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Queequeg's Coffin

Also called life-buoy.

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Chapter 126 The Life-Buoy
A sailor dies, and Queequeg's coffin is transformed into a life-buoy.

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Moby-Dick: A Student Edition. Full text from Standard Ebooks (public domain). Study notes are source-cited and student-reviewed.

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