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "moby-dick",
  "title": "Moby Dick",
  "author": "Herman Melville",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Usher",
      "aliases": [
        "Late Consumptive Usher"
      ],
      "description": "A consumptive grammar-school usher who supplies the etymology."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sub-Sub-Librarian",
      "aliases": [
        "Sub-Sub"
      ],
      "description": "A researcher who gathered whale extracts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gabriel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An archangel named in an extract."
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An archangel named alongside Gabriel and Raphael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Raphael",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An archangel named alongside Gabriel and Michael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Leviathan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A monstrous sea creature identified as a whale or sea serpent."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical prophet whose story is recounted."
    },
    {
      "name": "Montaigne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author quoted in the extracts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rabelais",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author quoted in the extracts."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Henry",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A king quoted in the extracts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hamlet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A character quoted in the extracts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spencer’s Talus",
      "aliases": [
        "Talus"
      ],
      "description": "A figure invoked in a poem in the extracts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cato",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Roman figure Ishmael compares with himself."
    },
    {
      "name": "Narcissus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A mythic figure whose story Ishmael uses to frame the sea’s symbolism."
    },
    {
      "name": "Paul",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A biblical figure cited by Ishmael and Father Mapple."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dives",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The rich man in a biblical parable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lazarus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The poor man in a biblical parable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ishmael",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The narrator, a Pequod sailor and Queequeg’s friend, survives the wreck on Queequeg’s coffin life-buoy and is rescued by the Rachel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nathan Swain",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A whaleman credited with killing fifteen whales in a day."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Coffin",
      "aliases": [
        "Coffin"
      ],
      "description": "The Spouter-Inn landlord who arranges Ishmael’s lodging."
    },
    {
      "name": "Landlord of the Spouter-Inn",
      "aliases": [
        "Landlord"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed keeper of the Spouter-Inn, married to Sal."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young seaman carving a ship",
      "aliases": [
        "Ruminating tar"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed sailor carving a ship into a wooden settle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young seaman in a green box coat",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed diner at the Spouter-Inn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonah of the Spouter-Inn",
      "aliases": [
        "Wrinkled little old Jonah",
        "Bar-tender"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed old man who serves drinks at the Spouter-Inn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bulkington",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A powerful sailor from the Grampus who later joins the Pequod."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg",
      "aliases": [
        "Harpooneer",
        "Quohog",
        "Hedgehog"
      ],
      "description": "A harpooneer from Rokovoko and Ishmael’s friend aboard the Pequod; he offers his coffin as a life-buoy, which ultimately saves Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ishmael’s stepmother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who raised Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ishmael’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman Ishmael recalls from childhood."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ledyard",
      "aliases": [
        "John Ledyard"
      ],
      "description": "A New England traveller cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mungo Park",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Scottish traveller cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "New Bedford chaplain",
      "aliases": [
        "Father Mapple"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly chaplain and former sailor who preaches on Jonah."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Talbot",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A whaleman lost overboard near Patagonia."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Long",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew lost to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Willis Ellery",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew lost to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nathan Coleman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew lost to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Canny",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew lost to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Seth Macy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew lost to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Samuel Gleig",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew lost to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Ezekiel Hardy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A whaling captain killed by a sperm whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Talbot’s sister",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who erected a memorial to her brother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Surviving shipmates of the Eliza’s boat crew",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed sailors who memorialized six lost crewmates."
    },
    {
      "name": "Widow of Captain Ezekiel Hardy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who erected a memorial to her husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "General Washington",
      "aliases": [
        "George Washington"
      ],
      "description": "The American general and president Ishmael compares to Queequeg."
    },
    {
      "name": "High Chief of Rokovoko",
      "aliases": [
        "King",
        "Queequeg’s father"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s father, a king and high chief."
    },
    {
      "name": "High Priest of Rokovoko",
      "aliases": [
        "Queequeg’s uncle"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s uncle, the high priest."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s aunts",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Queequeg’s unnamed maternal aunts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sag Harbor captain",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed captain whose ship visited Queequeg’s father’s bay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Czar Peter",
      "aliases": [
        "Peter the Great"
      ],
      "description": "The Russian ruler Ishmael compares with Queequeg."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "Princess of Rokovoko"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s younger sister, a princess."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain at Queequeg’s sister’s wedding",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed merchant-ship commander who attends the wedding."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Tarshish ship",
      "aliases": [
        "Jonah’s Captain"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed captain who takes Jonah aboard."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonah’s shipmates",
      "aliases": [
        "Mariners aboard the Tarshish ship"
      ],
      "description": "The sailors who cast lots and throw Jonah overboard."
    },
    {
      "name": "Greenhorn on the Moss",
      "aliases": [
        "Young bumpkin"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed passenger rescued from the sea by Queequeg."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Moss",
      "aliases": [
        "Moss captain"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed captain who rebukes Queequeg, then apologizes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Parents of the lost Indian infant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The unnamed parents in Nantucket’s settlement legend."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hosea Hussey",
      "aliases": [
        "Cousin Hosea"
      ],
      "description": "Proprietor of the Try Pots and husband of Mrs. Hussey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Hussey",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The woman who runs the Try Pots while her husband is away."
