Chewy landlord dialect and punctuation bits and bobs.
From pages 18-19 of the first edition, as reproduced
here.
"Wall," said the landlord, fetching a long breath,
"that's a sarmon for a chap that rips
'balmed heads (great curios), he's sold but one,
for all the airth like a string of inions."
cannibal business dead idolators?
"that harpooneer is a dangerous man."
"He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder. "come,
it's getting dreadful late, —it's a nice bed:
Sal and me were spliced two in that bed;
almighty big. Come, I'll give you a glim;"
"I vum you won't see he —come along then;
do come;" up stairs we went, cold as a clam,
and sure enough, with a prodigious bed,
enough for harpooneers to sleep abreast.