When Starbuck enters the captain's cabin and tells Ahab that he should get some sleep, Ahab replies that his berth is a coffin. This was quite literally the truth. Officers would sleep in a box. If he died on the voyage, his bunk became his coffin. Similarly, the non-officers slept in hammocks. Those hammocks would become their burial shrouds if they died during the cruise.

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