    },
    {
      "name": "Man in the purple woollen shirt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man Mrs. Hussey scolds outside the Try Pots."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hosea Hussey’s brindled cow",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A cow that feeds on fish remnants."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young Stiggs",
      "aliases": [
        "Stiggs"
      ],
      "description": "A whaleman found dead at the Try Pots."
    },
    {
      "name": "Yojo",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Queequeg’s wooden god, consulted about choosing a ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Peleg",
      "aliases": [
        "Peleg"
      ],
      "description": "A retired whaleman and Pequod owner who ships Ishmael and Queequeg."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bildad",
      "aliases": [
        "Bildad"
      ],
      "description": "A retired whaleman and Pequod owner who helps fit out the ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Ahab",
      "aliases": [
        "Ahab",
        "Old Thunder"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s captain, maimed by Moby Dick and consumed by revenge. He dies when his harpoon line catches around his neck and pulls him into the sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ahab’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "Widowed mother of Ahab"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed widow who died when Ahab was a year old."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tistig",
      "aliases": [
        "Squaw Tistig"
      ],
      "description": "An old Indigenous woman said to have foretold the significance of Ahab’s name."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ahab’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Ahab’s sweet, resigned girl"
      ],
      "description": "Ahab’s unnamed wife, whom he left the day after their marriage to sail for Cape Horn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ahab’s child",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Ahab’s unnamed young son, who lives at home with his mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman",
      "aliases": [
        "Deacon Deuteronomy"
      ],
      "description": "A deacon associated with Nantucket’s meeting-house."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nat Swaine",
      "aliases": [
        "young Nat Swaine"
      ],
      "description": "A Nantucket boat-header whose courage Peleg says faded after a religious conversion."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elijah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A shabby sailor who cryptically warns Ishmael and Queequeg about the Pequod."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bildad’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "Charity",
        "Aunt Charity"
      ],
      "description": "A kindhearted Quaker woman and Pequod shareholder who sends ginger drink aboard."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old rigger",
      "aliases": [
        "Rigger"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly Pequod rigger who tells Ishmael and Queequeg the ship sails that day."
    },
    {
      "name": "Starbuck",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Starbuck"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s chief mate, who challenges Ahab’s pursuit and assists him during the final chase. He has a wife, Mary, and a young son at home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stubb",
      "aliases": [
        "Second mate"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s easygoing second mate, known for humor and whaling skill; he survives the White Whale’s attacks on his boat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Steward of the Pequod",
      "aliases": [
        "Steward",
        "Dough-Boy"
      ],
      "description": "A nervous crew member responsible for the ship’s pantry."
    },
    {
      "name": "Flask",
      "aliases": [
        "Third mate",
        "King-Post"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s short, stout third mate and whaleboat headsman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tashtego",
      "aliases": [
        "Stubb’s squire",
        "Gay-Header"
      ],
      "description": "A Gay-Head harpooneer and Stubb’s boat-steerer, rescued by Queequeg from a whale’s case; he is lost with the sinking Pequod while nailing its flag to the mast."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daggoo",
      "aliases": [
        "Ahasuerus Daggoo",
        "Flask’s squire"
      ],
      "description": "A gigantic African harpooneer and Flask’s boat-steerer."
    },
    {
      "name": "Black Little Pip",
      "aliases": [
        "Little Pip",
        "Pip"
      ],
      "description": "An Alabama boy aboard the Pequod who is left behind at sea, rescued, and thereafter regarded by the crew as mad. Ahab takes him into his cabin and feels an intense bond with him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tashtego’s senior",
      "aliases": [
        "Old Gay-Head Indian"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed elderly crewman who recalls Ahab’s facial mark."
    },
    {
      "name": "Grey Manxman",
      "aliases": [
        "old Manxman"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly sailor from the Isle of Man, on his first Nantucket voyage; he holds the reel when the log-line breaks and interprets cries at sea as voices of drowned men."
    },
    {
      "name": "Simeon Macey",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Ishmael’s Nantucket messmate, who disputes Linnæus’s whale classification."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charley Coffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Ishmael’s Nantucket messmate, who disputes Linnæus’s classification."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Scoresby",
      "aliases": [
        "Scoresby"
      ],
      "description": "A whaling captain and author cited on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Surgeon Beale",
      "aliases": [
        "Beale"
      ],
      "description": "A South-Sea whaling-ship surgeon and author."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cuvier",
      "aliases": [
        "the great Cuvier",
        "Baron Cuvier"
      ],
      "description": "A naturalist cited on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Hunter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A zoologist and anatomist cited on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lesson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist cited on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Aristotle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pliny",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Aldrovandi",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Thomas Browne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gesner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ray",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Linnæus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist whose whale classification Ishmael discusses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rondeletius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Willoughby",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Green",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Artedi",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sibbald",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brisson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Marten",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lacépède",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bonneterre",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Frederick Cuvier",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Owen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A whale author cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bennett",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A South-Sea whaling-ship surgeon and author."
