He curses God for allowing such things to happen.
Answer:
Ishmael and Queequeg arrive in Nantucket with no further misadventure. Ishmael fills this brief chapter with a rhapsody on the nature of Nantucket, where, as the story goes, a small Native American boy was once carried by a bird, and where his family went after to find him, and settled, thus founding the town. Nantucket is now almost entirely a port for whaling and fishing, and Ishmael remarks that, although the great colonial powers of the earth seek far and wide for land to add to their empires, Nantucket “controls two-thirds of the world” because its denizens control the seas, and make their money in pursuit of “walruses and whales.”
Explanation:
The first option. This is because it’s a direct quote from the german officers to them passengers, ergo, his opinions and thoughts. It also states the awful conditions they were put in, as well as a comparison to an animal.
