Below deck

"I do not understand how you've confused Indian names with Native American names. Aren't you from India?" I ask.

"My father was. I've lived most of my life in a submarine." Nemo says.

We meet a cheerful looking woman.

"Hi. I'm Ahab's second mate. The name's Stubb. My grandfather died on the Peqoud I. In fact, he served under Ahab's grandfather." she says.

"Ahab's grandfather?" I ask.

"Yes. It was more than thirty years ago. Like our current captain, he lost his leg to Moby Dick, but it was directly. He died in pursuit of ****." Stubb says. Could this woman be the granddaughter of the original Captain Ahab. But how did she lose the leg? Surely, she did not just happen to have a chance encounter with the same whale. "I don't know the details of how his granddaughter lost her leg. Maybe, she lost it while pursuing the whale."

"Does everyone here happen to be related to a member of the crew?" I ask.

"Rumour has it that Ishmael is really using an alias. Starbuck is probably related to the old Ahab's first mate." Stubb says.

"It's a was... I mean is... an important family name in the history of whaling, based in Nantucket." I say.

"So you know you're history, eh? The Ahab and Starbuck families both knew each other. Hey, Tashtego. Are you related to the Tashtego of Pequod I by any chance?" Stubb asks.

"Yes... He was my father's brother's nephew's sister's nephew, twice removed. And my mother was Indian Indian. That's why I have a completely different skin tone to him." Nemo says.

What does that make them?

"Rumour has it that Fedallah is the very same Fedallah from the Peqoud I voyage." Stubb says.

"I'm pretty sure that Fedallah was an old man. Even it had been a woman in disguise, the Fedallah on this crew of only in her mid-thirties. She wouldn't have been born back then." Nemo says.

"What about you, Flask, Queequeg, Daggoo and Pip?" I ask.

"The Preqoud I didn't have any cremates of those names." Stubb says. We turn the corridor to see Ishmael and a young black girl attacking the ship's hull with axes. "What are you doing?"

"This voyage is madness. Before has to stop Ahab from getting us all killed." Ishmael says.

Flask comes in. "This is mutiny!"