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MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 12 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 12 Biographical Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko an island far away to the West and South. It is not down on any map true places never are. When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout followed by the nibbling goats as if he were a green sapling even then in Queequeg s ambitious soul lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two. His father was a High Chief a King his uncle a High Priest and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors. There was excellent blood in his veins- royal stuff though sadly vitiated I fear by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth. A Sag Harbor ship visited his father s bay and Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship having her full complement of seamen spurned his suit and not all the King his father s influence could prevail. But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe he paddled off to a distant strait which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef on the other a low tongue of land covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water. Hiding his canoe still afloat among these thickets with its prow seaward he sat down in the stern paddle low in hand and when the ship was gliding by like a flash he darted out gained her side with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe climbed up the chains and throwing himself at full length upon the deck grappled a ring-bolt there and swore not to let it go though hacked in pieces. In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists Queequeg was the son of a King and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness and his wild desire to visit Christendom the captain at last relented and told him he might make himself at home. But this fine young savage- this sea Prince of Wales .
