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By Herman Melville
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter I, "Loomings", p. 1 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (Duke University scan of the first American edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851; London: Richard Bentley on the title page)
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The opening of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Chapter I, "Loomings" (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, first American edition). The narrator, Ishmael, speaks.