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British Army Despatch
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“Glaring and extravagant faults... a rhapsody painful in its elaboration and absurd in its conduct... the story of the hero sharing his bed with the strange cannibal Queequeg is so opposed to all our notions that it affects the mind with disgust.
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— January 16, 1852
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