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- Ferdinand is a prince whose ship got lost and wrecked on the island.
Source: Fairytale Motifs -
The Rachel, a ship encountered late in the book, is searching for the lost son of the captain, and eventually saves Ishmael — also a lost son, after a fashion — when the Pequod is wrecked.
Source: Literature / Moby-Dick - When Science Fiction was fashionable, one way to sell Fantasy was to say it was on a lost colony - just add a couple of wrecked spaceships and claim all the magic was really Lost Technology.
Source: Analysis / Speculative Fiction
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