Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale\'s back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by a long cord. Just so, from the ship\'s steep side, did I hold Queequeg down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his waist.Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one fr.