"Poor Queequeg! When the ship was about half disembowelled, you should have stooped over the hatchway, and peered down upon him there; where, stripped to his woollen drawers, the tattooed savage was crawling about amid that dampness and slime like a green spotted lizard at the bottom of a well.  And a well, or an ice-house, it somehow proved to him, poor pagan ; where, strange to say, for all the heat of his sweatings, he caught a terrible chill which lapsed into a fever;"

Herman Melville Moby Dick, chapter 110