not a forger, any way, he mutters; and jonah is put down for his passage. ‘point out my state-room, sir,’ says jonah now, ‘i’m travel-weary; i need sleep.’ ‘thou lookest like it,’ says the captain, ‘there’s thy room.’ jonah enters, and would lock the door, but the lock contains no key. hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the captain laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of convicts’ cells being never allowed to be locked within. all dressed and dusty as he is, jonah throws himself into his berth, and finds the little state-room ceiling almost resting on his forehead. the air is close, and jonah gasps. then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship’s water-line, jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels’ wards.