    },
    {
      "name": "J. Ross Browne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Author of Miriam Coffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Olmstead",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rev. T. Cheever",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A clergyman and author listed among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cook",
      "aliases": [
        "James Cook"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vancouver",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An explorer cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Krusenstern",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An explorer cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis XVI",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The king of France, said to have supported whaling."
    },
    {
      "name": "Edmund Burke",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A British statesman cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Other",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Norwegian whale-hunter whose account Ishmael says Alfred recorded."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alfred the Great",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The English king whom Ishmael credits with recording Other’s account."
    },
    {
      "name": "Benjamin Franklin",
      "aliases": [
        "noble Benjamin"
      ],
      "description": "An American whose grandmother belonged to a Nantucket family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary Morrel",
      "aliases": [
        "Mary Folger"
      ],
      "description": "Benjamin Franklin’s grandmother, from an old Nantucket family."
    },
    {
      "name": "Czar",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unspecified ruler invoked by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Anacharsis Clootz",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A revolutionary figure compared with the Pequod’s international crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bunyan",
      "aliases": [
        "John Bunyan"
      ],
      "description": "A writer invoked by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cervantes",
      "aliases": [
        "Miguel de Cervantes"
      ],
      "description": "A writer invoked by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andrew Jackson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An American president and general invoked by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Badger-haired old merman",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Humpback"
      ],
      "description": "A merman in Stubb’s dream who persuades him to accept Ahab’s kick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moby Dick",
      "aliases": [
        "White Whale"
      ],
      "description": "The white sperm whale that took Ahab’s leg and is the target of his revenge; he destroys the Pequod and its boats, killing Ahab and the crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Sleet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Greenland whaling captain who designed a crow’s-nest."
    },
    {
      "name": "Obed Macy",
      "aliases": [
        "Obed Macy, the sole historian of Nantucket"
      ],
      "description": "A Nantucket historian cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saint Stylites",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient Christian hermit who lived atop a pillar."
    },
    {
      "name": "Napoleon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler represented by a statue on the Vendôme Column."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Philippe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler Ishmael names in discussing France."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Blanc",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A political leader Ishmael names in discussing France."
    },
    {
      "name": "Admiral Nelson",
      "aliases": [
        "Nelson"
      ],
      "description": "A British admiral represented by a statue in Trafalgar Square."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nicholas the Czar",
      "aliases": [
        "Nicholas"
      ],
      "description": "A czar invoked as an example of imperial authority."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cæsar",
      "aliases": [
        "Caesar"
      ],
      "description": "A Roman ruler invoked by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Belshazzar",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The king of Babylon, invoked by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "German Emperor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed emperor in Ishmael’s comparison of formal meals."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pope",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed pope invoked by Ahab as a powerful leader who serves beggars."
    },
    {
      "name": "1st Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "First Nantucket sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who leads a forecastle song."
    },
    {
      "name": "2nd Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "Second Nantucket sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who calls Pip to strike the bell."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dutch sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who jokes about the crew’s singing."
    },
    {
      "name": "French sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who urges dancing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Iceland sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who objects to dancing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Maltese sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who jokes about wanting dance partners."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sicilian sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who encourages dancing and warns Ahab his hat is about to be taken by a hawk."
    },
    {
      "name": "Long-Island sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who urges dancing and remarks on Queequeg’s coffin."
    },
    {
      "name": "Azore sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who brings Pip’s tambourine."
    },
    {
      "name": "China sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who tells Pip to rattle his teeth."
    },
    {
      "name": "3rd Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "Third Nantucket sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who asks Tashtego for a puff of his pipe."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lascar sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who invokes Brahma and Seeva during a storm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tahitan sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who recalls Tahitian dancing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Portuguese sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who warns the crew to reef sail."
    },
    {
      "name": "Danish sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who remarks on the ship in a storm."
    },
    {
      "name": "4th Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "Fourth Nantucket sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who recalls Ahab’s order about squalls."
    },
    {
      "name": "English sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who praises Ahab and rallies the crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanish sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who fights Daggoo."
    },
    {
      "name": "St. Jago’s sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who comments on Daggoo’s quarrel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Belfast sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who cheers the fight."
    },
    {
      "name": "Childe Harold",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A melancholy poetic wanderer imagined by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cranmer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure whose ashes Ishmael compares to a scattering across the world."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cain",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical first murderer, invoked by the Old Manx Sailor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Abel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Cain’s biblical brother, invoked by the Old Manx Sailor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brahma",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Hindu deity named by the Lascar sailor and in a creation story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Seeva",
      "aliases": [
        "Shiva"
      ],
      "description": "A Hindu deity named by the Lascar sailor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cabaco",
      "aliases": [
        "Cholo"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor whom Archy asks about a noise below the hatches."
    },
    {
      "name": "Archy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Pequod sailor on the water-bucket line who hears a noise beneath the hatches."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Quakeress",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman whose knitting needles Cabaco jokes that Archy once claimed to hear at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lieutenant Maury",
      "aliases": [
        "Maury"
      ],
      "description": "An officer of the National Observatory whose circular reports a whale-migration chart in progress."
