👉 Melville is a fictional character in American author Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick," published in 1850. The character, also known as Melville, is a Native American captain on the whaling vessel "The Tragedy" and a man who has been cursed by a spirit named Ishmael to be "The Man Without a Face." Melville's journey through various cultures, including the Native American tribes of his homeland (the Natives), is depicted