The 1st crew members of the Pequod

Only note-taking for now. 
- Ahab: 

+ Captain. 

+ "He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness." 

+ "His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze". 

+ Has "a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish" that "resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded". 

+ Lost his leg; has an ivory leg "fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw". 

+ "Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance." 

- Starbuck:

+ Chief mate. 

+ Native of Nantucket. 

+ Quaker by descent. 

+ Thin. 

+ "His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates." 

+ In his eyes are "lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life". 

+ Believes that "an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward". 

+ Courage is not a sentiment, but "a thing simply useful to him", and shouldn't be foolishly wasted. 

- Stubb: 

+ 2nd mate. 

+ Native of Cape-Cod. 

+ "A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air". 

+ Good-humoured, easy, careless, unfearing. 

+ "You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe. [...] For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth."

- Flask: 

+ 3rd mate. 

+ Native of Tisbury, in Martha's vineyard. 

+ "A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered." Whales are to him nothing but "a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat". 

- Queequeg: 

+ Starbuck's squire. 

+ Ishmael's best friend. 

+ Tattooed; his face is "of a dark, purplish, yellow colour, here and there stuck over with large blackish looking squares". 

+ Cannibal. 

+ No hair on his head but "a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead". 

+ His back has the same dark squares, and his legs are marked as if "a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms". 

+ There seem "tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils" "in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold". 

+ Native of Kokovoko, "an island far away to the West and South"; son of a king. 

+ Not fully civilised ("His education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate."). 

+ Worships Yojo and once a year has a Ramadan when he sits still and does nothing for the whole day. 

+ Smokes from a tomahawk, shaves with his harpoon, eats raw meat, loves chowder, reaches over the table and grapples beefsteaks towards himself with his harpoon.

+ Strong; can carry a wheelbarrow, with his heavy chest in it, on his shoulders. 

- Tashtego: 

+ Stubb's squire. 

+ Unmixed Indian from Gay Head. 

+ Has "long, lean, sable hair", high cheek bones, black rounding eyes and "lithe snaky limbs". 

- Daggoo: 

+ Flask's squire. 

+ A "gigantic, coal-black negro-savage, with a lion-like tread". 

+ Has 2 golden hoops suspended from his ears. 

+ Tall, erect as a giraffe- "a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress". 

+ Retains "all of his barbaric virtues". 

1 line attracts my attention: "... in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles". 
Note that I haven't written anything about Ishmael. That can wait.