The ship in "Moby Dick" that gets its name from an Indian tribe destroyed by the Puritans
... After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, the ship has its first of many 
gams, .... a ship named after an Indian tribe that was massacred by the Puritans, 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Moby-Dick - Dictionary definition of Moby-Dick | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] To appreciate Moby-Dick, one must heed the cue its subtitle, "The Whale," 
furnishes: the ... A whale-ship was likewise the crucible of Melville's literary 
imagination.