Artwork Title: Illustration for Melville's Moby Dick

Illustration for Melville's Moby Dick, 1930

Rockwell Kent

Volume I, Chapter III, The Spouter-Inn, p. 33 “First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on tip and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.” http://clubs.plattsburgh.edu/museum/mdimg1.htm
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