    },
    {
      "name": "Olassen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A book naturalist cited for claims about sperm whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Povelson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A book naturalist cited for claims about sperm whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Timor Tom",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous whale said to have prowled the Oriental straits of Timor."
    },
    {
      "name": "New Zealand Jack",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous whale feared by cruisers near New Zealand."
    },
    {
      "name": "Morquan",
      "aliases": [
        "King of Japan"
      ],
      "description": "A famous whale said to be the terror of Japanese waters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Don Miguel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous Chilean whale marked with patterns on its back."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Butler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A captain who set out to capture the Indigenous warrior Annawon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Annawon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A celebrated warrior of the Indian King Philip, pursued by Captain Butler."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Pollard",
      "aliases": [
        "Pollard"
      ],
      "description": "Commander of the Essex when a sperm whale sank it; he later lost another ship and left the sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Owen Chace",
      "aliases": [
        "Chace"
      ],
      "description": "Chief mate of the Essex who wrote an account of its sinking by a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Son of Owen Chace",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man with whom Ishmael says he discussed the Essex tragedy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Commodore J——",
      "aliases": [
        "Commodore"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed American naval commander whose warship was damaged by a sperm whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saul of Tarsus",
      "aliases": [
        "Saul"
      ],
      "description": "The biblical figure Ishmael invokes as converted by a fright."
    },
    {
      "name": "Langsdorff",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Langsdorff"
      ],
      "description": "An author whose voyage account describes a whale striking a ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain D’Wolf",
      "aliases": [
        "D’Wolf"
      ],
      "description": "A New England sea captain whose ship was lifted by a whale; Ishmael’s uncle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lionel Wafer",
      "aliases": [
        "Lionel"
      ],
      "description": "A voyager whose account describes a violent shock to a ship at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dampier",
      "aliases": [
        "William Dampier"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer and old companion of Lionel Wafer."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Davis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A captain aboard Lionel Wafer’s ship, thrown from his cabin by a shock at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Procopius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A sixth-century magistrate and historian who records a sea monster that destroyed ships."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justinian",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The emperor during Procopius’s lifetime."
    },
    {
      "name": "Belisarius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A general during the reign of Justinian."
    },
    {
      "name": "Commodore Davis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A British naval commodore said to have found a sperm-whale skeleton on the Barbary coast."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rinaldo Rinaldini",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famously irascible figure used as a comparison for notorious whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cambyses",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A king compared with famous whales who had names."
    },
    {
      "name": "Marius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Roman figure compared with famous whales in cetacean history."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sylla",
      "aliases": [
        "Sulla"
      ],
      "description": "A Roman figure compared with famous whales in cetacean history."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Pusie Hall",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed captain whose ship’s experience illustrates a sperm whale’s power."
    },
    {
      "name": "Comrades killed or maimed by Moby Dick",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed hunters killed or injured during encounters with the White Whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fedallah",
      "aliases": [
        "white-turbaned old man",
        "Old Oriental",
        "the Parsee"
      ],
      "description": "A mysterious Parsee harpooneer who joins Ahab’s boat crew and foretells that hearses must appear before Ahab dies. His corpse becomes entangled in Moby Dick’s lines and serves as the first hearse omen."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fedallah’s five boatmen",
      "aliases": [
        "Ahab’s five extra men",
        "five dusky phantoms",
        "subordinate phantoms"
      ],
      "description": "Five unnamed men who secretly crew Ahab’s personal whaleboat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pedro",
      "aliases": [
        "Don Pedro"
      ],
      "description": "A young Spaniard in the Golden Inn audience to whom Ishmael recounts the Town-Ho’s story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sebastian",
      "aliases": [
        "Don Sebastian"
      ],
      "description": "A young Spaniard in the Golden Inn audience who asks Ishmael questions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Goney",
      "aliases": [
        "Goney captain",
        "strange captain"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Nantucket whaler captain who cannot answer Ahab’s hail about Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Look-outs of the Goney",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Six unnamed long-absent whalemen at the Goney’s mast-heads."
    },
    {
      "name": "Town-Ho captain",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain of the Town-Ho"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed captain who imprisons mutineers and later resumes the voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Radney",
      "aliases": [
        "Mate of the Town-Ho"
      ],
      "description": "The Town-Ho’s overbearing chief mate and part-owner, killed by Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Steelkilt",
      "aliases": [
        "Lakeman",
        "Lakeman from Buffalo"
      ],
      "description": "A strong Buffalo sailor who leads a mutiny after Radney abuses him and later sees Moby Dick kill Radney."
    },
    {
      "name": "Three confederate white seamen of the Town-Ho",
      "aliases": [
        "Three white seamen"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed sailors who alone know the private part of the Town-Ho’s tragedy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanish friends at the Golden Inn",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Ishmael’s unnamed listeners in Lima, gathered to hear his Town-Ho account."
    },
    {
      "name": "First Canaller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Erie Canal boatman aboard the Town-Ho who joins Steelkilt’s supporters and later betrays him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second Canaller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Erie Canal boatman aboard the Town-Ho who joins Steelkilt’s supporters and later betrays him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Teneriffe man",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Town-Ho sailor who spots Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain’s one companion",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Town-Ho sailor who accompanies the captain to Tahiti for reinforcements."
