MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 6 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 6 The Street If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford. In thoroughfares nigh the docks any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays and at Bombay in the Apollo Green live Yankees have often scared the natives. But New Bedford beats all Water Street and Wapping. In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors in New Bedford actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners savages outright many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh. It makes a stranger stare. But besides the Feegeeans Tongatobooarrs Erromanggoans Pannangians and Brighggians and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets you will see other sights still more curious certainly more comical. There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young of stalwart frames fellows who have felled forests and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they came. In some things you would think them but a few hours old. Look there that chap strutting round the corner. He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat girdled with a sailor-belt and a sheath-knife. Here comes another with a sou -wester and a bombazine cloak. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that in the dog-days will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. Now when a country dandy like this .
