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By Herman Melville
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (first American edition), 1851 · Chapter XII, "Biographical", p. 61 (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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From Chapter XII, "Biographical", of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, first American edition). The narrator, Ishmael, is speaking of Queequeg's home island, Kokovoko.