Moby Dick Chapter 11 "Nightgown" In this chapter, Ishmael and Queegueg continue chatting, and they begin to feel quite awake, even though it is the middle of the night. After a while, they go ahead and light a lamp, and the pair of them smoke together on Queequeg's tomahawk. under the influence of this smoking, Queequeg begins to talk about his native island, and Ishmael summarizes his speech in the next chapter. ---- References: "our confabulations": our conversations "a blue hanging tester of smoke":a cloud of smoke