“My friend,” said I, “what all this gibberish of yours is about, I don’t know, and I don’t much care; for it seems to me that you must be a little damaged in the head. But if you are speaking of Captain Ahab, of that ship there, the Pequod , then let me tell you, that I know all about the loss of his leg.”

“ All about it, eh⁠—sure you do?⁠—all?”

“Pretty sure.”