    },
    {
      "name": "Widow of Radney",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman on Nantucket who mourns Radney and dreams of the White Whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Priest at the Golden Inn",
      "aliases": [
        "worthy priest"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Lima priest Don Sebastian fetches so Ishmael can swear to his account."
    },
    {
      "name": "Guido",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A painter whose depiction of Perseus and Andromeda’s sea-monster Ishmael criticizes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Perseus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The mythic hero shown rescuing Andromeda; Ishmael calls him the first whaleman."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andromeda",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A mythic woman shown being rescued by Perseus."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Hogarth",
      "aliases": [
        "Hogarth"
      ],
      "description": "A painter whose depiction of Perseus and Andromeda Ishmael criticizes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saladin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler invoked in Ishmael’s comparison of an armored dolphin sculpture."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saint George",
      "aliases": [
        "St. George"
      ],
      "description": "A saint whom Ishmael interprets as a whale-hunter who slew a dragon-whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vishnu",
      "aliases": [
        "Vishnoo"
      ],
      "description": "A Hindu deity whose incarnation as a whale rescued the sacred Vedas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Peterson of Friesland",
      "aliases": [
        "Peter Peterson"
      ],
      "description": "The master of a ship named in a Dutch whaling voyage title cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Colnett",
      "aliases": [
        "Colnett"
      ],
      "description": "An English naval captain and author whose whale illustration Ishmael finds inaccurate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Goldsmith",
      "aliases": [
        "Oliver Goldsmith"
      ],
      "description": "The author of Animated Nature, whose whale illustrations Ishmael criticizes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jeremy Bentham",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher whose skeleton Ishmael says conveys his personal appearance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Achilles",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Greek hero whose shield Ishmael compares to elaborate carvings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Durer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Dutch artist whose prints Ishmael invokes when discussing carved whale-bone art."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mendanna",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An explorer Ishmael says once trod the Soloma Islands."
    },
    {
      "name": "Figuera",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A chronicler who wrote about the Soloma Islands."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bishop Pontoppodan",
      "aliases": [
        "Pontoppodan"
      ],
      "description": "A bishop whose Kraken account Ishmael suggests may describe the squid."
    },
    {
      "name": "London beggar-whaleman",
      "aliases": [
        "crippled beggar",
        "kedger"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed former whaleman who displays an account of the whale attack in which he lost his leg."
    },
    {
      "name": "Huggins",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An author of one of the published sperm-whale outlines Ishmael discusses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Garnery",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A French painter whose whaling scenes Ishmael praises."
    },
    {
      "name": "H. Durand",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The signature on two French engravings of whaling scenes."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Old Manx Sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed sailor whose remarks invoke Cain and Abel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Korah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A biblical figure swallowed by the earth with his company."
    },
    {
      "name": "Noah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical patriarch whose flood Ishmael says has not truly subsided."
    },
    {
      "name": "Town-Ho mutineers",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed Town-Ho sailors who refuse work after the captain confines them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Town-Ho deserters",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed foremastmen who desert the Town-Ho at a remote island."
    },
    {
      "name": "Town-Ho islanders",
      "aliases": [
        "Islanders"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed local people whom the Town-Ho captain employs to help repair the ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tahiti reinforcements",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed Tahitian sailors recruited to help crew the Town-Ho."
    },
    {
      "name": "Living squid",
      "aliases": [
        "great live squid",
        "white ghost"
      ],
      "description": "A huge, pale, many-armed sea creature briefly seen by the Pequod’s crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kraken",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A legendary sea monster described by Bishop Pontoppodan."
    },
    {
      "name": "Town-Ho mate’s shipmate",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed sailor who asks Steelkilt what he is braiding while planning revenge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tashtego’s boat crew",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed oarsmen in Stubb’s whaleboat who help pursue and harpoon a sperm whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tub oarsman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed member of Stubb’s whaleboat crew who wets the running line."
    },
    {
      "name": "Forecastle seaman on anchor watch",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who joins Queequeg on anchor watch and helps kill sharks around a whale carcass."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fleece",
      "aliases": [
        "old Fleece",
        "Cook"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s elderly Black cook, whom Stubb summons to serve and discuss whale steak."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Mayhew",
      "aliases": [
        "Mayhew"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the Jeroboam, who tells Ahab how Gabriel gained influence and how Macey died."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gabriel of the Jeroboam",
      "aliases": [
        "Gabriel"
      ],
      "description": "A mentally ill sailor who claims to be the archangel Gabriel and opposes attacking Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Harry Macey",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Harry Macey",
        "Macey"
      ],
      "description": "The Jeroboam’s chief mate, killed by Moby Dick while attacking the whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wife of Harry Macey",
      "aliases": [
        "Macey’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who sends a letter to her deceased husband."
