Nevertheless, upon Stubb setting the anchor-watch after his supper was concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a forecastle seaman came on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side, and lowering three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid sea, these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks, 14

“Queequeg no care what god made him shark,” said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; “wedder Fiji god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.”