Moby appears from time to time in various places.
How to say Pequod
Pequod rhymes with "Pea Quad." Emphasize the first syllable. 

The Word Pequod
The Pequod is a whaling ship in Herman Melville's book Moby Dick. 
Melville named the ship after the Pequot Native American tribe.

This is a whaling ship. Notice the longboats attached to the side, which enabled whale hunters to row out to the whale. More about the whaling industry at the time Herman Melville knew about it is in the Nicholson Whaling Collection at the Providence Public Library.

We would rather see our community save the whales than hunt them. While many nations no longer hunt whales commercially, there are some that still do.