    },
    {
      "name": "Locke",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher invoked in Ishmael’s comparison about balancing opposing ideas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher invoked in Ishmael’s comparison about balancing opposing ideas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Derick De Deer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The German captain of the whaler Jungfrau, who joins a whale hunt and is thrown from his boat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old one-finned whale",
      "aliases": [
        "old bull"
      ],
      "description": "An aged, yellowish, blind whale with a missing or damaged fin, killed by the Pequod’s boats."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lavater",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A physiognomist cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gall",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A phrenologist cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spurzheim",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Gall’s disciple, cited in Ishmael’s discussion of phrenology."
    },
    {
      "name": "Phidias",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A sculptor whose statue of Jove Ishmael mentions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Shakespeare",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer whose brow Ishmael describes as exceptionally high."
    },
    {
      "name": "Melancthon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure whose brow Ishmael describes as exceptionally high."
    },
    {
      "name": "Champollion",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A scholar who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir William Jones",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A scholar who read thirty languages."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ohio honey-hunter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man who died after being drawn into a honey-filled hollow tree."
    },
    {
      "name": "Derick De Deer’s harpooneer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed German harpooneer thrown from the Jungfrau’s boat during the chase."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Sag-Harbor whaleman",
      "aliases": [
        "Sag-Harbor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed whaleman who doubts the historical story of Jonah and the whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bishop Jebb",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A bishop whose proposed explanation places Jonah temporarily in a whale’s mouth."
    },
    {
      "name": "German exegetist",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed German commentator who supposes Jonah took refuge in a dead whale’s floating body."
    },
    {
      "name": "French soldiers in the Russian campaign",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Soldiers mentioned as having sheltered inside dead horses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Continental commentators",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed commentators who propose that Jonah escaped to another nearby vessel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Portuguese Catholic priest",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed priest who proposes Jonah travelled to Nineveh by way of the Cape of Good Hope."
    },
    {
      "name": "Turks who believe in Jonah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "People mentioned as devout believers in Jonah’s historical story."
    },
    {
      "name": "English traveller in Harris’s Voyages",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed traveller who reports a Turkish mosque honoring Jonah."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bartholomew Diaz",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The reputed discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hercules",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Greek demigod said to have been swallowed and cast up by a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arion",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure in a tradition about a dolphin, mentioned alongside Hercules."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dagon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Philistine idol whose horse-like head and hands fell away before the Ark of Israel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ezekiel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The prophet whose words Ishmael reads as referring to a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cleopatra",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The queen whose barges are used in a comparison for fleeing whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jupiter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A god named as Perseus’s father and invoked in Ishmael’s reflections."
    },
    {
      "name": "Plato",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher invoked in Ishmael’s speculation about profound beings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pyrrho",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher invoked in Ishmael’s speculation about profound beings."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Devil",
      "aliases": [
        "Devil"
      ],
      "description": "A supernatural figure invoked in Ishmael’s reflections on profound beings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dante",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poet invoked in Ishmael’s reflections on profound beings."
    },
    {
      "name": "Eckerman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A devoted observer who lifted the linen sheet from Goethe’s corpse."
    },
    {
      "name": "Goethe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer whose physique is described by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Angelo",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An artist Ishmael names in discussing depictions of God the Father."
    },
    {
      "name": "Darmonodes’ elephant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An elephant said to have offered flowers and caresses to young women."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elephant that extracted the dart",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed elephant said to have removed a dart from its wound with its trunk."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Juba",
      "aliases": [
        "Juba"
      ],
      "description": "A king cited for the report that military elephants greeted the morning."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ptolemy Philopater",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler whom Ishmael cites as a witness regarding the African elephant."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Porus",
      "aliases": [
        "Porus"
      ],
      "description": "An Indian king whose elephants Ishmael compares with panicked whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alexander",
      "aliases": [
        "Alexander the Great"
      ],
      "description": "The conqueror whose battle with King Porus is mentioned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arnold at the battle of Saratoga",
      "aliases": [
        "Arnold"
      ],
      "description": "A mounted fighter whose desperate charge Ishmael compares to a wounded whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daniel Boone",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A frontiersman used as a comparison for solitary aged whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Solomon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical king invoked in Ishmael’s description of a whale among its harem."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vidocq",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Frenchman whose memoirs are cited in a speculation about the term schoolmaster."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young whale in the herd",
      "aliases": [
        "young cub",
        "little infant"
      ],
      "description": "A very young whale tethered to its mother by its umbilical cord, seen by Ishmael and the crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nursing mother whale",
      "aliases": [
        "Madame Leviathan"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed whale mother whose young is seen tethered to her in the herd."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wounded whale in the herd",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed whale carrying a harpoon line and cutting-spade, which accidentally wounds and kills other whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Malays pursuing the Pequod",
      "aliases": [
        "Malays"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed Malay pirates who pursue the Pequod through the Straits of Sunda."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pursuit boat oarsman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed member of Queequeg’s boat who loses his seat when a drugg tears it away."
    },
    {
      "name": "Whaling plaintiffs",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed whalemen who sue after another ship captures a whale they harpooned and later lost."
    },
    {
      "name": "Whaling defendants",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed sailors from another ship who capture and claim the plaintiffs’ whale and gear."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the whaling defendants",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed captain who claims a captured whale and the plaintiffs’ attached gear."
