When Ishmael returns to his room after chapel, he finds Queequeg already there, carving on the nose of his small black idol, Yojo. After some friendly conversation, they bond by sharing a pipe of Queequeg’s tobacco. Ishmael even joins the pagan in a burnt offering to Yojo. The narrator justifies his behavior by an allusion to the Golden Rule, which urges us to do unto others as we would want them to do unto us (Matthew 7:12). Queequeg shares his personal history, and the two roommates resolve to be shipmates.
