I am interested in the relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg. After spending one night together as complete strangers, they seemed to bond instantaneously and with little preparation. A simple sharing of a pipe was all it took to make them "bosom friends" (p 56). He also says that this would be strange in a civilized culture, "but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply" (p 56). This seems to be a statement about race relations that I imagine will show up again in the rest of the book, but does Ishmael really understand his friend, though he calls him a "simple savage"? I wonder how this relationship will play into the book later on.
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