    },
    {
      "name": "Erskine",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Erskine"
      ],
      "description": "Counsel in the whale ownership case; he argues that the legal doctrines of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish apply to the case."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Ellenborough",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The judge who rules that the disputed whale and its attached harpoons and line belong to the defendants."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gentleman who abandoned his wife",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man in a legal case who abandons his wife and later sues to recover her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wife in the crim. con. case",
      "aliases": [
        "lady"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman abandoned by her husband and later re-harpooned by another gentleman in Erskine’s legal analogy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Subsequent gentleman in the crim. con. case",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man who re-harpoons the abandoned wife in Erskine’s analogy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mordecai",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A broker described as taking a ruinous discount from the bankrupt Woebegone."
    },
    {
      "name": "Woebegone",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A bankrupt whose family faces starvation and who borrows from Mordecai."
    },
    {
      "name": "Archbishop of Savesoul",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A fictional or satirical archbishop whose large income is described as taken from laborers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Duke of Dunder",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A duke whose hereditary towns and hamlets are used as examples of Fast-Fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Bull",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A personification of England, described as the harpooner who claims Ireland."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brother Jonathan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A personification of the United States, described as the lancer who claims Texas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Christopher Columbus",
      "aliases": [
        "Columbus"
      ],
      "description": "The explorer who claimed America for the Spanish monarchs in 1492."
    },
    {
      "name": "King of England",
      "aliases": [
        "Sovereign"
      ],
      "description": "The English monarch who, under the cited law, is entitled to a captured whale’s head."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen of England",
      "aliases": [
        "Queen"
      ],
      "description": "The English monarch who, under the cited law, is entitled to a captured whale’s tail."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Warden",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The crown-appointed officer of the Cinque Ports whose assigned rights are used to claim a whale landed by mariners."
    },
    {
      "name": "Learned gentleman with Blackstone",
      "aliases": [
        "stranger"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed legal representative who claims the whale for the Lord Warden and refuses the mariners’ objections."
    },
    {
      "name": "Duke of Wellington",
      "aliases": [
        "his Grace the Duke",
        "the Duke"
      ],
      "description": "The Duke who receives money from the sale of a whale seized under his delegated authority as Lord Warden."
    },
    {
      "name": "Honest clergyman of the town",
      "aliases": [
        "reverend gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who writes to the Duke of Wellington on behalf of the mariners."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dover and Cinque Ports mariners",
      "aliases": [
        "honest mariners"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed sailors who catch and beach a whale, only to have it seized for the Duke of Wellington."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mariner with the bed-ridden mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed member of the mariners who hopes to use his share of the whale to relieve his mother."
    },
    {
      "name": "Plowdon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A legal commentator who says the royal claim to a whale rests on its superior excellence."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Prynne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An old King’s Bench author who gives a mistaken explanation for why the whale’s tail belongs to the Queen."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Asa",
      "aliases": [
        "Asa"
      ],
      "description": "The biblical king who deposed his mother Queen Maachah and destroyed her idol."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen Maachah",
      "aliases": [
        "Maachah"
      ],
      "description": "King Asa’s mother, whose idol was destroyed and burned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nantucket-born Captain Coffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Nantucket-born captain examined before the English House of Commons about ambergris."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stubb’s boat crew",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed Pequod sailors in Stubb’s boat who help recover ambergris from a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Guernsey-man",
      "aliases": [
        "Guernseyman",
        "chief-mate",
        "stranger mate"
      ],
      "description": "The chief mate of the French whaler Bouton de Rose; he interprets for the captain and conspires with Stubb to persuade him to release the whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Bouton de Rose",
      "aliases": [
        "French captain"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed former Cologne manufacturer on his first whaling voyage, who commands the French ship and releases the whales after Stubb’s deceptive warning."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tormented surgeon of the Bouton de Rose",
      "aliases": [
        "French ship’s surgeon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed surgeon who objects to the French captain’s handling of the whales and retreats to the captain’s cabin."
    },
    {
      "name": "After-oarsman in Stubb’s boat",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who sprains his hand, leading Pip to take his place."
    },
    {
      "name": "Two boat crews following Stubb",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed whaleboat crews that chase other whales instead of rescuing Pip."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pythagoras",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient Greek philosopher whom Ishmael imagines sailing with him and learning to splice a rope."
    },
    {
      "name": "Solomon’s mother",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman invoked by Ishmael as the mother of the biblical king Solomon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cowper",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poet cited by Ishmael in a reflection on sorrow."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer cited by Ishmael in a reflection on sorrow."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pascal",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A thinker cited by Ishmael in a reflection on sorrow."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rousseau",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer cited by Ishmael in a reflection on sorrow."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis le Gros",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A king whose imagined thigh Ishmael uses in comparing a piece of whale flesh to a royal cutlet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bowditch",
      "aliases": [
        "old Bowditch"
      ],
      "description": "An author of a navigational book Stubb consults while interpreting the doubloon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daboll",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The author of an arithmetic book Stubb jokingly consults for help interpreting the doubloon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old witch in Copenhagen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who taught the Old Manxman the signs of the zodiac."
