Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and …

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Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.57
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Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.57

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