Relationship with Ishmael
Queequeg and Ishmael first meet in New Bedford, Massachusetts when Ishmael and he are placed in the same room of The Spouter-Inn.
At this moment, Queequeg had just returned from a whaling voyage and Ishmael was staying the night on the way towards a voyage as well.
Queequeg returns late to the inn, not knowing that Ishmael has been booked into the same room with him. Ishmael is at first afraid of this unfamiliar person who he must share a bed with, however, he keeps an open mind.
He quickly comes to the conclusion that "for all his tattooings he [Queequeg] was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."