    },
    {
      "name": "Murray",
      "aliases": [
        "Murray’s Grammar"
      ],
      "description": "The name associated with the grammar Pip has studied; no individual role beyond the cited grammar is given."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Boomer",
      "aliases": [
        "one-armed captain",
        "English captain",
        "captain of the Samuel Enderby"
      ],
      "description": "The good-natured captain of the Samuel Enderby, who lost an arm in an encounter with Moby Dick and refuses to hunt the whale again."
    },
    {
      "name": "Samuel Enderby",
      "aliases": [
        "old Samuel",
        "original Samuel"
      ],
      "description": "The late London merchant after whom the whaling ship Samuel Enderby is named; he founded the famous Enderby whaling house."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Mounttop",
      "aliases": [
        "Mounttop"
      ],
      "description": "The Samuel Enderby’s first mate, whose boat Captain Boomer joined during the encounter with Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Bunger",
      "aliases": [
        "Jack Bunger",
        "Bunger"
      ],
      "description": "The Samuel Enderby’s ship’s surgeon, a former clergyman and professed teetotaler whom Captain Boomer mocks affectionately."
    },
    {
      "name": "Carpenter",
      "aliases": [
        "Pequod’s carpenter"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed, versatile Pequod carpenter, who makes Ahab replacement legs and converts Queequeg’s coffin into a life-buoy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Blacksmith",
      "aliases": [
        "Smut",
        "old Smut",
        "Perth"
      ],
      "description": "Perth, the Pequod’s old, grief-stricken blacksmith, who makes Ahab’s replacement leg and forges his harpoon for Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Snodhead",
      "aliases": [
        "Snodhead"
      ],
      "description": "A learned professor of Low Dutch and High German who translates a Dutch whaling account for Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fitz Swackhammer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The named author of an ancient Dutch volume on commerce and the whale fishery, as Ishmael initially supposes it to be."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tranquo",
      "aliases": [
        "King Tranquo",
        "king of Tranque"
      ],
      "description": "The late king of Tranque and Ishmael’s royal friend, who preserved and enshrined a giant sperm-whale skeleton."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Clifford Constable",
      "aliases": [
        "Sir Clifford"
      ],
      "description": "The lord of Burton Constable who owns an articulated sperm-whale skeleton."
    },
    {
      "name": "Judge Creagh",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The judge whose Alabama plantation yielded the nearly complete fossil skeleton of an extinct whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Leo",
      "aliases": [
        "John Leo, the old Barbary traveller"
      ],
      "description": "A Barbary traveller whose account describes a temple built from whale bones and local beliefs about it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Shem",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Noah’s son, whom Ishmael imagines seeking out while contemplating the whale’s ancient existence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Prophet and seer of Queequeg’s island",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A deceased island prophet who tattooed Queequeg with a symbolic account of the heavens, earth, and the pursuit of truth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wife of the blacksmith",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The blacksmith’s loving young wife, who died after his alcoholism destroyed their home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Children of the blacksmith",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The blacksmith’s three children, who lost their home and followed their mother to the grave."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Bachelor",
      "aliases": [
        "Bachelor’s commander"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, jovial Nantucket captain whose ship is returning home after an exceptionally successful whaling voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Islanders lost from the Bachelor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Two unnamed islanders reported lost by the Bachelor’s captain."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sailor lost from the Pequod’s foremast-head",
      "aliases": [
        "first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who falls from the foremast-head at dawn and drowns; the ship’s life-buoy fails to float."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Gardiner",
      "aliases": [
        "stranger Captain",
        "Rachel captain"
      ],
      "description": "A Nantucket captain of the Rachel who asks Ahab to help search for his missing sons. After the Pequod sinks, the Rachel rescues Ishmael while searching for its missing crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Gardiner’s missing son",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Gardiner’s boy"
      ],
      "description": "One of Captain Gardiner’s sons, among the Rachel’s missing whaleboat crew; his fate remains unknown."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Gardiner’s younger son",
      "aliases": [
        "little lad"
      ],
      "description": "Captain Gardiner’s twelve-year-old son, also missing after being separated from the Rachel during the whale chase."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rachel’s missing whaleboat crew",
      "aliases": [
        "missing boat’s crew",
        "missing children"
      ],
      "description": "The unnamed sailors from the Rachel’s fourth boat, lost while pursuing Moby Dick; Captain Gardiner’s sons are among them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Chief mate of the Rachel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed officer who chooses to rescue the majority of the Rachel’s separated boat crews first."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Delight",
      "aliases": [
        "hollow-cheeked captain"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, grieving captain whose boat was wrecked during a deadly encounter with Moby Dick; he buries one of five dead men and says the others were buried before they died."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dead whalemen aboard the Delight",
      "aliases": [
        "five stout men"
      ],
      "description": "Five unnamed men killed in an encounter with Moby Dick; the Delight’s captain is burying one of them when the Pequod passes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sky-hawk",
      "aliases": [
        "sky-hawk",
        "bird of heaven"
      ],
      "description": "A hawk that tears at Ahab’s flag and is caught in it as the Pequod sinks."
    }
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