>>What boat d'ye think you're on, Ishmael?
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>Remember that Ishmael survives, buoyed by Queequeg's coffin and rescued by the Rachel, which came in search of its lost sailor-children. It's everyone else on the Pequod who goes down with Ahab.
In the real-life version, I recall the whalers whose ship was wrecked by the whale became cannibals, at first eating the dead, then drawing lots to decide who would be killed and eaten next.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas