One of the funniest things to occur in the book so far happened in chapter 43. The image of two men trying to balance on top of each other on a tiny row boat is pretty hysterical. In chapter 44 Ishmael decided that it was time to revise his will, after capsizing in the water from an attempted whale capture. He appoints Queequeg as his ” lawyer, executor, and legatee” which is humorous considering that Queequeg probably has no knowledge of anything regarding laws or wills. Ishmael also says that the reader may find it strange that a sailor would be ‘tinkering’ with their wills. I did not find this strange at all, in fact there have been so many foreshadows of death I was wondering when Ishmael would bring up writing his will- which he’s a pro at since he’s already done it four times. Over the next few weeks, there are whale sightings at night and the whole crew has to get up to try and attack the whale-without success. Melville also introduces the mysterious stowaways from the deck. There’s Fadellah who works on Ahab’s boat. At this point I’m still a little confused whether Ahab knew that the five stowaways were on the ship ? However the crew seems to embrace them because they could use all of the help that they could get. Another thing I found interesting was in Ishmael’s definition of a gam. He says, ” A social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boat’s crews:the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.” Then at the bottom of page it says that his definition was written based off of another book and that it did not match the experiences of The Pequod in the book.