So soon as this figure had been first descried, Stubb had exclaimed⁠—“That’s he! that’s he!⁠—the long-togged scaramouch the Town-Ho ’s company told us of!” Stubb here alluded to a strange story told of the Jeroboam , and a certain man among her crew, some time previous when the Pequod spoke the Town-Ho . According to this account and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the Jeroboam . His story was this: