From 238fdda6a3288f3f91b02f34ef5f76f70f75f8f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jer Thorp <blprnt@blprnt.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:02:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Adding class examples.

---
 .../Code/ImageFromWord/ImageFromWord.pde      |    27 +
 .../Code/ImageFromWord/img/ahab.png           |   Bin 0 -> 189720 bytes
 .../Code/TweetMarkov/data/mobydick.txt        | 21573 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 21600 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/ImageFromWord.pde
 create mode 100644 2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/img/ahab.png
 create mode 100755 2_Text_and_Archive/Code/TweetMarkov/data/mobydick.txt

diff --git a/2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/ImageFromWord.pde b/2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/ImageFromWord.pde
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7329752
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/ImageFromWord.pde
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+PImage img;
+
+void setup() {
+  size(1280, 720);
+  img = getImage("frog");
+  
+}
+
+void draw() {
+  if (img.width > 1) image(img,0,0);
+}
+
+PImage getImage(String topic) {
+  PImage img = null;
+  try {
+    String url = "https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/topic/en/" + topic + "?filter=/common/topic/image&limit=1";
+    JSONObject json = loadJSONObject(url);
+    String id = json.getJSONObject("property").getJSONObject("/common/topic/image").getJSONArray("values").getJSONObject(0).getString("id");
+    String imgUrl = "https://usercontent.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/image" + id + "?maxwidth=200&junk=.jpg";
+    img = requestImage(imgUrl);
+  } 
+  catch (Exception e) {
+    println("Image not found?");
+  }
+  return(img);
+}
+
diff --git a/2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/img/ahab.png b/2_Text_and_Archive/Code/ImageFromWord/img/ahab.png
new file mode 100644
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+CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
+
+
+Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having
+little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on
+shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of
+the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating
+the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
+whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find
+myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up
+the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get
+such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to
+prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically
+knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea
+as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a
+philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly
+take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew
+it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very
+nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
+
+There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by
+wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with
+her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme
+downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and
+cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
+Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
+
+Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears
+Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What
+do you see?--Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand
+thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some
+leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some
+looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the
+rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these
+are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster--tied to
+counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are
+the green fields gone? What do they here?
+
+But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and
+seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the
+extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder
+warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water
+as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand--miles of
+them--leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets
+and avenues--north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite.
+Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all
+those ships attract them thither?
+
+Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take
+almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a
+dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic
+in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest
+reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will
+infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
+Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this
+experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical
+professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for
+ever.
+
+But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest,
+quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of
+the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his trees,
+each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and
+here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder
+cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands winds a
+mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their
+hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though
+this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's
+head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the
+magic stream before him. Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores
+on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies--what is the
+one charm wanting?--Water--there is not a drop of water there! Were
+Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to
+see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two
+handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly
+needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why
+is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at
+some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a
+passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first
+told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the
+old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate
+deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.
+And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because
+he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain,
+plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see
+in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of
+life; and this is the key to it all.
+
+Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin
+to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs,
+I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
+For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is
+but a rag unless you have something in it. Besides, passengers get
+sea-sick--grow quarrelsome--don't sleep of nights--do not enjoy
+themselves much, as a general thing;--no, I never go as a passenger;
+nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a
+Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. I abandon the glory and distinction
+of such offices to those who like them. For my part, I abominate all
+honourable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind
+whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself,
+without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.
+And as for going as cook,--though I confess there is considerable glory
+in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board--yet, somehow,
+I never fancied broiling fowls;--though once broiled, judiciously
+buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who
+will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled
+fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old
+Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the
+mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
+
+No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast,
+plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
+True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to
+spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort
+of thing is unpleasant enough. It touches one's sense of honour,
+particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the
+Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all,
+if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been
+lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand
+in awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a
+schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and
+the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in
+time.
+
+What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom
+and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed,
+I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel
+Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and
+respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain't
+a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may
+order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the
+satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is
+one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical
+or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is
+passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and
+be content.
+
+Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of
+paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single
+penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must
+pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying
+and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable
+infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But BEING
+PAID,--what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man
+receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly
+believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account
+can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves
+to perdition!
+
+Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome
+exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world,
+head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is,
+if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the
+Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from
+the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not
+so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many
+other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
+But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a
+merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling
+voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the
+constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me
+in some unaccountable way--he can better answer than any one else. And,
+doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand
+programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as
+a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.
+I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
+
+
+"GRAND CONTESTED ELECTION FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
+
+"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.
+
+"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."
+
+
+Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the
+Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others
+were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and
+easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces--though
+I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the
+circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives
+which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced
+me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the
+delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill
+and discriminating judgment.
+
+Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great
+whale himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my
+curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island
+bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all
+the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped
+to sway me to my wish. With other men, perhaps, such things would not
+have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting
+itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on
+barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a
+horror, and could still be social with it--would they let me--since it
+is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place
+one lodges in.
+
+By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the
+great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild
+conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into
+my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them
+all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
+
+
+I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm,
+and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of
+old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday night in
+December. Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet
+for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place
+would offer, till the following Monday.
+
+As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at
+this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well
+be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. For my mind was
+made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a
+fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous
+old island, which amazingly pleased me. Besides though New Bedford has
+of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though
+in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket
+was her great original--the Tyre of this Carthage;--the place where the
+first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket
+did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to
+give chase to the Leviathan? And where but from Nantucket, too, did that
+first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported
+cobblestones--so goes the story--to throw at the whales, in order to
+discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
+
+Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me
+in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a
+matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile. It was a
+very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold
+and cheerless. I knew no one in the place. With anxious grapnels I had
+sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver,--So,
+wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of
+a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the
+north with the darkness towards the south--wherever in your wisdom you
+may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire
+the price, and don't be too particular.
+
+With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of "The
+Crossed Harpoons"--but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further
+on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn," there came such
+fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from
+before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches
+thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,--rather weary for me, when I struck
+my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless
+service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight. Too
+expensive and jolly, again thought I, pausing one moment to watch the
+broad glare in the street, and hear the sounds of the tinkling glasses
+within. But go on, Ishmael, said I at last; don't you hear? get away
+from before the door; your patched boots are stopping the way. So on I
+went. I now by instinct followed the streets that took me waterward, for
+there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns.
+
+Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand,
+and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. At
+this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of
+the town proved all but deserted. But presently I came to a smoky light
+proceeding from a low, wide building, the door of which stood invitingly
+open. It had a careless look, as if it were meant for the uses of the
+public; so, entering, the first thing I did was to stumble over an
+ash-box in the porch. Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost
+choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah? But "The
+Crossed Harpoons," and "The Sword-Fish?"--this, then must needs be the
+sign of "The Trap." However, I picked myself up and hearing a loud voice
+within, pushed on and opened a second, interior door.
+
+It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. A hundred black
+faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel
+of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the
+preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and
+wailing and teeth-gnashing there. Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out,
+Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!'
+
+Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks,
+and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging
+sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing
+a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath--"The
+Spouter Inn:--Peter Coffin."
+
+Coffin?--Spouter?--Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought
+I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this
+Peter here is an emigrant from there. As the light looked so dim, and
+the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little
+wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from
+the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a
+poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very
+spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
+
+It was a queer sort of place--a gable-ended old house, one side palsied
+as it were, and leaning over sadly. It stood on a sharp bleak corner,
+where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever
+it did about poor Paul's tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a
+mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in-doors, with his feet on the hob
+quietly toasting for bed. "In judging of that tempestuous wind called
+Euroclydon," says an old writer--of whose works I possess the only copy
+extant--"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at
+it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether
+thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both
+sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier." True enough,
+thought I, as this passage occurred to my mind--old black-letter, thou
+reasonest well. Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is
+the house. What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies
+though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. But it's too late
+to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the copestone
+is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. Poor Lazarus
+there, chattering his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and
+shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears
+with rags, and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not
+keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon. Euroclydon! says old Dives, in his
+red silken wrapper--(he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh! What
+a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them
+talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give
+me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.
+
+But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up
+to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra
+than here? Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the
+line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in
+order to keep out this frost?
+
+Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the
+door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be
+moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a
+Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a
+temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
+
+But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is
+plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet,
+and see what sort of a place this "Spouter" may be.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
+
+
+Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide,
+low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of
+the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large
+oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the
+unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent
+study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of
+the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its
+purpose. Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first
+you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New
+England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint
+of much and earnest contemplation, and oft repeated ponderings, and
+especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the
+entry, you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however
+wild, might not be altogether unwarranted.
+
+But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous,
+black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three
+blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy,
+soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.
+Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable
+sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily
+took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting
+meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you
+through.--It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.--It's the unnatural
+combat of the four primal elements.--It's a blasted heath.--It's a
+Hyperborean winter scene.--It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream
+of Time. But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous
+something in the picture's midst. THAT once found out, and all the rest
+were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic
+fish? even the great leviathan himself?
+
+In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own,
+partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom
+I conversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a
+great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three
+dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to
+spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself
+upon the three mast-heads.
+
+The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish
+array of monstrous clubs and spears. Some were thickly set with
+glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of
+human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round
+like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower. You
+shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage
+could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying
+implement. Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons
+all broken and deformed. Some were storied weapons. With this once long
+lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen
+whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon--so like a
+corkscrew now--was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale,
+years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered
+nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a
+man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the
+hump.
+
+Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way--cut
+through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with
+fireplaces all round--you enter the public room. A still duskier place
+is this, with such low ponderous beams above, and such old wrinkled
+planks beneath, that you would almost fancy you trod some old craft's
+cockpits, especially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored
+old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf-like
+table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities
+gathered from this wide world's remotest nooks. Projecting from the
+further angle of the room stands a dark-looking den--the bar--a rude
+attempt at a right whale's head. Be that how it may, there stands the
+vast arched bone of the whale's jaw, so wide, a coach might almost drive
+beneath it. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters,
+bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another
+cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little
+withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors
+deliriums and death.
+
+Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. Though
+true cylinders without--within, the villanous green goggling glasses
+deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians
+rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads' goblets. Fill to
+THIS mark, and your charge is but a penny; to THIS a penny more; and so
+on to the full glass--the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for
+a shilling.
+
+Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about
+a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of SKRIMSHANDER. I
+sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated with a
+room, received for answer that his house was full--not a bed unoccupied.
+"But avast," he added, tapping his forehead, "you haint no objections
+to sharing a harpooneer's blanket, have ye? I s'pose you are goin'
+a-whalin', so you'd better get used to that sort of thing."
+
+I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should
+ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and
+that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the
+harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander
+further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with
+the half of any decent man's blanket.
+
+"I thought so. All right; take a seat. Supper?--you want supper?
+Supper'll be ready directly."
+
+I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the
+Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with
+his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space
+between his legs. He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but
+he didn't make much headway, I thought.
+
+At last some four or five of us were summoned to our meal in an
+adjoining room. It was cold as Iceland--no fire at all--the landlord
+said he couldn't afford it. Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each
+in a winding sheet. We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and
+hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers. But
+the fare was of the most substantial kind--not only meat and potatoes,
+but dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in
+a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful
+manner.
+
+"My boy," said the landlord, "you'll have the nightmare to a dead
+sartainty."
+
+"Landlord," I whispered, "that aint the harpooneer is it?"
+
+"Oh, no," said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, "the harpooneer
+is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he don't--he eats
+nothing but steaks, and he likes 'em rare."
+
+"The devil he does," says I. "Where is that harpooneer? Is he here?"
+
+"He'll be here afore long," was the answer.
+
+I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this "dark
+complexioned" harpooneer. At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so
+turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into
+bed before I did.
+
+Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when, knowing not
+what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend the rest of the evening
+as a looker on.
+
+Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord
+cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing
+this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now
+we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
+
+A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open,
+and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their shaggy
+watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters, all
+bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles, they seemed an
+eruption of bears from Labrador. They had just landed from their boat,
+and this was the first house they entered. No wonder, then, that they
+made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the bar--when the wrinkled
+little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all
+round. One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah
+mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a
+sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how
+long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the
+weather side of an ice-island.
+
+The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even
+with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering
+about most obstreperously.
+
+I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though
+he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own
+sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise
+as the rest. This man interested me at once; and since the sea-gods
+had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though but a
+sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I will
+here venture upon a little description of him. He stood full six feet
+in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. I have
+seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and burnt,
+making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the deep
+shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem to give
+him much joy. His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner,
+and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall
+mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry
+of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away
+unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the
+sea. In a few minutes, however, he was missed by his shipmates, and
+being, it seems, for some reason a huge favourite with them, they raised
+a cry of "Bulkington! Bulkington! where's Bulkington?" and darted out of
+the house in pursuit of him.
+
+It was now about nine o'clock, and the room seeming almost
+supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to congratulate myself
+upon a little plan that had occurred to me just previous to the entrance
+of the seamen.
+
+No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal
+rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but
+people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to
+sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange
+town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely
+multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should
+sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep
+two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore. To be sure they
+all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and
+cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.
+
+The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the
+thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a
+harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of
+the tidiest, certainly none of the finest. I began to twitch all over.
+Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be
+home and going bedwards. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at
+midnight--how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?
+
+"Landlord! I've changed my mind about that harpooneer.--I shan't sleep
+with him. I'll try the bench here."
+
+"Just as you please; I'm sorry I cant spare ye a tablecloth for a
+mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here"--feeling of the knots and
+notches. "But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's plane
+there in the bar--wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough." So saying
+he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting
+the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning
+like an ape. The shavings flew right and left; till at last the
+plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot. The landlord was
+near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit--the
+bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing
+in the world could make eider down of a pine plank. So gathering up the
+shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in
+the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a
+brown study.
+
+I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too
+short; but that could be mended with a chair. But it was a foot too
+narrow, and the other bench in the room was about four inches higher
+than the planed one--so there was no yoking them. I then placed the
+first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall,
+leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in. But I
+soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from under
+the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all, especially
+as another current from the rickety door met the one from the window,
+and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate
+vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the night.
+
+The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop, couldn't I steal
+a march on him--bolt his door inside, and jump into his bed, not to be
+wakened by the most violent knockings? It seemed no bad idea; but upon
+second thoughts I dismissed it. For who could tell but what the next
+morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be
+standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down!
+
+Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending
+a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think
+that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against
+this unknown harpooneer. Thinks I, I'll wait awhile; he must be dropping
+in before long. I'll have a good look at him then, and perhaps we may
+become jolly good bedfellows after all--there's no telling.
+
+But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes,
+and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
+
+"Landlord!" said I, "what sort of a chap is he--does he always keep such
+late hours?" It was now hard upon twelve o'clock.
+
+The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to
+be mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension. "No," he
+answered, "generally he's an early bird--airley to bed and airley to
+rise--yes, he's the bird what catches the worm. But to-night he went out
+a peddling, you see, and I don't see what on airth keeps him so late,
+unless, may be, he can't sell his head."
+
+"Can't sell his head?--What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you
+are telling me?" getting into a towering rage. "Do you pretend to say,
+landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday
+night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?"
+
+"That's precisely it," said the landlord, "and I told him he couldn't
+sell it here, the market's overstocked."
+
+"With what?" shouted I.
+
+"With heads to be sure; ain't there too many heads in the world?"
+
+"I tell you what it is, landlord," said I quite calmly, "you'd better
+stop spinning that yarn to me--I'm not green."
+
+"May be not," taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, "but I
+rayther guess you'll be done BROWN if that ere harpooneer hears you a
+slanderin' his head."
+
+"I'll break it for him," said I, now flying into a passion again at this
+unaccountable farrago of the landlord's.
+
+"It's broke a'ready," said he.
+
+"Broke," said I--"BROKE, do you mean?"
+
+"Sartain, and that's the very reason he can't sell it, I guess."
+
+"Landlord," said I, going up to him as cool as Mt. Hecla in a
+snow-storm--"landlord, stop whittling. You and I must understand one
+another, and that too without delay. I come to your house and want a
+bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half
+belongs to a certain harpooneer. And about this harpooneer, whom I
+have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and
+exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling
+towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow--a sort of connexion,
+landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest
+degree. I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this
+harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the
+night with him. And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay
+that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good
+evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping
+with a madman; and you, sir, YOU I mean, landlord, YOU, sir, by trying
+to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to
+a criminal prosecution."
+
+"Wall," said the landlord, fetching a long breath, "that's a purty long
+sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then. But be easy, be easy,
+this here harpooneer I have been tellin' you of has just arrived from
+the south seas, where he bought up a lot of 'balmed New Zealand heads
+(great curios, you know), and he's sold all on 'em but one, and that one
+he's trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday, and it would not
+do to be sellin' human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to
+churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was
+goin' out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for all the
+airth like a string of inions."
+
+This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed
+that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me--but at
+the same time what could I think of a harpooneer who stayed out of a
+Saturday night clean into the holy Sabbath, engaged in such a cannibal
+business as selling the heads of dead idolators?
+
+"Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man."
+
+"He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder. "But come, it's getting dreadful
+late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me
+slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced. There's plenty of room
+for two to kick about in that bed; it's an almighty big bed that. Why,
+afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the
+foot of it. But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and
+somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
+Arter that, Sal said it wouldn't do. Come along here, I'll give ye a
+glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards
+me, offering to lead the way. But I stood irresolute; when looking at a
+clock in the corner, he exclaimed "I vum it's Sunday--you won't see that
+harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere--come along then; DO
+come; WON'T ye come?"
+
+I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was
+ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough,
+with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers
+to sleep abreast.
+
+"There," said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old sea chest
+that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre table; "there, make
+yourself comfortable now, and good night to ye." I turned round from
+eyeing the bed, but he had disappeared.
+
+Folding back the counterpane, I stooped over the bed. Though none of the
+most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny tolerably well. I then glanced
+round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see
+no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four
+walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale. Of
+things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed
+up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; also a large seaman's bag,
+containing the harpooneer's wardrobe, no doubt in lieu of a land trunk.
+Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone fish hooks on the shelf
+over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon standing at the head of the bed.
+
+But what is this on the chest? I took it up, and held it close to the
+light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive
+at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it. I can compare it to
+nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little
+tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an
+Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat,
+as you see the same in South American ponchos. But could it be possible
+that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the
+streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise? I put it on, to try
+it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy and
+thick, and I thought a little damp, as though this mysterious harpooneer
+had been wearing it of a rainy day. I went up in it to a bit of glass
+stuck against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my life. I tore
+myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself a kink in the neck.
+
+I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this
+head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. After thinking some time on
+the bed-side, I got up and took off my monkey jacket, and then stood in
+the middle of the room thinking. I then took off my coat, and thought
+a little more in my shirt sleeves. But beginning to feel very cold now,
+half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about
+the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very
+late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and
+then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the
+care of heaven.
+
+Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery,
+there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not sleep
+for a long time. At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty
+nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy
+footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room
+from under the door.
+
+Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal
+head-peddler. But I lay perfectly still, and resolved not to say a word
+till spoken to. Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New
+Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without
+looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the
+floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords
+of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room. I was all
+eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted for some time while
+employed in unlacing the bag's mouth. This accomplished, however, he
+turned round--when, good heavens! what a sight! Such a face! It was of
+a dark, purplish, yellow colour, here and there stuck over with large
+blackish looking squares. Yes, it's just as I thought, he's a terrible
+bedfellow; he's been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here he is,
+just from the surgeon. But at that moment he chanced to turn his face
+so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be
+sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks. They were
+stains of some sort or other. At first I knew not what to make of this;
+but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me. I remembered a story of
+a white man--a whaleman too--who, falling among the cannibals, had been
+tattooed by them. I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his
+distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure. And what is it,
+thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any
+sort of skin. But then, what to make of his unearthly complexion, that
+part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely independent of the
+squares of tattooing. To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of
+tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man
+into a purplish yellow one. However, I had never been in the South Seas;
+and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the
+skin. Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning,
+this harpooneer never noticed me at all. But, after some difficulty
+having opened his bag, he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled
+out a sort of tomahawk, and a seal-skin wallet with the hair on. Placing
+these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New
+Zealand head--a ghastly thing enough--and crammed it down into the bag.
+He now took off his hat--a new beaver hat--when I came nigh singing out
+with fresh surprise. There was no hair on his head--none to speak of at
+least--nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead. His
+bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
+Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would have bolted
+out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner.
+
+Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but
+it was the second floor back. I am no coward, but what to make of
+this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.
+Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and
+confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him
+as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at
+the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not
+game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer
+concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
+
+Meanwhile, he continued the business of undressing, and at last showed
+his chest and arms. As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered
+with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same
+dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just
+escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt. Still more, his very
+legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up
+the trunks of young palms. It was now quite plain that he must be some
+abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South
+Seas, and so landed in this Christian country. I quaked to think of it.
+A peddler of heads too--perhaps the heads of his own brothers. He might
+take a fancy to mine--heavens! look at that tomahawk!
+
+But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went about
+something that completely fascinated my attention, and convinced me that
+he must indeed be a heathen. Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or
+dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the
+pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with
+a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo
+baby. Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that
+this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner. But
+seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal
+like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden
+idol, which indeed it proved to be. For now the savage goes up to the
+empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board, sets up this
+little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons. The
+chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I
+thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel
+for his Congo idol.
+
+I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image, feeling but
+ill at ease meantime--to see what was next to follow. First he takes
+about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places
+them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on
+top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into
+a sacrificial blaze. Presently, after many hasty snatches into the fire,
+and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers (whereby he seemed to be
+scorching them badly), he at last succeeded in drawing out the biscuit;
+then blowing off the heat and ashes a little, he made a polite offer of
+it to the little negro. But the little devil did not seem to fancy such
+dry sort of fare at all; he never moved his lips. All these strange
+antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the
+devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some
+pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the
+most unnatural manner. At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol
+up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as
+carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
+
+All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness, and
+seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business
+operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time,
+now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which
+I had so long been bound.
+
+But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one.
+Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it for an
+instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth at the handle,
+he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke. The next moment the light
+was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth,
+sprang into bed with me. I sang out, I could not help it now; and giving
+a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.
+
+Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him
+against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might
+be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again. But his
+guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my
+meaning.
+
+"Who-e debel you?"--he at last said--"you no speak-e, dam-me, I kill-e."
+And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the
+dark.
+
+"Landlord, for God's sake, Peter Coffin!" shouted I. "Landlord! Watch!
+Coffin! Angels! save me!"
+
+"Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!" again growled the
+cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the
+hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.
+But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light
+in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.
+
+"Don't be afraid now," said he, grinning again, "Queequeg here wouldn't
+harm a hair of your head."
+
+"Stop your grinning," shouted I, "and why didn't you tell me that that
+infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?"
+
+"I thought ye know'd it;--didn't I tell ye, he was a peddlin' heads
+around town?--but turn flukes again and go to sleep. Queequeg, look
+here--you sabbee me, I sabbee--you this man sleepe you--you sabbee?"
+
+"Me sabbee plenty"--grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe and
+sitting up in bed.
+
+"You gettee in," he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and
+throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a civil
+but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment.
+For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking
+cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to
+myself--the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason
+to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober
+cannibal than a drunken Christian.
+
+"Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or
+whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will
+turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.
+It's dangerous. Besides, I ain't insured."
+
+This being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely
+motioned me to get into bed--rolling over to one side as much as to
+say--"I won't touch a leg of ye."
+
+"Good night, landlord," said I, "you may go."
+
+I turned in, and never slept better in my life.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
+
+
+Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm thrown
+over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost
+thought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of
+odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his
+tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure,
+no two parts of which were of one precise shade--owing I suppose to
+his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt
+sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times--this same arm of his, I
+say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.
+Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I could
+hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues together; and
+it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that
+Queequeg was hugging me.
+
+My sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them. When I was a
+child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me;
+whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle.
+The circumstance was this. I had been cutting up some caper or other--I
+think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little
+sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other,
+was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless,--my
+mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to
+bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June,
+the longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully. But
+there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the
+third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time,
+and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
+
+I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse
+before I could hope for a resurrection. Sixteen hours in bed! the
+small of my back ached to think of it. And it was so light too; the
+sun shining in at the window, and a great rattling of coaches in the
+streets, and the sound of gay voices all over the house. I felt worse
+and worse--at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my
+stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw myself
+at her feet, beseeching her as a particular favour to give me a good
+slippering for my misbehaviour; anything indeed but condemning me to lie
+abed such an unendurable length of time. But she was the best and most
+conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room. For
+several hours I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I
+have ever done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes. At
+last I must have fallen into a troubled nightmare of a doze; and slowly
+waking from it--half steeped in dreams--I opened my eyes, and the before
+sun-lit room was now wrapped in outer darkness. Instantly I felt a shock
+running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and nothing was
+to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine. My arm hung
+over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form
+or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my
+bed-side. For what seemed ages piled on ages, I lay there, frozen with
+the most awful fears, not daring to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking
+that if I could but stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be
+broken. I knew not how this consciousness at last glided away from me;
+but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it all, and for
+days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself in confounding
+attempts to explain the mystery. Nay, to this very hour, I often puzzle
+myself with it.
+
+Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the
+supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to
+those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan
+arm thrown round me. But at length all the past night's events soberly
+recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to
+the comical predicament. For though I tried to move his arm--unlock his
+bridegroom clasp--yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly,
+as though naught but death should part us twain. I now strove to rouse
+him--"Queequeg!"--but his only answer was a snore. I then rolled over,
+my neck feeling as if it were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a
+slight scratch. Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk
+sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby. A
+pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the
+broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk! "Queequeg!--in the name of
+goodness, Queequeg, wake!" At length, by dint of much wriggling, and
+loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his
+hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in
+extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself
+all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in bed,
+stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes as if he
+did not altogether remember how I came to be there, though a dim
+consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over
+him. Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him, having no serious misgivings
+now, and bent upon narrowly observing so curious a creature. When, at
+last, his mind seemed made up touching the character of his bedfellow,
+and he became, as it were, reconciled to the fact; he jumped out upon
+the floor, and by certain signs and sounds gave me to understand that,
+if it pleased me, he would dress first and then leave me to dress
+afterwards, leaving the whole apartment to myself. Thinks I, Queequeg,
+under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture; but, the
+truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what
+you will; it is marvellous how essentially polite they are. I pay this
+particular compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much
+civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness;
+staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions; for
+the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding. Nevertheless,
+a man like Queequeg you don't see every day, he and his ways were well
+worth unusual regarding.
+
+He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one,
+by the by, and then--still minus his trowsers--he hunted up his boots.
+What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next
+movement was to crush himself--boots in hand, and hat on--under the bed;
+when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was
+hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever
+heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his
+boots. But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition
+stage--neither caterpillar nor butterfly. He was just enough civilized
+to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners. His
+education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate. If he had not
+been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled
+himself with boots at all; but then, if he had not been still a savage,
+he never would have dreamt of getting under the bed to put them on. At
+last, he emerged with his hat very much dented and crushed down over his
+eyes, and began creaking and limping about the room, as if, not
+being much accustomed to boots, his pair of damp, wrinkled cowhide
+ones--probably not made to order either--rather pinched and tormented
+him at the first go off of a bitter cold morning.
+
+Seeing, now, that there were no curtains to the window, and that the
+street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view
+into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure that
+Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots on;
+I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat,
+and particularly to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible. He
+complied, and then proceeded to wash himself. At that time in the
+morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg, to
+my amazement, contented himself with restricting his ablutions to his
+chest, arms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a
+piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table, dipped it into water
+and commenced lathering his face. I was watching to see where he kept
+his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner,
+slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little
+on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall,
+begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks. Thinks
+I, Queequeg, this is using Rogers's best cutlery with a vengeance.
+Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of
+what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp
+the long straight edges are always kept.
+
+The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched out of
+the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket, and sporting his
+harpoon like a marshal's baton.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
+
+
+I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the
+grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him,
+though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my
+bedfellow.
+
+However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a
+good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own
+proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be
+backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in
+that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him,
+be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
+
+The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the
+night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at. They were
+nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and
+sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers,
+and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an
+unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
+
+You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore. This
+young fellow's healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and
+would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days
+landed from his Indian voyage. That man next him looks a few shades
+lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him. In the
+complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached
+withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore. But who could show
+a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the
+Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates,
+zone by zone.
+
+"Grub, ho!" now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went
+to breakfast.
+
+They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease
+in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Not always, though: Ledyard,
+the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all
+men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor. But perhaps the
+mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as Ledyard did, or
+the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart
+of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo's performances--this kind of
+travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social
+polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had
+anywhere.
+
+These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that
+after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some
+good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every
+man maintained a profound silence. And not only that, but they looked
+embarrassed. Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the
+slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas--entire
+strangers to them--and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here
+they sat at a social breakfast table--all of the same calling, all of
+kindred tastes--looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they
+had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
+A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen!
+
+But as for Queequeg--why, Queequeg sat there among them--at the head of
+the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle. To be sure I cannot
+say much for his breeding. His greatest admirer could not have cordially
+justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it
+there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent
+jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him. But
+THAT was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in
+most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
+
+We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed
+coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks,
+done rare. Enough, that when breakfast was over he withdrew like the
+rest into the public room, lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was sitting
+there quietly digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat on, when I
+sallied out for a stroll.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 6. The Street.
+
+
+If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish
+an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a
+civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first
+daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
+
+In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will
+frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign
+parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners
+will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent Street is not
+unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live
+Yankees have often scared the natives. But New Bedford beats all Water
+Street and Wapping. In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors;
+but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners;
+savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh. It
+makes a stranger stare.
+
+But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians,
+and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft
+which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still
+more curious, certainly more comical. There weekly arrive in this town
+scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain
+and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames;
+fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch
+the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they
+came. In some things you would think them but a few hours old. Look
+there! that chap strutting round the corner. He wears a beaver hat and
+swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife. Here
+comes another with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak.
+
+No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one--I mean a
+downright bumpkin dandy--a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow his
+two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands. Now when a
+country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished
+reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the
+comical things he does upon reaching the seaport. In bespeaking his
+sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats; straps to his
+canvas trowsers. Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly will burst those straps
+in the first howling gale, when thou art driven, straps, buttons, and
+all, down the throat of the tempest.
+
+But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and
+bumpkins to show her visitors. Not at all. Still New Bedford is a queer
+place. Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this
+day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
+As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, they
+look so bony. The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live
+in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like
+Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine. The streets do not run with
+milk; nor in the spring-time do they pave them with fresh eggs. Yet, in
+spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like
+houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford. Whence came
+they? how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country?
+
+Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty
+mansion, and your question will be answered. Yes; all these brave houses
+and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
+One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the bottom
+of the sea. Can Herr Alexander perform a feat like that?
+
+In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their
+daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
+You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say,
+they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly
+burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
+
+In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples--long
+avenues of green and gold. And in August, high in air, the beautiful and
+bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their
+tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms. So omnipotent is art;
+which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces
+of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final
+day.
+
+And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But
+roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks
+is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that
+bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young
+girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off
+shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of
+the Puritanic sands.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
+
+
+In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman's Chapel, and few are
+the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who
+fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not.
+
+Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this
+special errand. The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving
+sleet and mist. Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called
+bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm. Entering, I
+found a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors' wives and
+widows. A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks
+of the storm. Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from
+the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable. The
+chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and
+women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders,
+masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit. Three of them ran
+something like the following, but I do not pretend to quote:--
+
+SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT, Who, at the age of eighteen, was
+lost overboard, Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia, November
+1st, 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER.
+
+SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY, NATHAN COLEMAN,
+WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY, AND SAMUEL GLEIG, Forming one of the boats'
+crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the
+Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is
+here placed by their surviving SHIPMATES.
+
+SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY, Who in the bows
+of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, AUGUST
+3d, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW.
+
+Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself
+near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near
+me. Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze
+of incredulous curiosity in his countenance. This savage was the only
+person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only
+one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid
+inscriptions on the wall. Whether any of the relatives of the seamen
+whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not;
+but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly
+did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings
+of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were
+assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak
+tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
+
+Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among
+flowers can say--here, HERE lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation
+that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in those
+black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in those
+immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in
+the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to
+the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave. As well might
+those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here.
+
+In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included;
+why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no
+tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is
+that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix
+so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if
+he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the
+Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what
+eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies
+antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we
+still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are
+dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all
+the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a
+whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.
+
+But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these
+dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
+
+It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a
+Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky
+light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen
+who had gone before me. Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But
+somehow I grew merry again. Delightful inducements to embark, fine
+chance for promotion, it seems--aye, a stove boat will make me an
+immortal by brevet. Yes, there is death in this business of whaling--a
+speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what
+then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
+Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true
+substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too
+much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that
+thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my
+better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not
+me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and
+stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
+
+
+I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable
+robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon
+admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation,
+sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain. Yes, it
+was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he
+was a very great favourite. He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his
+youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
+At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a
+healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second
+flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone
+certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom--the spring verdure
+peeping forth even beneath February's snow. No one having previously
+heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without
+the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical
+peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life
+he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella, and
+certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down
+with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to
+drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed.
+However, hat and coat and overshoes were one by one removed, and hung up
+in a little space in an adjacent corner; when, arrayed in a decent suit,
+he quietly approached the pulpit.
+
+Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a
+regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor,
+seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect,
+it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the
+pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like
+those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea. The wife of a whaling
+captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted
+man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and
+stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what
+manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste. Halting for
+an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the
+ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards,
+and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand
+over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.
+
+The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with
+swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood,
+so that at every step there was a joint. At my first glimpse of the
+pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship,
+these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary. For I was not
+prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn
+round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder
+step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him
+impregnable in his little Quebec.
+
+I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this.
+Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity,
+that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere tricks
+of the stage. No, thought I, there must be some sober reason for this
+thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen. Can it be,
+then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual
+withdrawal for the time, from all outward worldly ties and connexions?
+Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the word, to the faithful
+man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a self-containing stronghold--a lofty
+Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial well of water within the walls.
+
+But the side ladder was not the only strange feature of the place,
+borrowed from the chaplain's former sea-farings. Between the marble
+cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back
+was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating
+against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy
+breakers. But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there
+floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's
+face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the
+ship's tossed deck, something like that silver plate now inserted into
+the Victory's plank where Nelson fell. "Ah, noble ship," the angel
+seemed to say, "beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy
+helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling
+off--serenest azure is at hand."
+
+Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that
+had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in
+the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a
+projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed
+beak.
+
+What could be more full of meaning?--for the pulpit is ever this earth's
+foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the
+world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first
+descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is
+the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.
+Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete;
+and the pulpit is its prow.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
+
+
+Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered
+the scattered people to condense. "Starboard gangway, there! side away
+to larboard--larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!"
+
+There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a
+still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and
+every eye on the preacher.
+
+He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large
+brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered
+a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the
+bottom of the sea.
+
+This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of
+a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog--in such tones he
+commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards
+the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy--
+
+     "The ribs and terrors in the whale,
+     Arched over me a dismal gloom,
+     While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,
+     And lift me deepening down to doom.
+
+     "I saw the opening maw of hell,
+     With endless pains and sorrows there;
+     Which none but they that feel can tell--
+     Oh, I was plunging to despair.
+
+     "In black distress, I called my God,
+     When I could scarce believe him mine,
+     He bowed his ear to my complaints--
+     No more the whale did me confine.
+
+     "With speed he flew to my relief,
+     As on a radiant dolphin borne;
+     Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone
+     The face of my Deliverer God.
+
+     "My song for ever shall record
+     That terrible, that joyful hour;
+     I give the glory to my God,
+     His all the mercy and the power."
+
+
+Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high above the
+howling of the storm. A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned
+over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon
+the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the
+first chapter of Jonah--'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up
+Jonah.'"
+
+"Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters--four yarns--is one
+of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what
+depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound! what a pregnant
+lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the
+fish's belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods
+surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters;
+sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But WHAT is this
+lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a two-stranded
+lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot
+of the living God. As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it
+is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the
+swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and
+joy of Jonah. As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son of
+Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God--never
+mind now what that command was, or how conveyed--which he found a hard
+command. But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to
+do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to
+persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in
+this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
+
+"With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at
+God, by seeking to flee from Him. He thinks that a ship made by men will
+carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains
+of this earth. He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship
+that's bound for Tarshish. There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded
+meaning here. By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city
+than the modern Cadiz. That's the opinion of learned men. And where is
+Cadiz, shipmates? Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from Joppa,
+as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the
+Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa,
+shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the
+Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the
+westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye
+not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wide from God?
+Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with
+slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the
+shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So disordered,
+self-condemning is his look, that had there been policemen in those
+days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had been arrested
+ere he touched a deck. How plainly he's a fugitive! no baggage, not a
+hat-box, valise, or carpet-bag,--no friends accompany him to the wharf
+with their adieux. At last, after much dodging search, he finds the
+Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as he steps on
+board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for the moment
+desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger's evil eye.
+Jonah sees this; but in vain he tries to look all ease and confidence;
+in vain essays his wretched smile. Strong intuitions of the man assure
+the mariners he can be no innocent. In their gamesome but still serious
+way, one whispers to the other--"Jack, he's robbed a widow;" or, "Joe,
+do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or, "Harry lad, I guess he's the
+adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike, one of the missing
+murderers from Sodom." Another runs to read the bill that's stuck
+against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering
+five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and
+containing a description of his person. He reads, and looks from Jonah
+to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah,
+prepared to lay their hands upon him. Frighted Jonah trembles, and
+summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a
+coward. He will not confess himself suspected; but that itself is strong
+suspicion. So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him
+not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends
+into the cabin.
+
+"'Who's there?' cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making
+out his papers for the Customs--'Who's there?' Oh! how that harmless
+question mangles Jonah! For the instant he almost turns to flee again.
+But he rallies. 'I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon
+sail ye, sir?' Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah,
+though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that
+hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance. 'We sail with the
+next coming tide,' at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing
+him. 'No sooner, sir?'--'Soon enough for any honest man that goes a
+passenger.' Ha! Jonah, that's another stab. But he swiftly calls away
+the Captain from that scent. 'I'll sail with ye,'--he says,--'the
+passage money how much is that?--I'll pay now.' For it is particularly
+written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this
+history, 'that he paid the fare thereof' ere the craft did sail. And
+taken with the context, this is full of meaning.
+
+"Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime
+in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this
+world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without
+a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
+So Jonah's Captain prepares to test the length of Jonah's purse, ere he
+judge him openly. He charges him thrice the usual sum; and it's assented
+to. Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same
+time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold. Yet when
+Jonah fairly takes out his purse, prudent suspicions still molest the
+Captain. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit. 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.
+
+"Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly
+oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf
+with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all,
+though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with
+reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it
+but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung. The lamp
+alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes
+roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no
+refuge for his restless glance. But that contradiction in the lamp more
+and more appals him. The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry.
+'Oh! so my conscience hangs in me!' he groans, 'straight upwards, so it
+burns; but the chambers of my soul are all in crookedness!'
+
+"Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still
+reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the
+Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as
+one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish,
+praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid
+the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the
+man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught
+to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, Jonah's prodigy
+of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
+
+"And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and
+from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening,
+glides to sea. That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded
+smugglers! the contraband was Jonah. But the sea rebels; he will not
+bear the wicked burden. A dreadful storm comes on, the ship is like to
+break. But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her;
+when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind
+is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with
+trampling feet right over Jonah's head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah
+sleeps his hideous sleep. He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not
+the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the
+mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after
+him. Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship--a
+berth in the cabin as I have taken it, and was fast asleep. But the
+frightened master comes to him, and shrieks in his dead ear, 'What
+meanest thou, O, sleeper! arise!' Startled from his lethargy by that
+direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck,
+grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea. But at that moment he is
+sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks. Wave after
+wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring
+fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.
+And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep
+gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing
+bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the
+tormented deep.
+
+"Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul. In all his cringing
+attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known. The sailors mark
+him; more and more certain grow their suspicions of him, and at last,
+fully to test the truth, by referring the whole matter to high Heaven,
+they fall to casting lots, to see for whose cause this great tempest was
+upon them. The lot is Jonah's; that discovered, then how furiously they
+mob him with their questions. 'What is thine occupation? Whence comest
+thou? Thy country? What people? But mark now, my shipmates, the behavior
+of poor Jonah. The eager mariners but ask him who he is, and where
+from; whereas, they not only receive an answer to those questions,
+but likewise another answer to a question not put by them, but the
+unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is
+upon him.
+
+"'I am a Hebrew,' he cries--and then--'I fear the Lord the God of Heaven
+who hath made the sea and the dry land!' Fear him, O Jonah? Aye, well
+mightest thou fear the Lord God THEN! Straightway, he now goes on to
+make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more
+appalled, but still are pitiful. For when Jonah, not yet supplicating
+God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his
+deserts,--when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him
+forth into the sea, for he knew that for HIS sake this great tempest
+was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to
+save the ship. But all in vain; the indignant gale howls louder;
+then, with one hand raised invokingly to God, with the other they not
+unreluctantly lay hold of Jonah.
+
+"And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea;
+when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east, and the sea
+is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him, leaving smooth
+water behind. He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless
+commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into
+the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory
+teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison. Then Jonah prayed unto
+the Lord out of the fish's belly. But observe his prayer, and learn a
+weighty lesson. For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for
+direct deliverance. He feels that his dreadful punishment is just. He
+leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that
+spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy
+temple. And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not
+clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. And how pleasing to
+God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance of
+him from the sea and the whale. Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before
+you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model
+for repentance. Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it like
+Jonah."
+
+While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking,
+slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who,
+when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
+His deep chest heaved as with a ground-swell; his tossed arms seemed the
+warring elements at work; and the thunders that rolled away from off his
+swarthy brow, and the light leaping from his eye, made all his simple
+hearers look on him with a quick fear that was strange to them.
+
+There now came a lull in his look, as he silently turned over the leaves
+of the Book once more; and, at last, standing motionless, with closed
+eyes, for the moment, seemed communing with God and himself.
+
+But again he leaned over towards the people, and bowing his head lowly,
+with an aspect of the deepest yet manliest humility, he spake these
+words:
+
+"Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press
+upon me. I have read ye by what murky light may be mine the lesson that
+Jonah teaches to all sinners; and therefore to ye, and still more to me,
+for I am a greater sinner than ye. And now how gladly would I come down
+from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and
+listen as you listen, while some one of you reads ME that other and more
+awful lesson which Jonah teaches to ME, as a pilot of the living God.
+How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things, and
+bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a
+wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled
+from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking
+ship at Joppa. But God is everywhere; Tarshish he never reached. As we
+have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to
+living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the
+midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand
+fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the
+watery world of woe bowled over him. Yet even then beyond the reach of
+any plummet--'out of the belly of hell'--when the whale grounded upon
+the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting
+prophet when he cried. Then God spake unto the fish; and from the
+shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching
+up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and
+earth; and 'vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;' when the word of the
+Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten--his ears, like
+two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean--Jonah
+did the Almighty's bidding. And what was that, shipmates? To preach the
+Truth to the face of Falsehood! That was it!
+
+"This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of
+the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from
+Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God
+has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than
+to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe
+to him who, in this world, courts not dishonour! Woe to him who would
+not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him
+who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is
+himself a castaway!"
+
+He dropped and fell away from himself for a moment; then lifting his
+face to them again, showed a deep joy in his eyes, as he cried out with
+a heavenly enthusiasm,--"But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of
+every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight,
+than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than
+the kelson is low? Delight is to him--a far, far upward, and inward
+delight--who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever
+stands forth his own inexorable self. Delight is to him whose strong
+arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has
+gone down beneath him. Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the
+truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out
+from under the robes of Senators and Judges. Delight,--top-gallant
+delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his
+God, and is only a patriot to heaven. Delight is to him, whom all the
+waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake
+from this sure Keel of the Ages. And eternal delight and deliciousness
+will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final
+breath--O Father!--chiefly known to me by Thy rod--mortal or immortal,
+here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or
+mine own. Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man
+that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
+
+He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with
+his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed,
+and he was left alone in the place.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
+
+
+Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there
+quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time.
+He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove
+hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little
+negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife
+gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his
+heathenish way.
+
+But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going
+to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap
+began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth
+page--as I fancied--stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and
+giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment. He
+would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number
+one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was
+only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his
+astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.
+
+With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and
+hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance
+yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot
+hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw
+the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes,
+fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a
+thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing
+about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
+He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
+Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn
+out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it
+otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was
+his head was phrenologically an excellent one. It may seem ridiculous,
+but it reminded me of General Washington's head, as seen in the popular
+busts of him. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope
+from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two
+long promontories thickly wooded on top. Queequeg was George Washington
+cannibalistically developed.
+
+Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be
+looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence,
+never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared
+wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.
+Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night
+previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found
+thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference
+of his very strange. But savages are strange beings; at times you do not
+know exactly how to take them. At first they are overawing; their calm
+self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom. I had noticed
+also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the
+other seamen in the inn. He made no advances whatever; appeared to have
+no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances. All this struck
+me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts, there was something
+almost sublime in it. Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from
+home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is--which was the only way he could
+get there--thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in
+the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving
+the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to
+himself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he
+had never heard there was such a thing as that. But, perhaps, to be
+true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or
+so striving. So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself
+out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he
+must have "broken his digester."
+
+As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that
+mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then
+only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering
+round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain;
+the storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of
+strange feelings. I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart
+and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing
+savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a
+nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
+Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself
+mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have
+repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I'll
+try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but
+hollow courtesy. I drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs
+and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile. At first he little
+noticed these advances; but presently, upon my referring to his last
+night's hospitalities, he made out to ask me whether we were again to be
+bedfellows. I told him yes; whereat I thought he looked pleased, perhaps
+a little complimented.
+
+We then turned over the book together, and I endeavored to explain to
+him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few pictures
+that were in it. Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went
+to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to be seen
+in this famous town. Soon I proposed a social smoke; and, producing
+his pouch and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff. And then we sat
+exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his, and keeping it regularly
+passing between us.
+
+If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's
+breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left
+us cronies. He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as
+I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against
+mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were
+married; meaning, in his country's phrase, that we were bosom friends;
+he would gladly die for me, if need should be. In a countryman, this
+sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too premature, a thing
+to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage those old rules would
+not apply.
+
+After supper, and another social chat and smoke, we went to our room
+together. He made me a present of his embalmed head; took out his
+enormous tobacco wallet, and groping under the tobacco, drew out
+some thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and
+mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them
+towards me, and said it was mine. I was going to remonstrate; but he
+silenced me by pouring them into my trowsers' pockets. I let them stay.
+He then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol, and removed
+the paper fireboard. By certain signs and symptoms, I thought he seemed
+anxious for me to join him; but well knowing what was to follow, I
+deliberated a moment whether, in case he invited me, I would comply or
+otherwise.
+
+I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible
+Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in
+worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do
+you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and
+earth--pagans and all included--can possibly be jealous of an
+insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?--to do
+the will of God--THAT is worship. And what is the will of God?--to do to
+my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me--THAT is the
+will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that
+this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular
+Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him
+in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I kindled the shavings; helped
+prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with
+Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that
+done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences
+and all the world. But we did not go to sleep without some little chat.
+
+How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential
+disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very
+bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie
+and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts'
+honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg--a cosy, loving pair.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
+
+
+We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and
+Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs
+over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free
+and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what
+little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like
+getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
+
+Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position
+began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves
+sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the
+head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two
+noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans. We felt
+very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors;
+indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the
+room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some
+small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world
+that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If
+you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so
+a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But if,
+like Queequeg and me in the bed, the tip of your nose or the crown
+of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general
+consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm. For this
+reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which
+is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this
+sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and
+your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the
+one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
+
+We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at
+once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether
+by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always
+keeping my eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness
+of being in bed. Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright
+except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element
+of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon
+opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant and self-created
+darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated
+twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable revulsion. Nor did
+I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to
+strike a light, seeing that we were so wide awake; and besides he felt
+a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk. Be it said,
+that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the
+bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when
+love once comes to bend them. For now I liked nothing better than to
+have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full
+of such serene household joy then. I no more felt unduly concerned for
+the landlord's policy of insurance. I was only alive to the condensed
+confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real
+friend. With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed
+the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a
+blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit
+lamp.
+
+Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage away to far
+distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke of his native island; and,
+eager to hear his history, I begged him to go on and tell it. He gladly
+complied. Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his
+words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with
+his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as
+it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
+
+
+Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and
+South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
+
+When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in
+a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green
+sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire
+to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two. His
+father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the
+maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable
+warriors. There was excellent blood in his veins--royal stuff; though
+sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his
+untutored youth.
+
+A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a
+passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of
+seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence
+could prevail. But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled
+off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when
+she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low
+tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the
+water. Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its
+prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and when the
+ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her side; with
+one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe; climbed up
+the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the deck, grappled
+a ring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces.
+
+In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a
+cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and
+Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild
+desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told
+him he might make himself at home. But this fine young savage--this sea
+Prince of Wales, never saw the Captain's cabin. They put him down among
+the sailors, and made a whaleman of him. But like Czar Peter content to
+toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming
+ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his
+untutored countrymen. For at bottom--so he told me--he was actuated by a
+profound desire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to
+make his people still happier than they were; and more than that,
+still better than they were. But, alas! the practices of whalemen soon
+convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked;
+infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in
+old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there; and then going on
+to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in that place also,
+poor Queequeg gave it up for lost. Thought he, it's a wicked world in
+all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
+
+And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians,
+wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish. Hence the queer
+ways about him, though now some time from home.
+
+By hints, I asked him whether he did not propose going back, and having
+a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he
+being very old and feeble at the last accounts. He answered no, not yet;
+and added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had
+unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan
+Kings before him. But by and by, he said, he would return,--as soon as
+he felt himself baptized again. For the nonce, however, he proposed to
+sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans. They had made a
+harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.
+
+I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future
+movements. He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation. Upon
+this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my
+intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for
+an adventurous whaleman to embark from. He at once resolved to accompany
+me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch,
+the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap;
+with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
+To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection I now felt
+for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such, could not
+fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me, was wholly ignorant
+of the mysteries of whaling, though well acquainted with the sea, as
+known to merchant seamen.
+
+His story being ended with his pipe's last dying puff, Queequeg embraced
+me, pressed his forehead against mine, and blowing out the light, we
+rolled over from each other, this way and that, and very soon were
+sleeping.
+
+
+CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
+
+
+Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber,
+for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my
+comrade's money. The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed
+amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between
+me and Queequeg--especially as Peter Coffin's cock and bull stories
+about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person
+whom I now companied with.
+
+We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own
+poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went
+down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the
+wharf. As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg
+so much--for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their
+streets,--but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms. But we
+heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg
+now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs. I asked
+him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and
+whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons. To this, in
+substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was true enough, yet
+he had a particular affection for his own harpoon, because it was of
+assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate
+with the hearts of whales. In short, like many inland reapers
+and mowers, who go into the farmers' meadows armed with their own
+scythes--though in no wise obliged to furnish them--even so, Queequeg,
+for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.
+
+Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about
+the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The owners
+of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his
+heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the
+thing--though in truth he was entirely so, concerning the precise way in
+which to manage the barrow--Queequeg puts his chest upon it; lashes it
+fast; and then shoulders the barrow and marches up the wharf. "Why,"
+said I, "Queequeg, you might have known better than that, one would
+think. Didn't the people laugh?"
+
+Upon this, he told me another story. The people of his island of
+Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water
+of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and
+this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided
+mat where the feast is held. Now a certain grand merchant ship once
+touched at Rokovoko, and its commander--from all accounts, a very
+stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain--this
+commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a
+pretty young princess just turned of ten. Well; when all the wedding
+guests were assembled at the bride's bamboo cottage, this Captain
+marches in, and being assigned the post of honour, placed himself over
+against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the
+King, Queequeg's father. Grace being said,--for those people have their
+grace as well as we--though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such
+times look downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the
+ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts--Grace, I say,
+being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony
+of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers
+into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates. Seeing himself
+placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking
+himself--being Captain of a ship--as having plain precedence over a
+mere island King, especially in the King's own house--the Captain coolly
+proceeds to wash his hands in the punchbowl;--taking it I suppose for a
+huge finger-glass. "Now," said Queequeg, "what you tink now?--Didn't our
+people laugh?"
+
+At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner.
+Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New
+Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all
+glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on
+casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering
+whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others
+came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and
+forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the
+start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a
+second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever
+and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all
+earthly effort.
+
+Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little
+Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
+How I snuffed that Tartar air!--how I spurned that turnpike earth!--that
+common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and
+hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will
+permit no records.
+
+At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me.
+His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth.
+On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to the
+blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan. Sideways
+leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the
+two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes. So full of
+this reeling scene were we, as we stood by the plunging bowsprit, that
+for some time we did not notice the jeering glances of the passengers, a
+lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow beings should be so
+companionable; as though a white man were anything more dignified than a
+whitewashed negro. But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who,
+by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of
+all verdure. Queequeg caught one of these young saplings mimicking him
+behind his back. I thought the bumpkin's hour of doom was come. Dropping
+his harpoon, the brawny savage caught him in his arms, and by an almost
+miraculous dexterity and strength, sent him high up bodily into the air;
+then slightly tapping his stern in mid-somerset, the fellow landed with
+bursting lungs upon his feet, while Queequeg, turning his back upon him,
+lighted his tomahawk pipe and passed it to me for a puff.
+
+"Capting! Capting!" yelled the bumpkin, running towards that officer;
+"Capting, Capting, here's the devil."
+
+"Hallo, _you_ sir," cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea, stalking
+up to Queequeg, "what in thunder do you mean by that? Don't you know you
+might have killed that chap?"
+
+"What him say?" said Queequeg, as he mildly turned to me.
+
+"He say," said I, "that you came near kill-e that man there," pointing
+to the still shivering greenhorn.
+
+"Kill-e," cried Queequeg, twisting his tattooed face into an unearthly
+expression of disdain, "ah! him bevy small-e fish-e; Queequeg no kill-e
+so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"
+
+"Look you," roared the Captain, "I'll kill-e YOU, you cannibal, if you
+try any more of your tricks aboard here; so mind your eye."
+
+But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain to
+mind his own eye. The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted
+the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to
+side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck. The poor
+fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly, was swept overboard; all
+hands were in a panic; and to attempt snatching at the boom to stay it,
+seemed madness. It flew from right to left, and back again, almost
+in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of
+snapping into splinters. Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of
+being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the
+boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the
+midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and
+crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one
+end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it
+round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar
+was that way trapped, and all was safe. The schooner was run into the
+wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg,
+stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of
+a leap. For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog,
+throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns revealing
+his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam. I looked at the grand
+and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved. The greenhorn had gone
+down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg, now
+took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how matters
+were, dived down and disappeared. A few minutes more, and he rose again,
+one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.
+The boat soon picked them up. The poor bumpkin was restored. All hands
+voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon. From that
+hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took
+his last long dive.
+
+Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he at
+all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He only
+asked for water--fresh water--something to wipe the brine off; that
+done, he put on dry clothes, lighted his pipe, and leaning against the
+bulwarks, and mildly eyeing those around him, seemed to be saying
+to himself--"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We
+cannibals must help these Christians."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
+
+
+Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a
+fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.
+
+Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of
+the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely
+than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it--a mere hillock, and elbow of
+sand; all beach, without a background. There is more sand there than
+you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper. Some
+gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they
+don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have
+to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that
+pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true
+cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses,
+to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an
+oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand
+shoes, something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up,
+belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island
+of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will
+sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles. But these
+extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois.
+
+Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was
+settled by the red-men. Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle
+swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant
+Indian in his talons. With loud lament the parents saw their child borne
+out of sight over the wide waters. They resolved to follow in the same
+direction. Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage they
+discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory casket,--the
+poor little Indian's skeleton.
+
+What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take
+to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quohogs in
+the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more
+experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last,
+launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world;
+put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in
+at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared
+everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the
+flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea
+Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that
+his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and
+malicious assaults!
+
+And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from
+their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered the watery world like
+so many Alexanders; parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and
+Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add
+Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm
+all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds
+of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he
+owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of
+way through it. Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but
+floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea
+as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of
+the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the
+bottomless deep itself. The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on
+the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and
+fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. THERE is his home; THERE
+lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it
+overwhelmed all the millions in China. He lives on the sea, as prairie
+cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as
+chamois hunters climb the Alps. For years he knows not the land; so
+that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more
+strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman. With the landless gull,
+that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows;
+so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails,
+and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of
+walruses and whales.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
+
+
+It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly
+to anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no
+business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed. The landlord of
+the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin Hosea Hussey of the
+Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one of the best kept
+hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured us that Cousin
+Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders. In short, he
+plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better than try pot-luck at
+the Try Pots. But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow
+warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the
+larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a
+corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first
+man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very
+much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg
+insisted that the yellow warehouse--our first point of departure--must
+be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to
+say it was on the starboard. However, by dint of beating about a little
+in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant
+to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no
+mistaking.
+
+Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses' ears,
+swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front of an
+old doorway. The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other
+side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.
+Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I
+could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving. A sort of
+crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two remaining horns; yes, TWO
+of them, one for Queequeg, and one for me. It's ominous, thinks I. A
+Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port; tombstones
+staring at me in the whalemen's chapel; and here a gallows! and a pair
+of prodigious black pots too! Are these last throwing out oblique hints
+touching Tophet?
+
+I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman
+with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn,
+under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured
+eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen
+shirt.
+
+"Get along with ye," said she to the man, "or I'll be combing ye!"
+
+"Come on, Queequeg," said I, "all right. There's Mrs. Hussey."
+
+And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving
+Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs. Upon
+making known our desires for a supper and a bed, Mrs. Hussey, postponing
+further scolding for the present, ushered us into a little room, and
+seating us at a table spread with the relics of a recently concluded
+repast, turned round to us and said--"Clam or Cod?"
+
+"What's that about Cods, ma'am?" said I, with much politeness.
+
+"Clam or Cod?" she repeated.
+
+"A clam for supper? a cold clam; is THAT what you mean, Mrs. Hussey?"
+says I, "but that's a rather cold and clammy reception in the winter
+time, ain't it, Mrs. Hussey?"
+
+But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple
+Shirt, who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing
+but the word "clam," Mrs. Hussey hurried towards an open door leading to
+the kitchen, and bawling out "clam for two," disappeared.
+
+"Queequeg," said I, "do you think that we can make out a supper for us
+both on one clam?"
+
+However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the
+apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder
+came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh, sweet friends!
+hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than
+hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into
+little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned
+with pepper and salt. Our appetites being sharpened by the frosty
+voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favourite fishing food
+before him, and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we despatched
+it with great expedition: when leaning back a moment and bethinking
+me of Mrs. Hussey's clam and cod announcement, I thought I would try
+a little experiment. Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word
+"cod" with great emphasis, and resumed my seat. In a few moments the
+savoury steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good
+time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
+
+We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I
+to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head?
+What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people? "But look,
+Queequeg, ain't that a live eel in your bowl? Where's your harpoon?"
+
+Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved
+its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for
+breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you
+began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area
+before the house was paved with clam-shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished
+necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account books
+bound in superior old shark-skin. There was a fishy flavor to the milk,
+too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening
+to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw
+Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the
+sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod,
+I assure ye.
+
+Supper concluded, we received a lamp, and directions from Mrs. Hussey
+concerning the nearest way to bed; but, as Queequeg was about to precede
+me up the stairs, the lady reached forth her arm, and demanded his
+harpoon; she allowed no harpoon in her chambers. "Why not?" said I;
+"every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon--but why not?" "Because
+it's dangerous," says she. "Ever since young Stiggs coming from that
+unfort'nt v'y'ge of his, when he was gone four years and a half, with
+only three barrels of _ile_, was found dead in my first floor back, with
+his harpoon in his side; ever since then I allow no boarders to take
+sich dangerous weepons in their rooms at night. So, Mr. Queequeg" (for
+she had learned his name), "I will just take this here iron, and keep
+it for you till morning. But the chowder; clam or cod to-morrow for
+breakfast, men?"
+
+"Both," says I; "and let's have a couple of smoked herring by way of
+variety."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
+
+
+In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow. But to my surprise and
+no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been
+diligently consulting Yojo--the name of his black little god--and Yojo
+had told him two or three times over, and strongly insisted upon it
+everyway, that instead of our going together among the whaling-fleet in
+harbor, and in concert selecting our craft; instead of this, I say, Yojo
+earnestly enjoined that the selection of the ship should rest wholly
+with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed befriending us; and, in order to
+do so, had already pitched upon a vessel, which, if left to myself, I,
+Ishmael, should infallibly light upon, for all the world as though it
+had turned out by chance; and in that vessel I must immediately ship
+myself, for the present irrespective of Queequeg.
+
+I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great
+confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising forecast
+of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather good
+sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in all
+cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
+
+Now, this plan of Queequeg's, or rather Yojo's, touching the selection
+of our craft; I did not like that plan at all. I had not a little relied
+upon Queequeg's sagacity to point out the whaler best fitted to carry
+us and our fortunes securely. But as all my remonstrances produced
+no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and accordingly
+prepared to set about this business with a determined rushing sort
+of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that trifling little
+affair. Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo in our
+little bedroom--for it seemed that it was some sort of Lent or Ramadan,
+or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with Queequeg and Yojo that
+day; HOW it was I never could find out, for, though I applied myself
+to it several times, I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX
+Articles--leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe, and Yojo
+warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings, I sallied out among
+the shipping. After much prolonged sauntering and many random inquiries,
+I learnt that there were three ships up for three-years' voyages--The
+Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the Pequod. DEVIL-DAM, I do not know the
+origin of; TIT-BIT is obvious; PEQUOD, you will no doubt remember, was
+the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct
+as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her,
+hopped over to the Tit-bit; and finally, going on board the Pequod,
+looked around her for a moment, and then decided that this was the very
+ship for us.
+
+You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I
+know;--square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box
+galliots, and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a
+rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod. She was a ship of the old
+school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed look
+about her. Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms
+of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French
+grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerable
+bows looked bearded. Her masts--cut somewhere on the coast of Japan,
+where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale--her masts stood
+stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her
+ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped
+flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled. But to all these
+her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining
+to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.
+Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded
+another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one of the
+principal owners of the Pequod,--this old Peleg, during the term of his
+chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid
+it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched
+by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead. She
+was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with
+pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of
+a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All
+round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous
+jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for
+pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not
+through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of
+sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported
+there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved
+from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who
+steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds
+back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw. A noble craft, but somehow a
+most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
+
+Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority,
+in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw
+nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or
+rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast. It seemed only
+a temporary erection used in port. It was of a conical shape, some ten
+feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken
+from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale.
+Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced
+together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in
+a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the
+top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem's head. A triangular opening
+faced towards the bows of the ship, so that the insider commanded a
+complete view forward.
+
+And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found one who
+by his aspect seemed to have authority; and who, it being noon, and
+the ship's work suspended, was now enjoying respite from the burden of
+command. He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all
+over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a
+stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was
+constructed.
+
+There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of
+the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen,
+and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style;
+only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest
+wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from
+his continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to
+windward;--for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed
+together. Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
+
+"Is this the Captain of the Pequod?" said I, advancing to the door of
+the tent.
+
+"Supposing it be the captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want of him?"
+he demanded.
+
+"I was thinking of shipping."
+
+"Thou wast, wast thou? I see thou art no Nantucketer--ever been in a
+stove boat?"
+
+"No, Sir, I never have."
+
+"Dost know nothing at all about whaling, I dare say--eh?
+
+"Nothing, Sir; but I have no doubt I shall soon learn. I've been several
+voyages in the merchant service, and I think that--"
+
+"Merchant service be damned. Talk not that lingo to me. Dost see that
+leg?--I'll take that leg away from thy stern, if ever thou talkest of
+the marchant service to me again. Marchant service indeed! I suppose now
+ye feel considerable proud of having served in those marchant ships.
+But flukes! man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?--it looks
+a little suspicious, don't it, eh?--Hast not been a pirate, hast
+thou?--Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?--Dost not think of
+murdering the officers when thou gettest to sea?"
+
+I protested my innocence of these things. I saw that under the mask
+of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated
+Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather
+distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the
+Vineyard.
+
+"But what takes thee a-whaling? I want to know that before I think of
+shipping ye."
+
+"Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is. I want to see the world."
+
+"Want to see what whaling is, eh? Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?"
+
+"Who is Captain Ahab, sir?"
+
+"Aye, aye, I thought so. Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
+
+"I am mistaken then. I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself."
+
+"Thou art speaking to Captain Peleg--that's who ye are speaking to,
+young man. It belongs to me and Captain Bildad to see the Pequod fitted
+out for the voyage, and supplied with all her needs, including crew. We
+are part owners and agents. But as I was going to say, if thou wantest
+to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way of
+finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out. Clap
+eye on Captain Ahab, young man, and thou wilt find that he has only one
+leg."
+
+"What do you mean, sir? Was the other one lost by a whale?"
+
+"Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured,
+chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a
+boat!--ah, ah!"
+
+I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at
+the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation, but said as calmly as I
+could, "What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could I know
+there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale, though indeed
+I might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident."
+
+"Look ye now, young man, thy lungs are a sort of soft, d'ye see; thou
+dost not talk shark a bit. SURE, ye've been to sea before now; sure of
+that?"
+
+"Sir," said I, "I thought I told you that I had been four voyages in the
+merchant--"
+
+"Hard down out of that! Mind what I said about the marchant
+service--don't aggravate me--I won't have it. But let us understand each
+other. I have given thee a hint about what whaling is; do ye yet feel
+inclined for it?"
+
+"I do, sir."
+
+"Very good. Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's
+throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!"
+
+"I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be
+got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact."
+
+"Good again. Now then, thou not only wantest to go a-whaling, to find
+out by experience what whaling is, but ye also want to go in order to
+see the world? Was not that what ye said? I thought so. Well then, just
+step forward there, and take a peep over the weather-bow, and then back
+to me and tell me what ye see there."
+
+For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not
+knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest. But
+concentrating all his crow's feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started
+me on the errand.
+
+Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the
+ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely
+pointing towards the open ocean. The prospect was unlimited, but
+exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I
+could see.
+
+"Well, what's the report?" said Peleg when I came back; "what did ye
+see?"
+
+"Not much," I replied--"nothing but water; considerable horizon though,
+and there's a squall coming up, I think."
+
+"Well, what does thou think then of seeing the world? Do ye wish to go
+round Cape Horn to see any more of it, eh? Can't ye see the world where
+you stand?"
+
+I was a little staggered, but go a-whaling I must, and I would; and the
+Pequod was as good a ship as any--I thought the best--and all this I now
+repeated to Peleg. Seeing me so determined, he expressed his willingness
+to ship me.
+
+"And thou mayest as well sign the papers right off," he added--"come
+along with ye." And so saying, he led the way below deck into the cabin.
+
+Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and
+surprising figure. It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with
+Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other
+shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd
+of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each
+owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail
+or two in the ship. People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling
+vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks
+bringing in good interest.
+
+Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a
+Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to
+this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the
+peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified
+by things altogether alien and heterogeneous. For some of these same
+Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They
+are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
+
+So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture
+names--a singularly common fashion on the island--and in childhood
+naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker
+idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure
+of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown
+peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a
+Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things
+unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain
+and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion
+of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath
+constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think
+untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or
+savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding
+breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental
+advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language--that man makes
+one in a whole nation's census--a mighty pageant creature, formed for
+noble tragedies. Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically
+regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems
+a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature. For all
+men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure
+of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. But,
+as yet we have not to do with such an one, but with quite another; and
+still a man, who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from another
+phase of the Quaker, modified by individual circumstances.
+
+Like Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad was a well-to-do, retired whaleman.
+But unlike Captain Peleg--who cared not a rush for what are called
+serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things the
+veriest of all trifles--Captain Bildad had not only been originally
+educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism, but all
+his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely island
+creatures, round the Horn--all that had not moved this native born
+Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his
+vest. Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of
+common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg. Though refusing, from
+conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself
+had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe
+to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns
+upon tuns of leviathan gore. How now in the contemplative evening of his
+days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do
+not know; but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably
+he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's
+religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. This
+world pays dividends. Rising from a little cabin-boy in short clothes
+of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat;
+from that becoming boat-header, chief-mate, and captain, and finally a
+ship owner; Bildad, as I hinted before, had concluded his adventurous
+career by wholly retiring from active life at the goodly age of
+sixty, and dedicating his remaining days to the quiet receiving of his
+well-earned income.
+
+Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an
+incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard
+task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a
+curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew,
+upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital, sore
+exhausted and worn out. For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was
+certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least. He never used to swear,
+though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate
+quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them. When Bildad was a
+chief-mate, to have his drab-coloured eye intently looking at you, made
+you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something--a hammer
+or a marling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other,
+never mind what. Indolence and idleness perished before him. His own
+person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian character. On his
+long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard,
+his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his
+broad-brimmed hat.
+
+Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom when I
+followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin. The space between the decks
+was small; and there, bolt-upright, sat old Bildad, who always sat so,
+and never leaned, and this to save his coat tails. His broad-brim was
+placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was
+buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in
+reading from a ponderous volume.
+
+"Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Ye have been
+studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years, to my certain
+knowledge. How far ye got, Bildad?"
+
+As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate,
+Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up, and
+seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.
+
+"He says he's our man, Bildad," said Peleg, "he wants to ship."
+
+"Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me.
+
+"I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
+
+"What do ye think of him, Bildad?" said Peleg.
+
+"He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at
+his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
+
+I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg,
+his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer. But I said
+nothing, only looking round me sharply. Peleg now threw open a chest,
+and drawing forth the ship's articles, placed pen and ink before him,
+and seated himself at a little table. I began to think it was high time
+to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the
+voyage. I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no
+wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of
+the profits called lays, and that these lays were proportioned to the
+degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship's
+company. I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own
+lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used to the sea,
+could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that, I made no doubt that
+from all I had heard I should be offered at least the 275th lay--that
+is, the 275th part of the clear net proceeds of the voyage, whatever
+that might eventually amount to. And though the 275th lay was what they
+call a rather LONG LAY, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a
+lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out
+on it, not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I would
+not have to pay one stiver.
+
+It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely
+fortune--and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those
+that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the
+world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this grim
+sign of the Thunder Cloud. Upon the whole, I thought that the 275th lay
+would be about the fair thing, but would not have been surprised had I
+been offered the 200th, considering I was of a broad-shouldered make.
+
+But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about
+receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard
+something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad;
+how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod, therefore
+the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the
+whole management of the ship's affairs to these two. And I did not know
+but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty deal to say about
+shipping hands, especially as I now found him on board the Pequod,
+quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his
+own fireside. Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a pen with his
+jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he was
+such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded
+us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book, "LAY not up for
+yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth--"
+
+"Well, Captain Bildad," interrupted Peleg, "what d'ye say, what lay
+shall we give this young man?"
+
+"Thou knowest best," was the sepulchral reply, "the seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh wouldn't be too much, would it?--'where moth and rust do
+corrupt, but LAY--'"
+
+LAY, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh! Well, old Bildad, you are determined that I, for one,
+shall not LAY up many LAYS here below, where moth and rust do corrupt.
+It was an exceedingly LONG LAY that, indeed; and though from the
+magnitude of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet
+the slightest consideration will show that though seven hundred and
+seventy-seven is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make
+a TEENTH of it, you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh part of a farthing is a good deal less than seven
+hundred and seventy-seven gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.
+
+"Why, blast your eyes, Bildad," cried Peleg, "thou dost not want to
+swindle this young man! he must have more than that."
+
+"Seven hundred and seventy-seventh," again said Bildad, without lifting
+his eyes; and then went on mumbling--"for where your treasure is, there
+will your heart be also."
+
+"I am going to put him down for the three hundredth," said Peleg, "do ye
+hear that, Bildad! The three hundredth lay, I say."
+
+Bildad laid down his book, and turning solemnly towards him said,
+"Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart; but thou must consider the
+duty thou owest to the other owners of this ship--widows and orphans,
+many of them--and that if we too abundantly reward the labors of this
+young man, we may be taking the bread from those widows and those
+orphans. The seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay, Captain Peleg."
+
+"Thou Bildad!" roared Peleg, starting up and clattering about the
+cabin. "Blast ye, Captain Bildad, if I had followed thy advice in these
+matters, I would afore now had a conscience to lug about that would be
+heavy enough to founder the largest ship that ever sailed round Cape
+Horn."
+
+"Captain Peleg," said Bildad steadily, "thy conscience may be drawing
+ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still
+an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be
+but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the
+fiery pit, Captain Peleg."
+
+"Fiery pit! fiery pit! ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing, ye
+insult me. It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that
+he's bound to hell. Flukes and flames! Bildad, say that again to me, and
+start my soul-bolts, but I'll--I'll--yes, I'll swallow a live goat with
+all his hair and horns on. Out of the cabin, ye canting, drab-coloured
+son of a wooden gun--a straight wake with ye!"
+
+As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous
+oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
+
+Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and
+responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up
+all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily
+commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who,
+I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened
+wrath of Peleg. But to my astonishment, he sat down again on the
+transom very quietly, and seemed to have not the slightest intention of
+withdrawing. He seemed quite used to impenitent Peleg and his ways. As
+for Peleg, after letting off his rage as he had, there seemed no more
+left in him, and he, too, sat down like a lamb, though he twitched a
+little as if still nervously agitated. "Whew!" he whistled at last--"the
+squall's gone off to leeward, I think. Bildad, thou used to be good at
+sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye. My jack-knife here needs
+the grindstone. That's he; thank ye, Bildad. Now then, my young man,
+Ishmael's thy name, didn't ye say? Well then, down ye go here, Ishmael,
+for the three hundredth lay."
+
+"Captain Peleg," said I, "I have a friend with me who wants to ship
+too--shall I bring him down to-morrow?"
+
+"To be sure," said Peleg. "Fetch him along, and we'll look at him."
+
+"What lay does he want?" groaned Bildad, glancing up from the book in
+which he had again been burying himself.
+
+"Oh! never thee mind about that, Bildad," said Peleg. "Has he ever
+whaled it any?" turning to me.
+
+"Killed more whales than I can count, Captain Peleg."
+
+"Well, bring him along then."
+
+And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I
+had done a good morning's work, and that the Pequod was the identical
+ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
+
+But I had not proceeded far, when I began to bethink me that the Captain
+with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen by me; though, indeed, in
+many cases, a whale-ship will be completely fitted out, and receive all
+her crew on board, ere the captain makes himself visible by arriving
+to take command; for sometimes these voyages are so prolonged, and the
+shore intervals at home so exceedingly brief, that if the captain have
+a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort, he does not trouble
+himself much about his ship in port, but leaves her to the owners till
+all is ready for sea. However, it is always as well to have a look at
+him before irrevocably committing yourself into his hands. Turning back
+I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain Ahab was to be found.
+
+"And what dost thou want of Captain Ahab? It's all right enough; thou
+art shipped."
+
+"Yes, but I should like to see him."
+
+"But I don't think thou wilt be able to at present. I don't know exactly
+what's the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the house; a sort
+of sick, and yet he don't look so. In fact, he ain't sick; but no, he
+isn't well either. Any how, young man, he won't always see me, so I
+don't suppose he will thee. He's a queer man, Captain Ahab--so some
+think--but a good one. Oh, thou'lt like him well enough; no fear, no
+fear. He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn't speak
+much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be
+forewarned; Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as
+'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed
+his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales. His lance!
+aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our isle! Oh! he ain't
+Captain Bildad; no, and he ain't Captain Peleg; HE'S AHAB, boy; and Ahab
+of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!"
+
+"And a very vile one. When that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did
+they not lick his blood?"
+
+"Come hither to me--hither, hither," said Peleg, with a significance in
+his eye that almost startled me. "Look ye, lad; never say that on board
+the Pequod. Never say it anywhere. Captain Ahab did not name himself.
+'Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died
+when he was only a twelvemonth old. And yet the old squaw Tistig, at
+Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic. And, perhaps,
+other fools like her may tell thee the same. I wish to warn thee. It's a
+lie. I know Captain Ahab well; I've sailed with him as mate years ago;
+I know what he is--a good man--not a pious, good man, like Bildad, but
+a swearing good man--something like me--only there's a good deal more of
+him. Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly; and I know that on
+the passage home, he was a little out of his mind for a spell; but it
+was the sharp shooting pains in his bleeding stump that brought that
+about, as any one might see. I know, too, that ever since he lost
+his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of
+moody--desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass
+off. And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's
+better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. So
+good-bye to thee--and wrong not Captain Ahab, because he happens to
+have a wicked name. Besides, my boy, he has a wife--not three voyages
+wedded--a sweet, resigned girl. Think of that; by that sweet girl that
+old man has a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless
+harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his
+humanities!"
+
+As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had been
+incidentally revealed to me of Captain Ahab, filled me with a certain
+wild vagueness of painfulness concerning him. And somehow, at the time,
+I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I don't know what,
+unless it was the cruel loss of his leg. And yet I also felt a strange
+awe of him; but that sort of awe, which I cannot at all describe, was
+not exactly awe; I do not know what it was. But I felt it; and it did
+not disincline me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed
+like mystery in him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then. However,
+my thoughts were at length carried in other directions, so that for the
+present dark Ahab slipped my mind.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
+
+
+As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all
+day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I
+cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations,
+never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue
+even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other
+creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism
+quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of
+a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate
+possessions yet owned and rented in his name.
+
+I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these
+things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals,
+pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy conceits on these
+subjects. There was Queequeg, now, certainly entertaining the most
+absurd notions about Yojo and his Ramadan;--but what of that? Queequeg
+thought he knew what he was about, I suppose; he seemed to be content;
+and there let him rest. All our arguing with him would not avail; let
+him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans
+alike--for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and
+sadly need mending.
+
+Towards evening, when I felt assured that all his performances and
+rituals must be over, I went up to his room and knocked at the door; but
+no answer. I tried to open it, but it was fastened inside. "Queequeg,"
+said I softly through the key-hole:--all silent. "I say, Queequeg! why
+don't you speak? It's I--Ishmael." But all remained still as before. I
+began to grow alarmed. I had allowed him such abundant time; I thought
+he might have had an apoplectic fit. I looked through the key-hole; but
+the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect
+was but a crooked and sinister one. I could only see part of the
+foot-board of the bed and a line of the wall, but nothing more. I
+was surprised to behold resting against the wall the wooden shaft of
+Queequeg's harpoon, which the landlady the evening previous had taken
+from him, before our mounting to the chamber. That's strange, thought I;
+but at any rate, since the harpoon stands yonder, and he seldom or
+never goes abroad without it, therefore he must be inside here, and no
+possible mistake.
+
+"Queequeg!--Queequeg!"--all still. Something must have happened.
+Apoplexy! I tried to burst open the door; but it stubbornly resisted.
+Running down stairs, I quickly stated my suspicions to the first person
+I met--the chamber-maid. "La! la!" she cried, "I thought something must
+be the matter. I went to make the bed after breakfast, and the door was
+locked; and not a mouse to be heard; and it's been just so silent ever
+since. But I thought, may be, you had both gone off and locked your
+baggage in for safe keeping. La! la, ma'am!--Mistress! murder! Mrs.
+Hussey! apoplexy!"--and with these cries, she ran towards the kitchen, I
+following.
+
+Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a
+vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation
+of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.
+
+"Wood-house!" cried I, "which way to it? Run for God's sake, and fetch
+something to pry open the door--the axe!--the axe! he's had a stroke;
+depend upon it!"--and so saying I was unmethodically rushing up stairs
+again empty-handed, when Mrs. Hussey interposed the mustard-pot and
+vinegar-cruet, and the entire castor of her countenance.
+
+"What's the matter with you, young man?"
+
+"Get the axe! For God's sake, run for the doctor, some one, while I pry
+it open!"
+
+"Look here," said the landlady, quickly putting down the vinegar-cruet,
+so as to have one hand free; "look here; are you talking about prying
+open any of my doors?"--and with that she seized my arm. "What's the
+matter with you? What's the matter with you, shipmate?"
+
+In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible, I gave her to understand the
+whole case. Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of her
+nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed--"No! I haven't seen
+it since I put it there." Running to a little closet under the landing
+of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that Queequeg's
+harpoon was missing. "He's killed himself," she cried. "It's unfort'nate
+Stiggs done over again there goes another counterpane--God pity his poor
+mother!--it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad a sister?
+Where's that girl?--there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell
+him to paint me a sign, with--"no suicides permitted here, and no
+smoking in the parlor;"--might as well kill both birds at once. Kill?
+The Lord be merciful to his ghost! What's that noise there? You, young
+man, avast there!"
+
+And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force
+open the door.
+
+"I don't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled. Go for the
+locksmith, there's one about a mile from here. But avast!" putting her
+hand in her side-pocket, "here's a key that'll fit, I guess; let's
+see." And with that, she turned it in the lock; but, alas! Queequeg's
+supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
+
+"Have to burst it open," said I, and was running down the entry a
+little, for a good start, when the landlady caught at me, again vowing
+I should not break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a
+sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark.
+
+With a prodigious noise the door flew open, and the knob slamming
+against the wall, sent the plaster to the ceiling; and there, good
+heavens! there sat Queequeg, altogether cool and self-collected; right
+in the middle of the room; squatting on his hams, and holding Yojo on
+top of his head. He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat
+like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
+
+"Queequeg," said I, going up to him, "Queequeg, what's the matter with
+you?"
+
+"He hain't been a sittin' so all day, has he?" said the landlady.
+
+But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him; I almost felt
+like pushing him over, so as to change his position, for it was almost
+intolerable, it seemed so painfully and unnaturally constrained;
+especially, as in all probability he had been sitting so for upwards of
+eight or ten hours, going too without his regular meals.
+
+"Mrs. Hussey," said I, "he's ALIVE at all events; so leave us, if you
+please, and I will see to this strange affair myself."
+
+Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail upon
+Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all he could
+do--for all my polite arts and blandishments--he would not move a peg,
+nor say a single word, nor even look at me, nor notice my presence in
+the slightest way.
+
+I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan; do
+they fast on their hams that way in his native island. It must be so;
+yes, it's part of his creed, I suppose; well, then, let him rest; he'll
+get up sooner or later, no doubt. It can't last for ever, thank God,
+and his Ramadan only comes once a year; and I don't believe it's very
+punctual then.
+
+I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long
+stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage, as
+they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or brig,
+confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only); after
+listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o'clock, I went
+up stairs to go to bed, feeling quite sure by this time Queequeg must
+certainly have brought his Ramadan to a termination. But no; there he
+was just where I had left him; he had not stirred an inch. I began to
+grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to be
+sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room,
+holding a piece of wood on his head.
+
+"For heaven's sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and have
+some supper. You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg." But not a
+word did he reply.
+
+Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to sleep;
+and no doubt, before a great while, he would follow me. But previous to
+turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket, and threw it over him, as
+it promised to be a very cold night; and he had nothing but his ordinary
+round jacket on. For some time, do all I would, I could not get into
+the faintest doze. I had blown out the candle; and the mere thought
+of Queequeg--not four feet off--sitting there in that uneasy position,
+stark alone in the cold and dark; this made me really wretched. Think of
+it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide awake pagan on his
+hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!
+
+But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of
+day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he
+had been screwed down to the floor. But as soon as the first glimpse of
+sun entered the window, up he got, with stiff and grating joints,
+but with a cheerful look; limped towards me where I lay; pressed his
+forehead again against mine; and said his Ramadan was over.
+
+Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion,
+be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any
+other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when
+a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment
+to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to
+lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and
+argue the point with him.
+
+And just so I now did with Queequeg. "Queequeg," said I, "get into bed
+now, and lie and listen to me." I then went on, beginning with the rise
+and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various
+religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show
+Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in
+cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless
+for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and
+common sense. I told him, too, that he being in other things such an
+extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained
+me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan
+of his. Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the
+spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be
+half-starved. This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish
+such melancholy notions about their hereafters. In one word, Queequeg,
+said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested
+apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary
+dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
+
+I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with
+dyspepsia; expressing the idea very plainly, so that he could take it
+in. He said no; only upon one memorable occasion. It was after a great
+feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle
+wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the
+afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
+
+"No more, Queequeg," said I, shuddering; "that will do;" for I knew the
+inferences without his further hinting them. I had seen a sailor who had
+visited that very island, and he told me that it was the custom, when
+a great battle had been gained there, to barbecue all the slain in the
+yard or garden of the victor; and then, one by one, they were placed
+in great wooden trenchers, and garnished round like a pilau, with
+breadfruit and cocoanuts; and with some parsley in their mouths, were
+sent round with the victor's compliments to all his friends, just as
+though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
+
+After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made much
+impression upon Queequeg. Because, in the first place, he somehow seemed
+dull of hearing on that important subject, unless considered from his
+own point of view; and, in the second place, he did not more than one
+third understand me, couch my ideas simply as I would; and, finally, he
+no doubt thought he knew a good deal more about the true religion than
+I did. He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and
+compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible
+young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.
+
+At last we rose and dressed; and Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty
+breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not
+make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the
+Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
+
+
+As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg
+carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us
+from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal,
+and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft,
+unless they previously produced their papers.
+
+"What do you mean by that, Captain Peleg?" said I, now jumping on the
+bulwarks, and leaving my comrade standing on the wharf.
+
+"I mean," he replied, "he must show his papers."
+
+"Yes," said Captain Bildad in his hollow voice, sticking his head from
+behind Peleg's, out of the wigwam. "He must show that he's converted.
+Son of darkness," he added, turning to Queequeg, "art thou at present in
+communion with any Christian church?"
+
+"Why," said I, "he's a member of the first Congregational Church." Here
+be it said, that many tattooed savages sailing in Nantucket ships at
+last come to be converted into the churches.
+
+"First Congregational Church," cried Bildad, "what! that worships in
+Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman's meeting-house?" and so saying, taking
+out his spectacles, he rubbed them with his great yellow bandana
+handkerchief, and putting them on very carefully, came out of the
+wigwam, and leaning stiffly over the bulwarks, took a good long look at
+Queequeg.
+
+"How long hath he been a member?" he then said, turning to me; "not very
+long, I rather guess, young man."
+
+"No," said Peleg, "and he hasn't been baptized right either, or it would
+have washed some of that devil's blue off his face."
+
+"Do tell, now," cried Bildad, "is this Philistine a regular member of
+Deacon Deuteronomy's meeting? I never saw him going there, and I pass it
+every Lord's day."
+
+"I don't know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting," said
+I; "all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First
+Congregational Church. He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is."
+
+"Young man," said Bildad sternly, "thou art skylarking with me--explain
+thyself, thou young Hittite. What church dost thee mean? answer me."
+
+Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied. "I mean, sir, the same
+ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there,
+and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mother's son and soul of
+us belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this whole
+worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us cherish some
+queer crotchets no ways touching the grand belief; in THAT we all join
+hands."
+
+"Splice, thou mean'st SPLICE hands," cried Peleg, drawing nearer. "Young
+man, you'd better ship for a missionary, instead of a fore-mast hand;
+I never heard a better sermon. Deacon Deuteronomy--why Father Mapple
+himself couldn't beat it, and he's reckoned something. Come aboard, come
+aboard; never mind about the papers. I say, tell Quohog there--what's
+that you call him? tell Quohog to step along. By the great anchor, what
+a harpoon he's got there! looks like good stuff that; and he handles it
+about right. I say, Quohog, or whatever your name is, did you ever stand
+in the head of a whale-boat? did you ever strike a fish?"
+
+Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon
+the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats
+hanging to the side; and then bracing his left knee, and poising his
+harpoon, cried out in some such way as this:--
+
+"Cap'ain, you see him small drop tar on water dere? You see him? well,
+spose him one whale eye, well, den!" and taking sharp aim at it, he
+darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the
+ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
+
+"Now," said Queequeg, quietly hauling in the line, "spos-ee him whale-e
+eye; why, dad whale dead."
+
+"Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close
+vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway.
+"Quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ship's papers. We must have
+Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats. Look ye, Quohog,
+we'll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that's more than ever was given a
+harpooneer yet out of Nantucket."
+
+So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon
+enrolled among the same ship's company to which I myself belonged.
+
+When all preliminaries were over and Peleg had got everything ready for
+signing, he turned to me and said, "I guess, Quohog there don't know how
+to write, does he? I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign thy name or
+make thy mark?"
+
+But at this question, Queequeg, who had twice or thrice before taken
+part in similar ceremonies, looked no ways abashed; but taking the
+offered pen, copied upon the paper, in the proper place, an exact
+counterpart of a queer round figure which was tattooed upon his arm; so
+that through Captain Peleg's obstinate mistake touching his appellative,
+it stood something like this:--
+
+Quohog. his X mark.
+
+Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg,
+and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets of his
+broad-skirted drab coat, took out a bundle of tracts, and selecting
+one entitled "The Latter Day Coming; or No Time to Lose," placed it in
+Queequeg's hands, and then grasping them and the book with both his,
+looked earnestly into his eyes, and said, "Son of darkness, I must do my
+duty by thee; I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for the
+souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways, which I
+sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial bondsman. Spurn
+the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the wrath to come; mind
+thine eye, I say; oh! goodness gracious! steer clear of the fiery pit!"
+
+Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language,
+heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
+
+"Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our harpooneer,"
+Peleg. "Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers--it takes the shark
+out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty sharkish.
+There was young Nat Swaine, once the bravest boat-header out of all
+Nantucket and the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to
+good. He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and
+sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case he got stove
+and went to Davy Jones."
+
+"Peleg! Peleg!" said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, "thou thyself,
+as I myself, hast seen many a perilous time; thou knowest, Peleg, what
+it is to have the fear of death; how, then, can'st thou prate in this
+ungodly guise. Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg. Tell me, when this
+same Pequod here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on Japan,
+that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab, did'st thou not
+think of Death and the Judgment then?"
+
+"Hear him, hear him now," cried Peleg, marching across the cabin, and
+thrusting his hands far down into his pockets,--"hear him, all of ye.
+Think of that! When every moment we thought the ship would sink!
+Death and the Judgment then? What? With all three masts making such an
+everlasting thundering against the side; and every sea breaking over us,
+fore and aft. Think of Death and the Judgment then? No! no time to think
+about Death then. Life was what Captain Ahab and I was thinking of;
+and how to save all hands--how to rig jury-masts--how to get into the
+nearest port; that was what I was thinking of."
+
+Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck,
+where we followed him. There he stood, very quietly overlooking some
+sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist. Now and then
+he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which
+otherwise might have been wasted.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
+
+
+"Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?"
+
+Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from
+the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when
+the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us,
+levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question. He was but
+shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a
+black handkerchief investing his neck. A confluent small-pox had in all
+directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed
+bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.
+
+"Have ye shipped in her?" he repeated.
+
+"You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose," said I, trying to gain a little
+more time for an uninterrupted look at him.
+
+"Aye, the Pequod--that ship there," he said, drawing back his whole
+arm, and then rapidly shoving it straight out from him, with the fixed
+bayonet of his pointed finger darted full at the object.
+
+"Yes," said I, "we have just signed the articles."
+
+"Anything down there about your souls?"
+
+"About what?"
+
+"Oh, perhaps you hav'n't got any," he said quickly. "No matter though,
+I know many chaps that hav'n't got any,--good luck to 'em; and they are
+all the better off for it. A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon."
+
+"What are you jabbering about, shipmate?" said I.
+
+"HE'S got enough, though, to make up for all deficiencies of that sort
+in other chaps," abruptly said the stranger, placing a nervous emphasis
+upon the word HE.
+
+"Queequeg," said I, "let's go; this fellow has broken loose from
+somewhere; he's talking about something and somebody we don't know."
+
+"Stop!" cried the stranger. "Ye said true--ye hav'n't seen Old Thunder
+yet, have ye?"
+
+"Who's Old Thunder?" said I, again riveted with the insane earnestness
+of his manner.
+
+"Captain Ahab."
+
+"What! the captain of our ship, the Pequod?"
+
+"Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name. Ye
+hav'n't seen him yet, have ye?"
+
+"No, we hav'n't. He's sick they say, but is getting better, and will be
+all right again before long."
+
+"All right again before long!" laughed the stranger, with a solemnly
+derisive sort of laugh. "Look ye; when Captain Ahab is all right, then
+this left arm of mine will be all right; not before."
+
+"What do you know about him?"
+
+"What did they TELL you about him? Say that!"
+
+"They didn't tell much of anything about him; only I've heard that he's
+a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew."
+
+"That's true, that's true--yes, both true enough. But you must jump when
+he gives an order. Step and growl; growl and go--that's the word with
+Captain Ahab. But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape
+Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights;
+nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in
+Santa?--heard nothing about that, eh? Nothing about the silver calabash
+he spat into? And nothing about his losing his leg last voyage,
+according to the prophecy. Didn't ye hear a word about them matters and
+something more, eh? No, I don't think ye did; how could ye? Who knows
+it? Not all Nantucket, I guess. But hows'ever, mayhap, ye've heard tell
+about the leg, and how he lost it; aye, ye have heard of that, I dare
+say. Oh yes, THAT every one knows a'most--I mean they know he's only one
+leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off."
+
+"My friend," said I, "what all this gibberish of yours is about, I
+don't know, and I don't much care; for it seems to me that you must be a
+little damaged in the head. But if you are speaking of Captain Ahab, of
+that ship there, the Pequod, then let me tell you, that I know all about
+the loss of his leg."
+
+"ALL about it, eh--sure you do?--all?"
+
+"Pretty sure."
+
+With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like
+stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a
+little, turned and said:--"Ye've shipped, have ye? Names down on the
+papers? Well, well, what's signed, is signed; and what's to be, will be;
+and then again, perhaps it won't be, after all. Anyhow, it's all fixed
+and arranged a'ready; and some sailors or other must go with him, I
+suppose; as well these as any other men, God pity 'em! Morning to ye,
+shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye; I'm sorry I stopped
+ye."
+
+"Look here, friend," said I, "if you have anything important to tell
+us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are
+mistaken in your game; that's all I have to say."
+
+"And it's said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up that way;
+you are just the man for him--the likes of ye. Morning to ye, shipmates,
+morning! Oh! when ye get there, tell 'em I've concluded not to make one
+of 'em."
+
+"Ah, my dear fellow, you can't fool us that way--you can't fool us. It
+is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great
+secret in him."
+
+"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning."
+
+"Morning it is," said I. "Come along, Queequeg, let's leave this crazy
+man. But stop, tell me your name, will you?"
+
+"Elijah."
+
+Elijah! thought I, and we walked away, both commenting, after each
+other's fashion, upon this ragged old sailor; and agreed that he was
+nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear. But we had not gone
+perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing to turn a corner, and
+looking back as I did so, who should be seen but Elijah following us,
+though at a distance. Somehow, the sight of him struck me so, that I
+said nothing to Queequeg of his being behind, but passed on with my
+comrade, anxious to see whether the stranger would turn the same corner
+that we did. He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging
+us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine. This
+circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing,
+shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments
+and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain
+Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver
+calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship
+the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage
+we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy things.
+
+I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really
+dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg,
+and on that side of it retraced our steps. But Elijah passed on, without
+seeming to notice us. This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it
+seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
+
+
+A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
+Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on
+board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything
+betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close. Captain
+Peleg seldom or never went ashore, but sat in his wigwam keeping a sharp
+look-out upon the hands: Bildad did all the purchasing and providing
+at the stores; and the men employed in the hold and on the rigging were
+working till long after night-fall.
+
+On the day following Queequeg's signing the articles, word was given at
+all the inns where the ship's company were stopping, that their chests
+must be on board before night, for there was no telling how soon
+the vessel might be sailing. So Queequeg and I got down our traps,
+resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last. But it seems they
+always give very long notice in these cases, and the ship did not sail
+for several days. But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and
+there is no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod
+was fully equipped.
+
+Every one knows what a multitude of things--beds, sauce-pans, knives
+and forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not, are
+indispensable to the business of housekeeping. Just so with whaling,
+which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean,
+far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers. And
+though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means
+to the same extent as with whalemen. For besides the great length of the
+whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution of the
+fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote harbors
+usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships, whaling
+vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and especially
+to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which the success of
+the voyage most depends. Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare
+lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain
+and duplicate ship.
+
+At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the
+Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water,
+fuel, and iron hoops and staves. But, as before hinted, for some time
+there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and
+ends of things, both large and small.
+
+Chief among those who did this fetching and carrying was Captain
+Bildad's sister, a lean old lady of a most determined and indefatigable
+spirit, but withal very kindhearted, who seemed resolved that, if SHE
+could help it, nothing should be found wanting in the Pequod, after once
+fairly getting to sea. At one time she would come on board with a jar
+of pickles for the steward's pantry; another time with a bunch of quills
+for the chief mate's desk, where he kept his log; a third time with a
+roll of flannel for the small of some one's rheumatic back. Never did
+any woman better deserve her name, which was Charity--Aunt Charity, as
+everybody called her. And like a sister of charity did this charitable
+Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand
+and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and
+consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother
+Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of
+well-saved dollars.
+
+But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on
+board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and
+a still longer whaling lance in the other. Nor was Bildad himself nor
+Captain Peleg at all backward. As for Bildad, he carried about with him
+a long list of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down
+went his mark opposite that article upon the paper. Every once in a
+while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men
+down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then
+concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
+
+During these days of preparation, Queequeg and I often visited the
+craft, and as often I asked about Captain Ahab, and how he was, and when
+he was going to come on board his ship. To these questions they would
+answer, that he was getting better and better, and was expected aboard
+every day; meantime, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could attend
+to everything necessary to fit the vessel for the voyage. If I had been
+downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart
+that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage,
+without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute
+dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea.
+But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be
+already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his
+suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said
+nothing, and tried to think nothing.
+
+At last it was given out that some time next day the ship would
+certainly sail. So next morning, Queequeg and I took a very early start.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
+
+
+It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we
+drew nigh the wharf.
+
+"There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right," said I to
+Queequeg, "it can't be shadows; she's off by sunrise, I guess; come on!"
+
+"Avast!" cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close behind
+us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating himself
+between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain twilight,
+strangely peering from Queequeg to me. It was Elijah.
+
+"Going aboard?"
+
+"Hands off, will you," said I.
+
+"Lookee here," said Queequeg, shaking himself, "go 'way!"
+
+"Ain't going aboard, then?"
+
+"Yes, we are," said I, "but what business is that of yours? Do you know,
+Mr. Elijah, that I consider you a little impertinent?"
+
+"No, no, no; I wasn't aware of that," said Elijah, slowly and
+wonderingly looking from me to Queequeg, with the most unaccountable
+glances.
+
+"Elijah," said I, "you will oblige my friend and me by withdrawing. We
+are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be
+detained."
+
+"Ye be, be ye? Coming back afore breakfast?"
+
+"He's cracked, Queequeg," said I, "come on."
+
+"Holloa!" cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed a few
+paces.
+
+"Never mind him," said I, "Queequeg, come on."
+
+But he stole up to us again, and suddenly clapping his hand on my
+shoulder, said--"Did ye see anything looking like men going towards that
+ship a while ago?"
+
+Struck by this plain matter-of-fact question, I answered, saying, "Yes,
+I thought I did see four or five men; but it was too dim to be sure."
+
+"Very dim, very dim," said Elijah. "Morning to ye."
+
+Once more we quitted him; but once more he came softly after us; and
+touching my shoulder again, said, "See if you can find 'em now, will ye?
+
+"Find who?"
+
+"Morning to ye! morning to ye!" he rejoined, again moving off. "Oh! I
+was going to warn ye against--but never mind, never mind--it's all one,
+all in the family too;--sharp frost this morning, ain't it? Good-bye to
+ye. Shan't see ye again very soon, I guess; unless it's before the Grand
+Jury." And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving me, for
+the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
+
+At last, stepping on board the Pequod, we found everything in profound
+quiet, not a soul moving. The cabin entrance was locked within; the
+hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging. Going forward
+to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open. Seeing a
+light, we went down, and found only an old rigger there, wrapped in a
+tattered pea-jacket. He was thrown at whole length upon two chests, his
+face downwards and inclosed in his folded arms. The profoundest slumber
+slept upon him.
+
+"Those sailors we saw, Queequeg, where can they have gone to?" said I,
+looking dubiously at the sleeper. But it seemed that, when on the wharf,
+Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would
+have thought myself to have been optically deceived in that matter,
+were it not for Elijah's otherwise inexplicable question. But I beat the
+thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to Queequeg
+that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish
+himself accordingly. He put his hand upon the sleeper's rear, as though
+feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly
+down there.
+
+"Gracious! Queequeg, don't sit there," said I.
+
+"Oh! perry dood seat," said Queequeg, "my country way; won't hurt him
+face."
+
+"Face!" said I, "call that his face? very benevolent countenance then;
+but how hard he breathes, he's heaving himself; get off, Queequeg, you
+are heavy, it's grinding the face of the poor. Get off, Queequeg! Look,
+he'll twitch you off soon. I wonder he don't wake."
+
+Queequeg removed himself to just beyond the head of the sleeper, and
+lighted his tomahawk pipe. I sat at the feet. We kept the pipe passing
+over the sleeper, from one to the other. Meanwhile, upon questioning him
+in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his
+land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king,
+chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some
+of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in
+that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay
+them round in the piers and alcoves. Besides, it was very convenient on
+an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible
+into walking-sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant, and
+desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree, perhaps
+in some damp marshy place.
+
+While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk
+from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper's head.
+
+"What's that for, Queequeg?"
+
+"Perry easy, kill-e; oh! perry easy!"
+
+He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe,
+which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed
+his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger. The
+strong vapour now completely filling the contracted hole, it began
+to tell upon him. He breathed with a sort of muffledness; then seemed
+troubled in the nose; then revolved over once or twice; then sat up and
+rubbed his eyes.
+
+"Holloa!" he breathed at last, "who be ye smokers?"
+
+"Shipped men," answered I, "when does she sail?"
+
+"Aye, aye, ye are going in her, be ye? She sails to-day. The Captain
+came aboard last night."
+
+"What Captain?--Ahab?"
+
+"Who but him indeed?"
+
+I was going to ask him some further questions concerning Ahab, when we
+heard a noise on deck.
+
+"Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate,
+that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to." And so
+saying he went on deck, and we followed.
+
+It was now clear sunrise. Soon the crew came on board in twos and
+threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively
+engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various
+last things on board. Meanwhile Captain Ahab remained invisibly
+enshrined within his cabin.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
+
+
+At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship's riggers,
+and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the
+ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whale-boat, with her last
+gift--a night-cap for Stubb, the second mate, her brother-in-law, and a
+spare Bible for the steward--after all this, the two Captains, Peleg
+and Bildad, issued from the cabin, and turning to the chief mate, Peleg
+said:
+
+"Now, Mr. Starbuck, are you sure everything is right? Captain Ahab is
+all ready--just spoke to him--nothing more to be got from shore, eh?
+Well, call all hands, then. Muster 'em aft here--blast 'em!"
+
+"No need of profane words, however great the hurry, Peleg," said Bildad,
+"but away with thee, friend Starbuck, and do our bidding."
+
+How now! Here upon the very point of starting for the voyage, Captain
+Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the
+quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea, as
+well as to all appearances in port. And, as for Captain Ahab, no sign of
+him was yet to be seen; only, they said he was in the cabin. But then,
+the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the
+ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea. Indeed, as that was
+not at all his proper business, but the pilot's; and as he was not
+yet completely recovered--so they said--therefore, Captain Ahab stayed
+below. And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the merchant
+service many captains never show themselves on deck for a considerable
+time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the cabin table,
+having a farewell merry-making with their shore friends, before they
+quit the ship for good with the pilot.
+
+But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain
+Peleg was now all alive. He seemed to do most of the talking and
+commanding, and not Bildad.
+
+"Aft here, ye sons of bachelors," he cried, as the sailors lingered at
+the main-mast. "Mr. Starbuck, drive'em aft."
+
+"Strike the tent there!"--was the next order. As I hinted before, this
+whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the
+Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to
+be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
+
+"Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!--jump!"--was the next command, and
+the crew sprang for the handspikes.
+
+Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot
+is the forward part of the ship. And here Bildad, who, with Peleg, be it
+known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed pilots
+of the port--he being suspected to have got himself made a pilot in
+order to save the Nantucket pilot-fee to all the ships he was concerned
+in, for he never piloted any other craft--Bildad, I say, might now
+be seen actively engaged in looking over the bows for the approaching
+anchor, and at intervals singing what seemed a dismal stave of psalmody,
+to cheer the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some sort of
+a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good will.
+Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that no
+profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in
+getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice
+copy of Watts in each seaman's berth.
+
+Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped
+and swore astern in the most frightful manner. I almost thought he would
+sink the ship before the anchor could be got up; involuntarily I paused
+on my handspike, and told Queequeg to do the same, thinking of the
+perils we both ran, in starting on the voyage with such a devil for a
+pilot. I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in pious
+Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred and
+seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and
+turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the
+act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my first
+kick.
+
+"Is that the way they heave in the marchant service?" he roared.
+"Spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break thy backbone! Why don't ye
+spring, I say, all of ye--spring! Quohog! spring, thou chap with the red
+whiskers; spring there, Scotch-cap; spring, thou green pants. Spring, I
+say, all of ye, and spring your eyes out!" And so saying, he moved
+along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely, while
+imperturbable Bildad kept leading off with his psalmody. Thinks I,
+Captain Peleg must have been drinking something to-day.
+
+At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It
+was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into
+night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose
+freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. The long rows of
+teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white
+ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from
+the bows.
+
+Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon, as the
+old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost
+all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang, his steady
+notes were heard,--
+
+"Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green.
+So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between."
+
+
+Never did those sweet words sound more sweetly to me than then. They
+were full of hope and fruition. Spite of this frigid winter night in the
+boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was
+yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads
+and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring,
+untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
+
+At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed
+no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging
+alongside.
+
+It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at
+this juncture, especially Captain Bildad. For loath to depart, yet;
+very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a
+voyage--beyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of
+his hard earned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate
+sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to
+encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to
+a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,--poor old Bildad
+lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the
+cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and
+looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only
+bounded by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards
+the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere
+and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin,
+convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern,
+for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say,
+"Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can."
+
+As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all
+his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern
+came too near. And he, too, did not a little run from cabin to deck--now
+a word below, and now a word with Starbuck, the chief mate.
+
+But, at last, he turned to his comrade, with a final sort of look
+about him,--"Captain Bildad--come, old shipmate, we must go. Back the
+main-yard there! Boat ahoy! Stand by to come close alongside, now!
+Careful, careful!--come, Bildad, boy--say your last. Luck to ye,
+Starbuck--luck to ye, Mr. Stubb--luck to ye, Mr. Flask--good-bye and
+good luck to ye all--and this day three years I'll have a hot supper
+smoking for ye in old Nantucket. Hurrah and away!"
+
+"God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men," murmured old
+Bildad, almost incoherently. "I hope ye'll have fine weather now, so
+that Captain Ahab may soon be moving among ye--a pleasant sun is all
+he needs, and ye'll have plenty of them in the tropic voyage ye go.
+Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don't stave the boats needlessly,
+ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent.
+within the year. Don't forget your prayers, either. Mr. Starbuck, mind
+that cooper don't waste the spare staves. Oh! the sail-needles are in
+the green locker! Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't
+miss a fair chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts. Have an
+eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
+If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication. Good-bye,
+good-bye! Don't keep that cheese too long down in the hold, Mr.
+Starbuck; it'll spoil. Be careful with the butter--twenty cents the
+pound it was, and mind ye, if--"
+
+"Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,--away!" and with that,
+Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.
+
+Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a
+screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave
+three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone
+Atlantic.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
+
+
+Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded
+mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
+
+When on that shivering winter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive
+bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her
+helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon
+the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years' dangerous
+voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another
+tempestuous term. The land seemed scorching to his feet. Wonderfullest
+things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this
+six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. Let me only say
+that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably
+drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succor; the port
+is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm
+blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities. But in that gale,
+the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy; she must fly all
+hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make
+her shudder through and through. With all her might she crowds all sail
+off shore; in so doing, fights 'gainst the very winds that fain would
+blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea's landlessness again;
+for refuge's sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her
+bitterest foe!
+
+Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally
+intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid
+effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while
+the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the
+treacherous, slavish shore?
+
+But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless,
+indefinite as God--so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite,
+than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!
+For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of
+the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart,
+O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy
+ocean-perishing--straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
+
+
+As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling;
+and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among
+landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore, I
+am all anxiety to convince ye, ye landsmen, of the injustice hereby done
+to us hunters of whales.
+
+In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish
+the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not
+accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a
+stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society,
+it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were
+he presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation
+of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm
+Whale Fishery) to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed
+pre-eminently presuming and ridiculous.
+
+Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honouring us
+whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a
+butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we
+are surrounded by all manner of defilements. Butchers we are, that is
+true. But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been
+all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honour. And
+as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall
+soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown,
+and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whale-ship
+at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth. But even
+granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered slippery
+decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those
+battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies'
+plaudits? And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit
+of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran
+who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the
+apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air
+over his head. For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared
+with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
+
+But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it
+unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding
+adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn round
+the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!
+
+But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of
+scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been.
+
+Why did the Dutch in De Witt's time have admirals of their whaling
+fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own personal expense, fit
+out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some
+score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did
+Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties
+upwards of L1,000,000? And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of
+America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world;
+sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen
+thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth,
+at the time of sailing, $20,000,000! and every year importing into our
+harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000. How comes all this, if
+there be not something puissant in whaling?
+
+But this is not the half; look again.
+
+I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life,
+point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty
+years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in
+one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling. One way
+and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so
+continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may
+well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves
+pregnant from her womb. It would be a hopeless, endless task to
+catalogue all these things. Let a handful suffice. For many years past
+the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and
+least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes
+which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If
+American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once savage
+harbors, let them fire salutes to the honour and glory of the
+whale-ship, which originally showed them the way, and first interpreted
+between them and the savages. They may celebrate as they will the heroes
+of Exploring Expeditions, your Cooks, your Krusensterns; but I say that
+scores of anonymous Captains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were
+as great, and greater than your Cook and your Krusenstern. For in their
+succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters,
+and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin
+wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would
+not willingly have dared. All that is made such a flourish of in the old
+South Sea Voyages, those things were but the life-time commonplaces of
+our heroic Nantucketers. Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates
+three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of being set down in the
+ship's common log. Ah, the world! Oh, the world!
+
+Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial,
+scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and
+the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
+It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the
+Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it
+might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the
+liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and
+the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
+
+That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given
+to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder-born
+discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores
+as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there. The
+whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover,
+in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were
+several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the
+whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters. The uncounted
+isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage
+to the whale-ship, that cleared the way for the missionary and the
+merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive missionaries to their
+first destinations. If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become
+hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due;
+for already she is on the threshold.
+
+But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no
+aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to
+shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet
+every time.
+
+The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
+will say.
+
+THE WHALE NO FAMOUS AUTHOR, AND WHALING NO FAMOUS CHRONICLER? Who wrote
+the first account of our Leviathan? Who but mighty Job! And who composed
+the first narrative of a whaling-voyage? Who, but no less a prince than
+Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from
+Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our
+glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke!
+
+True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no
+good blood in their veins.
+
+NO GOOD BLOOD IN THEIR VEINS? They have something better than royal
+blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel;
+afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers
+of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and
+harpooneers--all kith and kin to noble Benjamin--this day darting the
+barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.
+
+Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not
+respectable.
+
+WHALING NOT RESPECTABLE? Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory
+law, the whale is declared "a royal fish."*
+
+Oh, that's only nominal! The whale himself has never figured in any
+grand imposing way.
+
+THE WHALE NEVER FIGURED IN ANY GRAND IMPOSING WAY? In one of the mighty
+triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world's capital,
+the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were
+the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.*
+
+
+*See subsequent chapters for something more on this head.
+
+
+Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is no real
+dignity in whaling.
+
+NO DIGNITY IN WHALING? The dignity of our calling the very heavens
+attest. Cetus is a constellation in the South! No more! Drive down your
+hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off to Queequeg! No more! I
+know a man that, in his lifetime, has taken three hundred and fifty
+whales. I account that man more honourable than that great captain of
+antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.
+
+And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered
+prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small
+but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if
+hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather
+have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or
+more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here
+I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a
+whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 25. Postscript.
+
+
+In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but
+substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who
+should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might
+tell eloquently upon his cause--such an advocate, would he not be
+blameworthy?
+
+It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern
+ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is
+gone through. There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there
+may be a castor of state. How they use the salt, precisely--who knows?
+Certain I am, however, that a king's head is solemnly oiled at his
+coronation, even as a head of salad. Can it be, though, that they
+anoint it with a view of making its interior run well, as they anoint
+machinery? Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential
+dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but
+meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably
+smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil,
+unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him
+somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.
+
+But the only thing to be considered here, is this--what kind of oil is
+used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil,
+nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil. What
+then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted
+state, the sweetest of all oils?
+
+Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and
+queens with coronation stuff!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
+
+
+The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a
+Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy
+coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard
+as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would
+not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been born in some time of
+general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which
+his state is famous. Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those
+summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. But this, his
+thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and
+cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was merely
+the condensation of the man. He was by no means ill-looking; quite the
+contrary. His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped
+up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified
+Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come,
+and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like
+a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well
+in all climates. Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet
+lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted
+through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a
+telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds. Yet, for
+all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities
+in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to
+overbalance all the rest. Uncommonly conscientious for a seaman, and
+endued with a deep natural reverence, the wild watery loneliness of his
+life did therefore strongly incline him to superstition; but to that
+sort of superstition, which in some organizations seems rather to
+spring, somehow, from intelligence than from ignorance. Outward portents
+and inward presentiments were his. And if at times these things bent the
+welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories
+of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the
+original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those
+latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush
+of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous
+vicissitudes of the fishery. "I will have no man in my boat," said
+Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean,
+not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises
+from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly
+fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
+
+"Aye, aye," said Stubb, the second mate, "Starbuck, there, is as careful
+a man as you'll find anywhere in this fishery." But we shall ere long
+see what that word "careful" precisely means when used by a man like
+Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
+
+Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a
+sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all
+mortally practical occasions. Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this
+business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of
+the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly wasted.
+Wherefore he had no fancy for lowering for whales after sun-down; nor
+for persisting in fighting a fish that too much persisted in fighting
+him. For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical ocean to kill
+whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for theirs; and that
+hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck well knew. What doom was
+his own father's? Where, in the bottomless deeps, could he find the torn
+limbs of his brother?
+
+With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain
+superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck which
+could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme. But
+it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized, and with such
+terrible experiences and remembrances as he had; it was not in nature
+that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in
+him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its
+confinement, and burn all his courage up. And brave as he might be, it
+was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which,
+while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or
+whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet
+cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors,
+which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and
+mighty man.
+
+But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete
+abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to
+write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose
+the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint
+stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;
+men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble
+and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any
+ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their
+costliest robes. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves,
+so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character
+seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of
+a valor-ruined man. Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight,
+completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But this
+august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but
+that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt see it
+shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic
+dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself! The
+great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His
+omnipresence, our divine equality!
+
+If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall
+hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic
+graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them
+all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch
+that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow
+over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear
+me out in it, thou Just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal
+mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou great
+democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the
+pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves
+of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who
+didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a
+war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne! Thou who, in all
+Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from
+the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
+
+
+Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence,
+according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky;
+neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an
+indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the
+chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged
+for the year. Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his
+whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his
+crew all invited guests. He was as particular about the comfortable
+arrangement of his part of the boat, as an old stage-driver is about the
+snugness of his box. When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of
+the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as
+a whistling tinker his hammer. He would hum over his old rigadig tunes
+while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster. Long usage had,
+for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair. What he
+thought of death itself, there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of
+it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his
+mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor,
+he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir
+themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed
+the order, and not sooner.
+
+What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going,
+unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a
+world full of grave pedlars, all bowed to the ground with their packs;
+what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that
+thing must have been his pipe. For, like his nose, his short, black
+little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would
+almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his
+nose as without his pipe. He kept a whole row of pipes there ready
+loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever he
+turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from
+the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in
+readiness anew. For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his
+legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.
+
+I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his
+peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air, whether
+ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of
+the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the
+cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their
+mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco
+smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent.
+
+The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard. A
+short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales,
+who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally
+and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of
+honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered. So utterly lost
+was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic
+bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of
+any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion,
+the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least
+water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small
+application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil. This
+ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in
+the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a
+three years' voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted
+that length of time. As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought
+nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly divided. Little Flask
+was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They
+called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could
+be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic
+whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted
+into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those
+battering seas.
+
+Now these three mates--Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, were momentous
+men. They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the
+Pequod's boats as headsmen. In that grand order of battle in which
+Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales,
+these three headsmen were as captains of companies. Or, being armed with
+their long keen whaling spears, they were as a picked trio of lancers;
+even as the harpooneers were flingers of javelins.
+
+And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic
+Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer,
+who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when
+the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and
+moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy
+and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set
+down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of
+them belonged.
+
+First of all was Queequeg, whom Starbuck, the chief mate, had selected
+for his squire. But Queequeg is already known.
+
+Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly
+promontory of Martha's Vineyard, where there still exists the last
+remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring
+island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers. In the
+fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers. Tashtego's
+long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding
+eyes--for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their
+glittering expression--all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor
+of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest
+of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal
+forests of the main. But no longer snuffing in the trail of the wild
+beasts of the woodland, Tashtego now hunted in the wake of the great
+whales of the sea; the unerring harpoon of the son fitly replacing the
+infallible arrow of the sires. To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe
+snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of
+the earlier Puritans, and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son
+of the Prince of the Powers of the Air. Tashtego was Stubb the second
+mate's squire.
+
+Third among the harpooneers was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black
+negro-savage, with a lion-like tread--an Ahasuerus to behold. Suspended
+from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors called
+them ring-bolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail halyards to
+them. In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler,
+lying in a lonely bay on his native coast. And never having been
+anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors
+most frequented by whalemen; and having now led for many years the bold
+life of the fishery in the ships of owners uncommonly heedful of what
+manner of men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues,
+and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six
+feet five in his socks. There was a corporeal humility in looking up at
+him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to
+beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus
+Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man
+beside him. As for the residue of the Pequod's company, be it said, that
+at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the
+mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans born, though
+pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the same with the
+American whale fishery as with the American army and military and
+merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construction
+of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all
+these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest
+of the world as generously supplying the muscles. No small number of
+these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound
+Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy
+peasants of those rocky shores. In like manner, the Greenland whalers
+sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, to
+receive the full complement of their crew. Upon the passage homewards,
+they drop them there again. How it is, there is no telling, but
+Islanders seem to make the best whalemen. They were nearly all Islanders
+in the Pequod, ISOLATOES too, I call such, not acknowledging the common
+continent of men, but each ISOLATO living on a separate continent of his
+own. Yet now, federated along one keel, what a set these Isolatoes were!
+An Anacharsis Clootz deputation from all the isles of the sea, and all
+the ends of the earth, accompanying Old Ahab in the Pequod to lay the
+world's grievances before that bar from which not very many of them ever
+come back. Black Little Pip--he never did--oh, no! he went before. Poor
+Alabama boy! On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him,
+beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for,
+to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and
+beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
+
+
+For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen
+of Captain Ahab. The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches,
+and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed to be the
+only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from the cabin
+with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was plain they
+but commanded vicariously. Yes, their supreme lord and dictator was
+there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to penetrate
+into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.
+
+Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly
+gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first vague
+disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the
+sea, became almost a perturbation. This was strangely heightened
+at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly
+recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived
+of. But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was
+almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish
+prophet of the wharves. But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or
+uneasiness--to call it so--which I felt, yet whenever I came to look
+about me in the ship, it seemed against all warrantry to cherish such
+emotions. For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew,
+were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the
+tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me
+acquainted with, still I ascribed this--and rightly ascribed it--to the
+fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation
+in which I had so abandonedly embarked. But it was especially the aspect
+of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most
+forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce
+confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage. Three
+better, more likely sea-officers and men, each in his own different way,
+could not readily be found, and they were every one of them Americans; a
+Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man. Now, it being Christmas when the
+ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather,
+though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every
+degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that
+merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us. It was one
+of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the
+transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water
+with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I
+mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I
+levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me.
+Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
+
+There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the
+recovery from any. He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when
+the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them,
+or taking away one particle from their compacted aged robustness. His
+whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an
+unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast Perseus. Threading its way out
+from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his
+tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing,
+you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that
+perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of
+a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and
+without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top
+to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly
+alive, but branded. Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it
+was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.
+By some tacit consent, throughout the voyage little or no allusion was
+made to it, especially by the mates. But once Tashtego's senior, an old
+Gay-Head Indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till
+he was full forty years old did Ahab become that way branded, and
+then it came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in
+an elemental strife at sea. Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially
+negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man,
+who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this
+laid eye upon wild Ahab. Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the
+immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with
+preternatural powers of discernment. So that no white sailor seriously
+contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should
+be tranquilly laid out--which might hardly come to pass, so he
+muttered--then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would
+find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.
+
+So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me, and the livid
+brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments I hardly noted
+that not a little of this overbearing grimness was owing to the barbaric
+white leg upon which he partly stood. It had previously come to me that
+this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of
+the sperm whale's jaw. "Aye, he was dismasted off Japan," said the old
+Gay-Head Indian once; "but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another
+mast without coming home for it. He has a quiver of 'em."
+
+I was struck with the singular posture he maintained. Upon each side of
+the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there
+was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.
+His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a
+shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the
+ship's ever-pitching prow. There was an infinity of firmest fortitude,
+a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless,
+forward dedication of that glance. Not a word he spoke; nor did his
+officers say aught to him; though by all their minutest gestures
+and expressions, they plainly showed the uneasy, if not painful,
+consciousness of being under a troubled master-eye. And not only that,
+but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his
+face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
+
+Ere long, from his first visit in the air, he withdrew into his cabin.
+But after that morning, he was every day visible to the crew; either
+standing in his pivot-hole, or seated upon an ivory stool he had; or
+heavily walking the deck. As the sky grew less gloomy; indeed, began to
+grow a little genial, he became still less and less a recluse; as
+if, when the ship had sailed from home, nothing but the dead wintry
+bleakness of the sea had then kept him so secluded. And, by and by, it
+came to pass, that he was almost continually in the air; but, as yet,
+for all that he said, or perceptibly did, on the at last sunny deck,
+he seemed as unnecessary there as another mast. But the Pequod was
+only making a passage now; not regularly cruising; nearly all whaling
+preparatives needing supervision the mates were fully competent to, so
+that there was little or nothing, out of himself, to employ or excite
+Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval, the clouds that
+layer upon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose the
+loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon.
+
+Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the
+pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from
+his mood. For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May,
+trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest,
+most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green
+sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the
+end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air. More
+than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any
+other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
+
+
+Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now
+went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost
+perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.
+The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days,
+were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up--flaked up, with
+rose-water snow. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in
+jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their
+absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! For sleeping man,
+'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and such seducing nights.
+But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new
+spells and potencies to the outward world. Inward they turned upon the
+soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory
+shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights.
+And all these subtle agencies, more and more they wrought on Ahab's
+texture.
+
+Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less
+man has to do with aught that looks like death. Among sea-commanders,
+the old greybeards will oftenest leave their berths to visit the
+night-cloaked deck. It was so with Ahab; only that now, of late, he
+seemed so much to live in the open air, that truly speaking, his visits
+were more to the cabin, than from the cabin to the planks. "It feels
+like going down into one's tomb,"--he would mutter to himself--"for an
+old captain like me to be descending this narrow scuttle, to go to my
+grave-dug berth."
+
+So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were
+set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below;
+and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors
+flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt
+it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when
+this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the
+silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man
+would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
+Some considering touch of humanity was in him; for at times like these,
+he usually abstained from patrolling the quarter-deck; because to his
+wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such
+would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that
+their dreams would have been on the crunching teeth of sharks. But once,
+the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy,
+lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast,
+Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below, with a certain
+unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if Captain Ahab was
+pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay; but there might
+be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something indistinctly and
+hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the insertion into it, of the
+ivory heel. Ah! Stubb, thou didst not know Ahab then.
+
+"Am I a cannon-ball, Stubb," said Ahab, "that thou wouldst wad me that
+fashion? But go thy ways; I had forgot. Below to thy nightly grave;
+where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at
+last.--Down, dog, and kennel!"
+
+Starting at the unforseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly
+scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly, "I
+am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half like
+it, sir."
+
+"Avast! gritted Ahab between his set teeth, and violently moving away,
+as if to avoid some passionate temptation.
+
+"No, sir; not yet," said Stubb, emboldened, "I will not tamely be called
+a dog, sir."
+
+"Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone,
+or I'll clear the world of thee!"
+
+As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors in
+his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated.
+
+"I was never served so before without giving a hard blow for it,"
+muttered Stubb, as he found himself descending the cabin-scuttle. "It's
+very queer. Stop, Stubb; somehow, now, I don't well know whether to go
+back and strike him, or--what's that?--down here on my knees and pray
+for him? Yes, that was the thought coming up in me; but it would be the
+first time I ever DID pray. It's queer; very queer; and he's queer too;
+aye, take him fore and aft, he's about the queerest old man Stubb ever
+sailed with. How he flashed at me!--his eyes like powder-pans! is he
+mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be
+something on a deck when it cracks. He aint in his bed now, either, more
+than three hours out of the twenty-four; and he don't sleep then. Didn't
+that Dough-Boy, the steward, tell me that of a morning he always finds
+the old man's hammock clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets
+down at the foot, and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the
+pillow a sort of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on
+it? A hot old man! I guess he's got what some folks ashore call
+a conscience; it's a kind of Tic-Dolly-row they say--worse nor a
+toothache. Well, well; I don't know what it is, but the Lord keep me
+from catching it. He's full of riddles; I wonder what he goes into the
+after hold for, every night, as Dough-Boy tells me he suspects; what's
+that for, I should like to know? Who's made appointments with him in
+the hold? Ain't that queer, now? But there's no telling, it's the old
+game--Here goes for a snooze. Damn me, it's worth a fellow's while to be
+born into the world, if only to fall right asleep. And now that I think
+of it, that's about the first thing babies do, and that's a sort of
+queer, too. Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of 'em. But
+that's against my principles. Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and
+sleep when you can, is my twelfth--So here goes again. But how's that?
+didn't he call me a dog? blazes! he called me ten times a donkey, and
+piled a lot of jackasses on top of THAT! He might as well have kicked
+me, and done with it. Maybe he DID kick me, and I didn't observe it,
+I was so taken all aback with his brow, somehow. It flashed like a
+bleached bone. What the devil's the matter with me? I don't stand right
+on my legs. Coming afoul of that old man has a sort of turned me wrong
+side out. By the Lord, I must have been dreaming, though--How? how?
+how?--but the only way's to stash it; so here goes to hammock again;
+and in the morning, I'll see how this plaguey juggling thinks over by
+daylight."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 30. The Pipe.
+
+
+When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the
+bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor
+of the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also his pipe.
+Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool on the
+weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked.
+
+In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were
+fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale. How could one
+look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking
+him of the royalty it symbolized? For a Khan of the plank, and a king of
+the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.
+
+Some moments passed, during which the thick vapour came from his mouth
+in quick and constant puffs, which blew back again into his face. "How
+now," he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no
+longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! hard must it go with me if thy charm be
+gone! Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring--aye, and
+ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward, and with
+such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale, my final jets were the
+strongest and fullest of trouble. What business have I with this pipe?
+This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapours
+among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. I'll
+smoke no more--"
+
+He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea. The fire hissed in the
+waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble the sinking pipe
+made. With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 31. Queen Mab.
+
+
+Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
+
+"Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man's
+ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to kick
+back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off! And then,
+presto! Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking
+at it. But what was still more curious, Flask--you know how curious all
+dreams are--through all this rage that I was in, I somehow seemed to be
+thinking to myself, that after all, it was not much of an insult, that
+kick from Ahab. 'Why,' thinks I, 'what's the row? It's not a real leg,
+only a false leg.' And there's a mighty difference between a living
+thump and a dead thump. That's what makes a blow from the hand, Flask,
+fifty times more savage to bear than a blow from a cane. The living
+member--that makes the living insult, my little man. And thinks I to
+myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against
+that cursed pyramid--so confoundedly contradictory was it all, all
+the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now, but
+a cane--a whalebone cane. Yes,' thinks I, 'it was only a playful
+cudgelling--in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me--not a base
+kick. Besides,' thinks I, 'look at it once; why, the end of it--the foot
+part--what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a broad footed farmer
+kicked me, THERE'S a devilish broad insult. But this insult is whittled
+down to a point only.' But now comes the greatest joke of the
+dream, Flask. While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of
+badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the
+shoulders, and slews me round. 'What are you 'bout?' says he. Slid! man,
+but I was frightened. Such a phiz! But, somehow, next moment I was over
+the fright. 'What am I about?' says I at last. 'And what business is
+that of yours, I should like to know, Mr. Humpback? Do YOU want a kick?'
+By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned round his
+stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed he had for a
+clout--what do you think, I saw?--why thunder alive, man, his stern
+was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out. Says I, on second
+thoughts, 'I guess I won't kick you, old fellow.' 'Wise Stubb,' said he,
+'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of
+his own gums like a chimney hag. Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying
+over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to
+kicking the pyramid again. But I had only just lifted my foot for it,
+when he roared out, 'Stop that kicking!' 'Halloa,' says I, 'what's
+the matter now, old fellow?' 'Look ye here,' says he; 'let's argue
+the insult. Captain Ahab kicked ye, didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says
+I--'right HERE it was.' 'Very good,' says he--'he used his ivory leg,
+didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says I. 'Well then,' says he, 'wise Stubb,
+what have you to complain of? Didn't he kick with right good will? it
+wasn't a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you were
+kicked by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. It's an
+honour; I consider it an honour. Listen, wise Stubb. In old England the
+greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made
+garter-knights of; but, be YOUR boast, Stubb, that ye were kicked by
+old Ahab, and made a wise man of. Remember what I say; BE kicked by him;
+account his kicks honours; and on no account kick back; for you can't
+help yourself, wise Stubb. Don't you see that pyramid?' With that, he
+all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion, to swim off into
+the air. I snored; rolled over; and there I was in my hammock! Now, what
+do you think of that dream, Flask?"
+
+"I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.'"
+
+"May be; may be. But it's made a wise man of me, Flask. D'ye see Ahab
+standing there, sideways looking over the stern? Well, the best thing
+you can do, Flask, is to let the old man alone; never speak to him,
+whatever he says. Halloa! What's that he shouts? Hark!"
+
+"Mast-head, there! Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts!
+
+"If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!
+
+"What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small drop of
+something queer about that, eh? A white whale--did ye mark that, man?
+Look ye--there's something special in the wind. Stand by for it, Flask.
+Ahab has that that's bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
+
+
+Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost
+in its unshored, harbourless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere the
+Pequod's weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the
+leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost
+indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more
+special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which are to
+follow.
+
+It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera,
+that I would now fain put before you. Yet is it no easy task. The
+classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here
+essayed. Listen to what the best and latest authorities have laid down.
+
+"No branch of Zoology is so much involved as that which is entitled
+Cetology," says Captain Scoresby, A.D. 1820.
+
+"It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the
+inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and
+families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal"
+(sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
+
+"Unfitness to pursue our research in the unfathomable waters."
+"Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea." "A field
+strewn with thorns." "All these incomplete indications but serve to
+torture us naturalists."
+
+Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson,
+those lights of zoology and anatomy. Nevertheless, though of real
+knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty; and so in
+some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales. Many are
+the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen, who have at
+large or in little, written of the whale. Run over a few:--The Authors
+of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas Browne; Gesner;
+Ray; Linnaeus; Rondeletius; Willoughby; Green; Artedi; Sibbald; Brisson;
+Marten; Lacepede; Bonneterre; Desmarest; Baron Cuvier; Frederick Cuvier;
+John Hunter; Owen; Scoresby; Beale; Bennett; J. Ross Browne; the
+Author of Miriam Coffin; Olmstead; and the Rev. T. Cheever. But to what
+ultimate generalizing purpose all these have written, the above cited
+extracts will show.
+
+Of the names in this list of whale authors, only those following Owen
+ever saw living whales; and but one of them was a real professional
+harpooneer and whaleman. I mean Captain Scoresby. On the separate
+subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing
+authority. But Scoresby knew nothing and says nothing of the great
+sperm whale, compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy
+mentioning. And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper
+upon the throne of the seas. He is not even by any means the largest
+of the whales. Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the
+profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the
+then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to
+this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats
+and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete. Reference
+to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days,
+will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one rival, was to
+them the monarch of the seas. But the time has at last come for a new
+proclamation. This is Charing Cross; hear ye! good people all,--the
+Greenland whale is deposed,--the great sperm whale now reigneth!
+
+There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the living
+sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest degree
+succeed in the attempt. Those books are Beale's and Bennett's; both in
+their time surgeons to English South-Sea whale-ships, and both exact and
+reliable men. The original matter touching the sperm whale to be found
+in their volumes is necessarily small; but so far as it goes, it is of
+excellent quality, though mostly confined to scientific description. As
+yet, however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete
+in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an
+unwritten life.
+
+Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular
+comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the
+present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent
+laborers. As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I
+hereupon offer my own poor endeavors. I promise nothing complete;
+because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very
+reason infallibly be faulty. I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical
+description of the various species, or--in this place at least--to much
+of any description. My object here is simply to project the draught of a
+systematization of cetology. I am the architect, not the builder.
+
+But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the Post-Office
+is equal to it. To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them;
+to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very
+pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing. What am I that I should
+essay to hook the nose of this leviathan! The awful tauntings in Job
+might well appal me. Will he the (leviathan) make a covenant with thee?
+Behold the hope of him is vain! But I have swam through libraries and
+sailed through oceans; I have had to do with whales with these visible
+hands; I am in earnest; and I will try. There are some preliminaries to
+settle.
+
+First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology
+is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it
+still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish. In his System of
+Nature, A.D. 1776, Linnaeus declares, "I hereby separate the whales from
+the fish." But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850,
+sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnaeus's express edict,
+were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the
+Leviathan.
+
+The grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from
+the waters, he states as follows: "On account of their warm bilocular
+heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem
+intrantem feminam mammis lactantem," and finally, "ex lege naturae jure
+meritoque." I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley
+Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and
+they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether
+insufficient. Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
+
+Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned
+ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
+This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal
+respect does the whale differ from other fish. Above, Linnaeus has given
+you those items. But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood;
+whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
+
+Next: how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals, so as
+conspicuously to label him for all time to come? To be short, then, a
+whale is A SPOUTING FISH WITH A HORIZONTAL TAIL. There you have
+him. However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded
+meditation. A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a
+fish, because he is amphibious. But the last term of the definition is
+still more cogent, as coupled with the first. Almost any one must have
+noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a
+vertical, or up-and-down tail. Whereas, among spouting fish the tail,
+though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal
+position.
+
+By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude
+from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified
+with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other
+hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.*
+Hence, all the smaller, spouting, and horizontal tailed fish must be
+included in this ground-plan of Cetology. Now, then, come the grand
+divisions of the entire whale host.
+
+
+*I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled Lamatins and
+Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins of Nantucket) are included
+by many naturalists among the whales. But as these pig-fish are a noisy,
+contemptible set, mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on
+wet hay, and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials
+as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the
+Kingdom of Cetology.
+
+
+First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary
+BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all,
+both small and large.
+
+I. THE FOLIO WHALE; II. the OCTAVO WHALE; III. the DUODECIMO WHALE.
+
+As the type of the FOLIO I present the SPERM WHALE; of the OCTAVO, the
+GRAMPUS; of the DUODECIMO, the PORPOISE.
+
+FOLIOS. Among these I here include the following chapters:--I. The SPERM
+WHALE; II. the RIGHT WHALE; III. the FIN-BACK WHALE; IV. the HUMP-BACKED
+WHALE; V. the RAZOR-BACK WHALE; VI. the SULPHUR-BOTTOM WHALE.
+
+BOOK I. (FOLIO), CHAPTER I. (SPERM WHALE).--This whale, among the
+English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter
+whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the
+French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the
+Long Words. He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe;
+the most formidable of all whales to encounter; the most majestic in
+aspect; and lastly, by far the most valuable in commerce; he being
+the only creature from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is
+obtained. All his peculiarities will, in many other places, be enlarged
+upon. It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do. Philologically
+considered, it is absurd. Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was
+almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil
+was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days
+spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a
+creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland
+or Right Whale. It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that
+quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of
+the word literally expresses. In those times, also, spermaceti was
+exceedingly scarce, not being used for light, but only as an ointment
+and medicament. It was only to be had from the druggists as you nowadays
+buy an ounce of rhubarb. When, as I opine, in the course of time, the
+true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was still
+retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a notion so
+strangely significant of its scarcity. And so the appellation must at
+last have come to be bestowed upon the whale from which this spermaceti
+was really derived.
+
+BOOK I. (FOLIO), CHAPTER II. (RIGHT WHALE).--In one respect this is the
+most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted
+by man. It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and
+the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
+Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the
+following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale;
+the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale. There is a deal of
+obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously
+baptised. What then is the whale, which I include in the second species
+of my Folios? It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists; the
+Greenland Whale of the English whalemen; the Baliene Ordinaire of the
+French whalemen; the Growlands Walfish of the Swedes. It is the whale
+which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and
+English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen
+have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor'
+West Coast, and various other parts of the world, designated by them
+Right Whale Cruising Grounds.
+
+Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the
+English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree
+in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single
+determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by
+endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that
+some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate. The
+right whale will be elsewhere treated of at some length, with reference
+to elucidating the sperm whale.
+
+BOOK I. (FOLIO), CHAPTER III. (FIN-BACK).--Under this head I reckon
+a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and
+Long-John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale
+whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the
+Atlantic, in the New York packet-tracks. In the length he attains, and
+in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less
+portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive. His great lips
+present a cable-like aspect, formed by the intertwisting, slanting folds
+of large wrinkles. His grand distinguishing feature, the fin, from which
+he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object. This fin is some
+three or four feet long, growing vertically from the hinder part of the
+back, of an angular shape, and with a very sharp pointed end. Even if
+not the slightest other part of the creature be visible, this isolated
+fin will, at times, be seen plainly projecting from the surface. When
+the sea is moderately calm, and slightly marked with spherical ripples,
+and this gnomon-like fin stands up and casts shadows upon the wrinkled
+surface, it may well be supposed that the watery circle surrounding it
+somewhat resembles a dial, with its style and wavy hour-lines graved on
+it. On that Ahaz-dial the shadow often goes back. The Fin-Back is not
+gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very
+shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the
+remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet
+rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with
+such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present
+pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable
+Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back. From
+having the baleen in his mouth, the Fin-Back is sometimes included with
+the right whale, among a theoretic species denominated WHALEBONE WHALES,
+that is, whales with baleen. Of these so called Whalebone whales, there
+would seem to be several varieties, most of which, however, are little
+known. Broad-nosed whales and beaked whales; pike-headed whales; bunched
+whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales, are the fishermen's
+names for a few sorts.
+
+In connection with this appellative of "Whalebone whales," it is of
+great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be
+convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is
+in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded upon
+either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that those
+marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to afford
+the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other detached
+bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents. How
+then? The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose
+peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales,
+without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other
+and more essential particulars. Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked
+whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases. Then, this same
+humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these has baleen;
+but there again the similitude ceases. And it is just the same with the
+other parts above mentioned. In various sorts of whales, they form such
+irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached,
+such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general
+methodization formed upon such a basis. On this rock every one of the
+whale-naturalists has split.
+
+But it may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts of the
+whale, in his anatomy--there, at least, we shall be able to hit the
+right classification. Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the
+Greenland whale's anatomy more striking than his baleen? Yet we have
+seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the
+Greenland whale. And if you descend into the bowels of the various
+leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as
+available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.
+What then remains? nothing but to take hold of the whales bodily, in
+their entire liberal volume, and boldly sort them that way. And this is
+the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can
+possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable. To proceed.
+
+BOOK I. (FOLIO) CHAPTER IV. (HUMP-BACK).--This whale is often seen on
+the northern American coast. He has been frequently captured there, and
+towed into harbor. He has a great pack on him like a peddler; or you
+might call him the Elephant and Castle whale. At any rate, the popular
+name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the sperm
+whale also has a hump though a smaller one. His oil is not very
+valuable. He has baleen. He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of
+all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any
+other of them.
+
+BOOK I. (FOLIO), CHAPTER V. (RAZOR-BACK).--Of this whale little is known
+but his name. I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn. Of a retiring
+nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no coward, he
+has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which rises in a long
+sharp ridge. Let him go. I know little more of him, nor does anybody
+else.
+
+BOOK I. (FOLIO), CHAPTER VI. (SULPHUR-BOTTOM).--Another retiring
+gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the
+Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings. He is seldom seen;
+at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas,
+and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance. He is
+never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are
+told of him. Adieu, Sulphur Bottom! I can say nothing more that is true
+of ye, nor can the oldest Nantucketer.
+
+Thus ends BOOK I. (FOLIO), and now begins BOOK II. (OCTAVO).
+
+OCTAVOES.*--These embrace the whales of middling magnitude, among which
+present may be numbered:--I., the GRAMPUS; II., the BLACK FISH; III.,
+the NARWHALE; IV., the THRASHER; V., the KILLER.
+
+
+*Why this book of whales is not denominated the Quarto is very plain.
+Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of
+the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them
+in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its dimensioned form
+does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume
+does.
+
+
+BOOK II. (OCTAVO), CHAPTER I. (GRAMPUS).--Though this fish, whose
+loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb
+to landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not
+popularly classed among whales. But possessing all the grand distinctive
+features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised him for one.
+He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to twenty-five feet
+in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the waist. He swims in
+herds; he is never regularly hunted, though his oil is considerable in
+quantity, and pretty good for light. By some fishermen his approach is
+regarded as premonitory of the advance of the great sperm whale.
+
+BOOK II. (OCTAVO), CHAPTER II. (BLACK FISH).--I give the popular
+fishermen's names for all these fish, for generally they are the best.
+Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so,
+and suggest another. I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called,
+because blackness is the rule among almost all whales. So, call him the
+Hyena Whale, if you please. His voracity is well known, and from the
+circumstance that the inner angles of his lips are curved upwards, he
+carries an everlasting Mephistophelean grin on his face. This whale
+averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost
+all latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin
+in swimming, which looks something like a Roman nose. When not more
+profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the Hyena
+whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment--as
+some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and quite alone by
+themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax. Though their
+blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of
+thirty gallons of oil.
+
+BOOK II. (OCTAVO), CHAPTER III. (NARWHALE), that is, NOSTRIL
+WHALE.--Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose
+from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose. The
+creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five
+feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet. Strictly
+speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw
+in a line a little depressed from the horizontal. But it is only
+found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner
+something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man. What
+precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to
+say. It does not seem to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and
+bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for
+a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food. Charley Coffin
+said it was used for an ice-piercer; for the Narwhale, rising to the
+surface of the Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his
+horn up, and so breaks through. But you cannot prove either of these
+surmises to be correct. My own opinion is, that however this one-sided
+horn may really be used by the Narwhale--however that may be--it would
+certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.
+The Narwhale I have heard called the Tusked whale, the Horned whale, and
+the Unicorn whale. He is certainly a curious example of the Unicornism
+to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature. From certain
+cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn's horn
+was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison,
+and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices. It was also
+distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the
+horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn. Originally it
+was in itself accounted an object of great curiosity. Black Letter tells
+me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that voyage, when
+Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from a window
+of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; "when Sir
+Martin returned from that voyage," saith Black Letter, "on bended knees
+he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn of the Narwhale,
+which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor." An Irish
+author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise
+present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the
+unicorn nature.
+
+The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a
+milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
+His oil is very superior, clear and fine; but there is little of it, and
+he is seldom hunted. He is mostly found in the circumpolar seas.
+
+BOOK II. (OCTAVO), CHAPTER IV. (KILLER).--Of this whale little is
+precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed
+naturalist. From what I have seen of him at a distance, I should say
+that he was about the bigness of a grampus. He is very savage--a sort of
+Feegee fish. He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and
+hangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death. The
+Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has. Exception
+might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground
+of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea;
+Bonapartes and Sharks included.
+
+BOOK II. (OCTAVO), CHAPTER V. (THRASHER).--This gentleman is famous for
+his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He mounts
+the Folio whale's back, and as he swims, he works his passage by
+flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar
+process. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. Both
+are outlaws, even in the lawless seas.
+
+Thus ends BOOK II. (OCTAVO), and begins BOOK III. (DUODECIMO).
+
+DUODECIMOES.--These include the smaller whales. I. The Huzza Porpoise.
+II. The Algerine Porpoise. III. The Mealy-mouthed Porpoise.
+
+To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may
+possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five
+feet should be marshalled among WHALES--a word, which, in the popular
+sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness. But the creatures set
+down above as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales, by the terms of my
+definition of what a whale is--i.e. a spouting fish, with a horizontal
+tail.
+
+BOOK III. (DUODECIMO), CHAPTER 1. (HUZZA PORPOISE).--This is the
+common porpoise found almost all over the globe. The name is of my own
+bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something
+must be done to distinguish them. I call him thus, because he always
+swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing
+themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. Their
+appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner. Full of fine
+spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward. They
+are the lads that always live before the wind. They are accounted a
+lucky omen. If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding
+these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly
+gamesomeness is not in ye. A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will
+yield you one good gallon of good oil. But the fine and delicate fluid
+extracted from his jaws is exceedingly valuable. It is in request among
+jewellers and watchmakers. Sailors put it on their hones. Porpoise
+meat is good eating, you know. It may never have occurred to you that
+a porpoise spouts. Indeed, his spout is so small that it is not very
+readily discernible. But the next time you have a chance, watch him; and
+you will then see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
+
+BOOK III. (DUODECIMO), CHAPTER II. (ALGERINE PORPOISE).--A pirate. Very
+savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. He is somewhat larger
+than the Huzza Porpoise, but much of the same general make. Provoke him,
+and he will buckle to a shark. I have lowered for him many times, but
+never yet saw him captured.
+
+BOOK III. (DUODECIMO), CHAPTER III. (MEALY-MOUTHED PORPOISE).--The
+largest kind of Porpoise; and only found in the Pacific, so far as it is
+known. The only English name, by which he has hitherto been designated,
+is that of the fishers--Right-Whale Porpoise, from the circumstance that
+he is chiefly found in the vicinity of that Folio. In shape, he differs
+in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly
+girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure. He has
+no fins on his back (most other porpoises have), he has a lovely tail,
+and sentimental Indian eyes of a hazel hue. But his mealy-mouth spoils
+all. Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable,
+yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship's hull, called
+the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two
+separate colours, black above and white below. The white comprises part
+of his head, and the whole of his mouth, which makes him look as if he
+had just escaped from a felonious visit to a meal-bag. A most mean and
+mealy aspect! His oil is much like that of the common porpoise.
+
+
+Beyond the DUODECIMO, this system does not proceed, inasmuch as
+the Porpoise is the smallest of the whales. Above, you have all the
+Leviathans of note. But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive,
+half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by
+reputation, but not personally. I shall enumerate them by their
+fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to
+future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun. If
+any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then
+he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio,
+Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude:--The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale;
+the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon
+Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the
+Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc. From Icelandic,
+Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of
+uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names. But I omit
+them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for
+mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.
+
+Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be
+here, and at once, perfected. You cannot but plainly see that I have
+kept my word. But I now leave my cetological System standing thus
+unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the
+crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small
+erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true
+ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever
+completing anything. This whole book is but a draught--nay, but the
+draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
+
+
+Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place
+as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising
+from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown
+of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet.
+
+The large importance attached to the harpooneer's vocation is evinced
+by the fact, that originally in the old Dutch Fishery, two centuries
+and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in
+the person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an
+officer called the Specksnyder. Literally this word means Fat-Cutter;
+usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer. In
+those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation
+and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting
+department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer
+reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted
+title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but
+his former dignity is sadly abridged. At present he ranks simply
+as senior Harpooneer; and as such, is but one of the captain's more
+inferior subalterns. Nevertheless, as upon the good conduct of the
+harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends, and since
+in the American Fishery he is not only an important officer in the boat,
+but under certain circumstances (night watches on a whaling ground) the
+command of the ship's deck is also his; therefore the grand political
+maxim of the sea demands, that he should nominally live apart from
+the men before the mast, and be in some way distinguished as their
+professional superior; though always, by them, familiarly regarded as
+their social equal.
+
+Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is
+this--the first lives aft, the last forward. Hence, in whale-ships and
+merchantmen alike, the mates have their quarters with the captain; and
+so, too, in most of the American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in
+the after part of the ship. That is to say, they take their meals in the
+captain's cabin, and sleep in a place indirectly communicating with it.
+
+Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest
+of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and
+the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high
+or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their
+common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and
+hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less
+rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind
+how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some
+primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious
+externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed,
+and in no instance done away. Indeed, many are the Nantucket ships in
+which you will see the skipper parading his quarter-deck with an elated
+grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost
+as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the
+shabbiest of pilot-cloth.
+
+And though of all men the moody captain of the Pequod was the least
+given to that sort of shallowest assumption; and though the only homage
+he ever exacted, was implicit, instantaneous obedience; though he
+required no man to remove the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon
+the quarter-deck; and though there were times when, owing to peculiar
+circumstances connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he
+addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or IN
+TERROREM, or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means
+unobservant of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.
+
+Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those
+forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself; incidentally
+making use of them for other and more private ends than they were
+legitimately intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain,
+which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through
+those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible
+dictatorship. For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will,
+it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men,
+without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments, always,
+in themselves, more or less paltry and base. This it is, that for ever
+keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and
+leaves the highest honours that this air can give, to those men who
+become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice
+hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted
+superiority over the dead level of the mass. Such large virtue lurks
+in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them,
+that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted
+potency. But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown
+of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian
+herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization. Nor, will the
+tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest
+sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in
+his art, as the one now alluded to.
+
+But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket
+grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and
+Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old
+whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings
+and housings are denied me. Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it
+must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and
+featured in the unbodied air!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
+
+
+It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread
+face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and
+master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an
+observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the
+smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on
+the upper part of his ivory leg. From his complete inattention to the
+tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial. But
+presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to
+the deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr.
+Starbuck," disappears into the cabin.
+
+When the last echo of his sultan's step has died away, and Starbuck, the
+first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then Starbuck
+rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks, and, after
+a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of pleasantness,
+"Dinner, Mr. Stubb," and descends the scuttle. The second Emir lounges
+about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the main brace, to
+see whether it will be all right with that important rope, he likewise
+takes up the old burden, and with a rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows
+after his predecessors.
+
+But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck,
+seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all
+sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his
+shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right
+over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching
+his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so
+far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other
+processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into
+the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and,
+then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab's presence,
+in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.
+
+It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense
+artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck
+some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and
+defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those
+very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that
+same commander's cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say
+deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of
+the table; this is marvellous, sometimes most comical. Wherefore this
+difference? A problem? Perhaps not. To have been Belshazzar, King of
+Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously,
+therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur. But he
+who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own
+private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power
+and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of
+state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest. Who
+has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar. It
+is a witchery of social czarship which there is no withstanding. Now,
+if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a
+ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that
+peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
+
+Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned
+sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still
+deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be
+served. They were as little children before Ahab; and yet, in Ahab,
+there seemed not to lurk the smallest social arrogance. With one mind,
+their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man's knife, as he carved
+the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they
+would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even
+upon so neutral a topic as the weather. No! And when reaching out his
+knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked, Ahab thereby
+motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate received his meat as
+though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly; and a little started
+if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed it
+noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection. For, like
+the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly
+dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were
+somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab
+forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb. What a relief it was
+to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold below. And
+poor little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy of this weary
+family party. His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have
+been the drumsticks. For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this
+must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree. Had
+he helped himself at that table, doubtless, never more would he have
+been able to hold his head up in this honest world; nevertheless,
+strange to say, Ahab never forbade him. And had Flask helped himself,
+the chances were Ahab had never so much as noticed it. Least of all, did
+Flask presume to help himself to butter. Whether he thought the owners
+of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear,
+sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such
+marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for
+him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!
+
+Another thing. Flask was the last person down at the dinner, and Flask
+is the first man up. Consider! For hereby Flask's dinner was badly
+jammed in point of time. Starbuck and Stubb both had the start of him;
+and yet they also have the privilege of lounging in the rear. If Stubb
+even, who is but a peg higher than Flask, happens to have but a small
+appetite, and soon shows symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask
+must bestir himself, he will not get more than three mouthfuls that day;
+for it is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the deck.
+Therefore it was that Flask once admitted in private, that ever since he
+had arisen to the dignity of an officer, from that moment he had never
+known what it was to be otherwise than hungry, more or less. For what
+he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.
+Peace and satisfaction, thought Flask, have for ever departed from
+my stomach. I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fish a bit of
+old-fashioned beef in the forecastle, as I used to when I was before the
+mast. There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory:
+there's the insanity of life! Besides, if it were so that any mere
+sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official
+capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance,
+was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin
+sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
+
+Now, Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first table
+in the Pequod's cabin. After their departure, taking place in inverted
+order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was
+restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward. And then the three
+harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being its residuary legatees.
+They made a sort of temporary servants' hall of the high and mighty
+cabin.
+
+In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless
+invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free
+license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows
+the harpooneers. While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the
+sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food
+with such a relish that there was a report to it. They dined like lords;
+they filled their bellies like Indian ships all day loading with spices.
+Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out
+the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was
+fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of
+the solid ox. And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with
+a nimble hop-skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly way of
+accelerating him by darting a fork at his back, harpoon-wise. And once
+Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor, assisted Dough-Boy's memory by
+snatching him up bodily, and thrusting his head into a great empty
+wooden trencher, while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the
+circle preliminary to scalping him. He was naturally a very nervous,
+shuddering sort of little fellow, this bread-faced steward; the progeny
+of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse. And what with the standing
+spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous
+visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one
+continual lip-quiver. Commonly, after seeing the harpooneers furnished
+with all things they demanded, he would escape from their clutches into
+his little pantry adjoining, and fearfully peep out at them through the
+blinds of its door, till all was over.
+
+It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego, opposing
+his filed teeth to the Indian's: crosswise to them, Daggoo seated on the
+floor, for a bench would have brought his hearse-plumed head to the low
+carlines; at every motion of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin
+framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a
+ship. But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious,
+not to say dainty. It seemed hardly possible that by such comparatively
+small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality diffused through so broad,
+baronial, and superb a person. But, doubtless, this noble savage fed
+strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his
+dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds. Not by
+beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished. But Queequeg, he had a
+mortal, barbaric smack of the lip in eating--an ugly sound enough--so
+much so, that the trembling Dough-Boy almost looked to see whether
+any marks of teeth lurked in his own lean arms. And when he would hear
+Tashtego singing out for him to produce himself, that his bones might be
+picked, the simple-witted steward all but shattered the crockery hanging
+round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy. Nor did the
+whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their
+lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner, they
+would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at
+all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy. How could he forget that in his
+Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some
+murderous, convivial indiscretions. Alas! Dough-Boy! hard fares the
+white waiter who waits upon cannibals. Not a napkin should he carry on
+his arm, but a buckler. In good time, though, to his great delight,
+the three salt-sea warriors would rise and depart; to his credulous,
+fable-mongering ears, all their martial bones jingling in them at every
+step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards.
+
+But, though these barbarians dined in the cabin, and nominally lived
+there; still, being anything but sedentary in their habits, they were
+scarcely ever in it except at mealtimes, and just before sleeping-time,
+when they passed through it to their own peculiar quarters.
+
+In this one matter, Ahab seemed no exception to most American whale
+captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion that by rights
+the ship's cabin belongs to them; and that it is by courtesy alone that
+anybody else is, at any time, permitted there. So that, in real truth,
+the mates and harpooneers of the Pequod might more properly be said to
+have lived out of the cabin than in it. For when they did enter it, it
+was something as a street-door enters a house; turning inwards for
+a moment, only to be turned out the next; and, as a permanent thing,
+residing in the open air. Nor did they lose much hereby; in the cabin
+was no companionship; socially, Ahab was inaccessible. Though nominally
+included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it. He
+lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled
+Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of
+the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter
+there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age,
+Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the
+sullen paws of its gloom!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
+
+
+It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the
+other seamen my first mast-head came round.
+
+In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost
+simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port; even though she may
+have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper
+cruising ground. And if, after a three, four, or five years' voyage
+she is drawing nigh home with anything empty in her--say, an empty vial
+even--then, her mast-heads are kept manned to the last; and not till her
+skysail-poles sail in among the spires of the port, does she altogether
+relinquish the hope of capturing one whale more.
+
+Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very
+ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
+I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old
+Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them.
+For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by
+their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia,
+or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great
+stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the dread
+gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders
+priority over the Egyptians. And that the Egyptians were a nation of
+mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among
+archaeologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical
+purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like
+formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious
+long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount
+to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a
+modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight. In
+Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him
+a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of
+his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a
+tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless
+stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs
+or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to
+the last, literally died at his post. Of modern standers-of-mast-heads
+we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who,
+though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still entirely
+incompetent to the business of singing out upon discovering any strange
+sight. There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of the column of Vendome,
+stands with arms folded, some one hundred and fifty feet in the air;
+careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis
+Blanc, or Louis the Devil. Great Washington, too, stands high aloft on
+his towering main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules' pillars,
+his column marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals
+will go. Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his
+mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and ever when most obscured by that
+London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for
+where there is smoke, must be fire. But neither great Washington, nor
+Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however
+madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks
+upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits
+penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals
+and what rocks must be shunned.
+
+It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head
+standers of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is
+not so, is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole
+historian of Nantucket, stands accountable. The worthy Obed tells us,
+that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly
+launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty
+spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by means
+of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house. A few
+years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New Zealand,
+who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned boats nigh
+the beach. But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the
+one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea. The three mast-heads
+are kept manned from sun-rise to sun-set; the seamen taking their
+regular turns (as at the helm), and relieving each other every two
+hours. In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant
+the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful. There
+you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the
+deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and
+between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even
+as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old
+Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with
+nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the
+drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor. For the
+most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness invests
+you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts
+of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear
+of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks; are
+never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner--for
+all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks, and
+your bill of fare is immutable.
+
+In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years'
+voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the
+mast-head would amount to several entire months. And it is much to be
+deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion
+of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute
+of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a
+comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock,
+a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small
+and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves. Your
+most usual point of perch is the head of the t' gallant-mast, where you
+stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called
+the t' gallant cross-trees. Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner
+feels about as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns. To be sure,
+in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you, in the shape of
+a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest watch-coat is no more
+of a house than the unclad body; for as the soul is glued inside of its
+fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out
+of it, without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim
+crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much of
+a house as it is a mere envelope, or additional skin encasing you. You
+cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body, and no more can you
+make a convenient closet of your watch-coat.
+
+Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a
+southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents
+or pulpits, called CROW'S-NESTS, in which the look-outs of a Greenland
+whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas. In
+the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled "A Voyage among the
+Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the
+re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;" in
+this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with
+a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented
+CROW'S-NEST of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet's good
+craft. He called it the SLEET'S CROW'S-NEST, in honour of himself; he
+being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous
+false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our
+own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so
+likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we
+may beget. In shape, the Sleet's crow's-nest is something like a large
+tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is furnished with
+a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head in a hard gale.
+Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into it through a
+little trap-hatch in the bottom. On the after side, or side next the
+stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat, with a locker underneath for
+umbrellas, comforters, and coats. In front is a leather rack, in which
+to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical
+conveniences. When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this
+crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him
+(also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for
+the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns
+infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from
+the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon
+them is a very different thing. Now, it was plainly a labor of love
+for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed
+conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many
+of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his
+experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for
+the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called
+the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to
+the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the
+Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down
+blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very
+discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle
+deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors,"
+he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed
+in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted
+occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely
+tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand.
+Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and even love the brave, the
+honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it very ill of him that he
+should so utterly ignore that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend
+and comforter it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded
+head he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest
+within three or four perches of the pole.
+
+But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as
+Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is
+greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those
+seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float. For one, I used
+to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a
+chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there;
+then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the
+top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at
+last mount to my ultimate destination.
+
+Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but
+sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how
+could I--being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering
+altitude--how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all
+whale-ships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and sing out
+every time."
+
+And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of
+Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with
+lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who
+offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware
+of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen before they can be
+killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes
+round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer. Nor
+are these monitions at all unneeded. For nowadays, the whale-fishery
+furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded
+young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking
+sentiment in tar and blubber. Childe Harold not unfrequently perches
+himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, and
+in moody phrase ejaculates:--
+
+"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand
+blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain."
+
+Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded
+young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient
+"interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost
+to all honourable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would
+rather not see whales than otherwise. But all in vain; those young
+Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect; they are
+short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have
+left their opera-glasses at home.
+
+"Why, thou monkey," said a harpooneer to one of these lads, "we've been
+cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast not raised a whale
+yet. Whales are scarce as hen's teeth whenever thou art up here."
+Perhaps they were; or perhaps there might have been shoals of them in
+the far horizon; but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of
+vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending
+cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity;
+takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep,
+blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every
+strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every
+dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him
+the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by
+continually flitting through it. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs
+away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like
+Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every
+shore the round globe over.
+
+There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a
+gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from
+the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye,
+move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity
+comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps,
+at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you
+drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise
+for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
+
+
+(ENTER AHAB: THEN, ALL)
+
+
+It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one
+morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the
+cabin-gangway to the deck. There most sea-captains usually walk at that
+hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal, take a few turns in the
+garden.
+
+Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old
+rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over
+dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did
+you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also,
+you would see still stranger foot-prints--the foot-prints of his one
+unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
+
+But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as
+his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark. And, so full of his
+thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the
+main-mast and now at the binnacle, you could almost see that thought
+turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely
+possessing him, indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of every
+outer movement.
+
+"D'ye mark him, Flask?" whispered Stubb; "the chick that's in him pecks
+the shell. 'Twill soon be out."
+
+The hours wore on;--Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the
+deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect.
+
+It drew near the close of day. Suddenly he came to a halt by the
+bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with
+one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft.
+
+"Sir!" said the mate, astonished at an order seldom or never given on
+ship-board except in some extraordinary case.
+
+"Send everybody aft," repeated Ahab. "Mast-heads, there! come down!"
+
+When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not
+wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike
+the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly
+glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew,
+started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him
+resumed his heavy turns upon the deck. With bent head and half-slouched
+hat he continued to pace, unmindful of the wondering whispering among
+the men; till Stubb cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have
+summoned them there for the purpose of witnessing a pedestrian feat. But
+this did not last long. Vehemently pausing, he cried:--
+
+"What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?"
+
+"Sing out for him!" was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed
+voices.
+
+"Good!" cried Ahab, with a wild approval in his tones; observing the
+hearty animation into which his unexpected question had so magnetically
+thrown them.
+
+"And what do ye next, men?"
+
+"Lower away, and after him!"
+
+"And what tune is it ye pull to, men?"
+
+"A dead whale or a stove boat!"
+
+More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving, grew the
+countenance of the old man at every shout; while the mariners began
+to gaze curiously at each other, as if marvelling how it was that they
+themselves became so excited at such seemingly purposeless questions.
+
+But, they were all eagerness again, as Ahab, now half-revolving in his
+pivot-hole, with one hand reaching high up a shroud, and tightly, almost
+convulsively grasping it, addressed them thus:--
+
+"All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a white
+whale. Look ye! d'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?"--holding up a
+broad bright coin to the sun--"it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D'ye
+see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul."
+
+While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was
+slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if
+to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile
+lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and
+inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his
+vitality in him.
+
+Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the main-mast
+with the hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the
+other, and with a high raised voice exclaiming: "Whosoever of ye
+raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw;
+whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes
+punctured in his starboard fluke--look ye, whosoever of ye raises me
+that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!"
+
+"Huzza! huzza!" cried the seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins they
+hailed the act of nailing the gold to the mast.
+
+"It's a white whale, I say," resumed Ahab, as he threw down the topmaul:
+"a white whale. Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water;
+if ye see but a bubble, sing out."
+
+All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even
+more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention
+of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was
+separately touched by some specific recollection.
+
+"Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same that
+some call Moby Dick."
+
+"Moby Dick?" shouted Ahab. "Do ye know the white whale then, Tash?"
+
+"Does he fan-tail a little curious, sir, before he goes down?" said the
+Gay-Header deliberately.
+
+"And has he a curious spout, too," said Daggoo, "very bushy, even for a
+parmacetty, and mighty quick, Captain Ahab?"
+
+"And he have one, two, three--oh! good many iron in him hide, too,
+Captain," cried Queequeg disjointedly, "all twiske-tee be-twisk, like
+him--him--" faltering hard for a word, and screwing his hand round and
+round as though uncorking a bottle--"like him--him--"
+
+"Corkscrew!" cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted
+and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole
+shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the
+great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a
+split jib in a squall. Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have
+seen--Moby Dick--Moby Dick!"
+
+"Captain Ahab," said Starbuck, who, with Stubb and Flask, had thus far
+been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last seemed
+struck with a thought which somewhat explained all the wonder. "Captain
+Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick--but it was not Moby Dick that took off
+thy leg?"
+
+"Who told thee that?" cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck; aye, my
+hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that
+brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye," he shouted with
+a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose;
+"Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor
+pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!" Then tossing both arms, with
+measureless imprecations he shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him
+round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and
+round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have
+shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and
+over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.
+What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look
+brave."
+
+"Aye, aye!" shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the
+excited old man: "A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for
+Moby Dick!"
+
+"God bless ye," he seemed to half sob and half shout. "God bless ye,
+men. Steward! go draw the great measure of grog. But what's this long
+face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not
+game for Moby Dick?"
+
+"I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain
+Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I
+came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance. How many barrels
+will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab? it
+will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market."
+
+"Nantucket market! Hoot! But come closer, Starbuck; thou requirest
+a little lower layer. If money's to be the measurer, man, and the
+accountants have computed their great counting-house the globe, by
+girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then, let
+me tell thee, that my vengeance will fetch a great premium HERE!"
+
+"He smites his chest," whispered Stubb, "what's that for? methinks it
+rings most vast, but hollow."
+
+"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee
+from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing,
+Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."
+
+"Hark ye yet again--the little lower layer. All visible objects, man,
+are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event--in the living act, the
+undoubted deed--there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth
+the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man
+will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside
+except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that
+wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But
+'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength,
+with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is
+chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale
+principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy,
+man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that,
+then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play
+herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my master, man,
+is even that fair play. Who's over me? Truth hath no confines. Take off
+thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish
+stare! So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted thee to
+anger-glow. But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing
+unsays itself. There are men from whom warm words are small indignity. I
+meant not to incense thee. Let it go. Look! see yonder Turkish cheeks of
+spotted tawn--living, breathing pictures painted by the sun. The Pagan
+leopards--the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek,
+and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel! The crew, man, the
+crew! Are they not one and all with Ahab, in this matter of the whale?
+See Stubb! he laughs! See yonder Chilian! he snorts to think of it.
+Stand up amid the general hurricane, thy one tost sapling cannot,
+Starbuck! And what is it? Reckon it. 'Tis but to help strike a fin; no
+wondrous feat for Starbuck. What is it more? From this one poor hunt,
+then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back,
+when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone? Ah! constrainings
+seize thee; I see! the billow lifts thee! Speak, but speak!--Aye, aye!
+thy silence, then, THAT voices thee. (ASIDE) Something shot from my
+dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs. Starbuck now is mine;
+cannot oppose me now, without rebellion."
+
+"God keep me!--keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.
+
+But in his joy at the enchanted, tacit acquiescence of the mate, Ahab
+did not hear his foreboding invocation; nor yet the low laugh from the
+hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of the winds in the cordage;
+nor yet the hollow flap of the sails against the masts, as for a moment
+their hearts sank in. For again Starbuck's downcast eyes lighted up with
+the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the winds
+blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as before. Ah,
+ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come? But
+rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows! Yet not so much
+predictions from without, as verifications of the foregoing things
+within. For with little external to constrain us, the innermost
+necessities in our being, these still drive us on.
+
+"The measure! the measure!" cried Ahab.
+
+Receiving the brimming pewter, and turning to the harpooneers, he
+ordered them to produce their weapons. Then ranging them before him near
+the capstan, with their harpoons in their hands, while his three mates
+stood at his side with their lances, and the rest of the ship's company
+formed a circle round the group; he stood for an instant searchingly
+eyeing every man of his crew. But those wild eyes met his, as the
+bloodshot eyes of the prairie wolves meet the eye of their leader, ere
+he rushes on at their head in the trail of the bison; but, alas! only to
+fall into the hidden snare of the Indian.
+
+"Drink and pass!" he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the
+nearest seaman. "The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short
+draughts--long swallows, men; 'tis hot as Satan's hoof. So, so; it
+goes round excellently. It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the
+serpent-snapping eye. Well done; almost drained. That way it went, this
+way it comes. Hand it me--here's a hollow! Men, ye seem the years; so
+brimming life is gulped and gone. Steward, refill!
+
+"Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and
+ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there
+with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some
+sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me. O men, you
+will yet see that--Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner. Hand
+it me. Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, were't not thou St.
+Vitus' imp--away, thou ague!
+
+"Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me. Well done! Let
+me touch the axis." So saying, with extended arm, he grasped the
+three level, radiating lances at their crossed centre; while so doing,
+suddenly and nervously twitched them; meanwhile, glancing intently from
+Starbuck to Stubb; from Stubb to Flask. It seemed as though, by some
+nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the
+same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic
+life. The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic
+aspect. Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest eye of
+Starbuck fell downright.
+
+"In vain!" cried Ahab; "but, maybe, 'tis well. For did ye three but
+once take the full-forced shock, then mine own electric thing, THAT had
+perhaps expired from out me. Perchance, too, it would have dropped ye
+dead. Perchance ye need it not. Down lances! And now, ye mates, I do
+appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there--yon three
+most honourable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers. Disdain
+the task? What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars, using
+his tiara for ewer? Oh, my sweet cardinals! your own condescension, THAT
+shall bend ye to it. I do not order ye; ye will it. Cut your seizings
+and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!"
+
+Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the
+detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs
+up, before him.
+
+"Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant them; cant them over! know ye
+not the goblet end? Turn up the socket! So, so; now, ye cup-bearers,
+advance. The irons! take them; hold them while I fill!" Forthwith,
+slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon
+sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.
+
+"Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow
+them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha!
+Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon
+it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful
+whaleboat's bow--Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do not hunt
+Moby Dick to his death!" The long, barbed steel goblets were lifted;
+and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were
+simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss. Starbuck paled, and turned, and
+shivered. Once more, and finally, the replenished pewter went the rounds
+among the frantic crew; when, waving his free hand to them, they all
+dispersed; and Ahab retired within his cabin.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
+
+
+THE CABIN; BY THE STERN WINDOWS; AHAB SITTING ALONE, AND GAZING OUT.
+
+
+I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I
+sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them;
+but first I pass.
+
+Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
+The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun--slow dived from noon--goes
+down; my soul mounts up! she wearies with her endless hill. Is, then,
+the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is
+it bright with many a gem; I the wearer, see not its far flashings; but
+darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly confounds. 'Tis iron--that
+I know--not gold. 'Tis split, too--that I feel; the jagged edge galls
+me so, my brain seems to beat against the solid metal; aye, steel skull,
+mine; the sort that needs no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!
+
+Dry heat upon my brow? Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred
+me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not me;
+all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can ne'er enjoy. Gifted with
+the high perception, I lack the low, enjoying power; damned, most subtly
+and most malignantly! damned in the midst of Paradise! Good night--good
+night! (WAVING HIS HAND, HE MOVES FROM THE WINDOW.)
+
+'Twas not so hard a task. I thought to find one stubborn, at the least;
+but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they
+revolve. Or, if you will, like so many ant-hills of powder, they all
+stand before me; and I their match. Oh, hard! that to fire others, the
+match itself must needs be wasting! What I've dared, I've willed; and
+what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad--Starbuck does; but I'm
+demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm
+to comprehend itself! The prophecy was that I should be dismembered;
+and--Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my
+dismemberer. Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one. That's
+more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye
+cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes!
+I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies--Take some one of your own
+size; don't pommel ME! No, ye've knocked me down, and I am up again; but
+YE have run and hidden. Come forth from behind your cotton bags! I have
+no long gun to reach ye. Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see
+if ye can swerve me. Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve
+yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is
+laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded
+gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds,
+unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron
+way!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
+
+
+BY THE MAINMAST; STARBUCK LEANING AGAINST IT.
+
+
+My soul is more than matched; she's overmanned; and by a madman!
+Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field! But
+he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me! I think I see
+his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. Will I, nill I,
+the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no
+knife to cut. Horrible old man! Who's over him, he cries;--aye, he would
+be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below! Oh! I
+plainly see my miserable office,--to obey, rebelling; and worse yet,
+to hate with touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some lurid woe would
+shrivel me up, had I it. Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
+The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small
+gold-fish has its glassy globe. His heaven-insulting purpose, God may
+wedge aside. I would up heart, were it not like lead. But my whole
+clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to
+lift again.
+
+
+[A BURST OF REVELRY FROM THE FORECASTLE.]
+
+
+Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human
+mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white whale
+is their demigorgon. Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is forward!
+mark the unfaltering silence aft! Methinks it pictures life. Foremost
+through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering
+bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his
+sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further
+on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings. The long howl thrills me through!
+Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch! Oh, life! 'tis in an hour like
+this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,--as wild, untutored
+things are forced to feed--Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent
+horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the
+soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim,
+phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 39. First Night Watch.
+
+Fore-Top.
+
+(STUBB SOLUS, AND MENDING A BRACE.)
+
+
+Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!--I've been thinking over it
+ever since, and that ha, ha's the final consequence. Why so? Because a
+laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer; and come what
+will, one comfort's always left--that unfailing comfort is, it's all
+predestinated. I heard not all his talk with Starbuck; but to my poor
+eye Starbuck then looked something as I the other evening felt. Be sure
+the old Mogul has fixed him, too. I twigged it, knew it; had had the
+gift, might readily have prophesied it--for when I clapped my eye upon
+his skull I saw it. Well, Stubb, WISE Stubb--that's my title--well,
+Stubb, what of it, Stubb? Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be
+coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish
+leering as lurks in all your horribles! I feel funny. Fa, la! lirra,
+skirra! What's my juicy little pear at home doing now? Crying its eyes
+out?--Giving a party to the last arrived harpooneers, I dare say, gay as
+a frigate's pennant, and so am I--fa, la! lirra, skirra! Oh--
+
+We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting
+As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while
+meeting.
+
+
+A brave stave that--who calls? Mr. Starbuck? Aye, aye, sir--(ASIDE) he's
+my superior, he has his too, if I'm not mistaken.--Aye, aye, sir, just
+through with this job--coming.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
+
+HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS.
+
+(FORESAIL RISES AND DISCOVERS THE WATCH STANDING, LOUNGING, LEANING, AND
+LYING IN VARIOUS ATTITUDES, ALL SINGING IN CHORUS.)
+
+     Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies!
+     Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain!
+     Our captain's commanded.--
+
+1ST NANTUCKET SAILOR. Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the
+digestion! Take a tonic, follow me! (SINGS, AND ALL FOLLOW)
+
+    Our captain stood upon the deck,
+    A spy-glass in his hand,
+    A viewing of those gallant whales
+    That blew at every strand.
+    Oh, your tubs in your boats, my boys,
+    And by your braces stand,
+    And we'll have one of those fine whales,
+    Hand, boys, over hand!
+    So, be cheery, my lads! may your hearts never fail!
+    While the bold harpooner is striking the whale!
+
+MATE'S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Eight bells there, forward!
+
+2ND NANTUCKET SAILOR. Avast the chorus! Eight bells there! d'ye hear,
+bell-boy? Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me
+call the watch. I've the sort of mouth for that--the hogshead mouth.
+So, so, (THRUSTS HIS HEAD DOWN THE SCUTTLE,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y!
+Eight bells there below! Tumble up!
+
+DUTCH SAILOR. Grand snoozing to-night, maty; fat night for that. I
+mark this in our old Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as
+filliping to others. We sing; they sleep--aye, lie down there, like
+ground-tier butts. At 'em again! There, take this copper-pump, and hail
+'em through it. Tell 'em to avast dreaming of their lasses. Tell 'em
+it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.
+That's the way--THAT'S it; thy throat ain't spoiled with eating
+Amsterdam butter.
+
+FRENCH SAILOR. Hist, boys! let's have a jig or two before we ride to
+anchor in Blanket Bay. What say ye? There comes the other watch. Stand
+by all legs! Pip! little Pip! hurrah with your tambourine!
+
+PIP. (SULKY AND SLEEPY) Don't know where it is.
+
+FRENCH SAILOR. Beat thy belly, then, and wag thy ears. Jig it, men,
+I say; merry's the word; hurrah! Damn me, won't you dance? Form, now,
+Indian-file, and gallop into the double-shuffle? Throw yourselves! Legs!
+legs!
+
+ICELAND SAILOR. I don't like your floor, maty; it's too springy to my
+taste. I'm used to ice-floors. I'm sorry to throw cold water on the
+subject; but excuse me.
+
+MALTESE SAILOR. Me too; where's your girls? Who but a fool would take
+his left hand by his right, and say to himself, how d'ye do? Partners! I
+must have partners!
+
+SICILIAN SAILOR. Aye; girls and a green!--then I'll hop with ye; yea,
+turn grasshopper!
+
+LONG-ISLAND SAILOR. Well, well, ye sulkies, there's plenty more of us.
+Hoe corn when you may, say I. All legs go to harvest soon. Ah! here
+comes the music; now for it!
+
+AZORE SAILOR. (ASCENDING, AND PITCHING THE TAMBOURINE UP THE SCUTTLE.)
+Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount! Now,
+boys! (THE HALF OF THEM DANCE TO THE TAMBOURINE; SOME GO BELOW; SOME
+SLEEP OR LIE AMONG THE COILS OF RIGGING. OATHS A-PLENTY.)
+
+AZORE SAILOR. (DANCING) Go it, Pip! Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it,
+stig it, quig it, bell-boy! Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
+
+PIP. Jinglers, you say?--there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so.
+
+CHINA SAILOR. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of
+thyself.
+
+
+FRENCH SAILOR. Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I jump through it!
+Split jibs! tear yourselves!
+
+TASHTEGO. (QUIETLY SMOKING) That's a white man; he calls that fun:
+humph! I save my sweat.
+
+OLD MANX SAILOR. I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what
+they are dancing over. I'll dance over your grave, I will--that's
+the bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round
+corners. O Christ! to think of the green navies and the green-skulled
+crews! Well, well; belike the whole world's a ball, as you scholars have
+it; and so 'tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, lads, you're
+young; I was once.
+
+3D NANTUCKET SAILOR. Spell oh!--whew! this is worse than pulling after
+whales in a calm--give us a whiff, Tash.
+
+(THEY CEASE DANCING, AND GATHER IN CLUSTERS. MEANTIME THE SKY
+DARKENS--THE WIND RISES.)
+
+LASCAR SAILOR. By Brahma! boys, it'll be douse sail soon. The sky-born,
+high-tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva!
+
+MALTESE SAILOR. (RECLINING AND SHAKING HIS CAP.) It's the waves--the
+snow's caps turn to jig it now. They'll shake their tassels soon. Now
+would all the waves were women, then I'd go drown, and chassee with them
+evermore! There's naught so sweet on earth--heaven may not match
+it!--as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance, when the
+over-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.
+
+SICILIAN SAILOR. (RECLINING.) Tell me not of it! Hark ye, lad--fleet
+interlacings of the limbs--lithe swayings--coyings--flutterings! lip!
+heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye,
+else come satiety. Eh, Pagan? (NUDGING.)
+
+TAHITAN SAILOR. (RECLINING ON A MAT.) Hail, holy nakedness of our
+dancing girls!--the Heeva-Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I
+still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven
+in the wood, my mat! green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn
+and wilted quite. Ah me!--not thou nor I can bear the change! How
+then, if so be transplanted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from
+Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the
+villages?--The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (LEAPS TO HIS
+FEET.)
+
+PORTUGUESE SAILOR. How the sea rolls swashing 'gainst the side! Stand
+by for reefing, hearties! the winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell
+they'll go lunging presently.
+
+DANISH SAILOR. Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou
+holdest! Well done! The mate there holds ye to it stiffly. He's no more
+afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic
+with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!
+
+4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. He has his orders, mind ye that. I heard old
+Ahab tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a
+waterspout with a pistol--fire your ship right into it!
+
+ENGLISH SAILOR. Blood! but that old man's a grand old cove! We are the
+lads to hunt him up his whale!
+
+ALL. Aye! aye!
+
+OLD MANX SAILOR. How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort
+of tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there's none
+but the crew's cursed clay. Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort
+of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at sea.
+Our captain has his birthmark; look yonder, boys, there's another in the
+sky--lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.
+
+DAGGOO. What of that? Who's afraid of black's afraid of me! I'm quarried
+out of it!
+
+SPANISH SAILOR. (ASIDE.) He wants to bully, ah!--the old grudge makes
+me touchy (ADVANCING.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable dark
+side of mankind--devilish dark at that. No offence.
+
+DAGGOO (GRIMLY). None.
+
+ST. JAGO'S SAILOR. That Spaniard's mad or drunk. But that can't be, or
+else in his one case our old Mogul's fire-waters are somewhat long in
+working.
+
+5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. What's that I saw--lightning? Yes.
+
+SPANISH SAILOR. No; Daggoo showing his teeth.
+
+DAGGOO (SPRINGING). Swallow thine, mannikin! White skin, white liver!
+
+SPANISH SAILOR (MEETING HIM). Knife thee heartily! big frame, small
+spirit!
+
+ALL. A row! a row! a row!
+
+TASHTEGO (WITH A WHIFF). A row a'low, and a row aloft--Gods and
+men--both brawlers! Humph!
+
+BELFAST SAILOR. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row! Plunge
+in with ye!
+
+ENGLISH SAILOR. Fair play! Snatch the Spaniard's knife! A ring, a ring!
+
+OLD MANX SAILOR. Ready formed. There! the ringed horizon. In that ring
+Cain struck Abel. Sweet work, right work! No? Why then, God, mad'st thou
+the ring?
+
+MATE'S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Hands by the halyards! in
+top-gallant sails! Stand by to reef topsails!
+
+ALL. The squall! the squall! jump, my jollies! (THEY SCATTER.)
+
+
+PIP (SHRINKING UNDER THE WINDLASS). Jollies? Lord help such jollies!
+Crish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God! Duck lower,
+Pip, here comes the royal yard! It's worse than being in the whirled
+woods, the last day of the year! Who'd go climbing after chestnuts now?
+But there they go, all cursing, and here I don't. Fine prospects to 'em;
+they're on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a squall!
+But those chaps there are worse yet--they are your white squalls, they.
+White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! Here have I heard all their
+chat just now, and the white whale--shirr! shirr!--but spoken of
+once! and only this evening--it makes me jingle all over like my
+tambourine--that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him! Oh,
+thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on
+this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no
+bowels to feel fear!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
+
+
+I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest;
+my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more
+did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A
+wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud
+seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous
+monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of
+violence and revenge.
+
+For some time past, though at intervals only, the unaccompanied,
+secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
+frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. But not all of them knew of his
+existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen him;
+while the number who as yet had actually and knowingly given battle to
+him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers;
+the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery
+circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along
+solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or
+more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort;
+the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the
+times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct
+and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide
+whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby
+Dick. It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have
+encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian,
+a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after
+doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them; to
+some minds it was not an unfair presumption, I say, that the whale in
+question must have been no other than Moby Dick. Yet as of late the
+Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent
+instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster
+attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave
+battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were
+content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to
+the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual
+cause. In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab and
+the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.
+
+And as for those who, previously hearing of the White Whale, by chance
+caught sight of him; in the beginning of the thing they had every one of
+them, almost, as boldly and fearlessly lowered for him, as for any other
+whale of that species. But at length, such calamities did ensue in these
+assaults--not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or
+devouring amputations--but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those
+repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors
+upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many
+brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.
+
+Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more
+horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters. For not only do
+fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising
+terrible events,--as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in
+maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound,
+wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to. And as the
+sea surpasses the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses
+every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness
+of the rumors which sometimes circulate there. For not only are whalemen
+as a body unexempt from that ignorance and superstitiousness hereditary
+to all sailors; but of all sailors, they are by all odds the most
+directly brought into contact with whatever is appallingly astonishing
+in the sea; face to face they not only eye its greatest marvels, but,
+hand to jaw, give battle to them. Alone, in such remotest waters, that
+though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a thousand shores, you
+would not come to any chiseled hearth-stone, or aught hospitable beneath
+that part of the sun; in such latitudes and longitudes, pursuing too
+such a calling as he does, the whaleman is wrapped by influences all
+tending to make his fancy pregnant with many a mighty birth.
+
+No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over
+the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did
+in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints,
+and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which
+eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything
+that visibly appears. So that in many cases such a panic did he finally
+strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White
+Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his
+jaw.
+
+But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work.
+Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm
+Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the
+leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body. There are
+those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous
+enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would
+perhaps--either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or
+timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are
+plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing
+under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm
+Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to
+the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their
+hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest
+and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling. Nor is the
+pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more
+feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.
+
+And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former
+legendary times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book
+naturalists--Olassen and Povelson--declaring the Sperm Whale not only to
+be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so
+incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood. Nor
+even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost similar
+impressions effaced. For in his Natural History, the Baron himself
+affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish (sharks included) are
+"struck with the most lively terrors," and "often in the precipitancy of
+their flight dash themselves against the rocks with such violence as to
+cause instantaneous death." And however the general experiences in the
+fishery may amend such reports as these; yet in their full terribleness,
+even to the bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the superstitious belief in
+them is, in some vicissitudes of their vocation, revived in the minds of
+the hunters.
+
+So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few of
+the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days
+of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long
+practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring
+warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be
+hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition
+as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man. That to attempt it, would
+be inevitably to be torn into a quick eternity. On this head, there are
+some remarkable documents that may be consulted.
+
+Nevertheless, some there were, who even in the face of these things
+were ready to give chase to Moby Dick; and a still greater number who,
+chancing only to hear of him distantly and vaguely, without the
+specific details of any certain calamity, and without superstitious
+accompaniments, were sufficiently hardy not to flee from the battle if
+offered.
+
+One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked
+with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined,
+was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had
+actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same
+instant of time.
+
+Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether
+without some faint show of superstitious probability. For as the secrets
+of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to
+the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale
+when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his
+pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious and
+contradictory speculations regarding them, especially concerning the
+mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he transports
+himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant points.
+
+It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and
+as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby,
+that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose
+bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland
+seas. Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has
+been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could
+not have exceeded very many days. Hence, by inference, it has been
+believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West Passage, so long a problem
+to man, was never a problem to the whale. So that here, in the real
+living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old times of
+the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said
+to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface);
+and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near
+Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land
+by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully
+equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
+
+Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing
+that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped
+alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should
+go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only
+ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that
+though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still
+swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick
+blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in
+unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would
+once more be seen.
+
+But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in
+the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike
+the imagination with unwonted power. For, it was not so much his
+uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales,
+but, as was elsewhere thrown out--a peculiar snow-white wrinkled
+forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump. These were his prominent
+features; the tokens whereby, even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he
+revealed his identity, at a long distance, to those who knew him.
+
+The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with
+the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive
+appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by
+his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue
+sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden
+gleamings.
+
+Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his
+deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural terror,
+as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to specific
+accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults. More than
+all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than perhaps aught
+else. For, when swimming before his exulting pursuers, with every
+apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known to turn
+round suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their boats to
+splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.
+
+Already several fatalities had attended his chase. But though similar
+disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual
+in the fishery; yet, in most instances, such seemed the White Whale's
+infernal aforethought of ferocity, that every dismembering or death
+that he caused, was not wholly regarded as having been inflicted by an
+unintelligent agent.
+
+Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of
+his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed
+boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the
+white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating
+sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
+
+His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the
+eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had
+dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking
+with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.
+That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his
+sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's
+leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no
+hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.
+Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal
+encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale,
+all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came
+to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his
+intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before
+him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which
+some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with
+half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been
+from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe
+one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced
+in their statue devil;--Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them;
+but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he
+pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and
+torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice
+in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle
+demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly
+personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon
+the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt
+by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a
+mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
+
+It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at
+the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting at the
+monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate,
+corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he
+probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
+Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long
+months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one
+hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape;
+then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another;
+and so interfusing, made him mad. That it was only then, on the homeward
+voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems
+all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage,
+he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital
+strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified
+by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even
+there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a strait-jacket, he swung
+to the mad rockings of the gales. And, when running into more sufferable
+latitudes, the ship, with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the
+tranquil tropics, and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed
+left behind him with the Cape Horn swells, and he came forth from his
+dark den into the blessed light and air; even then, when he bore that
+firm, collected front, however pale, and issued his calm orders once
+again; and his mates thanked God the direful madness was now gone; even
+then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved on. Human madness is oftentimes a
+cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but
+become transfigured into some still subtler form. Ahab's full lunacy
+subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson,
+when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the
+Highland gorge. But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of
+Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not
+one jot of his great natural intellect had perished. That before living
+agent, now became the living instrument. If such a furious trope may
+stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it,
+and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far
+from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a
+thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon
+any one reasonable object.
+
+This is much; yet Ahab's larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted.
+But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. Winding
+far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where
+we here stand--however grand and wonderful, now quit it;--and take your
+way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes;
+where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root
+of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique
+buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes! So with a broken
+throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he
+patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of
+ages. Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls! question that proud,
+sad king! A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young exiled
+royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come.
+
+Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means
+are sane, my motive and my object mad. Yet without power to kill, or
+change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long
+dissemble; in some sort, did still. But that thing of his dissembling
+was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
+Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling, that when
+with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer thought him
+otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to the quick, with the
+terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
+
+The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly
+ascribed to a kindred cause. And so too, all the added moodiness which
+always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the
+present voyage, sat brooding on his brow. Nor is it so very unlikely,
+that far from distrusting his fitness for another whaling voyage, on
+account of such dark symptoms, the calculating people of that prudent
+isle were inclined to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he
+was all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit so full
+of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales. Gnawed within and
+scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable
+idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart
+his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.
+Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that,
+yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on
+his underlings to the attack. But be all this as it may, certain it is,
+that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in
+him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only
+and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. Had any one of his
+old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him
+then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the
+ship from such a fiendish man! They were bent on profitable cruises, the
+profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint. He was intent on an
+audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
+
+Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a
+Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made
+up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled
+also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in
+Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in
+Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask. Such a crew, so officered,
+seemed specially picked and packed by some infernal fatality to help him
+to his monomaniac revenge. How it was that they so aboundingly responded
+to the old man's ire--by what evil magic their souls were possessed,
+that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much
+their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be--what the White
+Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in
+some dim, unsuspected way, he might have seemed the gliding great demon
+of the seas of life,--all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than
+Ishmael can go. The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one
+tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his
+pick? Who does not feel the irresistible arm drag? What skiff in tow
+of a seventy-four can stand still? For one, I gave myself up to the
+abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to
+encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest
+ill.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
+
+
+What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he
+was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
+
+Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which
+could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there
+was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him,
+which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and
+yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of
+putting it in a comprehensible form. It was the whiteness of the whale
+that above all things appalled me. But how can I hope to explain myself
+here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must, else all
+these chapters might be naught.
+
+Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as
+if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas,
+and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a
+certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old
+kings of Pegu placing the title "Lord of the White Elephants" above all
+their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the modern kings
+of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard;
+and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger;
+and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome,
+having for the imperial colour the same imperial hue; and though this
+pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white
+man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; and though, besides, all
+this, whiteness has been even made significant of gladness, for among
+the Romans a white stone marked a joyful day; and though in other mortal
+sympathies and symbolizings, this same hue is made the emblem of many
+touching, noble things--the innocence of brides, the benignity of age;
+though among the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt
+of wampum was the deepest pledge of honour; though in many climes,
+whiteness typifies the majesty of Justice in the ermine of the Judge,
+and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by
+milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of the most
+august religions it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness
+and power; by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being
+held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove
+himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and though to the
+noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was
+by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful
+creature being held the purest envoy they could send to the Great Spirit
+with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and though directly from
+the Latin word for white, all Christian priests derive the name of
+one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the
+cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is
+specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord; though
+in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and
+the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great-white
+throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there white like wool; yet for all
+these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honourable,
+and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea
+of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness
+which affrights in blood.
+
+This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when
+divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object
+terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
+Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of the tropics;
+what but their smooth, flaky whiteness makes them the transcendent
+horrors they are? That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an
+abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb
+gloating of their aspect. So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his
+heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or
+shark.*
+
+
+*With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him
+who would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not
+the whiteness, separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable
+hideousness of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness,
+it might be said, only rises from the circumstance, that the
+irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the
+fleece of celestial innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together
+two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us
+with so unnatural a contrast. But even assuming all this to be true;
+yet, were it not for the whiteness, you would not have that intensified
+terror.
+
+As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that
+creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the
+same quality in the Polar quadruped. This peculiarity is most vividly
+hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish. The Romish
+mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence
+REQUIEM denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music. Now,
+in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and
+the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him REQUIN.
+
+
+Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual
+wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all
+imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God's great,
+unflattering laureate, Nature.*
+
+
+*I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged
+gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch
+below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the
+main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and
+with a hooked, Roman bill sublime. At intervals, it arched forth
+its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous
+flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered
+cries, as some king's ghost in supernatural distress. Through its
+inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets which took
+hold of God. As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white
+thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled
+waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of
+towns. Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage. I cannot tell, can only
+hint, the things that darted through me then. But at last I awoke; and
+turning, asked a sailor what bird was this. A goney, he replied. Goney!
+never had heard that name before; is it conceivable that this glorious
+thing is utterly unknown to men ashore! never! But some time after, I
+learned that goney was some seaman's name for albatross. So that by no
+possibility could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those
+mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our
+deck. For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be
+an albatross. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little
+brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
+
+I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird
+chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this,
+that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses;
+and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I
+beheld the Antarctic fowl.
+
+But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will
+tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea.
+At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern
+tally round its neck, with the ship's time and place; and then letting
+it escape. But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was
+taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding,
+the invoking, and adoring cherubim!
+
+
+Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of
+the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger,
+large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a
+thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage. He was the
+elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those
+days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies. At
+their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which
+every evening leads on the hosts of light. The flashing cascade of his
+mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more
+resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. A
+most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western
+world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the
+glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god,
+bluff-browed and fearless as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid
+his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly
+streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his
+circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White
+Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his
+cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the
+bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Nor
+can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble
+horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him
+with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though
+commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
+
+But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that
+accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and
+Albatross.
+
+What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks
+the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin! It
+is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name
+he bears. The Albino is as well made as other men--has no substantive
+deformity--and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him
+more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be so?
+
+Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but
+not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces
+this crowning attribute of the terrible. From its snowy aspect, the
+gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White
+Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice
+omitted so potent an auxiliary. How wildly it heightens the effect of
+that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their
+faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the
+market-place!
+
+Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all
+mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue. It
+cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of
+the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering
+there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of
+consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here. And
+from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue of the shroud
+in which we wrap them. Nor even in our superstitions do we fail to
+throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a
+milk-white fog--Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even
+the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his
+pallid horse.
+
+Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious
+thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest
+idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
+
+But though without dissent this point be fixed, how is mortal man to
+account for it? To analyse it, would seem impossible. Can we, then,
+by the citation of some of those instances wherein this thing of
+whiteness--though for the time either wholly or in great part stripped
+of all direct associations calculated to impart to it aught fearful,
+but nevertheless, is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however
+modified;--can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us
+to the hidden cause we seek?
+
+Let us try. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety,
+and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls. And
+though, doubtless, some at least of the imaginative impressions about
+to be presented may have been shared by most men, yet few perhaps were
+entirely conscious of them at the time, and therefore may not be able to
+recall them now.
+
+Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely
+acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare mention
+of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary, speechless
+processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded with
+new-fallen snow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the
+Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or
+a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
+
+Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and
+kings (which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White
+Tower of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of
+an untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its
+neighbors--the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody? And those sublimer
+towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods,
+comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention of
+that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full of a soft,
+dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and
+longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness
+over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal
+thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by
+the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets? Or, to choose a wholly
+unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in reading
+the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the
+Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides through the
+green of the groves--why is this phantom more terrible than all the
+whooping imps of the Blocksburg?
+
+Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling
+earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the
+tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide
+field of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop
+(like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of
+house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;--it
+is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest,
+saddest city thou can'st see. For Lima has taken the white veil; and
+there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe. Old as Pizarro,
+this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new; admits not the cheerful
+greenness of complete decay; spreads over her broken ramparts the rigid
+pallor of an apoplexy that fixes its own distortions.
+
+I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness
+is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of
+objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught
+of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost
+solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under
+any form at all approaching to muteness or universality. What I mean
+by these two statements may perhaps be respectively elucidated by the
+following examples.
+
+First: The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if by
+night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels just
+enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under precisely
+similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to view his
+ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness--as if from
+encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming round
+him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded phantom
+of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in vain the
+lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm they both go
+down; he never rests till blue water is under him again. Yet where is
+the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much the fear of
+striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so
+stirred me?"
+
+Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the
+snowhowdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the
+mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast
+altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be
+to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes. Much the same is it with the
+backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an
+unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig
+to break the fixed trance of whiteness. Not so the sailor, beholding the
+scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick
+of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half
+shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery,
+views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean
+ice monuments and splintered crosses.
+
+But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but
+a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo,
+Ishmael.
+
+Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of
+Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey--why is it that upon the
+sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that
+he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness--why
+will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies
+of affright? There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of wild
+creatures in his green northern home, so that the strange muskiness he
+smells cannot recall to him anything associated with the experience of
+former perils; for what knows he, this New England colt, of the black
+bisons of distant Oregon?
+
+No; but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the
+knowledge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from
+Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring bison
+herds are as present as to the deserted wild foal of the prairies, which
+this instant they may be trampling into dust.
+
+Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings
+of the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of the
+windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking
+of that buffalo robe to the frightened colt!
+
+Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic
+sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere
+those things must exist. Though in many of its aspects this visible
+world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
+
+But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and
+learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange
+and far more portentous--why, as we have seen, it is at once the
+most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the
+Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in
+things the most appalling to mankind.
+
+Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids
+and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the
+thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky
+way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as
+the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all
+colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness,
+full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows--a colourless, all-colour
+of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory
+of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues--every stately
+or lovely emblazoning--the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea,
+and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of
+young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent
+in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature
+absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but
+the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that
+the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great
+principle of light, for ever remains white or colourless in itself, and
+if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even
+tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge--pondering all this, the
+palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in
+Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their
+eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental
+white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And of all these
+things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery
+hunt?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 43. Hark!
+
+
+"HIST! Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?"
+
+It was the middle-watch; a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a
+cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the
+scuttle-butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the buckets
+to fill the scuttle-butt. Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed
+precincts of the quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak or rustle
+their feet. From hand to hand, the buckets went in the deepest silence,
+only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the steady hum of the
+unceasingly advancing keel.
+
+It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose
+post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the
+words above.
+
+"Hist! did you hear that noise, Cabaco?"
+
+"Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d'ye mean?"
+
+"There it is again--under the hatches--don't you hear it--a cough--it
+sounded like a cough."
+
+"Cough be damned! Pass along that return bucket."
+
+"There again--there it is!--it sounds like two or three sleepers turning
+over, now!"
+
+"Caramba! have done, shipmate, will ye? It's the three soaked biscuits
+ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye--nothing else. Look to the
+bucket!"
+
+"Say what ye will, shipmate; I've sharp ears."
+
+"Aye, you are the chap, ain't ye, that heard the hum of the old
+Quakeress's knitting-needles fifty miles at sea from Nantucket; you're
+the chap."
+
+"Grin away; we'll see what turns up. Hark ye, Cabaco, there is somebody
+down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck; and I suspect
+our old Mogul knows something of it too. I heard Stubb tell Flask, one
+morning watch, that there was something of that sort in the wind."
+
+"Tish! the bucket!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
+
+
+Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that
+took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose
+with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom,
+and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread
+them before him on his screwed-down table. Then seating himself before
+it, you would have seen him intently study the various lines and
+shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace
+additional courses over spaces that before were blank. At intervals, he
+would refer to piles of old log-books beside him, wherein were set down
+the seasons and places in which, on various former voyages of various
+ships, sperm whales had been captured or seen.
+
+While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his
+head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw
+shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon his wrinkled brow, till it
+almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses
+on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and
+courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
+
+But it was not this night in particular that, in the solitude of his
+cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. Almost every night they were
+brought out; almost every night some pencil marks were effaced, and
+others were substituted. For with the charts of all four oceans before
+him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to
+the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
+
+Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans,
+it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary
+creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet. But not so did it
+seem to Ahab, who knew the sets of all tides and currents; and thereby
+calculating the driftings of the sperm whale's food; and, also, calling
+to mind the regular, ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular
+latitudes; could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching to
+certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this or that ground
+in search of his prey.
+
+So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the
+sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that,
+could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the
+logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated,
+then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in
+invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
+On this hint, attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory
+charts of the sperm whale.*
+
+     *Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne
+     out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of
+     the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By
+     that circular, it appears that precisely such a chart is in
+     course of completion; and portions of it are presented in
+     the circular. "This chart divides the ocean into districts
+     of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude;
+     perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve
+     columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each
+     of which districts are three lines; one to show the number
+     of days that have been spent in each month in every
+     district, and the two others to show the number of days in
+     which whales, sperm or right, have been seen."
+
+Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the
+sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct--say, rather, secret
+intelligence from the Deity--mostly swim in VEINS, as they are called;
+continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating
+exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with
+one tithe of such marvellous precision. Though, in these cases, the
+direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel,
+and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own
+unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary VEIN in which at these
+times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width
+(more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but
+never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads,
+when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone. The sum is, that at
+particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating
+whales may with great confidence be looked for.
+
+And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate
+feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing
+the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his
+art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be wholly
+without prospect of a meeting.
+
+There was a circumstance which at first sight seemed to entangle his
+delirious but still methodical scheme. But not so in the reality,
+perhaps. Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons
+for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the
+herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year,
+say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were found
+there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable
+instances where the contrary of this has proved true. In general, the
+same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the solitaries
+and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales. So that though Moby
+Dick had in a former year been seen, for example, on what is called the
+Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or Volcano Bay on the Japanese
+Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to visit either of
+those spots at any subsequent corresponding season, she would infallibly
+encounter him there. So, too, with some other feeding grounds, where
+he had at times revealed himself. But all these seemed only his casual
+stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his places of prolonged
+abode. And where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object have
+hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to whatever
+way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a particular
+set time or place were attained, when all possibilities would become
+probabilities, and, as Ahab fondly thought, every possibility the next
+thing to a certainty. That particular set time and place were conjoined
+in the one technical phrase--the Season-on-the-Line. For there and then,
+for several consecutive years, Moby Dick had been periodically descried,
+lingering in those waters for awhile, as the sun, in its annual round,
+loiters for a predicted interval in any one sign of the Zodiac. There
+it was, too, that most of the deadly encounters with the white whale had
+taken place; there the waves were storied with his deeds; there also was
+that tragic spot where the monomaniac old man had found the awful motive
+to his vengeance. But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering
+vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering
+hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one
+crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those
+hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his
+unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
+
+Now, the Pequod had sailed from Nantucket at the very beginning of the
+Season-on-the-Line. No possible endeavor then could enable her commander
+to make the great passage southwards, double Cape Horn, and then running
+down sixty degrees of latitude arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time
+to cruise there. Therefore, he must wait for the next ensuing season.
+Yet the premature hour of the Pequod's sailing had, perhaps, been
+correctly selected by Ahab, with a view to this very complexion of
+things. Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days
+and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently
+enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance
+the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his
+periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the
+Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other
+waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'-Westers,
+Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might
+blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's
+circumnavigating wake.
+
+But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it not
+but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one solitary
+whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of individual
+recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti in the
+thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople? Yes. For the peculiar
+snow-white brow of Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but
+be unmistakable. And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter
+to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he
+would throw himself back in reveries--tallied him, and shall he escape?
+His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheep's ear! And
+here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a weariness
+and faintness of pondering came over him; and in the open air of the
+deck he would seek to recover his strength. Ah, God! what trances
+of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved
+revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own
+bloody nails in his palms.
+
+Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid
+dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through
+the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them
+round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing
+of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes
+the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its
+base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and
+lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among
+them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be
+heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his
+state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire. Yet these,
+perhaps, instead of being the unsuppressable symptoms of some latent
+weakness, or fright at his own resolve, were but the plainest tokens
+of its intensity. For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming,
+unappeasedly steadfast hunter of the white whale; this Ahab that had
+gone to his hammock, was not the agent that so caused him to burst from
+it in horror again. The latter was the eternal, living principle or
+soul in him; and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the
+characterizing mind, which at other times employed it for its outer
+vehicle or agent, it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching
+contiguity of the frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no
+longer an integral. But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with
+the soul, therefore it must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up
+all his thoughts and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose,
+by its own sheer inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and
+devils into a kind of self-assumed, independent being of its own. Nay,
+could grimly live and burn, while the common vitality to which it was
+conjoined, fled horror-stricken from the unbidden and unfathered birth.
+Therefore, the tormented spirit that glared out of bodily eyes, when
+what seemed Ahab rushed from his room, was for the time but a vacated
+thing, a formless somnambulistic being, a ray of living light, to be
+sure, but without an object to colour, and therefore a blankness in
+itself. God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature
+in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a
+vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature
+he creates.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
+
+
+So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as
+indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious particulars
+in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in its earlier
+part, is as important a one as will be found in this volume; but the
+leading matter of it requires to be still further and more familiarly
+enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood, and moreover to
+take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance of the entire
+subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural verity of the main
+points of this affair.
+
+I care not to perform this part of my task methodically; but shall
+be content to produce the desired impression by separate citations of
+items, practically or reliably known to me as a whaleman; and from these
+citations, I take it--the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of
+itself.
+
+First: I have personally known three instances where a whale, after
+receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an
+interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by
+the same hand, and slain; when the two irons, both marked by the same
+private cypher, have been taken from the body. In the instance where
+three years intervened between the flinging of the two harpoons; and I
+think it may have been something more than that; the man who darted
+them happening, in the interval, to go in a trading ship on a voyage to
+Africa, went ashore there, joined a discovery party, and penetrated far
+into the interior, where he travelled for a period of nearly two years,
+often endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas,
+with all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of
+unknown regions. Meanwhile, the whale he had struck must also have
+been on its travels; no doubt it had thrice circumnavigated the globe,
+brushing with its flanks all the coasts of Africa; but to no purpose.
+This man and this whale again came together, and the one vanquished the
+other. I say I, myself, have known three instances similar to this; that
+is in two of them I saw the whales struck; and, upon the second attack,
+saw the two irons with the respective marks cut in them, afterwards
+taken from the dead fish. In the three-year instance, it so fell out
+that I was in the boat both times, first and last, and the last time
+distinctly recognised a peculiar sort of huge mole under the whale's
+eye, which I had observed there three years previous. I say three years,
+but I am pretty sure it was more than that. Here are three instances,
+then, which I personally know the truth of; but I have heard of many
+other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there is no
+good ground to impeach.
+
+Secondly: It is well known in the Sperm Whale Fishery, however ignorant
+the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several memorable
+historical instances where a particular whale in the ocean has been at
+distant times and places popularly cognisable. Why such a whale became
+thus marked was not altogether and originally owing to his bodily
+peculiarities as distinguished from other whales; for however peculiar
+in that respect any chance whale may be, they soon put an end to his
+peculiarities by killing him, and boiling him down into a peculiarly
+valuable oil. No: the reason was this: that from the fatal experiences
+of the fishery there hung a terrible prestige of perilousness about
+such a whale as there did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that
+most fishermen were content to recognise him by merely touching their
+tarpaulins when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea,
+without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance. Like some
+poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they
+make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they
+pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for
+their presumption.
+
+But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual
+celebrity--Nay, you may call it an ocean-wide renown; not only was he
+famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death,
+but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of
+a name; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Caesar. Was it not so,
+O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long
+did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft
+seen from the palmy beach of Ombay? Was it not so, O New Zealand Jack!
+thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the vicinity of
+the Tattoo Land? Was it not so, O Morquan! King of Japan, whose lofty
+jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross
+against the sky? Was it not so, O Don Miguel! thou Chilian whale, marked
+like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back! In plain
+prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of Cetacean
+History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
+
+But this is not all. New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various
+times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were
+finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed
+by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with
+that express object as much in view, as in setting out through the
+Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture
+that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the
+Indian King Philip.
+
+I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make
+mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in
+printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the
+whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe. For
+this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full
+as much bolstering as error. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of
+the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without
+some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the
+fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still
+worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
+
+First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general
+perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid
+conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
+One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and
+deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home,
+however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you suppose
+that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the
+whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the
+bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan--do you suppose that that
+poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read
+to-morrow at your breakfast? No: because the mails are very irregular
+between here and New Guinea. In fact, did you ever hear what might be
+called regular news direct or indirect from New Guinea? Yet I tell you
+that upon one particular voyage which I made to the Pacific, among many
+others we spoke thirty different ships, every one of which had had a
+death by a whale, some of them more than one, and three that had each
+lost a boat's crew. For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and
+candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was
+spilled for it.
+
+Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is
+an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when
+narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness,
+they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I
+declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses,
+when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
+
+But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon
+testimony entirely independent of my own. That point is this: The Sperm
+Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously
+malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in, utterly destroy, and
+sink a large ship; and what is more, the Sperm Whale HAS done it.
+
+First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket,
+was cruising in the Pacific Ocean. One day she saw spouts, lowered her
+boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales. Ere long, several of
+the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping
+from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the
+ship. Dashing his forehead against her hull, he so stove her in, that in
+less than "ten minutes" she settled down and fell over. Not a surviving
+plank of her has been seen since. After the severest exposure, part of
+the crew reached the land in their boats. Being returned home at last,
+Captain Pollard once more sailed for the Pacific in command of another
+ship, but the gods shipwrecked him again upon unknown rocks and
+breakers; for the second time his ship was utterly lost, and forthwith
+forswearing the sea, he has never tempted it since. At this day Captain
+Pollard is a resident of Nantucket. I have seen Owen Chace, who was
+chief mate of the Essex at the time of the tragedy; I have read his
+plain and faithful narrative; I have conversed with his son; and all
+this within a few miles of the scene of the catastrophe.*
+
+
+*The following are extracts from Chace's narrative: "Every fact seemed
+to warrant me in concluding that it was anything but chance which
+directed his operations; he made two several attacks upon the ship, at
+a short interval between them, both of which, according to their
+direction, were calculated to do us the most injury, by being made
+ahead, and thereby combining the speed of the two objects for the shock;
+to effect which, the exact manoeuvres which he made were necessary. His
+aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated resentment and fury. He
+came directly from the shoal which we had just before entered, and in
+which we had struck three of his companions, as if fired with revenge
+for their sufferings." Again: "At all events, the whole circumstances
+taken together, all happening before my own eyes, and producing, at the
+time, impressions in my mind of decided, calculating mischief, on the
+part of the whale (many of which impressions I cannot now recall),
+induce me to be satisfied that I am correct in my opinion."
+
+Here are his reflections some time after quitting the ship, during
+a black night an open boat, when almost despairing of reaching any
+hospitable shore. "The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing; the
+fears of being swallowed up by some dreadful tempest, or dashed
+upon hidden rocks, with all the other ordinary subjects of fearful
+contemplation, seemed scarcely entitled to a moment's thought; the
+dismal looking wreck, and THE HORRID ASPECT AND REVENGE OF THE WHALE,
+wholly engrossed my reflections, until day again made its appearance."
+
+In another place--p. 45,--he speaks of "THE MYSTERIOUS AND MORTAL ATTACK
+OF THE ANIMAL."
+
+
+Secondly: The ship Union, also of Nantucket, was in the year 1807
+totally lost off the Azores by a similar onset, but the authentic
+particulars of this catastrophe I have never chanced to encounter,
+though from the whale hunters I have now and then heard casual allusions
+to it.
+
+Thirdly: Some eighteen or twenty years ago Commodore J---, then
+commanding an American sloop-of-war of the first class, happened to be
+dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship in
+the harbor of Oahu, Sandwich Islands. Conversation turning upon whales,
+the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength
+ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present. He peremptorily
+denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout sloop-of-war
+as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful. Very good; but there
+is more coming. Some weeks after, the Commodore set sail in this
+impregnable craft for Valparaiso. But he was stopped on the way by a
+portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business
+with him. That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such
+a thwack, that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest
+port to heave down and repair. I am not superstitious, but I consider
+the Commodore's interview with that whale as providential. Was not Saul
+of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright? I tell you, the
+sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
+
+I will now refer you to Langsdorff's Voyages for a little circumstance
+in point, peculiarly interesting to the writer hereof. Langsdorff, you
+must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern's
+famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century.
+Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seventeenth chapter:
+
+"By the thirteenth of May our ship was ready to sail, and the next day
+we were out in the open sea, on our way to Ochotsh. The weather was very
+clear and fine, but so intolerably cold that we were obliged to keep on
+our fur clothing. For some days we had very little wind; it was not
+till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up. An
+uncommon large whale, the body of which was larger than the ship itself,
+lay almost at the surface of the water, but was not perceived by any
+one on board till the moment when the ship, which was in full sail,
+was almost upon him, so that it was impossible to prevent its striking
+against him. We were thus placed in the most imminent danger, as this
+gigantic creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three feet at
+least out of the water. The masts reeled, and the sails fell altogether,
+while we who were below all sprang instantly upon the deck, concluding
+that we had struck upon some rock; instead of this we saw the monster
+sailing off with the utmost gravity and solemnity. Captain D'Wolf
+applied immediately to the pumps to examine whether or not the vessel
+had received any damage from the shock, but we found that very happily
+it had escaped entirely uninjured."
+
+Now, the Captain D'Wolf here alluded to as commanding the ship in
+question, is a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual
+adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of
+Dorchester near Boston. I have the honour of being a nephew of his. I
+have particularly questioned him concerning this passage in Langsdorff.
+He substantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large
+one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my
+uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
+
+In that up and down manly book of old-fashioned adventure, so full, too,
+of honest wonders--the voyage of Lionel Wafer, one of ancient Dampier's
+old chums--I found a little matter set down so like that just quoted
+from Langsdorff, that I cannot forbear inserting it here for a
+corroborative example, if such be needed.
+
+Lionel, it seems, was on his way to "John Ferdinando," as he calls
+the modern Juan Fernandes. "In our way thither," he says, "about four
+o'clock in the morning, when we were about one hundred and fifty leagues
+from the Main of America, our ship felt a terrible shock, which put our
+men in such consternation that they could hardly tell where they were
+or what to think; but every one began to prepare for death. And, indeed,
+the shock was so sudden and violent, that we took it for granted the
+ship had struck against a rock; but when the amazement was a little
+over, we cast the lead, and sounded, but found no ground..... The
+suddenness of the shock made the guns leap in their carriages, and
+several of the men were shaken out of their hammocks. Captain Davis, who
+lay with his head on a gun, was thrown out of his cabin!" Lionel then
+goes on to impute the shock to an earthquake, and seems to substantiate
+the imputation by stating that a great earthquake, somewhere about
+that time, did actually do great mischief along the Spanish land. But
+I should not much wonder if, in the darkness of that early hour of the
+morning, the shock was after all caused by an unseen whale vertically
+bumping the hull from beneath.
+
+I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to
+me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale. In more
+than one instance, he has been known, not only to chase the assailing
+boats back to their ships, but to pursue the ship itself, and long
+withstand all the lances hurled at him from its decks. The English ship
+Pusie Hall can tell a story on that head; and, as for his strength,
+let me say, that there have been examples where the lines attached to a
+running sperm whale have, in a calm, been transferred to the ship, and
+secured there; the whale towing her great hull through the water, as a
+horse walks off with a cart. Again, it is very often observed that, if
+the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts,
+not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of
+destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent
+indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will frequently
+open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several
+consecutive minutes. But I must be content with only one more and a
+concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which
+you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous event in
+this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these
+marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages; so that for
+the millionth time we say amen with Solomon--Verily there is nothing new
+under the sun.
+
+In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate
+of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and Belisarius
+general. As many know, he wrote the history of his own times, a work
+every way of uncommon value. By the best authorities, he has always been
+considered a most trustworthy and unexaggerating historian, except in
+some one or two particulars, not at all affecting the matter presently
+to be mentioned.
+
+Now, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term
+of his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea-monster was captured
+in the neighboring Propontis, or Sea of Marmora, after having destroyed
+vessels at intervals in those waters for a period of more than fifty
+years. A fact thus set down in substantial history cannot easily be
+gainsaid. Nor is there any reason it should be. Of what precise species
+this sea-monster was, is not mentioned. But as he destroyed ships, as
+well as for other reasons, he must have been a whale; and I am strongly
+inclined to think a sperm whale. And I will tell you why. For a long
+time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always unknown in the
+Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it. Even now I am
+certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the
+present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious
+resort. But further investigations have recently proved to me, that in
+modern times there have been isolated instances of the presence of the
+sperm whale in the Mediterranean. I am told, on good authority, that
+on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found
+the skeleton of a sperm whale. Now, as a vessel of war readily passes
+through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route,
+pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
+
+In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance
+called BRIT is to be found, the aliment of the right whale. But I have
+every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale--squid or
+cuttle-fish--lurks at the bottom of that sea, because large creatures,
+but by no means the largest of that sort, have been found at its
+surface. If, then, you properly put these statements together, and
+reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive that, according to all
+human reasoning, Procopius's sea-monster, that for half a century stove
+the ships of a Roman Emperor, must in all probability have been a sperm
+whale.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
+
+
+Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his
+thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick;
+though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one
+passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long
+habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways, altogether to
+abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage. Or at least if
+this were otherwise, there were not wanting other motives much more
+influential with him. It would be refining too much, perhaps, even
+considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the
+White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all
+sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he
+multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would
+prove to be the hated one he hunted. But if such an hypothesis be indeed
+exceptionable, there were still additional considerations which, though
+not so strictly according with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet
+were by no means incapable of swaying him.
+
+To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in
+the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order. He knew,
+for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was
+over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual
+man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual
+mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in a
+sort of corporeal relation. Starbuck's body and Starbuck's coerced will
+were Ahab's, so long as Ahab kept his magnet at Starbuck's brain; still
+he knew that for all this the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred his
+captain's quest, and could he, would joyfully disintegrate himself from
+it, or even frustrate it. It might be that a long interval would elapse
+ere the White Whale was seen. During that long interval Starbuck
+would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his
+captain's leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial
+influences were brought to bear upon him. Not only that, but the subtle
+insanity of Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly
+manifested than in his superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing
+that, for the present, the hunt should in some way be stripped of that
+strange imaginative impiousness which naturally invested it; that
+the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure
+background (for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation
+unrelieved by action); that when they stood their long night watches,
+his officers and men must have some nearer things to think of than Moby
+Dick. For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the
+announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less
+capricious and unreliable--they live in the varying outer weather, and
+they inhale its fickleness--and when retained for any object remote and
+blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the
+end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and
+employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the
+final dash.
+
+Nor was Ahab unmindful of another thing. In times of strong emotion
+mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
+The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man, thought
+Ahab, is sordidness. Granting that the White Whale fully incites the
+hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even
+breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the
+love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food
+for their more common, daily appetites. For even the high lifted and
+chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two
+thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without
+committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious
+perquisites by the way. Had they been strictly held to their one final
+and romantic object--that final and romantic object, too many would have
+turned from in disgust. I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of all
+hopes of cash--aye, cash. They may scorn cash now; but let some months
+go by, and no perspective promise of it to them, and then this same
+quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon
+cashier Ahab.
+
+Nor was there wanting still another precautionary motive more related
+to Ahab personally. Having impulsively, it is probable, and perhaps
+somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private purpose of the
+Pequod's voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing,
+he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of
+usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew
+if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further
+obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command. From
+even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible
+consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must
+of course have been most anxious to protect himself. That protection
+could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand,
+backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute
+atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected
+to.
+
+For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be
+verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still in a good
+degree continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of the Pequod's
+voyage; observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force
+himself to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general
+pursuit of his profession.
+
+Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three
+mast-heads and admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit
+reporting even a porpoise. This vigilance was not long without reward.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
+
+
+It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging
+about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
+Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat,
+for an additional lashing to our boat. So still and subdued and yet
+somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie
+lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own
+invisible self.
+
+I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat. As I
+kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between
+the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as
+Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword
+between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly and
+unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess did
+there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by
+the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were
+the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving
+and weaving away at the Fates. There lay the fixed threads of the warp
+subject to but one single, ever returning, unchanging vibration, and
+that vibration merely enough to admit of the crosswise interblending
+of other threads with its own. This warp seemed necessity; and here,
+thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own
+destiny into these unalterable threads. Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive,
+indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly,
+or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference
+in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final
+aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I,
+which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this
+easy, indifferent sword must be chance--aye, chance, free will, and
+necessity--nowise incompatible--all interweavingly working together.
+The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate
+course--its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that;
+free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and
+chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of
+necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though
+thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the
+last featuring blow at events.
+
+
+Thus we were weaving and weaving away when I started at a sound so
+strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball
+of free will dropped from my hand, and I stood gazing up at the clouds
+whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the cross-trees was
+that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward,
+his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he
+continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that very moment
+perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's
+look-outs perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could
+that accustomed old cry have derived such a marvellous cadence as from
+Tashtego the Indian's.
+
+As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and
+eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some
+prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries
+announcing their coming.
+
+"There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!"
+
+"Where-away?"
+
+"On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!"
+
+Instantly all was commotion.
+
+The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and
+reliable uniformity. And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from
+other tribes of his genus.
+
+"There go flukes!" was now the cry from Tashtego; and the whales
+disappeared.
+
+"Quick, steward!" cried Ahab. "Time! time!"
+
+Dough-Boy hurried below, glanced at the watch, and reported the exact
+minute to Ahab.
+
+The ship was now kept away from the wind, and she went gently rolling
+before it. Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to
+leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of
+our bows. For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale
+when, sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless, while
+concealed beneath the surface, mills round, and swiftly swims off in the
+opposite quarter--this deceitfulness of his could not now be in action;
+for there was no reason to suppose that the fish seen by Tashtego had
+been in any way alarmed, or indeed knew at all of our vicinity. One of
+the men selected for shipkeepers--that is, those not appointed to the
+boats, by this time relieved the Indian at the main-mast head. The
+sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line tubs were fixed
+in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the mainyard was backed,
+and the three boats swung over the sea like three samphire baskets over
+high cliffs. Outside of the bulwarks their eager crews with one hand
+clung to the rail, while one foot was expectantly poised on the gunwale.
+So look the long line of man-of-war's men about to throw themselves on
+board an enemy's ship.
+
+But at this critical instant a sudden exclamation was heard that took
+every eye from the whale. With a start all glared at dark Ahab, who was
+surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
+
+
+The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side
+of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the
+tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. This boat had always
+been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the
+captain's, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter. The
+figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white
+tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips. A rumpled Chinese
+jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers
+of the same dark stuff. But strangely crowning this ebonness was a
+glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled
+round and round upon his head. Less swart in aspect, the companions of
+this figure were of that vivid, tiger-yellow complexion peculiar to
+some of the aboriginal natives of the Manillas;--a race notorious for
+a certain diabolism of subtilty, and by some honest white mariners
+supposed to be the paid spies and secret confidential agents on the
+water of the devil, their lord, whose counting-room they suppose to be
+elsewhere.
+
+While yet the wondering ship's company were gazing upon these strangers,
+Ahab cried out to the white-turbaned old man at their head, "All ready
+there, Fedallah?"
+
+"Ready," was the half-hissed reply.
+
+"Lower away then; d'ye hear?" shouting across the deck. "Lower away
+there, I say."
+
+Such was the thunder of his voice, that spite of their amazement the men
+sprang over the rail; the sheaves whirled round in the blocks; with a
+wallow, the three boats dropped into the sea; while, with a dexterous,
+off-handed daring, unknown in any other vocation, the sailors,
+goat-like, leaped down the rolling ship's side into the tossed boats
+below.
+
+Hardly had they pulled out from under the ship's lee, when a fourth
+keel, coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern, and
+showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect in the stern,
+loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread themselves widely,
+so as to cover a large expanse of water. But with all their eyes again
+riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of the other
+boats obeyed not the command.
+
+"Captain Ahab?--" said Starbuck.
+
+"Spread yourselves," cried Ahab; "give way, all four boats. Thou, Flask,
+pull out more to leeward!"
+
+"Aye, aye, sir," cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round
+his great steering oar. "Lay back!" addressing his crew.
+"There!--there!--there again! There she blows right ahead, boys!--lay
+back!"
+
+"Never heed yonder yellow boys, Archy."
+
+"Oh, I don't mind'em, sir," said Archy; "I knew it all before now.
+Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What
+say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask."
+
+"Pull, pull, my fine hearts-alive; pull, my children; pull, my little
+ones," drawlingly and soothingly sighed Stubb to his crew, some of whom
+still showed signs of uneasiness. "Why don't you break your backbones,
+my boys? What is it you stare at? Those chaps in yonder boat? Tut! They
+are only five more hands come to help us--never mind from where--the
+more the merrier. Pull, then, do pull; never mind the brimstone--devils
+are good fellows enough. So, so; there you are now; that's the stroke
+for a thousand pounds; that's the stroke to sweep the stakes! Hurrah
+for the gold cup of sperm oil, my heroes! Three cheers, men--all hearts
+alive! Easy, easy; don't be in a hurry--don't be in a hurry. Why don't
+you snap your oars, you rascals? Bite something, you dogs! So, so, so,
+then:--softly, softly! That's it--that's it! long and strong. Give way
+there, give way! The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are
+all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers, and pull. Pull, will ye? pull,
+can't ye? pull, won't ye? Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes
+don't ye pull?--pull and break something! pull, and start your eyes out!
+Here!" whipping out the sharp knife from his girdle; "every mother's son
+of ye draw his knife, and pull with the blade between his teeth. That's
+it--that's it. Now ye do something; that looks like it, my steel-bits.
+Start her--start her, my silver-spoons! Start her, marling-spikes!"
+
+Stubb's exordium to his crew is given here at large, because he had
+rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general, and especially in
+inculcating the religion of rowing. But you must not suppose from this
+specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions
+with his congregation. Not at all; and therein consisted his chief
+peculiarity. He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a
+tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so
+calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such
+queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for
+the mere joke of the thing. Besides he all the time looked so easy and
+indolent himself, so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so broadly
+gaped--open-mouthed at times--that the mere sight of such a yawning
+commander, by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon the crew.
+Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity
+is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all inferiors on their
+guard in the matter of obeying them.
+
+In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely
+across Stubb's bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were
+pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
+
+"Mr. Starbuck! larboard boat there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir, if ye
+please!"
+
+"Halloa!" returned Starbuck, turning round not a single inch as he
+spoke; still earnestly but whisperingly urging his crew; his face set
+like a flint from Stubb's.
+
+"What think ye of those yellow boys, sir!
+
+"Smuggled on board, somehow, before the ship sailed. (Strong, strong,
+boys!)" in a whisper to his crew, then speaking out loud again: "A sad
+business, Mr. Stubb! (seethe her, seethe her, my lads!) but never mind,
+Mr. Stubb, all for the best. Let all your crew pull strong, come what
+will. (Spring, my men, spring!) There's hogsheads of sperm ahead, Mr.
+Stubb, and that's what ye came for. (Pull, my boys!) Sperm, sperm's the
+play! This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand."
+
+"Aye, aye, I thought as much," soliloquized Stubb, when the boats
+diverged, "as soon as I clapt eye on 'em, I thought so. Aye, and that's
+what he went into the after hold for, so often, as Dough-Boy long
+suspected. They were hidden down there. The White Whale's at the bottom
+of it. Well, well, so be it! Can't be helped! All right! Give way, men!
+It ain't the White Whale to-day! Give way!"
+
+Now the advent of these outlandish strangers at such a critical instant
+as the lowering of the boats from the deck, this had not unreasonably
+awakened a sort of superstitious amazement in some of the ship's
+company; but Archy's fancied discovery having some time previous got
+abroad among them, though indeed not credited then, this had in some
+small measure prepared them for the event. It took off the extreme edge
+of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way
+of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from
+superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for
+all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the
+matter from the beginning. For me, I silently recalled the mysterious
+shadows I had seen creeping on board the Pequod during the dim Nantucket
+dawn, as well as the enigmatical hintings of the unaccountable Elijah.
+
+Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the
+furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a
+circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him. Those tiger
+yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone; like five
+trip-hammers they rose and fell with regular strokes of strength, which
+periodically started the boat along the water like a horizontal burst
+boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen
+pulling the harpooneer oar, he had thrown aside his black jacket, and
+displayed his naked chest with the whole part of his body above the
+gunwale, clearly cut against the alternating depressions of the watery
+horizon; while at the other end of the boat Ahab, with one arm, like a
+fencer's, thrown half backward into the air, as if to counterbalance any
+tendency to trip; Ahab was seen steadily managing his steering oar as in
+a thousand boat lowerings ere the White Whale had torn him. All at once
+the outstretched arm gave a peculiar motion and then remained fixed,
+while the boat's five oars were seen simultaneously peaked. Boat and
+crew sat motionless on the sea. Instantly the three spread boats in the
+rear paused on their way. The whales had irregularly settled bodily
+down into the blue, thus giving no distantly discernible token of the
+movement, though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.
+
+"Every man look out along his oars!" cried Starbuck. "Thou, Queequeg,
+stand up!"
+
+Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow, the savage
+stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed off towards the
+spot where the chase had last been descried. Likewise upon the extreme
+stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with
+the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing
+himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently
+eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.
+
+Not very far distant Flask's boat was also lying breathlessly still; its
+commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead, a stout
+sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the
+level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the
+whale line. Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a man's hand,
+and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the
+mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks. But little
+King-Post was small and short, and at the same time little King-Post was
+full of a large and tall ambition, so that this loggerhead stand-point
+of his did by no means satisfy King-Post.
+
+"I can't see three seas off; tip us up an oar there, and let me on to
+that."
+
+Upon this, Daggoo, with either hand upon the gunwale to steady his
+way, swiftly slid aft, and then erecting himself volunteered his lofty
+shoulders for a pedestal.
+
+"Good a mast-head as any, sir. Will you mount?"
+
+"That I will, and thank ye very much, my fine fellow; only I wish you
+fifty feet taller."
+
+Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the
+boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to
+Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head
+and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous
+fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders. And here was
+Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing him with a
+breastband to lean against and steady himself by.
+
+At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous
+habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect
+posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously
+perverse and cross-running seas. Still more strange to see him giddily
+perched upon the loggerhead itself, under such circumstances. But the
+sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more curious;
+for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy, unthought of,
+barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the sea harmoniously
+rolled his fine form. On his broad back, flaxen-haired Flask seemed
+a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider. Though truly
+vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then
+stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to
+the negro's lordly chest. So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the
+living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her
+seasons for that.
+
+Meanwhile Stubb, the third mate, betrayed no such far-gazing
+solicitudes. The whales might have made one of their regular soundings,
+not a temporary dive from mere fright; and if that were the case,
+Stubb, as his wont in such cases, it seems, was resolved to solace the
+languishing interval with his pipe. He withdrew it from his hatband,
+where he always wore it aslant like a feather. He loaded it, and rammed
+home the loading with his thumb-end; but hardly had he ignited his match
+across the rough sandpaper of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer,
+whose eyes had been setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly
+dropped like light from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a
+quick phrensy of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way!--there they are!"
+
+To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been
+visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white
+water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and
+suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white
+rolling billows. The air around suddenly vibrated and tingled, as it
+were, like the air over intensely heated plates of iron. Beneath this
+atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of
+water, also, the whales were swimming. Seen in advance of all the other
+indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted, seemed their forerunning
+couriers and detached flying outriders.
+
+All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot of troubled
+water and air. But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on,
+as a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the
+hills.
+
+"Pull, pull, my good boys," said Starbuck, in the lowest possible but
+intensest concentrated whisper to his men; while the sharp fixed glance
+from his eyes darted straight ahead of the bow, almost seemed as two
+visible needles in two unerring binnacle compasses. He did not say much
+to his crew, though, nor did his crew say anything to him. Only the
+silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his
+peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty.
+
+How different the loud little King-Post. "Sing out and say something,
+my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on their
+black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I'll sign over to you my
+Martha's Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys.
+Lay me on--lay me on! O Lord, Lord! but I shall go stark, staring mad!
+See! see that white water!" And so shouting, he pulled his hat from his
+head, and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up, flirted it far
+off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and plunging in the boat's
+stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.
+
+"Look at that chap now," philosophically drawled Stubb, who, with his
+unlighted short pipe, mechanically retained between his teeth, at a
+short distance, followed after--"He's got fits, that Flask has. Fits?
+yes, give him fits--that's the very word--pitch fits into 'em. Merrily,
+merrily, hearts-alive. Pudding for supper, you know;--merry's the word.
+Pull, babes--pull, sucklings--pull, all. But what the devil are you
+hurrying about? Softly, softly, and steadily, my men. Only pull, and
+keep pulling; nothing more. Crack all your backbones, and bite your
+knives in two--that's all. Take it easy--why don't ye take it easy, I
+say, and burst all your livers and lungs!"
+
+But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that tiger-yellow crew of
+his--these were words best omitted here; for you live under the blessed
+light of the evangelical land. Only the infidel sharks in the audacious
+seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of
+red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey.
+
+Meanwhile, all the boats tore on. The repeated specific allusions of
+Flask to "that whale," as he called the fictitious monster which
+he declared to be incessantly tantalizing his boat's bow with its
+tail--these allusions of his were at times so vivid and life-like, that
+they would cause some one or two of his men to snatch a fearful look
+over the shoulder. But this was against all rule; for the oarsmen
+must put out their eyes, and ram a skewer through their necks; usage
+pronouncing that they must have no organs but ears, and no limbs but
+arms, in these critical moments.
+
+It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the
+omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along
+the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green;
+the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on
+the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening
+to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and
+hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite
+hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;--all these,
+with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps
+of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing
+down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her
+screaming brood;--all this was thrilling.
+
+Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever
+heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost encountering the
+first unknown phantom in the other world;--neither of these can feel
+stranger and stronger emotions than that man does, who for the first
+time finds himself pulling into the charmed, churned circle of the
+hunted sperm whale.
+
+The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and more
+visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows
+flung upon the sea. The jets of vapour no longer blended, but tilted
+everywhere to right and left; the whales seemed separating their wakes.
+The boats were pulled more apart; Starbuck giving chase to three whales
+running dead to leeward. Our sail was now set, and, with the still
+rising wind, we rushed along; the boat going with such madness through
+the water, that the lee oars could scarcely be worked rapidly enough to
+escape being torn from the row-locks.
+
+Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither ship
+nor boat to be seen.
+
+"Give way, men," whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet
+of his sail; "there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.
+There's white water again!--close to! Spring!"
+
+Soon after, two cries in quick succession on each side of us denoted
+that the other boats had got fast; but hardly were they overheard, when
+with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said: "Stand up!" and
+Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet.
+
+Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril
+so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense countenance
+of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew that the imminent
+instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous wallowing sound as of
+fifty elephants stirring in their litter. Meanwhile the boat was still
+booming through the mist, the waves curling and hissing around us like
+the erected crests of enraged serpents.
+
+"That's his hump. THERE, THERE, give it to him!" whispered Starbuck.
+
+A short rushing sound leaped out of the boat; it was the darted iron of
+Queequeg. Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible push from
+astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge; the sail
+collapsed and exploded; a gush of scalding vapour shot up near by;
+something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us. The whole
+crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the
+white curdling cream of the squall. Squall, whale, and harpoon had all
+blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.
+
+Though completely swamped, the boat was nearly unharmed. Swimming round
+it we picked up the floating oars, and lashing them across the gunwale,
+tumbled back to our places. There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the
+water covering every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing eyes
+the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from the bottom
+of the ocean.
+
+The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together;
+the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white
+fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal
+in these jaws of death! In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar
+to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those
+boats in that storm. Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew
+darker with the shadows of night; no sign of the ship could be seen.
+The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat. The oars were
+useless as propellers, performing now the office of life-preservers.
+So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures
+Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching
+it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this
+forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in
+the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign
+and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the
+midst of despair.
+
+Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat,
+we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on. The mist still spread over
+the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat.
+Suddenly Queequeg started to his feet, hollowing his hand to his ear.
+We all heard a faint creaking, as of ropes and yards hitherto muffled by
+the storm. The sound came nearer and nearer; the thick mists were dimly
+parted by a huge, vague form. Affrighted, we all sprang into the sea as
+the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon us within a
+distance of not much more than its length.
+
+Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it
+tossed and gaped beneath the ship's bows like a chip at the base of a
+cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no
+more till it came up weltering astern. Again we swam for it, were dashed
+against it by the seas, and were at last taken up and safely landed on
+board. Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut loose from
+their fish and returned to the ship in good time. The ship had given us
+up, but was still cruising, if haply it might light upon some token of
+our perishing,--an oar or a lance pole.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
+
+
+There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair
+we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical
+joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than
+suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. However,
+nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. He bolts
+down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard
+things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of
+potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for small
+difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of
+life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly,
+good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen
+and unaccountable old joker. That odd sort of wayward mood I am speaking
+of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes
+in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might
+have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the
+general joke. There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this
+free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now
+regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its
+object.
+
+"Queequeg," said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the deck,
+and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the water;
+"Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?"
+Without much emotion, though soaked through just like me, he gave me to
+understand that such things did often happen.
+
+"Mr. Stubb," said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his
+oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain; "Mr. Stubb, I
+think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief
+mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent. I suppose
+then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy
+squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?"
+
+"Certain. I've lowered for whales from a leaking ship in a gale off Cape
+Horn."
+
+"Mr. Flask," said I, turning to little King-Post, who was standing close
+by; "you are experienced in these things, and I am not. Will you tell
+me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery, Mr. Flask, for an
+oarsman to break his own back pulling himself back-foremost into death's
+jaws?"
+
+"Can't you twist that smaller?" said Flask. "Yes, that's the law.
+I should like to see a boat's crew backing water up to a whale face
+foremost. Ha, ha! the whale would give them squint for squint, mind
+that!"
+
+Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement
+of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings
+in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters
+of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the
+superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I must resign my
+life into the hands of him who steered the boat--oftentimes a fellow who
+at that very moment is in his impetuousness upon the point of scuttling
+the craft with his own frantic stampings; considering that the
+particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed
+to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall,
+and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his
+great heedfulness in the fishery; considering that I belonged to this
+uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat; and finally considering in what a
+devil's chase I was implicated, touching the White Whale: taking all
+things together, I say, I thought I might as well go below and make a
+rough draft of my will. "Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my
+lawyer, executor, and legatee."
+
+It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their
+last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more
+fond of that diversion. This was the fourth time in my nautical life
+that I had done the same thing. After the ceremony was concluded upon
+the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away
+from my heart. Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good
+as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary
+clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived
+myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked
+round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean
+conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
+
+Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock,
+here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the
+devil fetch the hindmost.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
+
+
+"Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg
+you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole
+with my timber toe. Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"
+
+"I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account," said Flask.
+"If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing.
+That would disable him; but he has one knee, and good part of the other
+left, you know."
+
+"I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel."
+
+
+Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering
+the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is
+right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils
+of the chase. So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their
+eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the
+thickest of the fight.
+
+But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering
+that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger;
+considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and
+extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then
+comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any
+maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the
+joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.
+
+Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of
+his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of
+the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving
+his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually
+apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt--above all for
+Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's
+crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads
+of the owners of the Pequod. Therefore he had not solicited a boat's
+crew from them, nor had he in any way hinted his desires on that head.
+Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching all
+that matter. Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little
+foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out
+of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the
+whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then
+found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his
+own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even
+solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is
+running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was
+observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra
+coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better
+withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety
+he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is
+sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the
+knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed
+how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the
+semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel
+gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these
+things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time. But
+almost everybody supposed that this particular preparative heedfulness
+in Ahab must only be with a view to the ultimate chase of Moby Dick;
+for he had already revealed his intention to hunt that mortal monster
+in person. But such a supposition did by no means involve the remotest
+suspicion as to any boat's crew being assigned to that boat.
+
+Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned
+away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane. Besides, now and then such
+unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown
+nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of
+whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway
+creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck,
+oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that
+Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin
+to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable
+excitement in the forecastle.
+
+But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate
+phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it were
+somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah remained
+a muffled mystery to the last. Whence he came in a mannerly world like
+this, by what sort of unaccountable tie he soon evinced himself to be
+linked with Ahab's peculiar fortunes; nay, so far as to have some sort
+of a half-hinted influence; Heaven knows, but it might have been even
+authority over him; all this none knew. But one cannot sustain
+an indifferent air concerning Fedallah. He was such a creature as
+civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their
+dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide
+among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles
+to the east of the continent--those insulated, immemorial, unalterable
+countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the
+ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of
+the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants,
+unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of
+the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though,
+according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of
+men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane
+amours.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
+
+
+Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly
+swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off the
+Cape de Verdes; on the Plate (so called), being off the mouth of the
+Rio de la Plata; and the Carrol Ground, an unstaked, watery locality,
+southerly from St. Helena.
+
+It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and
+moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver;
+and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery
+silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen
+far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow. Lit up by the moon, it
+looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from
+the sea. Fedallah first descried this jet. For of these moonlight
+nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a
+look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day. And yet,
+though herds of whales were seen by night, not one whaleman in a hundred
+would venture a lowering for them. You may think with what emotions,
+then, the seamen beheld this old Oriental perched aloft at such unusual
+hours; his turban and the moon, companions in one sky. But when, after
+spending his uniform interval there for several successive nights
+without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence, his
+unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet, every
+reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit had
+lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew. "There she blows!"
+Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered more; yet
+still they felt no terror; rather pleasure. For though it was a most
+unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously
+exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a
+lowering.
+
+Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the
+t'gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread. The
+best man in the ship must take the helm. Then, with every mast-head
+manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind. The strange,
+upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows
+of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck to feel like air
+beneath the feet; while still she rushed along, as if two antagonistic
+influences were struggling in her--one to mount direct to heaven, the
+other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal. And had you watched
+Ahab's face that night, you would have thought that in him also two
+different things were warring. While his one live leg made lively echoes
+along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap.
+On life and death this old man walked. But though the ship so swiftly
+sped, and though from every eye, like arrows, the eager glances shot,
+yet the silvery jet was no more seen that night. Every sailor swore he
+saw it once, but not a second time.
+
+This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days
+after, lo! at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it
+was descried by all; but upon making sail to overtake it, once more it
+disappeared as if it had never been. And so it served us night after
+night, till no one heeded it but to wonder at it. Mysteriously
+jetted into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be;
+disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or three; and somehow
+seeming at every distinct repetition to be advancing still further and
+further in our van, this solitary jet seemed for ever alluring us on.
+
+Nor with the immemorial superstition of their race, and in accordance
+with the preternaturalness, as it seemed, which in many things invested
+the Pequod, were there wanting some of the seamen who swore that
+whenever and wherever descried; at however remote times, or in however
+far apart latitudes and longitudes, that unnearable spout was cast
+by one self-same whale; and that whale, Moby Dick. For a time, there
+reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition,
+as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the
+monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest
+and most savage seas.
+
+These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous
+potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath
+all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as
+for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely
+mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed
+vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
+
+But, at last, when turning to the eastward, the Cape winds began howling
+around us, and we rose and fell upon the long, troubled seas that are
+there; when the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply bowed to the blast, and
+gored the dark waves in her madness, till, like showers of silver chips,
+the foam-flakes flew over her bulwarks; then all this desolate vacuity
+of life went away, but gave place to sights more dismal than before.
+
+Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither
+before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens. And
+every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and
+spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung to the hemp,
+as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing
+appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for their
+homeless selves. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the
+black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane
+soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had
+bred.
+
+Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoto, as called
+of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had
+attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea,
+where guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed
+condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat
+that black air without any horizon. But calm, snow-white, and unvarying;
+still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us
+on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
+
+During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the
+time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous deck,
+manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed
+his mates. In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and
+aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await
+the issue of the gale. Then Captain and crew become practical fatalists.
+So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one
+hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand
+gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow
+would all but congeal his very eyelashes together. Meantime, the crew
+driven from the forward part of the ship by the perilous seas that
+burstingly broke over its bows, stood in a line along the bulwarks in
+the waist; and the better to guard against the leaping waves, each man
+had slipped himself into a sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which
+he swung as in a loosened belt. Few or no words were spoken; and the
+silent ship, as if manned by painted sailors in wax, day after day tore
+on through all the swift madness and gladness of the demoniac waves.
+By night the same muteness of humanity before the shrieks of the
+ocean prevailed; still in silence the men swung in the bowlines; still
+wordless Ahab stood up to the blast. Even when wearied nature seemed
+demanding repose he would not seek that repose in his hammock. Never
+could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down
+into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with
+closed eyes sitting straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain
+and half-melted sleet of the storm from which he had some time before
+emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat. On the
+table beside him lay unrolled one of those charts of tides and currents
+which have previously been spoken of. His lantern swung from his tightly
+clenched hand. Though the body was erect, the head was thrown back so
+that the closed eyes were pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale
+that swung from a beam in the ceiling.*
+
+
+*The cabin-compass is called the tell-tale, because without going to the
+compass at the helm, the Captain, while below, can inform himself of the
+course of the ship.
+
+
+Terrible old man! thought Starbuck with a shudder, sleeping in this
+gale, still thou steadfastly eyest thy purpose.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
+
+
+South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising
+ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (Albatross)
+by name. As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the
+fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro
+in the far ocean fisheries--a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.
+
+As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the
+skeleton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral
+appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her
+spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over
+with hoar-frost. Only her lower sails were set. A wild sight it was to
+see her long-bearded look-outs at those three mast-heads. They seemed
+clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had
+survived nearly four years of cruising. Standing in iron hoops nailed to
+the mast, they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea; and though, when
+the ship slowly glided close under our stern, we six men in the air
+came so nigh to each other that we might almost have leaped from the
+mast-heads of one ship to those of the other; yet, those forlorn-looking
+fishermen, mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not one word to our own
+look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being heard from below.
+
+"Ship ahoy! Have ye seen the White Whale?"
+
+But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks, was in the
+act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow fell from his hand
+into the sea; and the wind now rising amain, he in vain strove to make
+himself heard without it. Meantime his ship was still increasing the
+distance between. While in various silent ways the seamen of the Pequod
+were evincing their observance of this ominous incident at the first
+mere mention of the White Whale's name to another ship, Ahab for a
+moment paused; it almost seemed as though he would have lowered a boat
+to board the stranger, had not the threatening wind forbade. But taking
+advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet, and
+knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer and
+shortly bound home, he loudly hailed--"Ahoy there! This is the Pequod,
+bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the
+Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them
+to address them to--"
+
+At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then,
+in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish,
+that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side, darted
+away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves fore and
+aft with the stranger's flanks. Though in the course of his continual
+voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to
+any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
+
+"Swim away from me, do ye?" murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water.
+There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep
+helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced. But
+turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in the
+wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion voice,--"Up
+helm! Keep her off round the world!"
+
+Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings;
+but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through
+numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that
+we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
+
+Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for
+ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange
+than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise
+in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in
+tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims
+before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they
+either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
+
+
+The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had
+spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms. But even had
+this not been the case, he would not after all, perhaps, have boarded
+her--judging by his subsequent conduct on similar occasions--if so it
+had been that, by the process of hailing, he had obtained a negative
+answer to the question he put. For, as it eventually turned out, he
+cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain,
+except he could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly
+sought. But all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not
+something said here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels when
+meeting each other in foreign seas, and especially on a common
+cruising-ground.
+
+If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the
+equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering
+each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of
+them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment
+to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while
+and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the
+illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling
+vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth--off lone
+Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural,
+I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only
+interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and
+sociable contact. And especially would this seem to be a matter of
+course, in the case of vessels owned in one seaport, and whose captains,
+officers, and not a few of the men are personally known to each other;
+and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things to talk about.
+
+For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on
+board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a
+date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and thumb-worn
+files. And in return for that courtesy, the outward-bound ship would
+receive the latest whaling intelligence from the cruising-ground to
+which she may be destined, a thing of the utmost importance to her. And
+in degree, all this will hold true concerning whaling vessels crossing
+each other's track on the cruising-ground itself, even though they
+are equally long absent from home. For one of them may have received a
+transfer of letters from some third, and now far remote vessel; and
+some of those letters may be for the people of the ship she now meets.
+Besides, they would exchange the whaling news, and have an agreeable
+chat. For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors,
+but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common
+pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.
+
+Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference;
+that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case
+with Americans and English. Though, to be sure, from the small number of
+English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they
+do occur there is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them; for your
+Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that
+sort of thing in anybody but himself. Besides, the English whalers
+sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American
+whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript
+provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant. But where this superiority
+in the English whalemen does really consist, it would be hard to say,
+seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill more whales than
+all the English, collectively, in ten years. But this is a harmless
+little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does
+not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few
+foibles himself.
+
+So, then, we see that of all ships separately sailing the sea, the
+whalers have most reason to be sociable--and they are so. Whereas, some
+merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the mid-Atlantic, will
+oftentimes pass on without so much as a single word of recognition,
+mutually cutting each other on the high seas, like a brace of dandies in
+Broadway; and all the time indulging, perhaps, in finical criticism upon
+each other's rig. As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea,
+they first go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings, such
+a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much right-down
+hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all. As touching
+Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry, they run
+away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates, when they
+chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is--"How many
+skulls?"--the same way that whalers hail--"How many barrels?" And that
+question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are
+infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each
+other's villanous likenesses.
+
+But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable,
+free-and-easy whaler! What does the whaler do when she meets another
+whaler in any sort of decent weather? She has a "GAM," a thing so
+utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name
+even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and
+repeat gamesome stuff about "spouters" and "blubber-boilers," and such
+like pretty exclamations. Why it is that all Merchant-seamen, and also
+all Pirates and Man-of-War's men, and Slave-ship sailors, cherish such
+a scornful feeling towards Whale-ships; this is a question it would be
+hard to answer. Because, in the case of pirates, say, I should like to
+know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about
+it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the
+gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has
+no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude,
+that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that
+assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
+
+But what is a GAM? You might wear out your index-finger running up and
+down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word. Dr. Johnson
+never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster's ark does not hold it.
+Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in
+constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly,
+it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With
+that view, let me learnedly define it.
+
+GAM. NOUN--A SOCIAL MEETING OF TWO (OR MORE) WHALESHIPS, GENERALLY ON A
+CRUISING-GROUND; WHEN, AFTER EXCHANGING HAILS, THEY EXCHANGE VISITS BY
+BOATS' CREWS; THE TWO CAPTAINS REMAINING, FOR THE TIME, ON BOARD OF ONE
+SHIP, AND THE TWO CHIEF MATES ON THE OTHER.
+
+There is another little item about Gamming which must not be forgotten
+here. All professions have their own little peculiarities of detail; so
+has the whale fishery. In a pirate, man-of-war, or slave ship, when
+the captain is rowed anywhere in his boat, he always sits in the stern
+sheets on a comfortable, sometimes cushioned seat there, and often
+steers himself with a pretty little milliner's tiller decorated with
+gay cords and ribbons. But the whale-boat has no seat astern, no sofa of
+that sort whatever, and no tiller at all. High times indeed, if whaling
+captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen
+in patent chairs. And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of
+any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew
+must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of
+the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and
+the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit
+all standing like a pine tree. And often you will notice that being
+conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from
+the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to the
+importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs. Nor is
+this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense projecting
+steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the
+after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front. He is thus
+completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself
+sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent
+pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him, because length of
+foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth. Merely make a
+spread angle of two poles, and you cannot stand them up. Then, again,
+it would never do in plain sight of the world's riveted eyes, it would
+never do, I say, for this straddling captain to be seen steadying
+himself the slightest particle by catching hold of anything with
+his hands; indeed, as token of his entire, buoyant self-command, he
+generally carries his hands in his trowsers' pockets; but perhaps being
+generally very large, heavy hands, he carries them there for ballast.
+Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too,
+where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or
+two, in a sudden squall say--to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's
+hair, and hold on there like grim death.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
+
+
+(AS TOLD AT THE GOLDEN INN)
+
+
+The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is
+much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet
+more travellers than in any other part.
+
+It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another
+homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encountered. She was manned
+almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave
+us strong news of Moby Dick. To some the general interest in the White
+Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Ho's
+story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain
+wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God
+which at times are said to overtake some men. This latter circumstance,
+with its own particular accompaniments, forming what may be called the
+secret part of the tragedy about to be narrated, never reached the ears
+of Captain Ahab or his mates. For that secret part of the story was
+unknown to the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the private
+property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it
+seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secrecy,
+but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed
+so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well
+withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing
+have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of
+it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in
+this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never
+transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast. Interweaving in its proper
+place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the
+ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting
+record.
+
+
+*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head,
+still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.
+
+
+For my humor's sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated
+it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint's eve,
+smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn. Of those
+fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer
+terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally
+put, and which are duly answered at the time.
+
+"Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about
+rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town-Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket,
+was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days' sail eastward
+from the eaves of this good Golden Inn. She was somewhere to the
+northward of the Line. One morning upon handling the pumps, according to
+daily usage, it was observed that she made more water in her hold than
+common. They supposed a sword-fish had stabbed her, gentlemen. But the
+captain, having some unusual reason for believing that rare good luck
+awaited him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to quit
+them, and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous, though,
+indeed, they could not find it after searching the hold as low down
+as was possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued her
+cruisings, the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy intervals;
+but no good luck came; more days went by, and not only was the leak yet
+undiscovered, but it sensibly increased. So much so, that now taking
+some alarm, the captain, making all sail, stood away for the nearest
+harbor among the islands, there to have his hull hove out and repaired.
+
+"Though no small passage was before her, yet, if the commonest chance
+favoured, he did not at all fear that his ship would founder by the way,
+because his pumps were of the best, and being periodically relieved at
+them, those six-and-thirty men of his could easily keep the ship free;
+never mind if the leak should double on her. In truth, well nigh the
+whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous breezes, the
+Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at her port
+without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been for the
+brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly
+provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.
+
+"'Lakeman!--Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo?'
+said Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.
+
+"On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but--I crave your
+courtesy--may be, you shall soon hear further of all that. Now,
+gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as
+large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far
+Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet
+been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly
+connected with the open ocean. For in their interflowing aggregate,
+those grand fresh-water seas of ours,--Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and
+Superior, and Michigan,--possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many
+of the ocean's noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of
+races and of climes. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles,
+even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great
+contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime
+approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted
+all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries,
+and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the
+fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their
+beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out
+their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient
+and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines
+of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric
+beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes
+to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and
+Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the
+full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer,
+and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as
+direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are,
+for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many
+a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew. Thus, gentlemen, though
+an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured;
+as much of an audacious mariner as any. And for Radney, though in his
+infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse
+at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our
+austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as
+vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh
+from the latitudes of buck-horn handled bowie-knives. Yet was this
+Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits; and this Lakeman, a
+mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed, might yet by inflexible
+firmness, only tempered by that common decency of human recognition
+which is the meanest slave's right; thus treated, this Steelkilt had
+long been retained harmless and docile. At all events, he had proved
+so thus far; but Radney was doomed and made mad, and Steelkilt--but,
+gentlemen, you shall hear.
+
+"It was not more than a day or two at the furthest after pointing
+her prow for her island haven, that the Town-Ho's leak seemed again
+increasing, but only so as to require an hour or more at the pumps
+every day. You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our
+Atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole
+way across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of
+the deck happen to forget his duty in that respect, the probability
+would be that he and his shipmates would never again remember it, on
+account of all hands gently subsiding to the bottom. Nor in the
+solitary and savage seas far from you to the westward, gentlemen, is it
+altogether unusual for ships to keep clanging at their pump-handles in
+full chorus even for a voyage of considerable length; that is, if it lie
+along a tolerably accessible coast, or if any other reasonable retreat
+is afforded them. It is only when a leaky vessel is in some very out of
+the way part of those waters, some really landless latitude, that her
+captain begins to feel a little anxious.
+
+"Much this way had it been with the Town-Ho; so when her leak was found
+gaining once more, there was in truth some small concern manifested by
+several of her company; especially by Radney the mate. He commanded
+the upper sails to be well hoisted, sheeted home anew, and every way
+expanded to the breeze. Now this Radney, I suppose, was as little of a
+coward, and as little inclined to any sort of nervous apprehensiveness
+touching his own person as any fearless, unthinking creature on land or
+on sea that you can conveniently imagine, gentlemen. Therefore when
+he betrayed this solicitude about the safety of the ship, some of the
+seamen declared that it was only on account of his being a part owner in
+her. So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on
+this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood
+with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water;
+clear as any mountain spring, gentlemen--that bubbling from the pumps
+ran across the deck, and poured itself out in steady spouts at the lee
+scupper-holes.
+
+"Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional
+world of ours--watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command
+over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his
+superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he
+conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a
+chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and
+make a little heap of dust of it. Be this conceit of mine as it may,
+gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a
+head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled housings
+of your last viceroy's snorting charger; and a brain, and a heart, and
+a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt Charlemagne, had he
+been born son to Charlemagne's father. But Radney, the mate, was ugly
+as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious. He did not love
+Steelkilt, and Steelkilt knew it.
+
+"Espying the mate drawing near as he was toiling at the pump with the
+rest, the Lakeman affected not to notice him, but unawed, went on with
+his gay banterings.
+
+"'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one
+of ye, and let's have a taste. By the Lord, it's worth bottling! I tell
+ye what, men, old Rad's investment must go for it! he had best cut away
+his part of the hull and tow it home. The fact is, boys, that sword-fish
+only began the job; he's come back again with a gang of ship-carpenters,
+saw-fish, and file-fish, and what not; and the whole posse of 'em
+are now hard at work cutting and slashing at the bottom; making
+improvements, I suppose. If old Rad were here now, I'd tell him to jump
+overboard and scatter 'em. They're playing the devil with his estate, I
+can tell him. But he's a simple old soul,--Rad, and a beauty too. Boys,
+they say the rest of his property is invested in looking-glasses. I
+wonder if he'd give a poor devil like me the model of his nose.'
+
+"'Damn your eyes! what's that pump stopping for?' roared Radney,
+pretending not to have heard the sailors' talk. 'Thunder away at it!'
+
+"'Aye, aye, sir,' said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. 'Lively, boys,
+lively, now!' And with that the pump clanged like fifty fire-engines;
+the men tossed their hats off to it, and ere long that peculiar gasping
+of the lungs was heard which denotes the fullest tension of life's
+utmost energies.
+
+"Quitting the pump at last, with the rest of his band, the Lakeman went
+forward all panting, and sat himself down on the windlass; his face
+fiery red, his eyes bloodshot, and wiping the profuse sweat from his
+brow. Now what cozening fiend it was, gentlemen, that possessed Radney
+to meddle with such a man in that corporeally exasperated state, I know
+not; but so it happened. Intolerably striding along the deck, the mate
+commanded him to get a broom and sweep down the planks, and also a
+shovel, and remove some offensive matters consequent upon allowing a pig
+to run at large.
+
+"Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ship's deck at sea is a piece of household
+work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every
+evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually
+foundering at the time. Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of
+sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom
+would not willingly drown without first washing their faces. But in all
+vessels this broom business is the prescriptive province of the boys,
+if boys there be aboard. Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho
+that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being
+the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly
+assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have
+been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly nautical
+duties, such being the case with his comrades. I mention all these
+particulars so that you may understand exactly how this affair stood
+between the two men.
+
+"But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as
+plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat
+in his face. Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will
+understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman fully
+comprehended when the mate uttered his command. But as he sat still for
+a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate's malignant eye and
+perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match
+silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all
+this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper
+passionateness in any already ireful being--a repugnance most felt, when
+felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved--this nameless
+phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.
+
+"Therefore, in his ordinary tone, only a little broken by the bodily
+exhaustion he was temporarily in, he answered him saying that sweeping
+the deck was not his business, and he would not do it. And then, without
+at all alluding to the shovel, he pointed to three lads as the customary
+sweepers; who, not being billeted at the pumps, had done little or
+nothing all day. To this, Radney replied with an oath, in a most
+domineering and outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his
+command; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lakeman, with an
+uplifted cooper's club hammer which he had snatched from a cask near by.
+
+"Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil at the pumps, for
+all his first nameless feeling of forbearance the sweating Steelkilt
+could but ill brook this bearing in the mate; but somehow still
+smothering the conflagration within him, without speaking he remained
+doggedly rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook the
+hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously commanding him to do
+his bidding.
+
+"Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the windlass, steadily
+followed by the mate with his menacing hammer, deliberately repeated his
+intention not to obey. Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not
+the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his
+twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to
+no purpose. And in this way the two went once slowly round the windlass;
+when, resolved at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him that he had
+now forborne as much as comported with his humor, the Lakeman paused on
+the hatches and thus spoke to the officer:
+
+"'Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that hammer away, or look to
+yourself.' But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where
+the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of
+his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
+Retreating not the thousandth part of an inch; stabbing him in the eye
+with the unflinching poniard of his glance, Steelkilt, clenching
+his right hand behind him and creepingly drawing it back, told his
+persecutor that if the hammer but grazed his cheek he (Steelkilt) would
+murder him. But, gentlemen, the fool had been branded for the slaughter
+by the gods. Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant
+the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch
+spouting blood like a whale.
+
+"Ere the cry could go aft Steelkilt was shaking one of the backstays
+leading far aloft to where two of his comrades were standing their
+mastheads. They were both Canallers.
+
+"'Canallers!' cried Don Pedro. 'We have seen many whale-ships in our
+harbours, but never heard of your Canallers. Pardon: who and what are
+they?'
+
+"'Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You
+must have heard of it.'
+
+"'Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary
+land, we know but little of your vigorous North.'
+
+"'Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup. Your chicha's very fine; and
+ere proceeding further I will tell ye what our Canallers are; for such
+information may throw side-light upon my story.'
+
+"For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through the entire
+breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and
+most thriving villages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and
+affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; by billiard-room
+and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman
+arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or
+broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk
+counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires
+stand almost like milestones, flows one continual stream of Venetianly
+corrupt and often lawless life. There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen;
+there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you;
+under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches.
+For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan
+freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so
+sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.
+
+"'Is that a friar passing?' said Don Pedro, looking downwards into the
+crowded plazza, with humorous concern.
+
+"'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in
+Lima,' laughed Don Sebastian. 'Proceed, Senor.'
+
+"'A moment! Pardon!' cried another of the company. 'In the name of all
+us Limeese, I but desire to express to you, sir sailor, that we have by
+no means overlooked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima
+for distant Venice in your corrupt comparison. Oh! do not bow and look
+surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast--"Corrupt as
+Lima." It but bears out your saying, too; churches more plentiful than
+billiard-tables, and for ever open--and "Corrupt as Lima." So, too,
+Venice; I have been there; the holy city of the blessed evangelist, St.
+Mark!--St. Dominic, purge it! Your cup! Thanks: here I refill; now, you
+pour out again.'
+
+"Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make
+a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he. Like
+Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile,
+he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra,
+ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck. But ashore, all this
+effeminacy is dashed. The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly
+sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.
+A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he
+floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.
+Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of
+these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful;
+but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of
+violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger
+in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one. In sum, gentlemen, what the
+wildness of this canal life is, is emphatically evinced by this; that
+our wild whale-fishery contains so many of its most finished graduates,
+and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much
+distrusted by our whaling captains. Nor does it at all diminish the
+curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and
+young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal
+furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian
+corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric
+seas.
+
+"'I see! I see!' impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha
+upon his silvery ruffles. 'No need to travel! The world's one Lima. I
+had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold
+and holy as the hills.--But the story.'
+
+"I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman shook the backstay. Hardly
+had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and the
+four harpooneers, who all crowded him to the deck. But sliding down the
+ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and
+sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle. Others of the
+sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil ensued;
+while standing out of harm's way, the valiant captain danced up and down
+with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious
+scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck. At intervals, he ran
+close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into
+the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his
+resentment. But Steelkilt and his desperadoes were too much for them
+all; they succeeded in gaining the forecastle deck, where, hastily
+slewing about three or four large casks in a line with the windlass,
+these sea-Parisians entrenched themselves behind the barricade.
+
+"'Come out of that, ye pirates!' roared the captain, now menacing them
+with a pistol in each hand, just brought to him by the steward. 'Come
+out of that, ye cut-throats!'
+
+"Steelkilt leaped on the barricade, and striding up and down there,
+defied the worst the pistols could do; but gave the captain to
+understand distinctly, that his (Steelkilt's) death would be the signal
+for a murderous mutiny on the part of all hands. Fearing in his heart
+lest this might prove but too true, the captain a little desisted, but
+still commanded the insurgents instantly to return to their duty.
+
+"'Will you promise not to touch us, if we do?' demanded their
+ringleader.
+
+"'Turn to! turn to!--I make no promise;--to your duty! Do you want to
+sink the ship, by knocking off at a time like this? Turn to!' and he
+once more raised a pistol.
+
+"'Sink the ship?' cried Steelkilt. 'Aye, let her sink. Not a man of us
+turns to, unless you swear not to raise a rope-yarn against us. What say
+ye, men?' turning to his comrades. A fierce cheer was their response.
+
+"The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the while keeping his eye
+on the Captain, and jerking out such sentences as these:--'It's not our
+fault; we didn't want it; I told him to take his hammer away; it was
+boy's business; he might have known me before this; I told him not to
+prick the buffalo; I believe I have broken a finger here against his
+cursed jaw; ain't those mincing knives down in the forecastle there,
+men? look to those handspikes, my hearties. Captain, by God, look to
+yourself; say the word; don't be a fool; forget it all; we are ready
+to turn to; treat us decently, and we're your men; but we won't be
+flogged.'
+
+"'Turn to! I make no promises, turn to, I say!'
+
+"'Look ye, now,' cried the Lakeman, flinging out his arm towards him,
+'there are a few of us here (and I am one of them) who have shipped
+for the cruise, d'ye see; now as you well know, sir, we can claim our
+discharge as soon as the anchor is down; so we don't want a row; it's
+not our interest; we want to be peaceable; we are ready to work, but we
+won't be flogged.'
+
+"'Turn to!' roared the Captain.
+
+"Steelkilt glanced round him a moment, and then said:--'I tell you what
+it is now, Captain, rather than kill ye, and be hung for such a shabby
+rascal, we won't lift a hand against ye unless ye attack us; but till
+you say the word about not flogging us, we don't do a hand's turn.'
+
+"'Down into the forecastle then, down with ye, I'll keep ye there till
+ye're sick of it. Down ye go.'
+
+"'Shall we?' cried the ringleader to his men. Most of them were against
+it; but at length, in obedience to Steelkilt, they preceded him down
+into their dark den, growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
+
+"As the Lakeman's bare head was just level with the planks, the Captain
+and his posse leaped the barricade, and rapidly drawing over the slide
+of the scuttle, planted their group of hands upon it, and loudly called
+for the steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the
+companionway.
+
+"Then opening the slide a little, the Captain whispered something
+down the crack, closed it, and turned the key upon them--ten in
+number--leaving on deck some twenty or more, who thus far had remained
+neutral.
+
+"All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the officers, forward and
+aft, especially about the forecastle scuttle and fore hatchway; at which
+last place it was feared the insurgents might emerge, after breaking
+through the bulkhead below. But the hours of darkness passed in peace;
+the men who still remained at their duty toiling hard at the pumps,
+whose clinking and clanking at intervals through the dreary night
+dismally resounded through the ship.
+
+"At sunrise the Captain went forward, and knocking on the deck, summoned
+the prisoners to work; but with a yell they refused. Water was then
+lowered down to them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were tossed
+after it; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing it, the
+Captain returned to the quarter-deck. Twice every day for three days
+this was repeated; but on the fourth morning a confused wrangling, and
+then a scuffling was heard, as the customary summons was delivered; and
+suddenly four men burst up from the forecastle, saying they were ready
+to turn to. The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united
+perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to
+surrender at discretion. Emboldened by this, the Captain reiterated his
+demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a terrific hint to
+stop his babbling and betake himself where he belonged. On the fifth
+morning three others of the mutineers bolted up into the air from the
+desperate arms below that sought to restrain them. Only three were left.
+
+"'Better turn to, now?' said the Captain with a heartless jeer.
+
+"'Shut us up again, will ye!' cried Steelkilt.
+
+"'Oh certainly,' the Captain, and the key clicked.
+
+"It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven
+of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last
+hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as
+the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two
+Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of
+their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their
+keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle
+at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any
+devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship. For himself, he
+would do this, he said, whether they joined him or not. That was the
+last night he should spend in that den. But the scheme met with no
+opposition on the part of the other two; they swore they were ready for
+that, or for any other mad thing, for anything in short but a surrender.
+And what was more, they each insisted upon being the first man on deck,
+when the time to make the rush should come. But to this their leader as
+fiercely objected, reserving that priority for himself; particularly as
+his two comrades would not yield, the one to the other, in the matter;
+and both of them could not be first, for the ladder would but admit one
+man at a time. And here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants
+must come out.
+
+"Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own
+separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece
+of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be
+the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and
+thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might merit.
+But when Steelkilt made known his determination still to lead them to
+the last, they in some way, by some subtle chemistry of villany, mixed
+their before secret treacheries together; and when their leader
+fell into a doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in three
+sentences; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged him with cords;
+and shrieked out for the Captain at midnight.
+
+"Thinking murder at hand, and smelling in the dark for the blood, he and
+all his armed mates and harpooneers rushed for the forecastle. In a
+few minutes the scuttle was opened, and, bound hand and foot, the still
+struggling ringleader was shoved up into the air by his perfidious
+allies, who at once claimed the honour of securing a man who had been
+fully ripe for murder. But all these were collared, and dragged along
+the deck like dead cattle; and, side by side, were seized up into the
+mizzen rigging, like three quarters of meat, and there they hung till
+morning. 'Damn ye,' cried the Captain, pacing to and fro before them,
+'the vultures would not touch ye, ye villains!'
+
+"At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled
+from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that
+he had a good mind to flog them all round--thought, upon the whole,
+he would do so--he ought to--justice demanded it; but for the present,
+considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a
+reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.
+
+"'But as for you, ye carrion rogues,' turning to the three men in the
+rigging--'for you, I mean to mince ye up for the try-pots;' and,
+seizing a rope, he applied it with all his might to the backs of the
+two traitors, till they yelled no more, but lifelessly hung their heads
+sideways, as the two crucified thieves are drawn.
+
+"'My wrist is sprained with ye!' he cried, at last; 'but there is still
+rope enough left for you, my fine bantam, that wouldn't give up. Take
+that gag from his mouth, and let us hear what he can say for himself.'
+
+"For a moment the exhausted mutineer made a tremulous motion of his
+cramped jaws, and then painfully twisting round his head, said in a sort
+of hiss, 'What I say is this--and mind it well--if you flog me, I murder
+you!'
+
+"'Say ye so? then see how ye frighten me'--and the Captain drew off with
+the rope to strike.
+
+"'Best not,' hissed the Lakeman.
+
+"'But I must,'--and the rope was once more drawn back for the stroke.
+
+"Steelkilt here hissed out something, inaudible to all but the Captain;
+who, to the amazement of all hands, started back, paced the deck rapidly
+two or three times, and then suddenly throwing down his rope, said, 'I
+won't do it--let him go--cut him down: d'ye hear?'
+
+"But as the junior mates were hurrying to execute the order, a pale man,
+with a bandaged head, arrested them--Radney the chief mate. Ever since
+the blow, he had lain in his berth; but that morning, hearing the tumult
+on the deck, he had crept out, and thus far had watched the whole
+scene. Such was the state of his mouth, that he could hardly speak;
+but mumbling something about his being willing and able to do what the
+captain dared not attempt, he snatched the rope and advanced to his
+pinioned foe.
+
+"'You are a coward!' hissed the Lakeman.
+
+"'So I am, but take that.' The mate was in the very act of striking,
+when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm. He paused: and then pausing
+no more, made good his word, spite of Steelkilt's threat, whatever that
+might have been. The three men were then cut down, all hands were turned
+to, and, sullenly worked by the moody seamen, the iron pumps clanged as
+before.
+
+"Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired below, a clamor
+was heard in the forecastle; and the two trembling traitors running up,
+besieged the cabin door, saying they durst not consort with the crew.
+Entreaties, cuffs, and kicks could not drive them back, so at their own
+instance they were put down in the ship's run for salvation. Still, no
+sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest. On the contrary, it seemed,
+that mainly at Steelkilt's instigation, they had resolved to maintain
+the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and, when the
+ship reached port, desert her in a body. But in order to insure the
+speediest end to the voyage, they all agreed to another thing--namely,
+not to sing out for whales, in case any should be discovered. For,
+spite of her leak, and spite of all her other perils, the Town-Ho still
+maintained her mast-heads, and her captain was just as willing to
+lower for a fish that moment, as on the day his craft first struck the
+cruising ground; and Radney the mate was quite as ready to change his
+berth for a boat, and with his bandaged mouth seek to gag in death the
+vital jaw of the whale.
+
+"But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to adopt this sort of
+passiveness in their conduct, he kept his own counsel (at least till all
+was over) concerning his own proper and private revenge upon the man who
+had stung him in the ventricles of his heart. He was in Radney the chief
+mate's watch; and as if the infatuated man sought to run more than
+half way to meet his doom, after the scene at the rigging, he insisted,
+against the express counsel of the captain, upon resuming the head
+of his watch at night. Upon this, and one or two other circumstances,
+Steelkilt systematically built the plan of his revenge.
+
+"During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way of sitting on the
+bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning his arm upon the gunwale of
+the boat which was hoisted up there, a little above the ship's side.
+In this attitude, it was well known, he sometimes dozed. There was a
+considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and down between
+this was the sea. Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his next
+trick at the helm would come round at two o'clock, in the morning of the
+third day from that in which he had been betrayed. At his leisure,
+he employed the interval in braiding something very carefully in his
+watches below.
+
+"'What are you making there?' said a shipmate.
+
+"'What do you think? what does it look like?'
+
+"'Like a lanyard for your bag; but it's an odd one, seems to me.'
+
+"'Yes, rather oddish,' said the Lakeman, holding it at arm's length
+before him; 'but I think it will answer. Shipmate, I haven't enough
+twine,--have you any?'
+
+"But there was none in the forecastle.
+
+"'Then I must get some from old Rad;' and he rose to go aft.
+
+"'You don't mean to go a begging to HIM!' said a sailor.
+
+"'Why not? Do you think he won't do me a turn, when it's to help himself
+in the end, shipmate?' and going to the mate, he looked at him
+quietly, and asked him for some twine to mend his hammock. It was given
+him--neither twine nor lanyard were seen again; but the next night
+an iron ball, closely netted, partly rolled from the pocket of the
+Lakeman's monkey jacket, as he was tucking the coat into his hammock for
+a pillow. Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent helm--nigh
+to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready dug to
+the seaman's hand--that fatal hour was then to come; and in the
+fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and
+stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.
+
+"But, gentlemen, a fool saved the would-be murderer from the bloody
+deed he had planned. Yet complete revenge he had, and without being the
+avenger. For by a mysterious fatality, Heaven itself seemed to step in
+to take out of his hands into its own the damning thing he would have
+done.
+
+"It was just between daybreak and sunrise of the morning of the second
+day, when they were washing down the decks, that a stupid Teneriffe man,
+drawing water in the main-chains, all at once shouted out, 'There she
+rolls! there she rolls!' Jesu, what a whale! It was Moby Dick.
+
+"'Moby Dick!' cried Don Sebastian; 'St. Dominic! Sir sailor, but do
+whales have christenings? Whom call you Moby Dick?'
+
+"'A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;--but
+that would be too long a story.'
+
+"'How? how?' cried all the young Spaniards, crowding.
+
+"'Nay, Dons, Dons--nay, nay! I cannot rehearse that now. Let me get more
+into the air, Sirs.'
+
+"'The chicha! the chicha!' cried Don Pedro; 'our vigorous friend looks
+faint;--fill up his empty glass!'
+
+"No need, gentlemen; one moment, and I proceed.--Now, gentlemen,
+so suddenly perceiving the snowy whale within fifty yards of the
+ship--forgetful of the compact among the crew--in the excitement of the
+moment, the Teneriffe man had instinctively and involuntarily lifted
+his voice for the monster, though for some little time past it had been
+plainly beheld from the three sullen mast-heads. All was now a phrensy.
+'The White Whale--the White Whale!' was the cry from captain, mates,
+and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious
+to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed
+askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass,
+that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like
+a living opal in the blue morning sea. Gentlemen, a strange fatality
+pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out
+before the world itself was charted. The mutineer was the bowsman of the
+mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him, while
+Radney stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or slacken
+the line, at the word of command. Moreover, when the four boats were
+lowered, the mate's got the start; and none howled more fiercely with
+delight than did Steelkilt, as he strained at his oar. After a stiff
+pull, their harpooneer got fast, and, spear in hand, Radney sprang to
+the bow. He was always a furious man, it seems, in a boat. And now his
+bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back. Nothing
+loath, his bowsman hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that
+blent two whitenesses together; till of a sudden the boat struck as
+against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the standing mate.
+That instant, as he fell on the whale's slippery back, the boat righted,
+and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was tossed over into the
+sea, on the other flank of the whale. He struck out through the spray,
+and, for an instant, was dimly seen through that veil, wildly seeking to
+remove himself from the eye of Moby Dick. But the whale rushed round
+in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer between his jaws; and rearing
+high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down.
+
+"Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the Lakeman had
+slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool; calmly
+looking on, he thought his own thoughts. But a sudden, terrific,
+downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line. He
+cut it; and the whale was free. But, at some distance, Moby Dick rose
+again, with some tatters of Radney's red woollen shirt, caught in the
+teeth that had destroyed him. All four boats gave chase again; but the
+whale eluded them, and finally wholly disappeared.
+
+"In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port--a savage, solitary
+place--where no civilized creature resided. There, headed by the
+Lakeman, all but five or six of the foremastmen deliberately deserted
+among the palms; eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double
+war-canoe of the savages, and setting sail for some other harbor.
+
+"The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called
+upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving
+down the ship to stop the leak. But to such unresting vigilance over
+their dangerous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both
+by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work they underwent,
+that upon the vessel being ready again for sea, they were in such a
+weakened condition that the captain durst not put off with them in so
+heavy a vessel. After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the
+ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon
+from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the
+Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with
+him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight
+before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a
+reinforcement to his crew.
+
+"On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which seemed
+to have touched at a low isle of corals. He steered away from it; but
+the savage craft bore down on him; and soon the voice of Steelkilt
+hailed him to heave to, or he would run him under water. The captain
+presented a pistol. With one foot on each prow of the yoked war-canoes,
+the Lakeman laughed him to scorn; assuring him that if the pistol so
+much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and foam.
+
+"'What do you want of me?' cried the captain.
+
+"'Where are you bound? and for what are you bound?' demanded Steelkilt;
+'no lies.'
+
+"'I am bound to Tahiti for more men.'
+
+"'Very good. Let me board you a moment--I come in peace.' With that he
+leaped from the canoe, swam to the boat; and climbing the gunwale, stood
+face to face with the captain.
+
+"'Cross your arms, sir; throw back your head. Now, repeat after me.
+As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder
+island, and remain there six days. If I do not, may lightning strike
+me!'
+
+"'A pretty scholar,' laughed the Lakeman. 'Adios, Senor!' and leaping
+into the sea, he swam back to his comrades.
+
+"Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the
+roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time
+arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck befriended
+him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were providentially
+in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor headed. They
+embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former captain, had he
+been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
+
+"Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-boat arrived,
+and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized
+Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. Chartering a small
+native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all
+right there, again resumed his cruisings.
+
+"Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know; but upon the island of
+Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses
+to give up its dead; still in dreams sees the awful white whale that
+destroyed him.
+
+"'Are you through?' said Don Sebastian, quietly.
+
+"'I am, Don.'
+
+"'Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions,
+this your story is in substance really true? It is so passing wonderful!
+Did you get it from an unquestionable source? Bear with me if I seem to
+press.'
+
+"'Also bear with all of us, sir sailor; for we all join in Don
+Sebastian's suit,' cried the company, with exceeding interest.
+
+"'Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists in the Golden Inn, gentlemen?'
+
+"'Nay,' said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who
+will quickly procure one for me. I go for it; but are you well advised?
+this may grow too serious.'
+
+"'Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don?'
+
+"'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company
+to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.
+Let us withdraw more out of the moonlight. I see no need of this.'
+
+"'Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian; but may I also beg
+that you will be particular in procuring the largest sized Evangelists
+you can.'
+
+"'This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,' said Don Sebastian,
+gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure.
+
+"'Let me remove my hat. Now, venerable priest, further into the light,
+and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it.
+
+"'So help me Heaven, and on my honour the story I have told ye,
+gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true. I know it to be
+true; it happened on this ball; I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I have
+seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney.'"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
+
+
+I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas,
+something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the
+eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored
+alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there.
+It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those
+curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day
+confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. It is time to set the
+world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all
+wrong.
+
+It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will
+be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For
+ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble
+panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields,
+medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of
+chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's; ever
+since then has something of the same sort of license prevailed, not
+only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific
+presentations of him.
+
+Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to
+be the whale's, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta,
+in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of
+that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable
+avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came
+into being. No wonder then, that in some sort our noble profession of
+whaling should have been there shadowed forth. The Hindoo whale
+referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the
+incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the
+Matse Avatar. But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so
+as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is
+all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the
+broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes.
+
+But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's
+portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian
+Hindoo. It is Guido's picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the
+sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of such a strange
+creature as that? Nor does Hogarth, in painting the same scene in his
+own "Perseus Descending," make out one whit better. The huge corpulence
+of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing
+one inch of water. It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its
+distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be
+taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the
+Tower. Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and
+Jonah's whale, as depicted in the prints of old Bibles and the cuts of
+old primers. What shall be said of these? As for the book-binder's whale
+winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor--as
+stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both
+old and new--that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature,
+imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases.
+Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless call this
+book-binder's fish an attempt at a whale; because it was so intended
+when the device was first introduced. It was introduced by an old
+Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival
+of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively
+late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a species of the
+Leviathan.
+
+In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient books you will
+at times meet with very curious touches at the whale, where all manner
+of spouts, jets d'eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and Baden-Baden,
+come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the title-page of the
+original edition of the "Advancement of Learning" you will find some
+curious whales.
+
+But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those
+pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations,
+by those who know. In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some
+plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671,
+entitled "A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the
+Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master." In one of those plates the
+whales, like great rafts of logs, are represented lying among ice-isles,
+with white bears running over their living backs. In another plate, the
+prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular
+flukes.
+
+Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain Colnett,
+a Post Captain in the English navy, entitled "A Voyage round Cape Horn
+into the South Seas, for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale
+Fisheries." In this book is an outline purporting to be a "Picture of
+a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the
+coast of Mexico, August, 1793, and hoisted on deck." I doubt not the
+captain had this veracious picture taken for the benefit of his marines.
+To mention but one thing about it, let me say that it has an eye which
+applied, according to the accompanying scale, to a full grown sperm
+whale, would make the eye of that whale a bow-window some five feet
+long. Ah, my gallant captain, why did ye not give us Jonah looking out
+of that eye!
+
+Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for
+the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of
+mistake. Look at that popular work "Goldsmith's Animated Nature." In the
+abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged "whale"
+and a "narwhale." I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly
+whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one
+glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century
+such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent
+public of schoolboys.
+
+Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great
+naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are
+several pictures of the different species of the Leviathan. All these
+are not only incorrect, but the picture of the Mysticetus or Greenland
+whale (that is to say, the Right whale), even Scoresby, a long
+experienced man as touching that species, declares not to have its
+counterpart in nature.
+
+But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was
+reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous
+Baron. In 1836, he published a Natural History of Whales, in which he
+gives what he calls a picture of the Sperm Whale. Before showing that
+picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for your summary
+retreat from Nantucket. In a word, Frederick Cuvier's Sperm Whale is not
+a Sperm Whale, but a squash. Of course, he never had the benefit of
+a whaling voyage (such men seldom have), but whence he derived that
+picture, who can tell? Perhaps he got it as his scientific predecessor
+in the same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that
+is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil
+those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us.
+
+As for the sign-painters' whales seen in the streets hanging over the
+shops of oil-dealers, what shall be said of them? They are generally
+Richard III. whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting
+on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners:
+their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.
+
+But these manifold mistakes in depicting the whale are not so very
+surprising after all. Consider! Most of the scientific drawings have
+been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a
+drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent
+the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.
+Though elephants have stood for their full-lengths, the living Leviathan
+has never yet fairly floated himself for his portrait. The living whale,
+in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in
+unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight,
+like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element it is a
+thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the
+air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations. And, not
+to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young
+sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan; yet, even in the
+case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such
+is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of him, that
+his precise expression the devil himself could not catch.
+
+But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton of the stranded
+whale, accurate hints may be derived touching his true form. Not at all.
+For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan, that
+his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape. Though Jeremy
+Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of
+his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian
+old gentleman, with all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics;
+yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's
+articulated bones. In fact, as the great Hunter says, the mere skeleton
+of the whale bears the same relation to the fully invested and padded
+animal as the insect does to the chrysalis that so roundingly envelopes
+it. This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some
+part of this book will be incidentally shown. It is also very curiously
+displayed in the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to
+the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb. This fin has four
+regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring, and little finger. But
+all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering, as the human
+fingers in an artificial covering. "However recklessly the whale may
+sometimes serve us," said humorous Stubb one day, "he can never be truly
+said to handle us without mittens."
+
+For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs
+conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world
+which must remain unpainted to the last. True, one portrait may hit
+the mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very
+considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly way of finding
+out precisely what the whale really looks like. And the only mode in
+which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is
+by going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of
+being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had
+best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True
+Pictures of Whaling Scenes.
+
+
+In connexion with the monstrous pictures of whales, I am strongly
+tempted here to enter upon those still more monstrous stories of
+them which are to be found in certain books, both ancient and modern,
+especially in Pliny, Purchas, Hackluyt, Harris, Cuvier, etc. But I pass
+that matter by.
+
+I know of only four published outlines of the great Sperm Whale;
+Colnett's, Huggins's, Frederick Cuvier's, and Beale's. In the previous
+chapter Colnett and Cuvier have been referred to. Huggins's is far
+better than theirs; but, by great odds, Beale's is the best. All Beale's
+drawings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure in the
+picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping his second
+chapter. His frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no
+doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is
+admirably correct and life-like in its general effect. Some of the Sperm
+Whale drawings in J. Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they
+are wretchedly engraved. That is not his fault though.
+
+Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they
+are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression. He has
+but one picture of whaling scenes, and this is a sad deficiency, because
+it is by such pictures only, when at all well done, that you can derive
+anything like a truthful idea of the living whale as seen by his living
+hunters.
+
+But, taken for all in all, by far the finest, though in some details
+not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to
+be anywhere found, are two large French engravings, well executed,
+and taken from paintings by one Garnery. Respectively, they represent
+attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. In the first engraving a noble
+Sperm Whale is depicted in full majesty of might, just risen beneath
+the boat from the profundities of the ocean, and bearing high in the air
+upon his back the terrific wreck of the stoven planks. The prow of
+the boat is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon
+the monster's spine; and standing in that prow, for that one single
+incomputable flash of time, you behold an oarsman, half shrouded by the
+incensed boiling spout of the whale, and in the act of leaping, as if
+from a precipice. The action of the whole thing is wonderfully good and
+true. The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden
+poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the
+swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions
+of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing down
+upon the scene. Serious fault might be found with the anatomical details
+of this whale, but let that pass; since, for the life of me, I could not
+draw so good a one.
+
+In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside
+the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black
+weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian
+cliffs. His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that from so
+abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there must be a brave
+supper cooking in the great bowels below. Sea fowls are pecking at the
+small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and maccaroni, which the
+Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent back. And all the while
+the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of
+tumultuous white curds in his wake, and causing the slight boat to rock
+in the swells like a skiff caught nigh the paddle-wheels of an ocean
+steamer. Thus, the foreground is all raging commotion; but behind, in
+admirable artistic contrast, is the glassy level of a sea becalmed, the
+drooping unstarched sails of the powerless ship, and the inert mass of
+a dead whale, a conquered fortress, with the flag of capture lazily
+hanging from the whale-pole inserted into his spout-hole.
+
+Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not. But my life for it he
+was either practically conversant with his subject, or else marvellously
+tutored by some experienced whaleman. The French are the lads for
+painting action. Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe, and
+where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing commotion
+on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles; where the beholder
+fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great battles of
+France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the
+successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a charge of crowned
+centaurs? Not wholly unworthy of a place in that gallery, are these sea
+battle-pieces of Garnery.
+
+The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of
+things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings
+they have of their whaling scenes. With not one tenth of England's
+experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the
+Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only
+finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of
+the whale hunt. For the most part, the English and American whale
+draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline
+of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as
+picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching
+the profile of a pyramid. Even Scoresby, the justly renowned Right
+whaleman, after giving us a stiff full length of the Greenland whale,
+and three or four delicate miniatures of narwhales and porpoises, treats
+us to a series of classical engravings of boat hooks, chopping knives,
+and grapnels; and with the microscopic diligence of a Leuwenhoeck
+submits to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six fac-similes of
+magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement to the excellent
+voyager (I honour him for a veteran), but in so important a matter it
+was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a
+sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.
+
+In addition to those fine engravings from Garnery, there are two other
+French engravings worthy of note, by some one who subscribes himself
+"H. Durand." One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present
+purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts. It is a quiet
+noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored,
+inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the loosened sails
+of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background, both
+drooping together in the breezeless air. The effect is very fine, when
+considered with reference to its presenting the hardy fishermen under
+one of their few aspects of oriental repose. The other engraving is
+quite a different affair: the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in the
+very heart of the Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside; the
+vessel (in the act of cutting-in) hove over to the monster as if to a
+quay; and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from this scene of activity, is
+about giving chase to whales in the distance. The harpoons and lances
+lie levelled for use; three oarsmen are just setting the mast in its
+hole; while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands
+half-erect out of the water, like a rearing horse. From the ship, the
+smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke
+over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up
+with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the
+excited seamen.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in
+Stone; in Mountains; in Stars.
+
+
+On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a
+crippled beggar (or KEDGER, as the sailors say) holding a painted board
+before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg.
+There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats (presumed
+to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is being
+crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale. Any time these ten years,
+they tell me, has that man held up that picture, and exhibited that
+stump to an incredulous world. But the time of his justification has
+now come. His three whales are as good whales as were ever published in
+Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a stump as any you
+will find in the western clearings. But, though for ever mounted on
+that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman make; but, with
+downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own amputation.
+
+Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and
+Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and
+whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth,
+or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other
+like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little
+ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material,
+in their hours of ocean leisure. Some of them have little boxes
+of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the
+skrimshandering business. But, in general, they toil with their
+jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor,
+they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's
+fancy.
+
+Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man
+to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.
+Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a
+savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready
+at any moment to rebel against him.
+
+Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic
+hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. An ancient Hawaiian
+war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of
+carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.
+For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that
+miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has
+cost steady years of steady application.
+
+As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With the
+same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark's tooth, of
+his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not
+quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design,
+as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield; and full of barbaric spirit
+and suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert
+Durer.
+
+Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of
+the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles
+of American whalers. Some of them are done with much accuracy.
+
+At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung
+by the tail for knockers to the road-side door. When the porter is
+sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be best. But these knocking
+whales are seldom remarkable as faithful essays. On the spires of some
+old-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed there for
+weather-cocks; but they are so elevated, and besides that are to all
+intents and purposes so labelled with "HANDS OFF!" you cannot examine
+them closely enough to decide upon their merit.
+
+In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken
+cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the
+plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the
+Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against
+them in a surf of green surges.
+
+Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually
+girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky
+point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of
+whales defined along the undulating ridges. But you must be a thorough
+whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you wish
+to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact
+intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point, else
+so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your precise,
+previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery; like the
+Soloma Islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed
+Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.
+
+Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out
+great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as
+when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies
+locked in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I chased
+Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright
+points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic
+skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the
+starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying
+Fish.
+
+With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for
+spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to
+see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie
+encamped beyond my mortal sight!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 58. Brit.
+
+
+Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows
+of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale
+largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we
+seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat.
+
+On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from
+the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly
+swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that
+wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated
+from the water that escaped at the lip.
+
+As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance
+their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these
+monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving
+behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.*
+
+
+*That part of the sea known among whalemen as the "Brazil Banks" does
+not bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, because of there
+being shallows and soundings there, but because of this remarkable
+meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually
+floating in those latitudes, where the Right Whale is often chased.
+
+
+But it was only the sound they made as they parted the brit which at all
+reminded one of mowers. Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they
+paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked
+more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else. And as in the
+great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a distance will
+sometimes pass on the plains recumbent elephants without knowing them
+to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil; even
+so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species of the
+leviathans of the sea. And even when recognised at last, their immense
+magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses
+of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort
+of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
+
+Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the
+deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore. For though
+some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are
+of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of
+the thing, this may very well be; yet coming to specialties, where, for
+example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to
+the sagacious kindness of the dog? The accursed shark alone can in any
+generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
+
+But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the
+seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and
+repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita,
+so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his
+one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific
+of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen
+tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters;
+though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man
+may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering
+future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever,
+to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize
+the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the
+continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense
+of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
+
+The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese
+vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.
+That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships
+of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided;
+two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
+
+Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle upon one is not a
+miracle upon the other? Preternatural terrors rested upon the Hebrews,
+when under the feet of Korah and his company the live ground opened
+and swallowed them up for ever; yet not a modern sun ever sets, but in
+precisely the same manner the live sea swallows up ships and crews.
+
+But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it
+is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Persian host who
+murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath
+spawned. Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her
+own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks,
+and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships. No
+mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad
+battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the
+globe.
+
+Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide
+under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden
+beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish
+brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the
+dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more,
+the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each
+other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
+
+Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile
+earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a
+strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean
+surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular
+Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the
+half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst
+never return!
+
+
+CHAPTER 59. Squid.
+
+
+Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her
+way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling
+her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering
+masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a
+plain. And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely,
+alluring jet would be seen.
+
+But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural
+spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when
+the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid
+across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered
+together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible
+sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
+
+In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and
+higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before
+our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills. Thus glistening
+for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank. Then once more arose,
+and silently gleamed. It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick?
+thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once
+more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the
+negro yelled out--"There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead!
+The White Whale, the White Whale!"
+
+Upon this, the seamen rushed to the yard-arms, as in swarming-time the
+bees rush to the boughs. Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on
+the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave
+his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction
+indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo.
+
+Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had
+gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the
+ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular
+whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed
+him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly
+perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity he instantly gave
+orders for lowering.
+
+The four boats were soon on the water; Ahab's in advance, and all
+swiftly pulling towards their prey. Soon it went down, and while, with
+oars suspended, we were awaiting its reappearance, lo! in the same
+spot where it sank, once more it slowly rose. Almost forgetting for
+the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous
+phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind.
+A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing
+cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating
+from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as
+if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach. No perceptible
+face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or
+instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless,
+chance-like apparition of life.
+
+As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still
+gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice
+exclaimed--"Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to
+have seen thee, thou white ghost!"
+
+"What was it, Sir?" said Flask.
+
+"The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and
+returned to their ports to tell of it."
+
+But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel;
+the rest as silently following.
+
+Whatever superstitions the sperm whalemen in general have connected with
+the sight of this object, certain it is, that a glimpse of it being
+so very unusual, that circumstance has gone far to invest it with
+portentousness. So rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them
+declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few
+of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature and
+form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm whale
+his only food. For though other species of whales find their food above
+water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti
+whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and
+only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that
+food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what
+are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus
+exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They fancy that
+the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to
+the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is
+supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
+
+There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop
+Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in
+which the Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with
+some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two correspond.
+But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he
+assigns it.
+
+By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious
+creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish,
+to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong,
+but only as the Anak of the tribe.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 60. The Line.
+
+
+With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as
+for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented,
+I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
+
+The line originally used in the fishery was of the best hemp, slightly
+vapoured with tar, not impregnated with it, as in the case of ordinary
+ropes; for while tar, as ordinarily used, makes the hemp more pliable to
+the rope-maker, and also renders the rope itself more convenient to the
+sailor for common ship use; yet, not only would the ordinary quantity
+too much stiffen the whale-line for the close coiling to which it must
+be subjected; but as most seamen are beginning to learn, tar in general
+by no means adds to the rope's durability or strength, however much it
+may give it compactness and gloss.
+
+Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost
+entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not
+so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and
+I will add (since there is an aesthetics in all things), is much more
+handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp. Hemp is a dusky, dark
+fellow, a sort of Indian; but Manilla is as a golden-haired Circassian
+to behold.
+
+The whale-line is only two-thirds of an inch in thickness. At first
+sight, you would not think it so strong as it really is. By experiment
+its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and
+twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal
+to three tons. In length, the common sperm whale-line measures something
+over two hundred fathoms. Towards the stern of the boat it is spirally
+coiled away in the tub, not like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so
+as to form one round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded "sheaves," or
+layers of concentric spiralizations, without any hollow but the "heart,"
+or minute vertical tube formed at the axis of the cheese. As the least
+tangle or kink in the coiling would, in running out, infallibly take
+somebody's arm, leg, or entire body off, the utmost precaution is used
+in stowing the line in its tub. Some harpooneers will consume almost an
+entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then
+reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act
+of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
+
+In the English boats two tubs are used instead of one; the same line
+being continuously coiled in both tubs. There is some advantage in this;
+because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the
+boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly
+three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky
+freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for
+the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up
+a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated
+one. When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the American line-tub,
+the boat looks as if it were pulling off with a prodigious great
+wedding-cake to present to the whales.
+
+Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an
+eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the
+tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.
+This arrangement of the lower end is necessary on two accounts. First:
+In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a
+neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as
+to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the
+harpoon. In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug
+of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the
+first boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort. Second: This
+arrangement is indispensable for common safety's sake; for were the
+lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the
+whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking
+minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed
+boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of
+the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again.
+
+Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end of the line is
+taken aft from the tub, and passing round the loggerhead there, is again
+carried forward the entire length of the boat, resting crosswise upon
+the loom or handle of every man's oar, so that it jogs against his wrist
+in rowing; and also passing between the men, as they alternately sit at
+the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks or grooves in the extreme
+pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden pin or skewer the size of a
+common quill, prevents it from slipping out. From the chocks it hangs
+in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside the boat
+again; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called box-line) being coiled
+upon the box in the bows, it continues its way to the gunwale still a
+little further aft, and is then attached to the short-warp--the rope
+which is immediately connected with the harpoon; but previous to that
+connexion, the short-warp goes through sundry mystifications too tedious
+to detail.
+
+Thus the whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils,
+twisting and writhing around it in almost every direction. All the
+oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions; so that to the timid
+eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest
+snakes sportively festooning their limbs. Nor can any son of mortal
+woman, for the first time, seat himself amid those hempen intricacies,
+and while straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any
+unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible
+contortions be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus
+circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones
+to quiver in him like a shaken jelly. Yet habit--strange thing! what
+cannot habit accomplish?--Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes,
+and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you
+will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus
+hung in hangman's nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before
+King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death,
+with a halter around every neck, as you may say.
+
+Perhaps a very little thought will now enable you to account for
+those repeated whaling disasters--some few of which are casually
+chronicled--of this man or that man being taken out of the boat by the
+line, and lost. For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in
+the boat, is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings
+of a steam-engine in full play, when every flying beam, and shaft, and
+wheel, is grazing you. It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the
+heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and
+you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning;
+and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of
+volition and action, can you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run
+away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out.
+
+Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and
+prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself;
+for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and
+contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal
+powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the
+line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought
+into actual play--this is a thing which carries more of true terror than
+any other aspect of this dangerous affair. But why say more? All men
+live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their
+necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death,
+that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
+And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would
+not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before
+your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
+
+
+If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to
+Queequeg it was quite a different object.
+
+"When you see him 'quid," said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow
+of his hoisted boat, "then you quick see him 'parm whale."
+
+The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special
+to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep
+induced by such a vacant sea. For this part of the Indian Ocean through
+which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively ground;
+that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins, flying-fish,
+and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than those off the
+Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru.
+
+It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders
+leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I idly swayed in
+what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in that
+dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my
+body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long
+after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
+
+Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the seamen
+at the main and mizzen-mast-heads were already drowsy. So that at last
+all three of us lifelessly swung from the spars, and for every swing
+that we made there was a nod from below from the slumbering helmsman.
+The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the wide trance
+of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
+
+Suddenly bubbles seemed bursting beneath my closed eyes; like vices my
+hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gracious agency preserved me;
+with a shock I came back to life. And lo! close under our lee, not forty
+fathoms off, a gigantic Sperm Whale lay rolling in the water like the
+capsized hull of a frigate, his broad, glossy back, of an Ethiopian hue,
+glistening in the sun's rays like a mirror. But lazily undulating in
+the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapoury
+jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm
+afternoon. But that pipe, poor whale, was thy last. As if struck by some
+enchanter's wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all at once
+started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from all parts
+of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from aloft, shouted
+forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and regularly spouted
+the sparkling brine into the air.
+
+"Clear away the boats! Luff!" cried Ahab. And obeying his own order, he
+dashed the helm down before the helmsman could handle the spokes.
+
+The sudden exclamations of the crew must have alarmed the whale; and ere
+the boats were down, majestically turning, he swam away to the leeward,
+but with such a steady tranquillity, and making so few ripples as he
+swam, that thinking after all he might not as yet be alarmed, Ahab gave
+orders that not an oar should be used, and no man must speak but in
+whispers. So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the boats,
+we swiftly but silently paddled along; the calm not admitting of the
+noiseless sails being set. Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the
+monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and
+then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
+
+"There go flukes!" was the cry, an announcement immediately followed by
+Stubb's producing his match and igniting his pipe, for now a respite was
+granted. After the full interval of his sounding had elapsed, the whale
+rose again, and being now in advance of the smoker's boat, and much
+nearer to it than to any of the others, Stubb counted upon the honour
+of the capture. It was obvious, now, that the whale had at length become
+aware of his pursuers. All silence of cautiousness was therefore no
+longer of use. Paddles were dropped, and oars came loudly into play. And
+still puffing at his pipe, Stubb cheered on his crew to the assault.
+
+Yes, a mighty change had come over the fish. All alive to his jeopardy,
+he was going "head out"; that part obliquely projecting from the mad
+yeast which he brewed.*
+
+
+*It will be seen in some other place of what a very light substance
+the entire interior of the sperm whale's enormous head consists. Though
+apparently the most massive, it is by far the most buoyant part about
+him. So that with ease he elevates it in the air, and invariably does
+so when going at his utmost speed. Besides, such is the breadth of the
+upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water
+formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he
+thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish
+galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat.
+
+
+"Start her, start her, my men! Don't hurry yourselves; take plenty of
+time--but start her; start her like thunder-claps, that's all," cried
+Stubb, spluttering out the smoke as he spoke. "Start her, now; give 'em
+the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy--start
+her, all; but keep cool, keep cool--cucumbers is the word--easy,
+easy--only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the
+buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys--that's all. Start
+her!"
+
+"Woo-hoo! Wa-hee!" screamed the Gay-Header in reply, raising some
+old war-whoop to the skies; as every oarsman in the strained boat
+involuntarily bounced forward with the one tremendous leading stroke
+which the eager Indian gave.
+
+But his wild screams were answered by others quite as wild. "Kee-hee!
+Kee-hee!" yelled Daggoo, straining forwards and backwards on his seat,
+like a pacing tiger in his cage.
+
+"Ka-la! Koo-loo!" howled Queequeg, as if smacking his lips over a
+mouthful of Grenadier's steak. And thus with oars and yells the keels
+cut the sea. Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place in the van, still
+encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from
+his mouth. Like desperadoes they tugged and they strained, till the
+welcome cry was heard--"Stand up, Tashtego!--give it to him!" The
+harpoon was hurled. "Stern all!" The oarsmen backed water; the same
+moment something went hot and hissing along every one of their wrists.
+It was the magical line. An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two
+additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its
+increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and mingled
+with the steady fumes from his pipe. As the line passed round and
+round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it
+blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from
+which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at
+these times, had accidentally dropped. It was like holding an enemy's
+sharp two-edged sword by the blade, and that enemy all the time striving
+to wrest it out of your clutch.
+
+"Wet the line! wet the line!" cried Stubb to the tub oarsman (him seated
+by the tub) who, snatching off his hat, dashed sea-water into it.* More
+turns were taken, so that the line began holding its place. The boat now
+flew through the boiling water like a shark all fins. Stubb and Tashtego
+here changed places--stem for stern--a staggering business truly in that
+rocking commotion.
+
+
+*Partly to show the indispensableness of this act, it may here be
+stated, that, in the old Dutch fishery, a mop was used to dash the
+running line with water; in many other ships, a wooden piggin, or
+bailer, is set apart for that purpose. Your hat, however, is the most
+convenient.
+
+
+From the vibrating line extending the entire length of the upper part of
+the boat, and from its now being more tight than a harpstring, you would
+have thought the craft had two keels--one cleaving the water, the other
+the air--as the boat churned on through both opposing elements at once.
+A continual cascade played at the bows; a ceaseless whirling eddy in
+her wake; and, at the slightest motion from within, even but of a little
+finger, the vibrating, cracking craft canted over her spasmodic gunwale
+into the sea. Thus they rushed; each man with might and main clinging
+to his seat, to prevent being tossed to the foam; and the tall form of
+Tashtego at the steering oar crouching almost double, in order to bring
+down his centre of gravity. Whole Atlantics and Pacifics seemed passed
+as they shot on their way, till at length the whale somewhat slackened
+his flight.
+
+"Haul in--haul in!" cried Stubb to the bowsman! and, facing round
+towards the whale, all hands began pulling the boat up to him, while yet
+the boat was being towed on. Soon ranging up by his flank, Stubb, firmly
+planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the
+flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning
+out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up for
+another fling.
+
+The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down a
+hill. His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled
+and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake. The slanting sun playing
+upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its reflection into every
+face, so that they all glowed to each other like red men. And all
+the while, jet after jet of white smoke was agonizingly shot from the
+spiracle of the whale, and vehement puff after puff from the mouth of
+the excited headsman; as at every dart, hauling in upon his crooked
+lance (by the line attached to it), Stubb straightened it again and
+again, by a few rapid blows against the gunwale, then again and again
+sent it into the whale.
+
+"Pull up--pull up!" he now cried to the bowsman, as the waning whale
+relaxed in his wrath. "Pull up!--close to!" and the boat ranged along
+the fish's flank. When reaching far over the bow, Stubb slowly churned
+his long sharp lance into the fish, and kept it there, carefully
+churning and churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold
+watch that the whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of
+breaking ere he could hook it out. But that gold watch he sought was the
+innermost life of the fish. And now it is struck; for, starting from
+his trance into that unspeakable thing called his "flurry," the monster
+horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable,
+mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly dropping
+astern, had much ado blindly to struggle out from that phrensied
+twilight into the clear air of the day.
+
+And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into view;
+surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and contracting his
+spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations. At last, gush
+after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees of red
+wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran dripping
+down his motionless flanks into the sea. His heart had burst!
+
+"He's dead, Mr. Stubb," said Daggoo.
+
+"Yes; both pipes smoked out!" and withdrawing his own from his mouth,
+Stubb scattered the dead ashes over the water; and, for a moment, stood
+thoughtfully eyeing the vast corpse he had made.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
+
+
+A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.
+
+According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes
+off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary
+steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost
+oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar. Now it needs a strong, nervous
+arm to strike the first iron into the fish; for often, in what is called
+a long dart, the heavy implement has to be flung to the distance of
+twenty or thirty feet. But however prolonged and exhausting the chase,
+the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the uttermost;
+indeed, he is expected to set an example of superhuman activity to the
+rest, not only by incredible rowing, but by repeated loud and intrepid
+exclamations; and what it is to keep shouting at the top of one's
+compass, while all the other muscles are strained and half started--what
+that is none know but those who have tried it. For one, I cannot bawl
+very heartily and work very recklessly at one and the same time. In this
+straining, bawling state, then, with his back to the fish, all at once
+the exhausted harpooneer hears the exciting cry--"Stand up, and give it
+to him!" He now has to drop and secure his oar, turn round on his
+centre half way, seize his harpoon from the crotch, and with what little
+strength may remain, he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale. No
+wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty
+fair chances for a dart, not five are successful; no wonder that so many
+hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated; no wonder that some
+of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that
+some sperm whalemen are absent four years with four barrels; no wonder
+that to many ship owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the
+harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his
+body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!
+
+Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical instant,
+that is, when the whale starts to run, the boatheader and harpooneer
+likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent jeopardy of
+themselves and every one else. It is then they change places; and
+the headsman, the chief officer of the little craft, takes his proper
+station in the bows of the boat.
+
+Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish
+and unnecessary. The headsman should stay in the bows from first to
+last; he should both dart the harpoon and the lance, and no rowing
+whatever should be expected of him, except under circumstances obvious
+to any fisherman. I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss
+of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more
+than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures
+in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the
+whale as the before described exhaustion of the harpooneer that has
+caused them.
+
+To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this
+world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of
+toil.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
+
+
+Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in
+productive subjects, grow the chapters.
+
+The crotch alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention.
+It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, which
+is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow,
+for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the
+harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow.
+Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who snatches it
+up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his rifle from
+the wall. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch,
+respectively called the first and second irons.
+
+But these two harpoons, each by its own cord, are both connected with
+the line; the object being this: to dart them both, if possible, one
+instantly after the other into the same whale; so that if, in the coming
+drag, one should draw out, the other may still retain a hold. It is a
+doubling of the chances. But it very often happens that owing to the
+instantaneous, violent, convulsive running of the whale upon receiving
+the first iron, it becomes impossible for the harpooneer, however
+lightning-like in his movements, to pitch the second iron into him.
+Nevertheless, as the second iron is already connected with the line,
+and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events, be
+anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the
+most terrible jeopardy would involve all hands. Tumbled into the water,
+it accordingly is in such cases; the spare coils of box line (mentioned
+in a preceding chapter) making this feat, in most instances, prudently
+practicable. But this critical act is not always unattended with the
+saddest and most fatal casualties.
+
+Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown
+overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror,
+skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines,
+or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions.
+Nor, in general, is it possible to secure it again until the whale is
+fairly captured and a corpse.
+
+Consider, now, how it must be in the case of four boats all engaging
+one unusually strong, active, and knowing whale; when owing to these
+qualities in him, as well as to the thousand concurring accidents of
+such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be
+simultaneously dangling about him. For, of course, each boat is supplied
+with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first one
+be ineffectually darted without recovery. All these particulars are
+faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several
+most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be
+painted.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
+
+
+Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was
+a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow
+business of towing the trophy to the Pequod. And now, as we eighteen men
+with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and fingers,
+slowly toiled hour after hour upon that inert, sluggish corpse in the
+sea; and it seemed hardly to budge at all, except at long intervals;
+good evidence was hereby furnished of the enormousness of the mass we
+moved. For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call
+it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky
+freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we
+towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead in bulk.
+
+Darkness came on; but three lights up and down in the Pequod's
+main-rigging dimly guided our way; till drawing nearer we saw Ahab
+dropping one of several more lanterns over the bulwarks. Vacantly eyeing
+the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for securing
+it for the night, and then handing his lantern to a seaman, went his way
+into the cabin, and did not come forward again until morning.
+
+Though, in overseeing the pursuit of this whale, Captain Ahab had
+evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the creature
+was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed
+working in him; as if the sight of that dead body reminded him that
+Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand other whales were
+brought to his ship, all that would not one jot advance his grand,
+monomaniac object. Very soon you would have thought from the sound on
+the Pequod's decks, that all hands were preparing to cast anchor in
+the deep; for heavy chains are being dragged along the deck, and thrust
+rattling out of the port-holes. But by those clanking links, the vast
+corpse itself, not the ship, is to be moored. Tied by the head to the
+stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies with its black
+hull close to the vessel's and seen through the darkness of the night,
+which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two--ship and whale,
+seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one reclines while
+the other remains standing.*
+
+
+*A little item may as well be related here. The strongest and most
+reliable hold which the ship has upon the whale when moored alongside,
+is by the flukes or tail; and as from its greater density that part
+is relatively heavier than any other (excepting the side-fins), its
+flexibility even in death, causes it to sink low beneath the surface; so
+that with the hand you cannot get at it from the boat, in order to
+put the chain round it. But this difficulty is ingeniously overcome: a
+small, strong line is prepared with a wooden float at its outer end, and
+a weight in its middle, while the other end is secured to the ship. By
+adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side
+of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily
+made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked
+fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with
+its broad flukes or lobes.
+
+
+If moody Ahab was now all quiescence, at least so far as could be known
+on deck, Stubb, his second mate, flushed with conquest, betrayed an
+unusual but still good-natured excitement. Such an unwonted bustle was
+he in that the staid Starbuck, his official superior, quietly resigned
+to him for the time the sole management of affairs. One small, helping
+cause of all this liveliness in Stubb, was soon made strangely manifest.
+Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale
+as a flavorish thing to his palate.
+
+"A steak, a steak, ere I sleep! You, Daggoo! overboard you go, and cut
+me one from his small!"
+
+Here be it known, that though these wild fishermen do not, as a general
+thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray
+the current expenses of the war (at least before realizing the proceeds
+of the voyage), yet now and then you find some of these Nantucketers
+who have a genuine relish for that particular part of the Sperm Whale
+designated by Stubb; comprising the tapering extremity of the body.
+
+About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two
+lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper
+at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard. Nor was Stubb
+the only banqueter on whale's flesh that night. Mingling their mumblings
+with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming
+round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness. The few
+sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp slapping
+of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the sleepers'
+hearts. Peering over the side you could just see them (as before you
+heard them) wallowing in the sullen, black waters, and turning over on
+their backs as they scooped out huge globular pieces of the whale of the
+bigness of a human head. This particular feat of the shark seems all
+but miraculous. How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they
+contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the
+universal problem of all things. The mark they thus leave on the whale,
+may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking
+for a screw.
+
+Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks
+will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs
+round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down
+every killed man that is tossed to them; and though, while the valiant
+butchers over the deck-table are thus cannibally carving each other's
+live meat with carving-knives all gilded and tasselled, the sharks,
+also, with their jewel-hilted mouths, are quarrelsomely carving away
+under the table at the dead meat; and though, were you to turn the whole
+affair upside down, it would still be pretty much the same thing, that
+is to say, a shocking sharkish business enough for all parties; and
+though sharks also are the invariable outriders of all slave ships
+crossing the Atlantic, systematically trotting alongside, to be handy in
+case a parcel is to be carried anywhere, or a dead slave to be decently
+buried; and though one or two other like instances might be set down,
+touching the set terms, places, and occasions, when sharks do most
+socially congregate, and most hilariously feast; yet is there no
+conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless
+numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm
+whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea. If you have never
+seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of
+devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
+
+But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was
+going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of his
+own epicurean lips.
+
+"Cook, cook!--where's that old Fleece?" he cried at length, widening
+his legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper;
+and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing
+with his lance; "cook, you cook!--sail this way, cook!"
+
+The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously
+roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling
+along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something
+the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like
+his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and
+limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy
+fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered
+along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on
+the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard; when, with both hands folded
+before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back
+still further over, at the same time sideways inclining his head, so as
+to bring his best ear into play.
+
+"Cook," said Stubb, rapidly lifting a rather reddish morsel to his
+mouth, "don't you think this steak is rather overdone? You've been
+beating this steak too much, cook; it's too tender. Don't I always say
+that to be good, a whale-steak must be tough? There are those sharks
+now over the side, don't you see they prefer it tough and rare? What a
+shindy they are kicking up! Cook, go and talk to 'em; tell 'em they are
+welcome to help themselves civilly, and in moderation, but they must
+keep quiet. Blast me, if I can hear my own voice. Away, cook, and
+deliver my message. Here, take this lantern," snatching one from his
+sideboard; "now then, go and preach to 'em!"
+
+Sullenly taking the offered lantern, old Fleece limped across the deck
+to the bulwarks; and then, with one hand dropping his light low over the
+sea, so as to get a good view of his congregation, with the other hand
+he solemnly flourished his tongs, and leaning far over the side in a
+mumbling voice began addressing the sharks, while Stubb, softly crawling
+behind, overheard all that was said.
+
+"Fellow-critters: I'se ordered here to say dat you must stop dat dam
+noise dare. You hear? Stop dat dam smackin' ob de lips! Massa Stubb say
+dat you can fill your dam bellies up to de hatchings, but by Gor! you
+must stop dat dam racket!"
+
+"Cook," here interposed Stubb, accompanying the word with a sudden slap
+on the shoulder,--"Cook! why, damn your eyes, you mustn't swear that way
+when you're preaching. That's no way to convert sinners, cook!"
+
+"Who dat? Den preach to him yourself," sullenly turning to go.
+
+"No, cook; go on, go on."
+
+"Well, den, Belubed fellow-critters:"--
+
+"Right!" exclaimed Stubb, approvingly, "coax 'em to it; try that," and
+Fleece continued.
+
+"Do you is all sharks, and by natur wery woracious, yet I zay to you,
+fellow-critters, dat dat woraciousness--'top dat dam slappin' ob de
+tail! How you tink to hear, spose you keep up such a dam slappin' and
+bitin' dare?"
+
+"Cook," cried Stubb, collaring him, "I won't have that swearing. Talk to
+'em gentlemanly."
+
+Once more the sermon proceeded.
+
+"Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for; dat
+is natur, and can't be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is de
+pint. You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den
+you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.
+Now, look here, bred'ren, just try wonst to be cibil, a helping
+yourselbs from dat whale. Don't be tearin' de blubber out your
+neighbour's mout, I say. Is not one shark dood right as toder to dat
+whale? And, by Gor, none on you has de right to dat whale; dat whale
+belong to some one else. I know some o' you has berry brig mout, brigger
+dan oders; but den de brig mouts sometimes has de small bellies; so dat
+de brigness of de mout is not to swaller wid, but to bit off de blubber
+for de small fry ob sharks, dat can't get into de scrouge to help
+demselves."
+
+"Well done, old Fleece!" cried Stubb, "that's Christianity; go on."
+
+"No use goin' on; de dam willains will keep a scougin' and slappin' each
+oder, Massa Stubb; dey don't hear one word; no use a-preaching to
+such dam g'uttons as you call 'em, till dare bellies is full, and dare
+bellies is bottomless; and when dey do get 'em full, dey wont hear you
+den; for den dey sink in the sea, go fast to sleep on de coral, and
+can't hear noting at all, no more, for eber and eber."
+
+"Upon my soul, I am about of the same opinion; so give the benediction,
+Fleece, and I'll away to my supper."
+
+Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob, raised his
+shrill voice, and cried--
+
+"Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill
+your dam bellies 'till dey bust--and den die."
+
+"Now, cook," said Stubb, resuming his supper at the capstan; "stand
+just where you stood before, there, over against me, and pay particular
+attention."
+
+"All 'dention," said Fleece, again stooping over upon his tongs in the
+desired position.
+
+"Well," said Stubb, helping himself freely meanwhile; "I shall now go
+back to the subject of this steak. In the first place, how old are you,
+cook?"
+
+"What dat do wid de 'teak," said the old black, testily.
+
+"Silence! How old are you, cook?"
+
+"'Bout ninety, dey say," he gloomily muttered.
+
+"And you have lived in this world hard upon one hundred years, cook,
+and don't know yet how to cook a whale-steak?" rapidly bolting another
+mouthful at the last word, so that morsel seemed a continuation of the
+question. "Where were you born, cook?"
+
+"'Hind de hatchway, in ferry-boat, goin' ober de Roanoke."
+
+"Born in a ferry-boat! That's queer, too. But I want to know what
+country you were born in, cook!"
+
+"Didn't I say de Roanoke country?" he cried sharply.
+
+"No, you didn't, cook; but I'll tell you what I'm coming to, cook.
+You must go home and be born over again; you don't know how to cook a
+whale-steak yet."
+
+"Bress my soul, if I cook noder one," he growled, angrily, turning round
+to depart.
+
+"Come back here, cook;--here, hand me those tongs;--now take that bit of
+steak there, and tell me if you think that steak cooked as it should be?
+Take it, I say"--holding the tongs towards him--"take it, and taste it."
+
+Faintly smacking his withered lips over it for a moment, the old negro
+muttered, "Best cooked 'teak I eber taste; joosy, berry joosy."
+
+"Cook," said Stubb, squaring himself once more; "do you belong to the
+church?"
+
+"Passed one once in Cape-Down," said the old man sullenly.
+
+"And you have once in your life passed a holy church in Cape-Town, where
+you doubtless overheard a holy parson addressing his hearers as his
+beloved fellow-creatures, have you, cook! And yet you come here, and
+tell me such a dreadful lie as you did just now, eh?" said Stubb. "Where
+do you expect to go to, cook?"
+
+"Go to bed berry soon," he mumbled, half-turning as he spoke.
+
+"Avast! heave to! I mean when you die, cook. It's an awful question. Now
+what's your answer?"
+
+"When dis old brack man dies," said the negro slowly, changing his whole
+air and demeanor, "he hisself won't go nowhere; but some bressed angel
+will come and fetch him."
+
+"Fetch him? How? In a coach and four, as they fetched Elijah? And fetch
+him where?"
+
+"Up dere," said Fleece, holding his tongs straight over his head, and
+keeping it there very solemnly.
+
+"So, then, you expect to go up into our main-top, do you, cook, when you
+are dead? But don't you know the higher you climb, the colder it gets?
+Main-top, eh?"
+
+"Didn't say dat t'all," said Fleece, again in the sulks.
+
+"You said up there, didn't you? and now look yourself, and see where
+your tongs are pointing. But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by
+crawling through the lubber's hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don't
+get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging. It's a
+ticklish business, but must be done, or else it's no go. But none of
+us are in heaven yet. Drop your tongs, cook, and hear my orders. Do ye
+hear? Hold your hat in one hand, and clap t'other a'top of your heart,
+when I'm giving my orders, cook. What! that your heart, there?--that's
+your gizzard! Aloft! aloft!--that's it--now you have it. Hold it there
+now, and pay attention."
+
+"All 'dention," said the old black, with both hands placed as desired,
+vainly wriggling his grizzled head, as if to get both ears in front at
+one and the same time.
+
+"Well then, cook, you see this whale-steak of yours was so very bad,
+that I have put it out of sight as soon as possible; you see that, don't
+you? Well, for the future, when you cook another whale-steak for my
+private table here, the capstan, I'll tell you what to do so as not to
+spoil it by overdoing. Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal
+to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear? And now to-morrow,
+cook, when we are cutting in the fish, be sure you stand by to get
+the tips of his fins; have them put in pickle. As for the ends of the
+flukes, have them soused, cook. There, now ye may go."
+
+But Fleece had hardly got three paces off, when he was recalled.
+
+"Cook, give me cutlets for supper to-morrow night in the mid-watch.
+D'ye hear? away you sail, then.--Halloa! stop! make a bow before you
+go.--Avast heaving again! Whale-balls for breakfast--don't forget."
+
+"Wish, by gor! whale eat him, 'stead of him eat whale. I'm bressed if
+he ain't more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself," muttered the old man,
+limping away; with which sage ejaculation he went to his hammock.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
+
+
+That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and,
+like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so
+outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and
+philosophy of it.
+
+It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right
+Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large
+prices there. Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the
+court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be
+eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of
+whale. Porpoises, indeed, are to this day considered fine eating. The
+meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well
+seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
+The old monks of Dunfermline were very fond of them. They had a great
+porpoise grant from the crown.
+
+The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all
+hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but
+when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet
+long, it takes away your appetite. Only the most unprejudiced of men
+like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are not
+so fastidious. We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare
+old vintages of prime old train oil. Zogranda, one of their most famous
+doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly
+juicy and nourishing. And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who
+long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel--that
+these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of
+whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber. Among
+the Dutch whalemen these scraps are called "fritters"; which, indeed,
+they greatly resemble, being brown and crisp, and smelling something
+like old Amsterdam housewives' dough-nuts or oly-cooks, when fresh. They
+have such an eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can hardly
+keep his hands off.
+
+But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his
+exceeding richness. He is the great prize ox of the sea, too fat to be
+delicately good. Look at his hump, which would be as fine eating as
+the buffalo's (which is esteemed a rare dish), were it not such a solid
+pyramid of fat. But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that
+is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the
+third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for
+butter. Nevertheless, many whalemen have a method of absorbing it into
+some other substance, and then partaking of it. In the long try
+watches of the night it is a common thing for the seamen to dip their
+ship-biscuit into the huge oil-pots and let them fry there awhile. Many
+a good supper have I thus made.
+
+In the case of a small Sperm Whale the brains are accounted a fine dish.
+The casket of the skull is broken into with an axe, and the two plump,
+whitish lobes being withdrawn (precisely resembling two large puddings),
+they are then mixed with flour, and cooked into a most delectable mess,
+in flavor somewhat resembling calves' head, which is quite a dish among
+some epicures; and every one knows that some young bucks among the
+epicures, by continually dining upon calves' brains, by and by get to
+have a little brains of their own, so as to be able to tell a
+calf's head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires uncommon
+discrimination. And that is the reason why a young buck with an
+intelligent looking calf's head before him, is somehow one of the
+saddest sights you can see. The head looks a sort of reproachfully at
+him, with an "Et tu Brute!" expression.
+
+It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively
+unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence;
+that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before
+mentioned: i.e. that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea,
+and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man that ever
+murdered an ox was regarded as a murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if
+he had been put on his trial by oxen, he certainly would have been; and
+he certainly deserved it if any murderer does. Go to the meat-market
+of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the
+long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of
+the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will
+be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in
+his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that
+provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized
+and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest
+on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
+
+But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is
+adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my
+civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is
+that handle made of?--what but the bones of the brother of the very ox
+you are eating? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring
+that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill did
+the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders
+formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two
+that that society passed a resolution to patronise nothing but steel
+pens.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
+
+
+When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and
+weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general
+thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting
+him in. For that business is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very
+soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it. Therefore, the
+common usage is to take in all sail; lash the helm a'lee; and then send
+every one below to his hammock till daylight, with the reservation that,
+until that time, anchor-watches shall be kept; that is, two and two for
+an hour, each couple, the crew in rotation shall mount the deck to see
+that all goes well.
+
+But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the Pacific, this plan will
+not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather
+round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a
+stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning.
+In most other parts of the ocean, however, where these fish do not so
+largely abound, their wondrous voracity can be at times considerably
+diminished, by vigorously stirring them up with sharp whaling-spades,
+a procedure notwithstanding, which, in some instances, only seems to
+tickle them into still greater activity. But it was not thus in the
+present case with the Pequod's sharks; though, to be sure, any man
+unaccustomed to such sights, to have looked over her side that night,
+would have almost thought the whole round sea was one huge cheese, and
+those sharks the maggots in it.
+
+Nevertheless, upon Stubb setting the anchor-watch after his supper was
+concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a forecastle seaman
+came on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for
+immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side, and lowering
+three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid
+sea, these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an
+incessant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep
+into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part. But in the foamy
+confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not
+always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the
+incredible ferocity of the foe. They viciously snapped, not only at each
+other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit
+their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by
+the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound. Nor was
+this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these
+creatures. A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in
+their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual
+life had departed. Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin,
+one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off, when he tried
+to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
+
+
+*The whaling-spade used for cutting-in is made of the very best steel;
+is about the bigness of a man's spread hand; and in general shape,
+corresponds to the garden implement after which it is named; only its
+sides are perfectly flat, and its upper end considerably narrower than
+the lower. This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when
+being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor. In its socket, a
+stiff pole, from twenty to thirty feet long, is inserted for a handle.
+
+
+"Queequeg no care what god made him shark," said the savage, agonizingly
+lifting his hand up and down; "wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de
+god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
+
+
+It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio
+professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was
+turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would
+have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.
+
+In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous
+things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and which
+no single man can possibly lift--this vast bunch of grapes was swayed up
+to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the strongest
+point anywhere above a ship's deck. The end of the hawser-like rope
+winding through these intricacies, was then conducted to the windlass,
+and the huge lower block of the tackles was swung over the whale; to
+this block the great blubber hook, weighing some one hundred pounds, was
+attached. And now suspended in stages over the side, Starbuck and Stubb,
+the mates, armed with their long spades, began cutting a hole in the
+body for the insertion of the hook just above the nearest of the two
+side-fins. This done, a broad, semicircular line is cut round the hole,
+the hook is inserted, and the main body of the crew striking up a wild
+chorus, now commence heaving in one dense crowd at the windlass. When
+instantly, the entire ship careens over on her side; every bolt in
+her starts like the nail-heads of an old house in frosty weather; she
+trembles, quivers, and nods her frighted mast-heads to the sky. More
+and more she leans over to the whale, while every gasping heave of the
+windlass is answered by a helping heave from the billows; till at last,
+a swift, startling snap is heard; with a great swash the ship rolls
+upwards and backwards from the whale, and the triumphant tackle rises
+into sight dragging after it the disengaged semicircular end of the
+first strip of blubber. Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely
+as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body
+precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it. For the
+strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale
+rolling over and over in the water, and as the blubber in one strip
+uniformly peels off along the line called the "scarf," simultaneously
+cut by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as
+it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act itself, it is all the
+time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the
+main-top; the men at the windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment
+or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let
+down from the sky, and every one present must take good heed to dodge
+it when it swings, else it may box his ears and pitch him headlong
+overboard.
+
+One of the attending harpooneers now advances with a long, keen weapon
+called a boarding-sword, and watching his chance he dexterously slices
+out a considerable hole in the lower part of the swaying mass. Into this
+hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked
+so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what
+follows. Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all hands to
+stand off, once more makes a scientific dash at the mass, and with a few
+sidelong, desperate, lunging slicings, severs it completely in twain;
+so that while the short lower part is still fast, the long upper strip,
+called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all ready for lowering.
+The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is
+peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly
+slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway
+right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room. Into
+this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep coiling away the long
+blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of plaited serpents.
+And thus the work proceeds; the two tackles hoisting and lowering
+simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the heavers singing,
+the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship
+straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by way of assuaging the
+general friction.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
+
+
+I have given no small attention to that not unvexed subject, the skin of
+the whale. I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen
+afloat, and learned naturalists ashore. My original opinion remains
+unchanged; but it is only an opinion.
+
+The question is, what and where is the skin of the whale? Already you
+know what his blubber is. That blubber is something of the consistence
+of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and
+ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
+
+Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any creature's
+skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet in point
+of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption; because you
+cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the whale's body but
+that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer of any animal, if
+reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin? True, from the unmarred
+dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely
+thin, transparent substance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds
+of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin; that is,
+previous to being dried, when it not only contracts and thickens, but
+becomes rather hard and brittle. I have several such dried bits, which
+I use for marks in my whale-books. It is transparent, as I said before;
+and being laid upon the printed page, I have sometimes pleased myself
+with fancying it exerted a magnifying influence. At any rate, it is
+pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles, as you may
+say. But what I am driving at here is this. That same infinitely thin,
+isinglass substance, which, I admit, invests the entire body of the
+whale, is not so much to be regarded as the skin of the creature, as
+the skin of the skin, so to speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say,
+that the proper skin of the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender
+than the skin of a new-born child. But no more of this.
+
+Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this skin,
+as in the case of a very large Sperm Whale, will yield the bulk of one
+hundred barrels of oil; and, when it is considered that, in quantity, or
+rather weight, that oil, in its expressed state, is only three fourths,
+and not the entire substance of the coat; some idea may hence be had
+of the enormousness of that animated mass, a mere part of whose mere
+integument yields such a lake of liquid as that. Reckoning ten barrels
+to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters
+of the stuff of the whale's skin.
+
+In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among
+the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely
+crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array,
+something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these
+marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above
+mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved
+upon the body itself. Nor is this all. In some instances, to the quick,
+observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but
+afford the ground for far other delineations. These are hieroglyphical;
+that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids
+hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present
+connexion. By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm
+Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old
+Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on
+the banks of the Upper Mississippi. Like those mystic rocks, too, the
+mystic-marked whale remains undecipherable. This allusion to the Indian
+rocks reminds me of another thing. Besides all the other phenomena which
+the exterior of the Sperm Whale presents, he not seldom displays the
+back, and more especially his flanks, effaced in great part of the
+regular linear appearance, by reason of numerous rude scratches,
+altogether of an irregular, random aspect. I should say that those New
+England rocks on the sea-coast, which Agassiz imagines to bear the marks
+of violent scraping contact with vast floating icebergs--I should say,
+that those rocks must not a little resemble the Sperm Whale in this
+particular. It also seems to me that such scratches in the whale are
+probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for I have most
+remarked them in the large, full-grown bulls of the species.
+
+A word or two more concerning this matter of the skin or blubber of
+the whale. It has already been said, that it is stript from him in long
+pieces, called blanket-pieces. Like most sea-terms, this one is very
+happy and significant. For the whale is indeed wrapt up in his blubber
+as in a real blanket or counterpane; or, still better, an Indian poncho
+slipt over his head, and skirting his extremity. It is by reason of this
+cosy blanketing of his body, that the whale is enabled to keep himself
+comfortable in all weathers, in all seas, times, and tides. What would
+become of a Greenland whale, say, in those shuddering, icy seas of the
+North, if unsupplied with his cosy surtout? True, other fish are
+found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but these, be it
+observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very bellies
+are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the lee of
+an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn fire;
+whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood. Freeze his blood,
+and he dies. How wonderful is it then--except after explanation--that
+this great monster, to whom corporeal warmth is as indispensable as it
+is to man; how wonderful that he should be found at home, immersed
+to his lips for life in those Arctic waters! where, when seamen fall
+overboard, they are sometimes found, months afterwards, perpendicularly
+frozen into the hearts of fields of ice, as a fly is found glued
+in amber. But more surprising is it to know, as has been proved by
+experiment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than that of a
+Borneo negro in summer.
+
+It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong
+individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare
+virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after
+the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in
+this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood
+fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the
+great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
+
+But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things! Of erections,
+how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the
+whale!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
+
+
+Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!
+
+The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the
+beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue,
+it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk. It is still colossal.
+Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and
+splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious
+flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting
+poniards in the whale. The vast white headless phantom floats further
+and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem
+square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous
+din. For hours and hours from the almost stationary ship that hideous
+sight is seen. Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair
+face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass
+of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.
+
+There's a most doleful and most mocking funeral! The sea-vultures all in
+pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled.
+In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if
+peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral they
+most piously do pounce. Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not
+the mightiest whale is free.
+
+Nor is this the end. Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost
+survives and hovers over it to scare. Espied by some timid man-of-war or
+blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the
+swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in
+the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the
+whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the
+log--SHOALS, ROCKS, AND BREAKERS HEREABOUTS: BEWARE! And for years
+afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly
+sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there
+when a stick was held. There's your law of precedents; there's your
+utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of
+old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in
+the air! There's orthodoxy!
+
+Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror
+to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a
+world.
+
+Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend? There are other ghosts than
+the Cock-Lane one, and far deeper men than Doctor Johnson who believe in
+them.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
+
+
+It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping
+the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the
+Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced
+whale surgeons very much pride themselves: and not without reason.
+
+Consider that the whale has nothing that can properly be called a neck;
+on the contrary, where his head and body seem to join, there, in that
+very place, is the thickest part of him. Remember, also, that the
+surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening
+between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a
+discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea. Bear
+in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many
+feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so
+much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus
+made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts,
+and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion
+into the skull. Do you not marvel, then, at Stubb's boast, that he
+demanded but ten minutes to behead a sperm whale?
+
+When first severed, the head is dropped astern and held there by a cable
+till the body is stripped. That done, if it belong to a small whale
+it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of. But, with a full
+grown leviathan this is impossible; for the sperm whale's head embraces
+nearly one third of his entire bulk, and completely to suspend such a
+burden as that, even by the immense tackles of a whaler, this were as
+vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers' scales.
+
+The Pequod's whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head was
+hoisted against the ship's side--about half way out of the sea, so that
+it might yet in great part be buoyed up by its native element. And there
+with the strained craft steeply leaning over to it, by reason of the
+enormous downward drag from the lower mast-head, and every yard-arm
+on that side projecting like a crane over the waves; there, that
+blood-dripping head hung to the Pequod's waist like the giant
+Holofernes's from the girdle of Judith.
+
+When this last task was accomplished it was noon, and the seamen went
+below to their dinner. Silence reigned over the before tumultuous but
+now deserted deck. An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow
+lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon
+the sea.
+
+A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone
+from his cabin. Taking a few turns on the quarter-deck, he paused to
+gaze over the side, then slowly getting into the main-chains he
+took Stubb's long spade--still remaining there after the whale's
+Decapitation--and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended
+mass, placed its other end crutch-wise under one arm, and so stood
+leaning over with eyes attentively fixed on this head.
+
+It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so
+intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert. "Speak, thou vast
+and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a
+beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head,
+and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast
+dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has
+moved amid this world's foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies
+rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this
+frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there,
+in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast
+been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor's side,
+where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou
+saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart
+to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when
+heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw'st the murdered mate when tossed
+by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper
+midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on
+unharmed--while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that
+would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O
+head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of
+Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!"
+
+"Sail ho!" cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head.
+
+"Aye? Well, now, that's cheering," cried Ahab, suddenly erecting
+himself, while whole thunder-clouds swept aside from his brow.
+"That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better
+man.--Where away?"
+
+"Three points on the starboard bow, sir, and bringing down her breeze to
+us!
+
+"Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way,
+and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man!
+how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest
+atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
+
+
+Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than
+the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.
+
+By and by, through the glass the stranger's boats and manned mast-heads
+proved her a whale-ship. But as she was so far to windward, and shooting
+by, apparently making a passage to some other ground, the Pequod could
+not hope to reach her. So the signal was set to see what response would
+be made.
+
+Here be it said, that like the vessels of military marines, the ships of
+the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal; all which signals
+being collected in a book with the names of the respective vessels
+attached, every captain is provided with it. Thereby, the whale
+commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at
+considerable distances and with no small facility.
+
+The Pequod's signal was at last responded to by the stranger's setting
+her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket. Squaring
+her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod's lee, and
+lowered a boat; it soon drew nigh; but, as the side-ladder was being
+rigged by Starbuck's order to accommodate the visiting captain, the
+stranger in question waved his hand from his boat's stern in token
+of that proceeding being entirely unnecessary. It turned out that
+the Jeroboam had a malignant epidemic on board, and that Mayhew, her
+captain, was fearful of infecting the Pequod's company. For, though
+himself and boat's crew remained untainted, and though his ship was half
+a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and flowing
+between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine of the
+land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with the
+Pequod.
+
+But this did by no means prevent all communications. Preserving an
+interval of some few yards between itself and the ship, the Jeroboam's
+boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the
+Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this time it blew
+very fresh), with her main-topsail aback; though, indeed, at times by
+the sudden onset of a large rolling wave, the boat would be pushed some
+way ahead; but would be soon skilfully brought to her proper bearings
+again. Subject to this, and other the like interruptions now and then, a
+conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at intervals not
+without still another interruption of a very different sort.
+
+Pulling an oar in the Jeroboam's boat, was a man of a singular
+appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual notabilities
+make up all totalities. He was a small, short, youngish man, sprinkled
+all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant yellow hair. A
+long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped
+him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists. A
+deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.
+
+So soon as this figure had been first descried, Stubb had
+exclaimed--"That's he! that's he!--the long-togged scaramouch the
+Town-Ho's company told us of!" Stubb here alluded to a strange story
+told of the Jeroboam, and a certain man among her crew, some time
+previous when the Pequod spoke the Town-Ho. According to this account
+and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in
+question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the
+Jeroboam. His story was this:
+
+He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society of Neskyeuna
+Shakers, where he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret
+meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a
+trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial, which he
+carried in his vest-pocket; but, which, instead of containing gunpowder,
+was supposed to be charged with laudanum. A strange, apostolic whim
+having seized him, he had left Neskyeuna for Nantucket, where, with
+that cunning peculiar to craziness, he assumed a steady, common-sense
+exterior, and offered himself as a green-hand candidate for the
+Jeroboam's whaling voyage. They engaged him; but straightway upon
+the ship's getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in a
+freshet. He announced himself as the archangel Gabriel, and commanded
+the captain to jump overboard. He published his manifesto, whereby
+he set himself forth as the deliverer of the isles of the sea and
+vicar-general of all Oceanica. The unflinching earnestness with which he
+declared these things;--the dark, daring play of his sleepless, excited
+imagination, and all the preternatural terrors of real delirium, united
+to invest this Gabriel in the minds of the majority of the ignorant
+crew, with an atmosphere of sacredness. Moreover, they were afraid of
+him. As such a man, however, was not of much practical use in the ship,
+especially as he refused to work except when he pleased, the incredulous
+captain would fain have been rid of him; but apprised that that
+individual's intention was to land him in the first convenient port, the
+archangel forthwith opened all his seals and vials--devoting the ship
+and all hands to unconditional perdition, in case this intention was
+carried out. So strongly did he work upon his disciples among the crew,
+that at last in a body they went to the captain and told him if Gabriel
+was sent from the ship, not a man of them would remain. He was therefore
+forced to relinquish his plan. Nor would they permit Gabriel to be any
+way maltreated, say or do what he would; so that it came to pass that
+Gabriel had the complete freedom of the ship. The consequence of all
+this was, that the archangel cared little or nothing for the captain and
+mates; and since the epidemic had broken out, he carried a higher hand
+than ever; declaring that the plague, as he called it, was at his sole
+command; nor should it be stayed but according to his good pleasure.
+The sailors, mostly poor devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before
+him; in obedience to his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal
+homage, as to a god. Such things may seem incredible; but, however
+wondrous, they are true. Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking
+in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as
+his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others. But
+it is time to return to the Pequod.
+
+"I fear not thy epidemic, man," said Ahab from the bulwarks, to Captain
+Mayhew, who stood in the boat's stern; "come on board."
+
+But now Gabriel started to his feet.
+
+"Think, think of the fevers, yellow and bilious! Beware of the horrible
+plague!"
+
+"Gabriel! Gabriel!" cried Captain Mayhew; "thou must either--" But
+that instant a headlong wave shot the boat far ahead, and its seethings
+drowned all speech.
+
+"Hast thou seen the White Whale?" demanded Ahab, when the boat drifted
+back.
+
+"Think, think of thy whale-boat, stoven and sunk! Beware of the horrible
+tail!"
+
+"I tell thee again, Gabriel, that--" But again the boat tore ahead as if
+dragged by fiends. Nothing was said for some moments, while a succession
+of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional caprices
+of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it. Meantime, the hoisted sperm
+whale's head jogged about very violently, and Gabriel was seen eyeing
+it with rather more apprehensiveness than his archangel nature seemed to
+warrant.
+
+When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story
+concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from
+Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed
+leagued with him.
+
+It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home, when upon speaking
+a whale-ship, her people were reliably apprised of the existence of Moby
+Dick, and the havoc he had made. Greedily sucking in this intelligence,
+Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the White
+Whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering insanity,
+pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the Shaker God
+incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible. But when, some year or two
+afterwards, Moby Dick was fairly sighted from the mast-heads, Macey, the
+chief mate, burned with ardour to encounter him; and the captain himself
+being not unwilling to let him have the opportunity, despite all
+the archangel's denunciations and forewarnings, Macey succeeded in
+persuading five men to man his boat. With them he pushed off; and, after
+much weary pulling, and many perilous, unsuccessful onsets, he at last
+succeeded in getting one iron fast. Meantime, Gabriel, ascending to
+the main-royal mast-head, was tossing one arm in frantic gestures, and
+hurling forth prophecies of speedy doom to the sacrilegious assailants
+of his divinity. Now, while Macey, the mate, was standing up in his
+boat's bow, and with all the reckless energy of his tribe was venting
+his wild exclamations upon the whale, and essaying to get a fair chance
+for his poised lance, lo! a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its
+quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies
+of the oarsmen. Next instant, the luckless mate, so full of furious
+life, was smitten bodily into the air, and making a long arc in his
+descent, fell into the sea at the distance of about fifty yards. Not a
+chip of the boat was harmed, nor a hair of any oarsman's head; but the
+mate for ever sank.
+
+It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the
+Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.
+Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated;
+oftener the boat's bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which the
+headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body. But
+strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances than one,
+when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of violence is
+discernible; the man being stark dead.
+
+The whole calamity, with the falling form of Macey, was plainly descried
+from the ship. Raising a piercing shriek--"The vial! the vial!" Gabriel
+called off the terror-stricken crew from the further hunting of the
+whale. This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence;
+because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically
+fore-announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any
+one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the
+wide margin allowed. He became a nameless terror to the ship.
+
+Mayhew having concluded his narration, Ahab put such questions to
+him, that the stranger captain could not forbear inquiring whether he
+intended to hunt the White Whale, if opportunity should offer. To which
+Ahab answered--"Aye." Straightway, then, Gabriel once more started
+to his feet, glaring upon the old man, and vehemently exclaimed, with
+downward pointed finger--"Think, think of the blasphemer--dead, and down
+there!--beware of the blasphemer's end!"
+
+Ahab stolidly turned aside; then said to Mayhew, "Captain, I have
+just bethought me of my letter-bag; there is a letter for one of thy
+officers, if I mistake not. Starbuck, look over the bag."
+
+Every whale-ship takes out a goodly number of letters for various ships,
+whose delivery to the persons to whom they may be addressed, depends
+upon the mere chance of encountering them in the four oceans. Thus,
+most letters never reach their mark; and many are only received after
+attaining an age of two or three years or more.
+
+Soon Starbuck returned with a letter in his hand. It was sorely tumbled,
+damp, and covered with a dull, spotted, green mould, in consequence
+of being kept in a dark locker of the cabin. Of such a letter, Death
+himself might well have been the post-boy.
+
+"Can'st not read it?" cried Ahab. "Give it me, man. Aye, aye, it's but
+a dim scrawl;--what's this?" As he was studying it out, Starbuck took a
+long cutting-spade pole, and with his knife slightly split the end, to
+insert the letter there, and in that way, hand it to the boat, without
+its coming any closer to the ship.
+
+Meantime, Ahab holding the letter, muttered, "Mr. Har--yes, Mr.
+Harry--(a woman's pinny hand,--the man's wife, I'll wager)--Aye--Mr.
+Harry Macey, Ship Jeroboam;--why it's Macey, and he's dead!"
+
+"Poor fellow! poor fellow! and from his wife," sighed Mayhew; "but let
+me have it."
+
+"Nay, keep it thyself," cried Gabriel to Ahab; "thou art soon going that
+way."
+
+"Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to
+receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he
+caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
+But as he did so, the oarsmen expectantly desisted from rowing; the boat
+drifted a little towards the ship's stern; so that, as if by magic, the
+letter suddenly ranged along with Gabriel's eager hand. He clutched it
+in an instant, seized the boat-knife, and impaling the letter on it,
+sent it thus loaded back into the ship. It fell at Ahab's feet. Then
+Gabriel shrieked out to his comrades to give way with their oars, and in
+that manner the mutinous boat rapidly shot away from the Pequod.
+
+As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket
+of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild
+affair.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
+
+
+In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there
+is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are
+wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there. There is no staying
+in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has to be done
+everywhere. It is much the same with him who endeavors the description
+of the scene. We must now retrace our way a little. It was mentioned
+that upon first breaking ground in the whale's back, the blubber-hook
+was inserted into the original hole there cut by the spades of the
+mates. But how did so clumsy and weighty a mass as that same hook
+get fixed in that hole? It was inserted there by my particular friend
+Queequeg, whose duty it was, as harpooneer, to descend upon the
+monster's back for the special purpose referred to. But in very many
+cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall remain on the
+whale till the whole tensing or stripping operation is concluded. The
+whale, be it observed, lies almost entirely submerged, excepting the
+immediate parts operated upon. So down there, some ten feet below the
+level of the deck, the poor harpooneer flounders about, half on the
+whale and half in the water, as the vast mass revolves like a tread-mill
+beneath him. On the occasion in question, Queequeg figured in the
+Highland costume--a shirt and socks--in which to my eyes, at least,
+he appeared to uncommon advantage; and no one had a better chance to
+observe him, as will presently be seen.
+
+Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar
+in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to
+attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead
+whale's back. You have seen Italian organ-boys holding a dancing-ape by
+a long cord. Just so, from the ship's steep side, did I hold Queequeg
+down there in the sea, by what is technically called in the fishery
+a monkey-rope, attached to a strong strip of canvas belted round his
+waist.
+
+It was a humorously perilous business for both of us. For, before we
+proceed further, it must be said that the monkey-rope was fast at
+both ends; fast to Queequeg's broad canvas belt, and fast to my narrow
+leather one. So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time, were
+wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both usage
+and honour demanded, that instead of cutting the cord, it should drag
+me down in his wake. So, then, an elongated Siamese ligature united us.
+Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get
+rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed.
+
+So strongly and metaphysically did I conceive of my situation then, that
+while earnestly watching his motions, I seemed distinctly to perceive
+that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of
+two; that my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another's
+mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster
+and death. Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in
+Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an
+injustice. And yet still further pondering--while I jerked him now
+and then from between the whale and ship, which would threaten to jam
+him--still further pondering, I say, I saw that this situation of mine
+was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes; only, in most
+cases, he, one way or other, has this Siamese connexion with a plurality
+of other mortals. If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by
+mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say
+that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the
+multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's
+monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came
+very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I
+would, I only had the management of one end of it.*
+
+
+*The monkey-rope is found in all whalers; but it was only in the Pequod
+that the monkey and his holder were ever tied together. This improvement
+upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than Stubb,
+in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest possible
+guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey-rope holder.
+
+
+I have hinted that I would often jerk poor Queequeg from between the
+whale and the ship--where he would occasionally fall, from the incessant
+rolling and swaying of both. But this was not the only jamming jeopardy
+he was exposed to. Unappalled by the massacre made upon them during the
+night, the sharks now freshly and more keenly allured by the before pent
+blood which began to flow from the carcass--the rabid creatures swarmed
+round it like bees in a beehive.
+
+And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them
+aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were
+it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise
+miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.
+
+Nevertheless, it may well be believed that since they have such a
+ravenous finger in the pie, it is deemed but wise to look sharp to them.
+Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then jerked
+the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what seemed
+a peculiarly ferocious shark--he was provided with still another
+protection. Suspended over the side in one of the stages, Tashtego
+and Daggoo continually flourished over his head a couple of keen
+whale-spades, wherewith they slaughtered as many sharks as they could
+reach. This procedure of theirs, to be sure, was very disinterested and
+benevolent of them. They meant Queequeg's best happiness, I admit; but
+in their hasty zeal to befriend him, and from the circumstance that both
+he and the sharks were at times half hidden by the blood-muddled water,
+those indiscreet spades of theirs would come nearer amputating a leg
+than a tall. But poor Queequeg, I suppose, straining and gasping there
+with that great iron hook--poor Queequeg, I suppose, only prayed to his
+Yojo, and gave up his life into the hands of his gods.
+
+Well, well, my dear comrade and twin-brother, thought I, as I drew in
+and then slacked off the rope to every swell of the sea--what matters
+it, after all? Are you not the precious image of each and all of us men
+in this whaling world? That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those
+sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks
+and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad.
+
+But courage! there is good cheer in store for you, Queequeg. For now, as
+with blue lips and blood-shot eyes the exhausted savage at last climbs
+up the chains and stands all dripping and involuntarily trembling over
+the side; the steward advances, and with a benevolent, consolatory
+glance hands him--what? Some hot Cognac? No! hands him, ye gods! hands
+him a cup of tepid ginger and water!
+
+"Ginger? Do I smell ginger?" suspiciously asked Stubb, coming near.
+"Yes, this must be ginger," peering into the as yet untasted cup. Then
+standing as if incredulous for a while, he calmly walked towards the
+astonished steward slowly saying, "Ginger? ginger? and will you have
+the goodness to tell me, Mr. Dough-Boy, where lies the virtue of ginger?
+Ginger! is ginger the sort of fuel you use, Dough-boy, to kindle a fire
+in this shivering cannibal? Ginger!--what the devil is ginger?
+Sea-coal? firewood?--lucifer matches?--tinder?--gunpowder?--what the
+devil is ginger, I say, that you offer this cup to our poor Queequeg
+here."
+
+"There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this
+business," he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just
+come from forward. "Will you look at that kannakin, sir; smell of it,
+if you please." Then watching the mate's countenance, he added, "The
+steward, Mr. Starbuck, had the face to offer that calomel and jalap
+to Queequeg, there, this instant off the whale. Is the steward an
+apothecary, sir? and may I ask whether this is the sort of bitters by
+which he blows back the life into a half-drowned man?"
+
+"I trust not," said Starbuck, "it is poor stuff enough."
+
+"Aye, aye, steward," cried Stubb, "we'll teach you to drug a
+harpooneer; none of your apothecary's medicine here; you want to poison
+us, do ye? You have got out insurances on our lives and want to murder
+us all, and pocket the proceeds, do ye?"
+
+"It was not me," cried Dough-Boy, "it was Aunt Charity that brought the
+ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but
+only this ginger-jub--so she called it."
+
+"Ginger-jub! you gingerly rascal! take that! and run along with ye
+to the lockers, and get something better. I hope I do no wrong, Mr.
+Starbuck. It is the captain's orders--grog for the harpooneer on a
+whale."
+
+"Enough," replied Starbuck, "only don't hit him again, but--"
+
+"Oh, I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of
+that sort; and this fellow's a weazel. What were you about saying, sir?"
+
+"Only this: go down with him, and get what thou wantest thyself."
+
+When Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a sort
+of tea-caddy in the other. The first contained strong spirits, and was
+handed to Queequeg; the second was Aunt Charity's gift, and that was
+freely given to the waves.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk
+Over Him.
+
+
+It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whale's
+prodigious head hanging to the Pequod's side. But we must let it
+continue hanging there a while till we can get a chance to attend to it.
+For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the
+head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.
+
+Now, during the past night and forenoon, the Pequod had gradually
+drifted into a sea, which, by its occasional patches of yellow brit,
+gave unusual tokens of the vicinity of Right Whales, a species of the
+Leviathan that but few supposed to be at this particular time lurking
+anywhere near. And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of
+those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to
+cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near
+the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale
+had been brought alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the
+announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day, if
+opportunity offered.
+
+Nor was this long wanting. Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two
+boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit. Pulling further
+and further away, they at last became almost invisible to the men at
+the mast-head. But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of
+tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or
+both the boats must be fast. An interval passed and the boats were in
+plain sight, in the act of being dragged right towards the ship by the
+towing whale. So close did the monster come to the hull, that at
+first it seemed as if he meant it malice; but suddenly going down in a
+maelstrom, within three rods of the planks, he wholly disappeared from
+view, as if diving under the keel. "Cut, cut!" was the cry from the
+ship to the boats, which, for one instant, seemed on the point of being
+brought with a deadly dash against the vessel's side. But having plenty
+of line yet in the tubs, and the whale not sounding very rapidly, they
+paid out abundance of rope, and at the same time pulled with all their
+might so as to get ahead of the ship. For a few minutes the struggle was
+intensely critical; for while they still slacked out the tightened line
+in one direction, and still plied their oars in another, the contending
+strain threatened to take them under. But it was only a few feet advance
+they sought to gain. And they stuck to it till they did gain it; when
+instantly, a swift tremor was felt running like lightning along the
+keel, as the strained line, scraping beneath the ship, suddenly rose
+to view under her bows, snapping and quivering; and so flinging off its
+drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken glass on the water,
+while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once more the boats were
+free to fly. But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering
+his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after
+him, so that they performed a complete circuit.
+
+Meantime, they hauled more and more upon their lines, till close
+flanking him on both sides, Stubb answered Flask with lance for
+lance; and thus round and round the Pequod the battle went, while the
+multitudes of sharks that had before swum round the Sperm Whale's body,
+rushed to the fresh blood that was spilled, thirstily drinking at every
+new gash, as the eager Israelites did at the new bursting fountains that
+poured from the smitten rock.
+
+At last his spout grew thick, and with a frightful roll and vomit, he
+turned upon his back a corpse.
+
+While the two headsmen were engaged in making fast cords to his flukes,
+and in other ways getting the mass in readiness for towing, some
+conversation ensued between them.
+
+"I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard," said
+Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so
+ignoble a leviathan.
+
+"Wants with it?" said Flask, coiling some spare line in the boat's bow,
+"did you never hear that the ship which but once has a Sperm Whale's
+head hoisted on her starboard side, and at the same time a Right Whale's
+on the larboard; did you never hear, Stubb, that that ship can never
+afterwards capsize?"
+
+"Why not?
+
+"I don't know, but I heard that gamboge ghost of a Fedallah saying so,
+and he seems to know all about ships' charms. But I sometimes think
+he'll charm the ship to no good at last. I don't half like that chap,
+Stubb. Did you ever notice how that tusk of his is a sort of carved into
+a snake's head, Stubb?"
+
+"Sink him! I never look at him at all; but if ever I get a chance of a
+dark night, and he standing hard by the bulwarks, and no one by; look
+down there, Flask"--pointing into the sea with a peculiar motion of
+both hands--"Aye, will I! Flask, I take that Fedallah to be the devil in
+disguise. Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been
+stowed away on board ship? He's the devil, I say. The reason why you
+don't see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries
+it coiled away in his pocket, I guess. Blast him! now that I think of
+it, he's always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots."
+
+"He sleeps in his boots, don't he? He hasn't got any hammock; but I've
+seen him lay of nights in a coil of rigging."
+
+"No doubt, and it's because of his cursed tail; he coils it down, do ye
+see, in the eye of the rigging."
+
+"What's the old man have so much to do with him for?"
+
+"Striking up a swap or a bargain, I suppose."
+
+"Bargain?--about what?"
+
+"Why, do ye see, the old man is hard bent after that White Whale, and
+the devil there is trying to come round him, and get him to swap away
+his silver watch, or his soul, or something of that sort, and then he'll
+surrender Moby Dick."
+
+"Pooh! Stubb, you are skylarking; how can Fedallah do that?"
+
+"I don't know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked
+one, I tell ye. Why, they say as how he went a sauntering into the
+old flag-ship once, switching his tail about devilish easy and
+gentlemanlike, and inquiring if the old governor was at home. Well, he
+was at home, and asked the devil what he wanted. The devil, switching
+his hoofs, up and says, 'I want John.' 'What for?' says the old
+governor. 'What business is that of yours,' says the devil, getting
+mad,--'I want to use him.' 'Take him,' says the governor--and by the
+Lord, Flask, if the devil didn't give John the Asiatic cholera before
+he got through with him, I'll eat this whale in one mouthful. But look
+sharp--ain't you all ready there? Well, then, pull ahead, and let's get
+the whale alongside."
+
+"I think I remember some such story as you were telling," said Flask,
+when at last the two boats were slowly advancing with their burden
+towards the ship, "but I can't remember where."
+
+"Three Spaniards? Adventures of those three bloody-minded soladoes? Did
+ye read it there, Flask? I guess ye did?"
+
+"No: never saw such a book; heard of it, though. But now, tell me,
+Stubb, do you suppose that that devil you was speaking of just now, was
+the same you say is now on board the Pequod?"
+
+"Am I the same man that helped kill this whale? Doesn't the devil live
+for ever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see
+any parson a wearing mourning for the devil? And if the devil has a
+latch-key to get into the admiral's cabin, don't you suppose he can
+crawl into a porthole? Tell me that, Mr. Flask?"
+
+"How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?"
+
+"Do you see that mainmast there?" pointing to the ship; "well, that's
+the figure one; now take all the hoops in the Pequod's hold, and string
+along in a row with that mast, for oughts, do you see; well, that
+wouldn't begin to be Fedallah's age. Nor all the coopers in creation
+couldn't show hoops enough to make oughts enough."
+
+"But see here, Stubb, I thought you a little boasted just now, that you
+meant to give Fedallah a sea-toss, if you got a good chance. Now, if
+he's so old as all those hoops of yours come to, and if he is going
+to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard--tell me
+that?
+
+"Give him a good ducking, anyhow."
+
+"But he'd crawl back."
+
+"Duck him again; and keep ducking him."
+
+"Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though--yes, and
+drown you--what then?"
+
+"I should like to see him try it; I'd give him such a pair of black eyes
+that he wouldn't dare to show his face in the admiral's cabin again for
+a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he lives, and
+hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much. Damn the devil,
+Flask; so you suppose I'm afraid of the devil? Who's afraid of
+him, except the old governor who daresn't catch him and put him in
+double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping
+people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil
+kidnapped, he'd roast for him? There's a governor!"
+
+"Do you suppose Fedallah wants to kidnap Captain Ahab?"
+
+"Do I suppose it? You'll know it before long, Flask. But I am going now
+to keep a sharp look-out on him; and if I see anything very suspicious
+going on, I'll just take him by the nape of his neck, and say--Look
+here, Beelzebub, you don't do it; and if he makes any fuss, by the Lord
+I'll make a grab into his pocket for his tail, take it to the capstan,
+and give him such a wrenching and heaving, that his tail will come short
+off at the stump--do you see; and then, I rather guess when he finds
+himself docked in that queer fashion, he'll sneak off without the poor
+satisfaction of feeling his tail between his legs."
+
+"And what will you do with the tail, Stubb?"
+
+"Do with it? Sell it for an ox whip when we get home;--what else?"
+
+"Now, do you mean what you say, and have been saying all along, Stubb?"
+
+"Mean or not mean, here we are at the ship."
+
+The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side, where
+fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for securing
+him.
+
+"Didn't I tell you so?" said Flask; "yes, you'll soon see this right
+whale's head hoisted up opposite that parmacetti's."
+
+In good time, Flask's saying proved true. As before, the Pequod steeply
+leaned over towards the sperm whale's head, now, by the counterpoise of
+both heads, she regained her even keel; though sorely strained, you may
+well believe. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go
+over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come
+back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep
+trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard,
+and then you will float light and right.
+
+In disposing of the body of a right whale, when brought alongside the
+ship, the same preliminary proceedings commonly take place as in the
+case of a sperm whale; only, in the latter instance, the head is cut off
+whole, but in the former the lips and tongue are separately removed and
+hoisted on deck, with all the well known black bone attached to what is
+called the crown-piece. But nothing like this, in the present case,
+had been done. The carcases of both whales had dropped astern; and
+the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair of
+overburdening panniers.
+
+Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever
+and anon glancing from the deep wrinkles there to the lines in his own
+hand. And Ahab chanced so to stand, that the Parsee occupied his shadow;
+while, if the Parsee's shadow was there at all it seemed only to
+blend with, and lengthen Ahab's. As the crew toiled on, Laplandish
+speculations were bandied among them, concerning all these passing
+things.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head--Contrasted View.
+
+
+Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us
+join them, and lay together our own.
+
+Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right
+Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly
+hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all
+the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between
+them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this
+moment hanging from the Pequod's side; and as we may freely go from one
+to the other, by merely stepping across the deck:--where, I should like
+to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology
+than here?
+
+In the first place, you are struck by the general contrast between these
+heads. Both are massive enough in all conscience; but there is a certain
+mathematical symmetry in the Sperm Whale's which the Right Whale's sadly
+lacks. There is more character in the Sperm Whale's head. As you behold
+it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him, in point
+of pervading dignity. In the present instance, too, this dignity is
+heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the summit,
+giving token of advanced age and large experience. In short, he is what
+the fishermen technically call a "grey-headed whale."
+
+Let us now note what is least dissimilar in these heads--namely, the two
+most important organs, the eye and the ear. Far back on the side of
+the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if you
+narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would
+fancy to be a young colt's eye; so out of all proportion is it to the
+magnitude of the head.
+
+Now, from this peculiar sideway position of the whale's eyes, it is
+plain that he can never see an object which is exactly ahead, no more
+than he can one exactly astern. In a word, the position of the whale's
+eyes corresponds to that of a man's ears; and you may fancy, for
+yourself, how it would fare with you, did you sideways survey objects
+through your ears. You would find that you could only command some
+thirty degrees of vision in advance of the straight side-line of sight;
+and about thirty more behind it. If your bitterest foe were walking
+straight towards you, with dagger uplifted in broad day, you would not
+be able to see him, any more than if he were stealing upon you from
+behind. In a word, you would have two backs, so to speak; but, at the
+same time, also, two fronts (side fronts): for what is it that makes the
+front of a man--what, indeed, but his eyes?
+
+Moreover, while in most other animals that I can now think of, the eyes
+are so planted as imperceptibly to blend their visual power, so as to
+produce one picture and not two to the brain; the peculiar position of
+the whale's eyes, effectually divided as they are by many cubic feet of
+solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating
+two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the
+impressions which each independent organ imparts. The whale, therefore,
+must see one distinct picture on this side, and another distinct
+picture on that side; while all between must be profound darkness and
+nothingness to him. Man may, in effect, be said to look out on the world
+from a sentry-box with two joined sashes for his window. But with the
+whale, these two sashes are separately inserted, making two distinct
+windows, but sadly impairing the view. This peculiarity of the whale's
+eyes is a thing always to be borne in mind in the fishery; and to be
+remembered by the reader in some subsequent scenes.
+
+A curious and most puzzling question might be started concerning this
+visual matter as touching the Leviathan. But I must be content with a
+hint. So long as a man's eyes are open in the light, the act of seeing
+is involuntary; that is, he cannot then help mechanically seeing
+whatever objects are before him. Nevertheless, any one's experience
+will teach him, that though he can take in an undiscriminating sweep of
+things at one glance, it is quite impossible for him, attentively,
+and completely, to examine any two things--however large or however
+small--at one and the same instant of time; never mind if they lie side
+by side and touch each other. But if you now come to separate these two
+objects, and surround each by a circle of profound darkness; then, in
+order to see one of them, in such a manner as to bring your mind to
+bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary
+consciousness. How is it, then, with the whale? True, both his eyes,
+in themselves, must simultaneously act; but is his brain so much more
+comprehensive, combining, and subtle than man's, that he can at the same
+moment of time attentively examine two distinct prospects, one on one
+side of him, and the other in an exactly opposite direction? If he
+can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able
+simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct problems
+in Euclid. Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this
+comparison.
+
+It may be but an idle whim, but it has always seemed to me, that the
+extraordinary vacillations of movement displayed by some whales when
+beset by three or four boats; the timidity and liability to queer
+frights, so common to such whales; I think that all this indirectly
+proceeds from the helpless perplexity of volition, in which their
+divided and diametrically opposite powers of vision must involve them.
+
+But the ear of the whale is full as curious as the eye. If you are an
+entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads
+for hours, and never discover that organ. The ear has no external leaf
+whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so
+wondrously minute is it. It is lodged a little behind the eye. With
+respect to their ears, this important difference is to be observed
+between the sperm whale and the right. While the ear of the former has
+an external opening, that of the latter is entirely and evenly covered
+over with a membrane, so as to be quite imperceptible from without.
+
+Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the
+world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which
+is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of
+Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of
+cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of
+hearing? Not at all.--Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind?
+Subtilize it.
+
+Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant
+over the sperm whale's head, that it may lie bottom up; then, ascending
+by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; and were it not
+that the body is now completely separated from it, with a lantern we
+might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But
+let us hold on here by this tooth, and look about us where we are. What
+a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling,
+lined, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as
+bridal satins.
+
+But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems
+like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one
+end, instead of one side. If you pry it up, so as to get it overhead,
+and expose its rows of teeth, it seems a terrific portcullis; and such,
+alas! it proves to many a poor wight in the fishery, upon whom these
+spikes fall with impaling force. But far more terrible is it to behold,
+when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there
+suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging
+straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a
+ship's jib-boom. This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of
+sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his
+jaw have relaxed, leaving him there in that ungainly sort of plight, a
+reproach to all his tribe, who must, no doubt, imprecate lock-jaws upon
+him.
+
+In most cases this lower jaw--being easily unhinged by a practised
+artist--is disengaged and hoisted on deck for the purpose of extracting
+the ivory teeth, and furnishing a supply of that hard white whalebone
+with which the fishermen fashion all sorts of curious articles,
+including canes, umbrella-stocks, and handles to riding-whips.
+
+With a long, weary hoist the jaw is dragged on board, as if it were an
+anchor; and when the proper time comes--some few days after the other
+work--Queequeg, Daggoo, and Tashtego, being all accomplished dentists,
+are set to drawing teeth. With a keen cutting-spade, Queequeg lances
+the gums; then the jaw is lashed down to ringbolts, and a tackle being
+rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag
+stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are generally forty-two
+teeth in all; in old whales, much worn down, but undecayed; nor filled
+after our artificial fashion. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and
+piled away like joists for building houses.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head--Contrasted View.
+
+
+Crossing the deck, let us now have a good long look at the Right Whale's
+head.
+
+As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale's head may be compared to a
+Roman war-chariot (especially in front, where it is so broadly rounded);
+so, at a broad view, the Right Whale's head bears a rather inelegant
+resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe. Two hundred years ago an
+old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last. And
+in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale, with
+the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her
+progeny.
+
+But as you come nearer to this great head it begins to assume different
+aspects, according to your point of view. If you stand on its summit and
+look at these two F-shaped spoutholes, you would take the whole head
+for an enormous bass-viol, and these spiracles, the apertures in its
+sounding-board. Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange,
+crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass--this green,
+barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the
+Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes
+solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak,
+with a bird's nest in its crotch. At any rate, when you watch those live
+crabs that nestle here on this bonnet, such an idea will be almost
+sure to occur to you; unless, indeed, your fancy has been fixed by the
+technical term "crown" also bestowed upon it; in which case you will
+take great interest in thinking how this mighty monster is actually a
+diademed king of the sea, whose green crown has been put together for
+him in this marvellous manner. But if this whale be a king, he is a very
+sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem. Look at that hanging lower lip!
+what a huge sulk and pout is there! a sulk and pout, by carpenter's
+measurement, about twenty feet long and five feet deep; a sulk and pout
+that will yield you some 500 gallons of oil and more.
+
+A great pity, now, that this unfortunate whale should be hare-lipped.
+The fissure is about a foot across. Probably the mother during an
+important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes
+caused the beach to gape. Over this lip, as over a slippery threshold,
+we now slide into the mouth. Upon my word were I at Mackinaw, I should
+take this to be the inside of an Indian wigwam. Good Lord! is this the
+road that Jonah went? The roof is about twelve feet high, and runs to a
+pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular ridge-pole there; while
+these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us with those wondrous, half
+vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone, say three hundred on a
+side, which depending from the upper part of the head or crown
+bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere been cursorily
+mentioned. The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres,
+through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose
+intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through
+the seas of brit in feeding time. In the central blinds of bone, as they
+stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves,
+hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age,
+as the age of an oak by its circular rings. Though the certainty of this
+criterion is far from demonstrable, yet it has the savor of analogical
+probability. At any rate, if we yield to it, we must grant a far greater
+age to the Right Whale than at first glance will seem reasonable.
+
+In old times, there seem to have prevailed the most curious fancies
+concerning these blinds. One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous
+"whiskers" inside of the whale's mouth;* another, "hogs' bristles"; a
+third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language:
+"There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his
+upper CHOP, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth."
+
+
+*This reminds us that the Right Whale really has a sort of whisker, or
+rather a moustache, consisting of a few scattered white hairs on the
+upper part of the outer end of the lower jaw. Sometimes these
+tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn
+countenance.
+
+
+As every one knows, these same "hogs' bristles," "fins," "whiskers,"
+"blinds," or whatever you please, furnish to the ladies their busks and
+other stiffening contrivances. But in this particular, the demand has
+long been on the decline. It was in Queen Anne's time that the bone was
+in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion. And as those
+ancient dames moved about gaily, though in the jaws of the whale, as
+you may say; even so, in a shower, with the like thoughtlessness, do we
+nowadays fly under the same jaws for protection; the umbrella being a
+tent spread over the same bone.
+
+But now forget all about blinds and whiskers for a moment, and, standing
+in the Right Whale's mouth, look around you afresh. Seeing all these
+colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think
+you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its
+thousand pipes? For a carpet to the organ we have a rug of the softest
+Turkey--the tongue, which is glued, as it were, to the floor of the
+mouth. It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting
+it on deck. This particular tongue now before us; at a passing glance I
+should say it was a six-barreler; that is, it will yield you about that
+amount of oil.
+
+Ere this, you must have plainly seen the truth of what I started
+with--that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
+different heads. To sum up, then: in the Right Whale's there is no great
+well of sperm; no ivory teeth at all; no long, slender mandible of a
+lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's. Nor in the Sperm Whale are there any
+of those blinds of bone; no huge lower lip; and scarcely anything of a
+tongue. Again, the Right Whale has two external spout-holes, the Sperm
+Whale only one.
+
+Look your last, now, on these venerable hooded heads, while they yet lie
+together; for one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea; the other will
+not be very long in following.
+
+Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same
+he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem
+now faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like
+placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the
+other head's expression. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident
+against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not
+this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in
+facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm
+Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
+
+
+Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale's head, I would have
+you, as a sensible physiologist, simply--particularly remark its front
+aspect, in all its compacted collectedness. I would have you investigate
+it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated,
+intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged
+there. Here is a vital point; for you must either satisfactorily settle
+this matter with yourself, or for ever remain an infidel as to one of
+the most appalling, but not the less true events, perhaps anywhere to be
+found in all recorded history.
+
+You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm Whale,
+the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane to the
+water; you observe that the lower part of that front slopes considerably
+backwards, so as to furnish more of a retreat for the long socket which
+receives the boom-like lower jaw; you observe that the mouth is entirely
+under the head, much in the same way, indeed, as though your own mouth
+were entirely under your chin. Moreover you observe that the whale has
+no external nose; and that what nose he has--his spout hole--is on the
+top of his head; you observe that his eyes and ears are at the sides
+of his head, nearly one third of his entire length from the front.
+Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the front of the Sperm
+Whale's head is a dead, blind wall, without a single organ or tender
+prominence of any sort whatsoever. Furthermore, you are now to consider
+that only in the extreme, lower, backward sloping part of the front of
+the head, is there the slightest vestige of bone; and not till you
+get near twenty feet from the forehead do you come to the full cranial
+development. So that this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad.
+Finally, though, as will soon be revealed, its contents partly comprise
+the most delicate oil; yet, you are now to be apprised of the nature of
+the substance which so impregnably invests all that apparent effeminacy.
+In some previous place I have described to you how the blubber wraps the
+body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange. Just so with the head;
+but with this difference: about the head this envelope, though not so
+thick, is of a boneless toughness, inestimable by any man who has not
+handled it. The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by
+the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it. It is as though
+the forehead of the Sperm Whale were paved with horses' hoofs. I do not
+think that any sensation lurks in it.
+
+Bethink yourself also of another thing. When two large, loaded Indiamen
+chance to crowd and crush towards each other in the docks, what do the
+sailors do? They do not suspend between them, at the point of coming
+contact, any merely hard substance, like iron or wood. No, they hold
+there a large, round wad of tow and cork, enveloped in the thickest
+and toughest of ox-hide. That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which
+would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars. By
+itself this sufficiently illustrates the obvious fact I drive at. But
+supplementary to this, it has hypothetically occurred to me, that
+as ordinary fish possess what is called a swimming bladder in them,
+capable, at will, of distension or contraction; and as the Sperm Whale,
+as far as I know, has no such provision in him; considering, too,
+the otherwise inexplicable manner in which he now depresses his head
+altogether beneath the surface, and anon swims with it high elevated out
+of the water; considering the unobstructed elasticity of its envelope;
+considering the unique interior of his head; it has hypothetically
+occurred to me, I say, that those mystical lung-celled honeycombs there
+may possibly have some hitherto unknown and unsuspected connexion with
+the outer air, so as to be susceptible to atmospheric distension and
+contraction. If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to
+which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.
+
+Now, mark. Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable
+wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a
+mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood
+is--by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest
+insect. So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the
+specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this
+expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable
+braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant
+incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale
+stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic
+with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow. For
+unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and sentimentalist
+in Truth. But clear Truth is a thing for salamander giants only to
+encounter; how small the chances for the provincials then? What befell
+the weakling youth lifting the dread goddess's veil at Lais?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
+
+
+Now comes the Baling of the Case. But to comprehend it aright, you must
+know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated
+upon.
+
+Regarding the Sperm Whale's head as a solid oblong, you may, on an
+inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins,* whereof the lower
+is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an
+unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the
+expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale. At the middle of the
+forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two
+almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal
+wall of a thick tendinous substance.
+
+
+*Quoin is not a Euclidean term. It belongs to the pure nautical
+mathematics. I know not that it has been defined before. A quoin is a
+solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the
+steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both
+sides.
+
+
+The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb
+of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand
+infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole
+extent. The upper part, known as the Case, may be regarded as the great
+Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. And as that famous great tierce is
+mystically carved in front, so the whale's vast plaited forehead forms
+innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his
+wondrous tun. Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished
+with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun
+of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages;
+namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid,
+and odoriferous state. Nor is this precious substance found unalloyed
+in any other part of the creature. Though in life it remains perfectly
+fluid, yet, upon exposure to the air, after death, it soon begins to
+concrete; sending forth beautiful crystalline shoots, as when the
+first thin delicate ice is just forming in water. A large whale's
+case generally yields about five hundred gallons of sperm, though from
+unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it is spilled, leaks, and
+dribbles away, or is otherwise irrevocably lost in the ticklish business
+of securing what you can.
+
+I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun
+was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not
+possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like the
+lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's
+case.
+
+It will have been seen that the Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale
+embraces the entire length of the entire top of the head; and since--as
+has been elsewhere set forth--the head embraces one third of the whole
+length of the creature, then setting that length down at eighty feet for
+a good sized whale, you have more than twenty-six feet for the depth
+of the tun, when it is lengthwise hoisted up and down against a ship's
+side.
+
+As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close
+to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti
+magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless,
+untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its
+invaluable contents. It is this decapitated end of the head, also, which
+is at last elevated out of the water, and retained in that position by
+the enormous cutting tackles, whose hempen combinations, on one side,
+make quite a wilderness of ropes in that quarter.
+
+Thus much being said, attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and--in
+this particular instance--almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm
+Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
+
+
+Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect
+posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging mainyard-arm, to the
+part where it exactly projects over the hoisted Tun. He has carried
+with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts,
+travelling through a single-sheaved block. Securing this block, so that
+it hangs down from the yard-arm, he swings one end of the rope, till it
+is caught and firmly held by a hand on deck. Then, hand-over-hand, down
+the other part, the Indian drops through the air, till dexterously he
+lands on the summit of the head. There--still high elevated above the
+rest of the company, to whom he vivaciously cries--he seems some Turkish
+Muezzin calling the good people to prayers from the top of a tower. A
+short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches
+for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun. In this business
+he proceeds very heedfully, like a treasure-hunter in some old house,
+sounding the walls to find where the gold is masoned in. By the time
+this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like
+a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the other
+end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or three
+alert hands. These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the Indian,
+to whom another person has reached up a very long pole. Inserting this
+pole into the bucket, Tashtego downward guides the bucket into the Tun,
+till it entirely disappears; then giving the word to the seamen at the
+whip, up comes the bucket again, all bubbling like a dairy-maid's pail
+of new milk. Carefully lowered from its height, the full-freighted
+vessel is caught by an appointed hand, and quickly emptied into a large
+tub. Then remounting aloft, it again goes through the same round until
+the deep cistern will yield no more. Towards the end, Tashtego has to
+ram his long pole harder and harder, and deeper and deeper into the Tun,
+until some twenty feet of the pole have gone down.
+
+Now, the people of the Pequod had been baling some time in this way;
+several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm; when all at once a
+queer accident happened. Whether it was that Tashtego, that wild Indian,
+was so heedless and reckless as to let go for a moment his one-handed
+hold on the great cabled tackles suspending the head; or whether the
+place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy; or whether the Evil
+One himself would have it to fall out so, without stating his particular
+reasons; how it was exactly, there is no telling now; but, on a sudden,
+as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up--my God! poor
+Tashtego--like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well,
+dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with
+a horrible oily gurgling, went clean out of sight!
+
+"Man overboard!" cried Daggoo, who amid the general consternation first
+came to his senses. "Swing the bucket this way!" and putting one foot
+into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip
+itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost
+before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. Meantime,
+there was a terrible tumult. Looking over the side, they saw the before
+lifeless head throbbing and heaving just below the surface of the sea,
+as if that moment seized with some momentous idea; whereas it was only
+the poor Indian unconsciously revealing by those struggles the perilous
+depth to which he had sunk.
+
+At this instant, while Daggoo, on the summit of the head, was clearing
+the whip--which had somehow got foul of the great cutting tackles--a
+sharp cracking noise was heard; and to the unspeakable horror of all,
+one of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with
+a vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship
+reeled and shook as if smitten by an iceberg. The one remaining hook,
+upon which the entire strain now depended, seemed every instant to be
+on the point of giving way; an event still more likely from the violent
+motions of the head.
+
+"Come down, come down!" yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand
+holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he
+would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line,
+rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the
+buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
+
+"In heaven's name, man," cried Stubb, "are you ramming home a cartridge
+there?--Avast! How will that help him; jamming that iron-bound bucket on
+top of his head? Avast, will ye!"
+
+"Stand clear of the tackle!" cried a voice like the bursting of a
+rocket.
+
+Almost in the same instant, with a thunder-boom, the enormous mass
+dropped into the sea, like Niagara's Table-Rock into the whirlpool; the
+suddenly relieved hull rolled away from it, to far down her glittering
+copper; and all caught their breath, as half swinging--now over the
+sailors' heads, and now over the water--Daggoo, through a thick mist of
+spray, was dimly beheld clinging to the pendulous tackles, while poor,
+buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down to the bottom of the sea!
+But hardly had the blinding vapour cleared away, when a naked figure
+with a boarding-sword in his hand, was for one swift moment seen
+hovering over the bulwarks. The next, a loud splash announced that my
+brave Queequeg had dived to the rescue. One packed rush was made to the
+side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment, and
+no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen. Some hands now
+jumped into a boat alongside, and pushed a little off from the ship.
+
+"Ha! ha!" cried Daggoo, all at once, from his now quiet, swinging perch
+overhead; and looking further off from the side, we saw an arm thrust
+upright from the blue waves; a sight strange to see, as an arm thrust
+forth from the grass over a grave.
+
+"Both! both!--it is both!"--cried Daggoo again with a joyful shout; and
+soon after, Queequeg was seen boldly striking out with one hand, and
+with the other clutching the long hair of the Indian. Drawn into the
+waiting boat, they were quickly brought to the deck; but Tashtego was
+long in coming to, and Queequeg did not look very brisk.
+
+Now, how had this noble rescue been accomplished? Why, diving after
+the slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made
+side lunges near its bottom, so as to scuttle a large hole there; then
+dropping his sword, had thrust his long arm far inwards and upwards,
+and so hauled out poor Tash by the head. He averred, that upon first
+thrusting in for him, a leg was presented; but well knowing that that
+was not as it ought to be, and might occasion great trouble;--he had
+thrust back the leg, and by a dexterous heave and toss, had wrought a
+somerset upon the Indian; so that with the next trial, he came forth in
+the good old way--head foremost. As for the great head itself, that was
+doing as well as could be expected.
+
+And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg,
+the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully
+accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently
+hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten.
+Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing,
+riding and rowing.
+
+I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header's will be sure to
+seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either
+seen or heard of some one's falling into a cistern ashore; an accident
+which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than the
+Indian's, considering the exceeding slipperiness of the curb of the
+Sperm Whale's well.
+
+But, peradventure, it may be sagaciously urged, how is this? We thought
+the tissued, infiltrated head of the Sperm Whale, was the lightest and
+most corky part about him; and yet thou makest it sink in an element of
+a far greater specific gravity than itself. We have thee there. Not at
+all, but I have ye; for at the time poor Tash fell in, the case had been
+nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the dense
+tendinous wall of the well--a double welded, hammered substance, as I
+have before said, much heavier than the sea water, and a lump of which
+sinks in it like lead almost. But the tendency to rapid sinking in this
+substance was in the present instance materially counteracted by the
+other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank
+very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance
+for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say. Yes, it
+was a running delivery, so it was.
+
+Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious
+perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant
+spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber
+and sanctum sanctorum of the whale. Only one sweeter end can readily be
+recalled--the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey
+in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that
+leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed.
+How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and
+sweetly perished there?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
+
+
+To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this
+Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as
+yet undertaken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for
+Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar,
+or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the
+Pantheon. Still, in that famous work of his, Lavater not only treats
+of the various faces of men, but also attentively studies the faces
+of horses, birds, serpents, and fish; and dwells in detail upon the
+modifications of expression discernible therein. Nor have Gall and
+his disciple Spurzheim failed to throw out some hints touching the
+phrenological characteristics of other beings than man. Therefore,
+though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these
+two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor. I try all things;
+I achieve what I can.
+
+Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature.
+He has no proper nose. And since the nose is the central and most
+conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and
+finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its
+entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect
+the countenance of the whale. For as in landscape gardening, a spire,
+cupola, monument, or tower of some sort, is deemed almost indispensable
+to the completion of the scene; so no face can be physiognomically in
+keeping without the elevated open-work belfry of the nose. Dash the nose
+from Phidias's marble Jove, and what a sorry remainder! Nevertheless,
+Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so
+stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were
+hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Nay, it is an added grandeur. A
+nose to the whale would have been impertinent. As on your physiognomical
+voyage you sail round his vast head in your jolly-boat, your noble
+conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a
+nose to be pulled. A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon
+obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
+
+In some particulars, perhaps the most imposing physiognomical view to
+be had of the Sperm Whale, is that of the full front of his head. This
+aspect is sublime.
+
+In thought, a fine human brow is like the East when troubled with the
+morning. In the repose of the pasture, the curled brow of the bull has a
+touch of the grand in it. Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles, the
+elephant's brow is majestic. Human or animal, the mystical brow is as
+that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees.
+It signifies--"God: done this day by my hand." But in most creatures,
+nay in man himself, very often the brow is but a mere strip of alpine
+land lying along the snow line. Few are the foreheads which like
+Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend so low, that the
+eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all
+above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered
+thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the
+snow prints of the deer. But in the great Sperm Whale, this high and
+mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified,
+that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity and the
+dread powers more forcibly than in beholding any other object in living
+nature. For you see no one point precisely; not one distinct feature is
+revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face; he has none, proper;
+nothing but that one broad firmament of a forehead, pleated with
+riddles; dumbly lowering with the doom of boats, and ships, and men.
+Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way
+viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so. In profile, you
+plainly perceive that horizontal, semi-crescentic depression in the
+forehead's middle, which, in man, is Lavater's mark of genius.
+
+But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written
+a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his
+doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his
+pyramidical silence. And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale
+been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by
+their child-magian thoughts. They deified the crocodile of the Nile,
+because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no
+tongue, or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of
+protrusion. If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure
+back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly
+enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted
+hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale
+shall lord it.
+
+Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics. But there is
+no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's
+face. Physiognomy, like every other human science, is but a passing
+fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could
+not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle
+meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of
+the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you
+can.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
+
+
+If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his
+brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
+
+In the full-grown creature the skull will measure at least twenty feet
+in length. Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as
+the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level
+base. But in life--as we have elsewhere seen--this inclined plane is
+angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent
+mass of the junk and sperm. At the high end the skull forms a crater to
+bed that part of the mass; while under the long floor of this crater--in
+another cavity seldom exceeding ten inches in length and as many in
+depth--reposes the mere handful of this monster's brain. The brain is at
+least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden
+away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the
+amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it
+secreted in him, that I have known some whalemen who peremptorily deny
+that the Sperm Whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance
+of one formed by the cubic-yards of his sperm magazine. Lying in strange
+folds, courses, and convolutions, to their apprehensions, it seems more
+in keeping with the idea of his general might to regard that mystic part
+of him as the seat of his intelligence.
+
+It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in
+the creature's living intact state, is an entire delusion. As for his
+true brain, you can then see no indications of it, nor feel any. The
+whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the common
+world.
+
+If you unload his skull of its spermy heaps and then take a rear view
+of its rear end, which is the high end, you will be struck by its
+resemblance to the human skull, beheld in the same situation, and from
+the same point of view. Indeed, place this reversed skull (scaled down
+to the human magnitude) among a plate of men's skulls, and you would
+involuntarily confound it with them; and remarking the depressions on
+one part of its summit, in phrenological phrase you would say--This
+man had no self-esteem, and no veneration. And by those negations,
+considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and
+power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most
+exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.
+
+But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you
+deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea
+for you. If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine,
+you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung
+necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the
+skull proper. It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely
+undeveloped skulls. But the curious external resemblance, I take it
+the Germans were not the first men to perceive. A foreign friend once
+pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with
+the vertebrae of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the
+beaked prow of his canoe. Now, I consider that the phrenologists have
+omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the
+cerebellum through the spinal canal. For I believe that much of a man's
+character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel
+your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine
+never yet upheld a full and noble soul. I rejoice in my spine, as in the
+firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
+
+Apply this spinal branch of phrenology to the Sperm Whale. His cranial
+cavity is continuous with the first neck-vertebra; and in that vertebra
+the bottom of the spinal canal will measure ten inches across, being
+eight in height, and of a triangular figure with the base downwards. As
+it passes through the remaining vertebrae the canal tapers in size, but
+for a considerable distance remains of large capacity. Now, of course,
+this canal is filled with much the same strangely fibrous substance--the
+spinal cord--as the brain; and directly communicates with the brain.
+And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's
+cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost
+equal to that of the brain. Under all these circumstances, would it be
+unreasonable to survey and map out the whale's spine phrenologically?
+For, viewed in this light, the wonderful comparative smallness of his
+brain proper is more than compensated by the wonderful comparative
+magnitude of his spinal cord.
+
+But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I
+would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the
+Sperm Whale's hump. This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one
+of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer
+convex mould of it. From its relative situation then, I should call this
+high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
+And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to
+know.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
+
+
+The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick
+De Deer, master, of Bremen.
+
+At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and
+Germans are now among the least; but here and there at very wide
+intervals of latitude and longitude, you still occasionally meet with
+their flag in the Pacific.
+
+For some reason, the Jungfrau seemed quite eager to pay her respects.
+While yet some distance from the Pequod, she rounded to, and dropping a
+boat, her captain was impelled towards us, impatiently standing in the
+bows instead of the stern.
+
+"What has he in his hand there?" cried Starbuck, pointing to something
+wavingly held by the German. "Impossible!--a lamp-feeder!"
+
+"Not that," said Stubb, "no, no, it's a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; he's
+coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don't you see that big
+tin can there alongside of him?--that's his boiling water. Oh! he's all
+right, is the Yarman."
+
+"Go along with you," cried Flask, "it's a lamp-feeder and an oil-can.
+He's out of oil, and has come a-begging."
+
+However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the
+whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old
+proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing
+really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did
+indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
+
+As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all
+heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German
+soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately
+turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some
+remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in
+profound darkness--his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a
+single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding
+by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically
+called a CLEAN one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name of
+Jungfrau or the Virgin.
+
+His necessities supplied, Derick departed; but he had not gained his
+ship's side, when whales were almost simultaneously raised from the
+mast-heads of both vessels; and so eager for the chase was Derick, that
+without pausing to put his oil-can and lamp-feeder aboard, he slewed
+round his boat and made after the leviathan lamp-feeders.
+
+Now, the game having risen to leeward, he and the other three German
+boats that soon followed him, had considerably the start of the Pequod's
+keels. There were eight whales, an average pod. Aware of their danger,
+they were going all abreast with great speed straight before the wind,
+rubbing their flanks as closely as so many spans of horses in harness.
+They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great
+wide parchment upon the sea.
+
+Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge,
+humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as
+by the unusual yellowish incrustations overgrowing him, seemed afflicted
+with the jaundice, or some other infirmity. Whether this whale belonged
+to the pod in advance, seemed questionable; for it is not customary for
+such venerable leviathans to be at all social. Nevertheless, he stuck
+to their wake, though indeed their back water must have retarded him,
+because the white-bone or swell at his broad muzzle was a dashed one,
+like the swell formed when two hostile currents meet. His spout was
+short, slow, and laborious; coming forth with a choking sort of gush,
+and spending itself in torn shreds, followed by strange subterranean
+commotions in him, which seemed to have egress at his other buried
+extremity, causing the waters behind him to upbubble.
+
+"Who's got some paregoric?" said Stubb, "he has the stomach-ache, I'm
+afraid. Lord, think of having half an acre of stomach-ache! Adverse
+winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. It's the first foul wind
+I ever knew to blow from astern; but look, did ever whale yaw so before?
+it must be, he's lost his tiller."
+
+As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck
+load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her
+way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly
+turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious
+wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin. Whether he had lost
+that fin in battle, or had been born without it, it were hard to say.
+
+"Only wait a bit, old chap, and I'll give ye a sling for that wounded
+arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
+
+"Mind he don't sling thee with it," cried Starbuck. "Give way, or the
+German will have him."
+
+With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this
+one fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most
+valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were
+going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit
+for the time. At this juncture the Pequod's keels had shot by the three
+German boats last lowered; but from the great start he had had, Derick's
+boat still led the chase, though every moment neared by his foreign
+rivals. The only thing they feared, was, that from being already so
+nigh to his mark, he would be enabled to dart his iron before they
+could completely overtake and pass him. As for Derick, he seemed quite
+confident that this would be the case, and occasionally with a deriding
+gesture shook his lamp-feeder at the other boats.
+
+"The ungracious and ungrateful dog!" cried Starbuck; "he mocks and dares
+me with the very poor-box I filled for him not five minutes ago!"--then
+in his old intense whisper--"Give way, greyhounds! Dog to it!"
+
+"I tell ye what it is, men"--cried Stubb to his crew--"it's against
+my religion to get mad; but I'd like to eat that villainous
+Yarman--Pull--won't ye? Are ye going to let that rascal beat ye? Do
+ye love brandy? A hogshead of brandy, then, to the best man. Come,
+why don't some of ye burst a blood-vessel? Who's that been dropping an
+anchor overboard--we don't budge an inch--we're becalmed. Halloo, here's
+grass growing in the boat's bottom--and by the Lord, the mast there's
+budding. This won't do, boys. Look at that Yarman! The short and long of
+it is, men, will ye spit fire or not?"
+
+"Oh! see the suds he makes!" cried Flask, dancing up and down--"What
+a hump--Oh, DO pile on the beef--lays like a log! Oh! my lads, DO
+spring--slap-jacks and quahogs for supper, you know, my lads--baked
+clams and muffins--oh, DO, DO, spring,--he's a hundred barreller--don't
+lose him now--don't oh, DON'T!--see that Yarman--Oh, won't ye pull for
+your duff, my lads--such a sog! such a sogger! Don't ye love sperm?
+There goes three thousand dollars, men!--a bank!--a whole bank! The bank
+of England!--Oh, DO, DO, DO!--What's that Yarman about now?"
+
+At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the
+advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view
+of retarding his rivals' way, and at the same time economically
+accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.
+
+"The unmannerly Dutch dogger!" cried Stubb. "Pull now, men, like fifty
+thousand line-of-battle-ship loads of red-haired devils. What d'ye say,
+Tashtego; are you the man to snap your spine in two-and-twenty pieces
+for the honour of old Gayhead? What d'ye say?"
+
+"I say, pull like god-dam,"--cried the Indian.
+
+Fiercely, but evenly incited by the taunts of the German, the Pequod's
+three boats now began ranging almost abreast; and, so disposed,
+momentarily neared him. In that fine, loose, chivalrous attitude of
+the headsman when drawing near to his prey, the three mates stood up
+proudly, occasionally backing the after oarsman with an exhilarating cry
+of, "There she slides, now! Hurrah for the white-ash breeze! Down with
+the Yarman! Sail over him!"
+
+But so decided an original start had Derick had, that spite of all
+their gallantry, he would have proved the victor in this race, had not
+a righteous judgment descended upon him in a crab which caught the blade
+of his midship oarsman. While this clumsy lubber was striving to free
+his white-ash, and while, in consequence, Derick's boat was nigh to
+capsizing, and he thundering away at his men in a mighty rage;--that was
+a good time for Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask. With a shout, they took a
+mortal start forwards, and slantingly ranged up on the German's quarter.
+An instant more, and all four boats were diagonically in the whale's
+immediate wake, while stretching from them, on both sides, was the
+foaming swell that he made.
+
+It was a terrific, most pitiable, and maddening sight. The whale was
+now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual
+tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of
+fright. Now to this hand, now to that, he yawed in his faltering flight,
+and still at every billow that he broke, he spasmodically sank in the
+sea, or sideways rolled towards the sky his one beating fin. So have I
+seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the
+air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks. But the bird has a
+voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the fear
+of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted in him;
+he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his spiracle,
+and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while still, in his
+amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to
+appal the stoutest man who so pitied.
+
+Seeing now that but a very few moments more would give the Pequod's
+boats the advantage, and rather than be thus foiled of his game, Derick
+chose to hazard what to him must have seemed a most unusually long dart,
+ere the last chance would for ever escape.
+
+But no sooner did his harpooneer stand up for the stroke, than all three
+tigers--Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo--instinctively sprang to their feet,
+and standing in a diagonal row, simultaneously pointed their barbs; and
+darted over the head of the German harpooneer, their three Nantucket
+irons entered the whale. Blinding vapours of foam and white-fire! The
+three boats, in the first fury of the whale's headlong rush, bumped
+the German's aside with such force, that both Derick and his baffled
+harpooneer were spilled out, and sailed over by the three flying keels.
+
+"Don't be afraid, my butter-boxes," cried Stubb, casting a passing
+glance upon them as he shot by; "ye'll be picked up presently--all
+right--I saw some sharks astern--St. Bernard's dogs, you know--relieve
+distressed travellers. Hurrah! this is the way to sail now. Every keel a
+sunbeam! Hurrah!--Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a mad
+cougar! This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a tilbury on
+a plain--makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to him that
+way; and there's danger of being pitched out too, when you strike a
+hill. Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when he's going to Davy
+Jones--all a rush down an endless inclined plane! Hurrah! this whale
+carries the everlasting mail!"
+
+But the monster's run was a brief one. Giving a sudden gasp, he
+tumultuously sounded. With a grating rush, the three lines flew round
+the loggerheads with such a force as to gouge deep grooves in them;
+while so fearful were the harpooneers that this rapid sounding would
+soon exhaust the lines, that using all their dexterous might, they
+caught repeated smoking turns with the rope to hold on; till at
+last--owing to the perpendicular strain from the lead-lined chocks of
+the boats, whence the three ropes went straight down into the blue--the
+gunwales of the bows were almost even with the water, while the three
+sterns tilted high in the air. And the whale soon ceasing to sound,
+for some time they remained in that attitude, fearful of expending more
+line, though the position was a little ticklish. But though boats have
+been taken down and lost in this way, yet it is this "holding on," as it
+is called; this hooking up by the sharp barbs of his live flesh from
+the back; this it is that often torments the Leviathan into soon rising
+again to meet the sharp lance of his foes. Yet not to speak of the peril
+of the thing, it is to be doubted whether this course is always the
+best; for it is but reasonable to presume, that the longer the stricken
+whale stays under water, the more he is exhausted. Because, owing to the
+enormous surface of him--in a full grown sperm whale something less than
+2000 square feet--the pressure of the water is immense. We all know
+what an astonishing atmospheric weight we ourselves stand up under; even
+here, above-ground, in the air; how vast, then, the burden of a whale,
+bearing on his back a column of two hundred fathoms of ocean! It must at
+least equal the weight of fifty atmospheres. One whaleman has estimated
+it at the weight of twenty line-of-battle ships, with all their guns,
+and stores, and men on board.
+
+As the three boats lay there on that gently rolling sea, gazing down
+into its eternal blue noon; and as not a single groan or cry of any
+sort, nay, not so much as a ripple or a bubble came up from its depths;
+what landsman would have thought, that beneath all that silence and
+placidity, the utmost monster of the seas was writhing and wrenching in
+agony! Not eight inches of perpendicular rope were visible at the bows.
+Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the great Leviathan
+was suspended like the big weight to an eight day clock. Suspended? and
+to what? To three bits of board. Is this the creature of whom it was
+once so triumphantly said--"Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?
+or his head with fish-spears? The sword of him that layeth at him cannot
+hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron as
+straw; the arrow cannot make him flee; darts are counted as stubble;
+he laugheth at the shaking of a spear!" This the creature? this he? Oh!
+that unfulfilments should follow the prophets. For with the strength
+of a thousand thighs in his tail, Leviathan had run his head under the
+mountains of the sea, to hide him from the Pequod's fish-spears!
+
+In that sloping afternoon sunlight, the shadows that the three boats
+sent down beneath the surface, must have been long enough and broad
+enough to shade half Xerxes' army. Who can tell how appalling to the
+wounded whale must have been such huge phantoms flitting over his head!
+
+"Stand by, men; he stirs," cried Starbuck, as the three lines suddenly
+vibrated in the water, distinctly conducting upwards to them, as by
+magnetic wires, the life and death throbs of the whale, so that every
+oarsman felt them in his seat. The next moment, relieved in great part
+from the downward strain at the bows, the boats gave a sudden bounce
+upwards, as a small icefield will, when a dense herd of white bears are
+scared from it into the sea.
+
+"Haul in! Haul in!" cried Starbuck again; "he's rising."
+
+The lines, of which, hardly an instant before, not one hand's breadth
+could have been gained, were now in long quick coils flung back all
+dripping into the boats, and soon the whale broke water within two
+ship's lengths of the hunters.
+
+His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion. In most land animals
+there are certain valves or flood-gates in many of their veins, whereby
+when wounded, the blood is in some degree at least instantly shut off in
+certain directions. Not so with the whale; one of whose peculiarities
+it is to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood-vessels, so
+that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly
+drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is
+heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance
+below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant
+streams. Yet so vast is the quantity of blood in him, and so distant
+and numerous its interior fountains, that he will keep thus bleeding and
+bleeding for a considerable period; even as in a drought a river will
+flow, whose source is in the well-springs of far-off and undiscernible
+hills. Even now, when the boats pulled upon this whale, and perilously
+drew over his swaying flukes, and the lances were darted into him,
+they were followed by steady jets from the new made wound, which kept
+continually playing, while the natural spout-hole in his head was only
+at intervals, however rapid, sending its affrighted moisture into the
+air. From this last vent no blood yet came, because no vital part of him
+had thus far been struck. His life, as they significantly call it, was
+untouched.
+
+As the boats now more closely surrounded him, the whole upper part of
+his form, with much of it that is ordinarily submerged, was plainly
+revealed. His eyes, or rather the places where his eyes had been, were
+beheld. As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the
+noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes
+had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.
+But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his
+blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the
+gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the
+solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.
+Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a strangely
+discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low down on the
+flank.
+
+"A nice spot," cried Flask; "just let me prick him there once."
+
+"Avast!" cried Starbuck, "there's no need of that!"
+
+But humane Starbuck was too late. At the instant of the dart an
+ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than
+sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury
+blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews
+all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask's boat and marring the
+bows. It was his death stroke. For, by this time, so spent was he by
+loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had
+made; lay panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin,
+then over and over slowly revolved like a waning world; turned up
+the white secrets of his belly; lay like a log, and died. It was most
+piteous, that last expiring spout. As when by unseen hands the water
+is gradually drawn off from some mighty fountain, and with half-stifled
+melancholy gurglings the spray-column lowers and lowers to the
+ground--so the last long dying spout of the whale.
+
+Soon, while the crews were awaiting the arrival of the ship, the body
+showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled. Immediately,
+by Starbuck's orders, lines were secured to it at different points, so
+that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken whale being suspended a
+few inches beneath them by the cords. By very heedful management, when
+the ship drew nigh, the whale was transferred to her side, and was
+strongly secured there by the stiffest fluke-chains, for it was plain
+that unless artificially upheld, the body would at once sink to the
+bottom.
+
+It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade,
+the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his flesh,
+on the lower part of the bunch before described. But as the stumps of
+harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured whales,
+with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence of any
+kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have been
+some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for
+the ulceration alluded to. But still more curious was the fact of a
+lance-head of stone being found in him, not far from the buried iron,
+the flesh perfectly firm about it. Who had darted that stone lance? And
+when? It might have been darted by some Nor' West Indian long before
+America was discovered.
+
+What other marvels might have been rummaged out of this monstrous
+cabinet there is no telling. But a sudden stop was put to further
+discoveries, by the ship's being unprecedentedly dragged over sideways
+to the sea, owing to the body's immensely increasing tendency to sink.
+However, Starbuck, who had the ordering of affairs, hung on to it to the
+last; hung on to it so resolutely, indeed, that when at length the ship
+would have been capsized, if still persisting in locking arms with the
+body; then, when the command was given to break clear from it, such was
+the immovable strain upon the timber-heads to which the fluke-chains and
+cables were fastened, that it was impossible to cast them off. Meantime
+everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to the other side of the
+deck was like walking up the steep gabled roof of a house. The ship
+groaned and gasped. Many of the ivory inlayings of her bulwarks and
+cabins were started from their places, by the unnatural dislocation.
+In vain handspikes and crows were brought to bear upon the immovable
+fluke-chains, to pry them adrift from the timberheads; and so low
+had the whale now settled that the submerged ends could not be at all
+approached, while every moment whole tons of ponderosity seemed added to
+the sinking bulk, and the ship seemed on the point of going over.
+
+"Hold on, hold on, won't ye?" cried Stubb to the body, "don't be in such
+a devil of a hurry to sink! By thunder, men, we must do something or go
+for it. No use prying there; avast, I say with your handspikes, and run
+one of ye for a prayer book and a pen-knife, and cut the big chains."
+
+"Knife? Aye, aye," cried Queequeg, and seizing the carpenter's heavy
+hatchet, he leaned out of a porthole, and steel to iron, began slashing
+at the largest fluke-chains. But a few strokes, full of sparks, were
+given, when the exceeding strain effected the rest. With a terrific
+snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank.
+
+Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm
+Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately
+accounted for it. Usually the dead Sperm Whale floats with great
+buoyancy, with its side or belly considerably elevated above the
+surface. If the only whales that thus sank were old, meagre, and
+broken-hearted creatures, their pads of lard diminished and all their
+bones heavy and rheumatic; then you might with some reason assert that
+this sinking is caused by an uncommon specific gravity in the fish so
+sinking, consequent upon this absence of buoyant matter in him. But it
+is not so. For young whales, in the highest health, and swelling with
+noble aspirations, prematurely cut off in the warm flush and May of
+life, with all their panting lard about them; even these brawny, buoyant
+heroes do sometimes sink.
+
+Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this
+accident than any other species. Where one of that sort go down, twenty
+Right Whales do. This difference in the species is no doubt imputable in
+no small degree to the greater quantity of bone in the Right Whale;
+his Venetian blinds alone sometimes weighing more than a ton; from this
+incumbrance the Sperm Whale is wholly free. But there are instances
+where, after the lapse of many hours or several days, the sunken whale
+again rises, more buoyant than in life. But the reason of this
+is obvious. Gases are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious
+magnitude; becomes a sort of animal balloon. A line-of-battle ship could
+hardly keep him under then. In the Shore Whaling, on soundings, among
+the Bays of New Zealand, when a Right Whale gives token of sinking, they
+fasten buoys to him, with plenty of rope; so that when the body has gone
+down, they know where to look for it when it shall have ascended again.
+
+It was not long after the sinking of the body that a cry was heard from
+the Pequod's mast-heads, announcing that the Jungfrau was again lowering
+her boats; though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back,
+belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its
+incredible power of swimming. Nevertheless, the Fin-Back's spout is so
+similar to the Sperm Whale's, that by unskilful fishermen it is often
+mistaken for it. And consequently Derick and all his host were now in
+valiant chase of this unnearable brute. The Virgin crowding all sail,
+made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to
+leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
+
+Oh! many are the Fin-Backs, and many are the Dericks, my friend.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
+
+
+There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true
+method.
+
+The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up
+to the very spring-head of it so much the more am I impressed with its
+great honourableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many
+great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other
+have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection
+that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a
+fraternity.
+
+The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first whaleman; and
+to the eternal honour of our calling be it said, that the first whale
+attacked by our brotherhood was not killed with any sordid intent. Those
+were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to
+succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders. Every one
+knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely Andromeda,
+the daughter of a king, was tied to a rock on the sea-coast, and as
+Leviathan was in the very act of carrying her off, Perseus, the prince
+of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster, and delivered
+and married the maid. It was an admirable artistic exploit, rarely
+achieved by the best harpooneers of the present day; inasmuch as this
+Leviathan was slain at the very first dart. And let no man doubt this
+Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast,
+in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast skeleton
+of a whale, which the city's legends and all the inhabitants asserted to
+be the identical bones of the monster that Perseus slew. When the Romans
+took Joppa, the same skeleton was carried to Italy in triumph. What
+seems most singular and suggestively important in this story, is this:
+it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.
+
+Akin to the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda--indeed, by some supposed
+to be indirectly derived from it--is that famous story of St. George and
+the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many
+old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and
+often stand for each other. "Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a
+dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale;
+in truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself. Besides, it
+would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but
+encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle
+with the great monster of the deep. Any man may kill a snake, but only a
+Perseus, a St. George, a Coffin, have the heart in them to march boldly
+up to a whale.
+
+Let not the modern paintings of this scene mislead us; for though
+the creature encountered by that valiant whaleman of old is vaguely
+represented of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted
+on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance
+of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists;
+and considering that as in Perseus' case, St. George's whale might have
+crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal
+ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse;
+bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible
+with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to
+hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself. In
+fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will
+fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines, Dagon by
+name; who being planted before the ark of Israel, his horse's head and
+both the palms of his hands fell off from him, and only the stump or
+fishy part of him remained. Thus, then, one of our own noble stamp, even
+a whaleman, is the tutelary guardian of England; and by good rights, we
+harpooneers of Nantucket should be enrolled in the most noble order
+of St. George. And therefore, let not the knights of that honourable
+company (none of whom, I venture to say, have ever had to do with a
+whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with
+disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are
+much better entitled to St. George's decoration than they.
+
+Whether to admit Hercules among us or not, concerning this I long
+remained dubious: for though according to the Greek mythologies, that
+antique Crockett and Kit Carson--that brawny doer of rejoicing good
+deeds, was swallowed down and thrown up by a whale; still, whether
+that strictly makes a whaleman of him, that might be mooted. It nowhere
+appears that he ever actually harpooned his fish, unless, indeed,
+from the inside. Nevertheless, he may be deemed a sort of involuntary
+whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not the whale. I
+claim him for one of our clan.
+
+But, by the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of
+Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the still more
+ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versa; certainly
+they are very similar. If I claim the demigod then, why not the prophet?
+
+Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole
+roll of our order. Our grand master is still to be named; for like royal
+kings of old times, we find the head waters of our fraternity in nothing
+short of the great gods themselves. That wondrous oriental story is now
+to be rehearsed from the Shaster, which gives us the dread Vishnoo, one
+of the three persons in the godhead of the Hindoos; gives us this divine
+Vishnoo himself for our Lord;--Vishnoo, who, by the first of his ten
+earthly incarnations, has for ever set apart and sanctified the whale.
+When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate
+the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to
+Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books,
+whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before
+beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained
+something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these
+Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became
+incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths,
+rescued the sacred volumes. Was not this Vishnoo a whaleman, then? even
+as a man who rides a horse is called a horseman?
+
+Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll
+for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
+
+
+Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the
+preceding chapter. Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this historical
+story of Jonah and the whale. But then there were some sceptical Greeks
+and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their times,
+equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale, and Arion and the
+dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did not make those
+traditions one whit the less facts, for all that.
+
+One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew
+story was this:--He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles,
+embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented
+Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head--a peculiarity only true
+with respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the
+varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this
+saying, "A penny roll would choke him"; his swallow is so very small.
+But, to this, Bishop Jebb's anticipative answer is ready. It is not
+necessary, hints the Bishop, that we consider Jonah as tombed in the
+whale's belly, but as temporarily lodged in some part of his mouth. And
+this seems reasonable enough in the good Bishop. For truly, the
+Right Whale's mouth would accommodate a couple of whist-tables, and
+comfortably seat all the players. Possibly, too, Jonah might have
+ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right
+Whale is toothless.
+
+Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his
+want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something obscurely in
+reference to his incarcerated body and the whale's gastric juices. But
+this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist
+supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a
+DEAD whale--even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned
+their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has
+been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was
+thrown overboard from the Joppa ship, he straightway effected his escape
+to another vessel near by, some vessel with a whale for a figure-head;
+and, I would add, possibly called "The Whale," as some craft are
+nowadays christened the "Shark," the "Gull," the "Eagle." Nor have there
+been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned
+in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver--an inflated bag
+of wind--which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a
+watery doom. Poor Sag-Harbor, therefore, seems worsted all round. But
+he had still another reason for his want of faith. It was this, if I
+remember right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the Mediterranean
+Sea, and after three days he was vomited up somewhere within three days'
+journey of Nineveh, a city on the Tigris, very much more than three
+days' journey across from the nearest point of the Mediterranean coast.
+How is that?
+
+But was there no other way for the whale to land the prophet within that
+short distance of Nineveh? Yes. He might have carried him round by the
+way of the Cape of Good Hope. But not to speak of the passage through
+the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the
+Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete
+circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris
+waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to
+swim in. Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope
+at so early a day would wrest the honour of the discovery of that great
+headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make
+modern history a liar.
+
+But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his
+foolish pride of reason--a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing
+that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the
+sun and the sea. I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and
+abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a
+Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah's going to Nineveh
+via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of
+the general miracle. And so it was. Besides, to this day, the highly
+enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah. And
+some three centuries ago, an English traveller in old Harris's Voyages,
+speaks of a Turkish Mosque built in honour of Jonah, in which Mosque was
+a miraculous lamp that burnt without any oil.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
+
+
+To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are
+anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an
+analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom. Nor is it
+to be doubted that as such a procedure can do no harm, it may possibly
+be of no contemptible advantage; considering that oil and water are
+hostile; that oil is a sliding thing, and that the object in view is to
+make the boat slide bravely. Queequeg believed strongly in anointing
+his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau
+disappeared, took more than customary pains in that occupation; crawling
+under its bottom, where it hung over the side, and rubbing in the
+unctuousness as though diligently seeking to insure a crop of hair from
+the craft's bald keel. He seemed to be working in obedience to some
+particular presentiment. Nor did it remain unwarranted by the event.
+
+Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to
+them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered flight,
+as of Cleopatra's barges from Actium.
+
+Nevertheless, the boats pursued, and Stubb's was foremost. By great
+exertion, Tashtego at last succeeded in planting one iron; but the
+stricken whale, without at all sounding, still continued his horizontal
+flight, with added fleetness. Such unintermitted strainings upon the
+planted iron must sooner or later inevitably extract it. It became
+imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him. But
+to haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and
+furious. What then remained?
+
+Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and
+countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced,
+none exceed that fine manoeuvre with the lance called pitchpoling. Small
+sword, or broad sword, in all its exercises boasts nothing like it. It
+is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand
+fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is
+accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme
+headway. Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve
+feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the harpoon,
+and also of a lighter material--pine. It is furnished with a small rope
+called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be hauled back to
+the hand after darting.
+
+But before going further, it is important to mention here, that though
+the harpoon may be pitchpoled in the same way with the lance, yet it
+is seldom done; and when done, is still less frequently successful,
+on account of the greater weight and inferior length of the harpoon as
+compared with the lance, which in effect become serious drawbacks. As a
+general thing, therefore, you must first get fast to a whale, before any
+pitchpoling comes into play.
+
+Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and
+equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel
+in pitchpoling. Look at him; he stands upright in the tossed bow of the
+flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet ahead.
+Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or thrice along its
+length to see if it be exactly straight, Stubb whistlingly gathers up
+the coil of the warp in one hand, so as to secure its free end in his
+grasp, leaving the rest unobstructed. Then holding the lance full before
+his waistband's middle, he levels it at the whale; when, covering
+him with it, he steadily depresses the butt-end in his hand, thereby
+elevating the point till the weapon stands fairly balanced upon his
+palm, fifteen feet in the air. He minds you somewhat of a juggler,
+balancing a long staff on his chin. Next moment with a rapid, nameless
+impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming
+distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale. Instead of
+sparkling water, he now spouts red blood.
+
+"That drove the spigot out of him!" cried Stubb. "'Tis July's immortal
+Fourth; all fountains must run wine today! Would now, it were old
+Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old Monongahela! Then,
+Tashtego, lad, I'd have ye hold a canakin to the jet, and we'd drink
+round it! Yea, verily, hearts alive, we'd brew choice punch in the
+spread of his spout-hole there, and from that live punch-bowl quaff the
+living stuff."
+
+Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated,
+the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful
+leash. The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is
+slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and
+mutely watches the monster die.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
+
+
+That for six thousand years--and no one knows how many millions of ages
+before--the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea,
+and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so
+many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back,
+thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the
+whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings--that all this should
+be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter
+minutes past one o'clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D.
+1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings
+are, after all, really water, or nothing but vapour--this is surely a
+noteworthy thing.
+
+Let us, then, look at this matter, along with some interesting items
+contingent. Every one knows that by the peculiar cunning of their
+gills, the finny tribes in general breathe the air which at all times is
+combined with the element in which they swim; hence, a herring or a cod
+might live a century, and never once raise its head above the surface.
+But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular
+lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the
+disengaged air in the open atmosphere. Wherefore the necessity for
+his periodical visits to the upper world. But he cannot in any degree
+breathe through his mouth, for, in his ordinary attitude, the Sperm
+Whale's mouth is buried at least eight feet beneath the surface; and
+what is still more, his windpipe has no connexion with his mouth. No, he
+breathes through his spiracle alone; and this is on the top of his head.
+
+If I say, that in any creature breathing is only a function
+indispensable to vitality, inasmuch as it withdraws from the air a
+certain element, which being subsequently brought into contact with the
+blood imparts to the blood its vivifying principle, I do not think I
+shall err; though I may possibly use some superfluous scientific words.
+Assume it, and it follows that if all the blood in a man could be
+aerated with one breath, he might then seal up his nostrils and not
+fetch another for a considerable time. That is to say, he would then
+live without breathing. Anomalous as it may seem, this is precisely the
+case with the whale, who systematically lives, by intervals, his full
+hour and more (when at the bottom) without drawing a single breath, or
+so much as in any way inhaling a particle of air; for, remember, he has
+no gills. How is this? Between his ribs and on each side of his spine
+he is supplied with a remarkable involved Cretan labyrinth of
+vermicelli-like vessels, which vessels, when he quits the surface, are
+completely distended with oxygenated blood. So that for an hour or more,
+a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of vitality in
+him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert carries a surplus
+supply of drink for future use in its four supplementary stomachs.
+The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the
+supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more
+cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of
+that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase
+it. This is what I mean. If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the
+Sperm Whale will continue there for a period of time exactly uniform
+with all his other unmolested risings. Say he stays eleven minutes, and
+jets seventy times, that is, respires seventy breaths; then whenever he
+rises again, he will be sure to have his seventy breaths over again, to
+a minute. Now, if after he fetches a few breaths you alarm him, so that
+he sounds, he will be always dodging up again to make good his regular
+allowance of air. And not till those seventy breaths are told, will he
+finally go down to stay out his full term below. Remark, however, that
+in different individuals these rates are different; but in any one
+they are alike. Now, why should the whale thus insist upon having his
+spoutings out, unless it be to replenish his reservoir of air, ere
+descending for good? How obvious is it, too, that this necessity for the
+whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase. For
+not by hook or by net could this vast leviathan be caught, when sailing
+a thousand fathoms beneath the sunlight. Not so much thy skill, then, O
+hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee!
+
+In man, breathing is incessantly going on--one breath only serving
+for two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to
+attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will. But the
+Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.
+
+It has been said that the whale only breathes through his spout-hole; if
+it could truthfully be added that his spouts are mixed with water, then
+I opine we should be furnished with the reason why his sense of smell
+seems obliterated in him; for the only thing about him that at all
+answers to his nose is that identical spout-hole; and being so clogged
+with two elements, it could not be expected to have the power of
+smelling. But owing to the mystery of the spout--whether it be water or
+whether it be vapour--no absolute certainty can as yet be arrived at on
+this head. Sure it is, nevertheless, that the Sperm Whale has no proper
+olfactories. But what does he want of them? No roses, no violets, no
+Cologne-water in the sea.
+
+Furthermore, as his windpipe solely opens into the tube of his spouting
+canal, and as that long canal--like the grand Erie Canal--is furnished
+with a sort of locks (that open and shut) for the downward retention of
+air or the upward exclusion of water, therefore the whale has no voice;
+unless you insult him by saying, that when he so strangely rumbles,
+he talks through his nose. But then again, what has the whale to say?
+Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to
+this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a
+living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!
+
+Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it
+is for the conveyance of air, and for several feet laid along,
+horizontally, just beneath the upper surface of his head, and a little
+to one side; this curious canal is very much like a gas-pipe laid down
+in a city on one side of a street. But the question returns whether this
+gas-pipe is also a water-pipe; in other words, whether the spout of the
+Sperm Whale is the mere vapour of the exhaled breath, or whether that
+exhaled breath is mixed with water taken in at the mouth, and
+discharged through the spiracle. It is certain that the mouth indirectly
+communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be proved that this
+is for the purpose of discharging water through the spiracle. Because
+the greatest necessity for so doing would seem to be, when in feeding he
+accidentally takes in water. But the Sperm Whale's food is far beneath
+the surface, and there he cannot spout even if he would. Besides, if
+you regard him very closely, and time him with your watch, you will find
+that when unmolested, there is an undeviating rhyme between the periods
+of his jets and the ordinary periods of respiration.
+
+But why pester one with all this reasoning on the subject? Speak out!
+You have seen him spout; then declare what the spout is; can you not
+tell water from air? My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to
+settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the
+knottiest of all. And as for this whale spout, you might almost stand in
+it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely.
+
+The central body of it is hidden in the snowy sparkling mist enveloping
+it; and how can you certainly tell whether any water falls from it,
+when, always, when you are close enough to a whale to get a close view
+of his spout, he is in a prodigious commotion, the water cascading
+all around him. And if at such times you should think that you really
+perceived drops of moisture in the spout, how do you know that they are
+not merely condensed from its vapour; or how do you know that they
+are not those identical drops superficially lodged in the spout-hole
+fissure, which is countersunk into the summit of the whale's head? For
+even when tranquilly swimming through the mid-day sea in a calm, with
+his elevated hump sun-dried as a dromedary's in the desert; even then,
+the whale always carries a small basin of water on his head, as under
+a blazing sun you will sometimes see a cavity in a rock filled up with
+rain.
+
+Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the
+precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering
+into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to
+this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into
+slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will
+often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of
+the thing so touching it. And I know one, who coming into still closer
+contact with the spout, whether with some scientific object in view,
+or otherwise, I cannot say, the skin peeled off from his cheek and arm.
+Wherefore, among whalemen, the spout is deemed poisonous; they try to
+evade it. Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt
+it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you.
+The wisest thing the investigator can do then, it seems to me, is to let
+this deadly spout alone.
+
+Still, we can hypothesize, even if we cannot prove and establish. My
+hypothesis is this: that the spout is nothing but mist. And besides
+other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, by considerations
+touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale;
+I account him no common, shallow being, inasmuch as it is an undisputed
+fact that he is never found on soundings, or near shores; all other
+whales sometimes are. He is both ponderous and profound. And I am
+convinced that from the heads of all ponderous profound beings, such as
+Plato, Pyrrho, the Devil, Jupiter, Dante, and so on, there always goes
+up a certain semi-visible steam, while in the act of thinking deep
+thoughts. While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the
+curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there,
+a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my
+head. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought,
+after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon;
+this seems an additional argument for the above supposition.
+
+And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to
+behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild
+head overhung by a canopy of vapour, engendered by his incommunicable
+contemplations, and that vapour--as you will sometimes see it--glorified
+by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts.
+For, d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate
+vapour. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my
+mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a
+heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny;
+but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts
+of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this
+combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who
+regards them both with equal eye.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
+
+
+Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope,
+and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I
+celebrate a tail.
+
+Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale's tail to begin at that point of
+the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man, it comprises
+upon its upper surface alone, an area of at least fifty square feet. The
+compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms
+or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
+At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways
+recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between. In
+no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in
+the crescentic borders of these flukes. At its utmost expansion in the
+full grown whale, the tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across.
+
+The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews; but cut
+into it, and you find that three distinct strata compose it:--upper,
+middle, and lower. The fibres in the upper and lower layers, are
+long and horizontal; those of the middle one, very short, and running
+crosswise between the outside layers. This triune structure, as much as
+anything else, imparts power to the tail. To the student of old Roman
+walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin
+course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful
+relics of the antique, and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the
+great strength of the masonry.
+
+But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough,
+the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of
+muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins
+and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and
+largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent
+measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
+Could annihilation occur to matter, this were the thing to do it.
+
+Nor does this--its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful
+flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through
+a Titanism of power. On the contrary, those motions derive their most
+appalling beauty from it. Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony,
+but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful,
+strength has much to do with the magic. Take away the tied tendons that
+all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its
+charm would be gone. As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the
+naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the
+man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch. When Angelo paints even God
+the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there. And whatever
+they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled,
+hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most
+successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all
+brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine
+one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form
+the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.
+
+Such is the subtle elasticity of the organ I treat of, that whether
+wielded in sport, or in earnest, or in anger, whatever be the mood it
+be in, its flexions are invariably marked by exceeding grace. Therein no
+fairy's arm can transcend it.
+
+Five great motions are peculiar to it. First, when used as a fin for
+progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping;
+Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
+
+First: Being horizontal in its position, the Leviathan's tail acts in
+a different manner from the tails of all other sea creatures. It never
+wriggles. In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. To the
+whale, his tail is the sole means of propulsion. Scroll-wise coiled
+forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards, it is this
+which gives that singular darting, leaping motion to the monster when
+furiously swimming. His side-fins only serve to steer by.
+
+Second: It is a little significant, that while one sperm whale only
+fights another sperm whale with his head and jaw, nevertheless, in his
+conflicts with man, he chiefly and contemptuously uses his tail. In
+striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the
+blow is only inflicted by the recoil. If it be made in the unobstructed
+air, especially if it descend to its mark, the stroke is then simply
+irresistible. No ribs of man or boat can withstand it. Your only
+salvation lies in eluding it; but if it comes sideways through the
+opposing water, then partly owing to the light buoyancy of the whale
+boat, and the elasticity of its materials, a cracked rib or a dashed
+plank or two, a sort of stitch in the side, is generally the most
+serious result. These submerged side blows are so often received in the
+fishery, that they are accounted mere child's play. Some one strips off
+a frock, and the hole is stopped.
+
+Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale
+the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect
+there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the
+elephant's trunk. This delicacy is chiefly evinced in the action of
+sweeping, when in maidenly gentleness the whale with a certain soft
+slowness moves his immense flukes from side to side upon the surface
+of the sea; and if he feel but a sailor's whisker, woe to that sailor,
+whiskers and all. What tenderness there is in that preliminary touch!
+Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of
+Darmonodes' elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with
+low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their
+zones. On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not
+possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet
+another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his trunk
+and extracted the dart.
+
+Fourth: Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the
+middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence
+of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a
+hearth. But still you see his power in his play. The broad palms of
+his tail are flirted high into the air; then smiting the surface, the
+thunderous concussion resounds for miles. You would almost think a great
+gun had been discharged; and if you noticed the light wreath of vapour
+from the spiracle at his other extremity, you would think that that was
+the smoke from the touch-hole.
+
+Fifth: As in the ordinary floating posture of the leviathan the flukes
+lie considerably below the level of his back, they are then completely
+out of sight beneath the surface; but when he is about to plunge into
+the deeps, his entire flukes with at least thirty feet of his body are
+tossed erect in the air, and so remain vibrating a moment, till they
+downwards shoot out of view. Excepting the sublime BREACH--somewhere
+else to be described--this peaking of the whale's flukes is perhaps the
+grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature. Out of the bottomless
+profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the
+highest heaven. So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting forth
+his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in
+gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in
+the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the
+archangels. Standing at the mast-head of my ship during a sunrise that
+crimsoned sky and sea, I once saw a large herd of whales in the east,
+all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with
+peaked flukes. As it seemed to me at the time, such a grand embodiment
+of adoration of the gods was never beheld, even in Persia, the home of
+the fire worshippers. As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African
+elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout
+of all beings. For according to King Juba, the military elephants of
+antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks uplifted in the
+profoundest silence.
+
+The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the
+elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk
+of the other are concerned, should not tend to place those two
+opposite organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they
+respectively belong. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier
+to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the
+stalk of a lily. The most direful blow from the elephant's trunk were as
+the playful tap of a fan, compared with the measureless crush and crash
+of the sperm whale's ponderous flukes, which in repeated instances have
+one after the other hurled entire boats with all their oars and crews
+into the air, very much as an Indian juggler tosses his balls.*
+
+
+*Though all comparison in the way of general bulk between the whale
+and the elephant is preposterous, inasmuch as in that particular the
+elephant stands in much the same respect to the whale that a dog does to
+the elephant; nevertheless, there are not wanting some points of curious
+similitude; among these is the spout. It is well known that the elephant
+will often draw up water or dust in his trunk, and then elevating it,
+jet it forth in a stream.
+
+
+The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability
+to express it. At times there are gestures in it, which, though they
+would well grace the hand of man, remain wholly inexplicable. In an
+extensive herd, so remarkable, occasionally, are these mystic gestures,
+that I have heard hunters who have declared them akin to Free-Mason
+signs and symbols; that the whale, indeed, by these methods
+intelligently conversed with the world. Nor are there wanting other
+motions of the whale in his general body, full of strangeness, and
+unaccountable to his most experienced assailant. Dissect him how I may,
+then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. But if I know
+not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more,
+how comprehend his face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my back
+parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I
+cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about
+his face, I say again he has no face.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
+
+
+The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending south-eastward from
+the territories of Birmah, forms the most southerly point of all Asia.
+In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of
+Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a
+vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia,
+and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded
+oriental archipelagoes. This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports
+for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are the
+straits of Sunda and Malacca. By the straits of Sunda, chiefly, vessels
+bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas.
+
+Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing
+midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green
+promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond
+to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and
+considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels,
+and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental
+sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such
+treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the
+appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping
+western world. The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied
+with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the
+Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis. Unlike the Danes, these
+Orientals do not demand the obsequious homage of lowered top-sails from
+the endless procession of ships before the wind, which for centuries
+past, by night and by day, have passed between the islands of Sumatra
+and Java, freighted with the costliest cargoes of the east. But while
+they freely waive a ceremonial like this, they do by no means renounce
+their claim to more solid tribute.
+
+Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among
+the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sallied out upon the
+vessels sailing through the straits, fiercely demanding tribute at the
+point of their spears. Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they
+have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these
+corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present
+day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in
+those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged.
+
+With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these
+straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and
+thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here and
+there by the Sperm Whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands, and
+gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season there.
+By these means, the circumnavigating Pequod would sweep almost all the
+known Sperm Whale cruising grounds of the world, previous to descending
+upon the Line in the Pacific; where Ahab, though everywhere else foiled
+in his pursuit, firmly counted upon giving battle to Moby Dick, in the
+sea he was most known to frequent; and at a season when he might most
+reasonably be presumed to be haunting it.
+
+But how now? in this zoned quest, does Ahab touch no land? does his crew
+drink air? Surely, he will stop for water. Nay. For a long time, now,
+the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs
+no sustenance but what's in himself. So Ahab. Mark this, too, in the
+whaler. While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be
+transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries
+no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants. She has a
+whole lake's contents bottled in her ample hold. She is ballasted with
+utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge. She
+carries years' water in her. Clear old prime Nantucket water; which,
+when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to
+drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks, from
+the Peruvian or Indian streams. Hence it is, that, while other ships may
+have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at a score
+of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted
+one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like
+themselves. So that did you carry them the news that another flood had
+come; they would only answer--"Well, boys, here's the ark!"
+
+Now, as many Sperm Whales had been captured off the western coast of
+Java, in the near vicinity of the Straits of Sunda; indeed, as most of
+the ground, roundabout, was generally recognised by the fishermen as an
+excellent spot for cruising; therefore, as the Pequod gained more
+and more upon Java Head, the look-outs were repeatedly hailed, and
+admonished to keep wide awake. But though the green palmy cliffs of the
+land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils
+the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was
+descried. Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game
+hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the
+customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle of
+singular magnificence saluted us.
+
+But here be it premised, that owing to the unwearied activity with which
+of late they have been hunted over all four oceans, the Sperm Whales,
+instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached companies, as in
+former times, are now frequently met with in extensive herds, sometimes
+embracing so great a multitude, that it would almost seem as if
+numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual
+assistance and protection. To this aggregation of the Sperm Whale into
+such immense caravans, may be imputed the circumstance that even in the
+best cruising grounds, you may now sometimes sail for weeks and months
+together, without being greeted by a single spout; and then be suddenly
+saluted by what sometimes seems thousands on thousands.
+
+Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and
+forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon,
+a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the
+noon-day air. Unlike the straight perpendicular twin-jets of the Right
+Whale, which, dividing at top, fall over in two branches, like the cleft
+drooping boughs of a willow, the single forward-slanting spout of the
+Sperm Whale presents a thick curled bush of white mist, continually
+rising and falling away to leeward.
+
+Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of
+the sea, this host of vapoury spouts, individually curling up into the
+air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed
+like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried
+of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
+
+As marching armies approaching an unfriendly defile in the mountains,
+accelerate their march, all eagerness to place that perilous passage in
+their rear, and once more expand in comparative security upon the plain;
+even so did this vast fleet of whales now seem hurrying forward through
+the straits; gradually contracting the wings of their semicircle, and
+swimming on, in one solid, but still crescentic centre.
+
+Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; the harpooneers
+handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their
+yet suspended boats. If the wind only held, little doubt had they, that
+chased through these Straits of Sunda, the vast host would only deploy
+into the Oriental seas to witness the capture of not a few of their
+number. And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby
+Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped
+white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese! So with
+stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along, driving these leviathans
+before us; when, of a sudden, the voice of Tashtego was heard, loudly
+directing attention to something in our wake.
+
+Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our rear.
+It seemed formed of detached white vapours, rising and falling something
+like the spouts of the whales; only they did not so completely come and
+go; for they constantly hovered, without finally disappearing. Levelling
+his glass at this sight, Ahab quickly revolved in his pivot-hole,
+crying, "Aloft there, and rig whips and buckets to wet the
+sails;--Malays, sir, and after us!"
+
+As if too long lurking behind the headlands, till the Pequod should
+fairly have entered the straits, these rascally Asiatics were now in hot
+pursuit, to make up for their over-cautious delay. But when the swift
+Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; how very
+kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on to
+her own chosen pursuit,--mere riding-whips and rowels to her, that they
+were. As with glass under arm, Ahab to-and-fro paced the deck; in his
+forward turn beholding the monsters he chased, and in the after one the
+bloodthirsty pirates chasing him; some such fancy as the above seemed
+his. And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery defile in
+which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that through that
+gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that through that
+same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his deadly end;
+and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates and
+inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their
+curses;--when all these conceits had passed through his brain, Ahab's
+brow was left gaunt and ribbed, like the black sand beach after some
+stormy tide has been gnawing it, without being able to drag the firm
+thing from its place.
+
+But thoughts like these troubled very few of the reckless crew; and
+when, after steadily dropping and dropping the pirates astern, the
+Pequod at last shot by the vivid green Cockatoo Point on the Sumatra
+side, emerging at last upon the broad waters beyond; then, the
+harpooneers seemed more to grieve that the swift whales had been gaining
+upon the ship, than to rejoice that the ship had so victoriously gained
+upon the Malays. But still driving on in the wake of the whales, at
+length they seemed abating their speed; gradually the ship neared them;
+and the wind now dying away, word was passed to spring to the boats. But
+no sooner did the herd, by some presumed wonderful instinct of the Sperm
+Whale, become notified of the three keels that were after them,--though
+as yet a mile in their rear,--than they rallied again, and forming
+in close ranks and battalions, so that their spouts all looked like
+flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity.
+
+Stripped to our shirts and drawers, we sprang to the white-ash, and
+after several hours' pulling were almost disposed to renounce the chase,
+when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating
+token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange
+perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fishermen perceive
+it in the whale, they say he is gallied. The compact martial columns
+in which they had been hitherto rapidly and steadily swimming, were now
+broken up in one measureless rout; and like King Porus' elephants in the
+Indian battle with Alexander, they seemed going mad with consternation.
+In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly
+swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they
+plainly betrayed their distraction of panic. This was still more
+strangely evinced by those of their number, who, completely paralysed
+as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled ships on the
+sea. Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple sheep, pursued over
+the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not possibly have evinced
+such excessive dismay. But this occasional timidity is characteristic
+of almost all herding creatures. Though banding together in tens of
+thousands, the lion-maned buffaloes of the West have fled before a
+solitary horseman. Witness, too, all human beings, how when herded
+together in the sheepfold of a theatre's pit, they will, at the
+slightest alarm of fire, rush helter-skelter for the outlets, crowding,
+trampling, jamming, and remorselessly dashing each other to death. Best,
+therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales
+before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not
+infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
+
+Though many of the whales, as has been said, were in violent motion,
+yet it is to be observed that as a whole the herd neither advanced nor
+retreated, but collectively remained in one place. As is customary in
+those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one
+lone whale on the outskirts of the shoal. In about three minutes' time,
+Queequeg's harpoon was flung; the stricken fish darted blinding spray
+in our faces, and then running away with us like light, steered straight
+for the heart of the herd. Though such a movement on the part of the
+whale struck under such circumstances, is in no wise unprecedented; and
+indeed is almost always more or less anticipated; yet does it present
+one of the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery. For as the swift
+monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid
+adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.
+
+As, blind and deaf, the whale plunged forward, as if by sheer power of
+speed to rid himself of the iron leech that had fastened to him; as we
+thus tore a white gash in the sea, on all sides menaced as we flew, by
+the crazed creatures to and fro rushing about us; our beset boat was
+like a ship mobbed by ice-isles in a tempest, and striving to steer
+through their complicated channels and straits, knowing not at what
+moment it may be locked in and crushed.
+
+But not a bit daunted, Queequeg steered us manfully; now sheering off
+from this monster directly across our route in advance; now edging away
+from that, whose colossal flukes were suspended overhead, while all the
+time, Starbuck stood up in the bows, lance in hand, pricking out of our
+way whatever whales he could reach by short darts, for there was no time
+to make long ones. Nor were the oarsmen quite idle, though their wonted
+duty was now altogether dispensed with. They chiefly attended to the
+shouting part of the business. "Out of the way, Commodore!" cried one,
+to a great dromedary that of a sudden rose bodily to the surface,
+and for an instant threatened to swamp us. "Hard down with your tail,
+there!" cried a second to another, which, close to our gunwale, seemed
+calmly cooling himself with his own fan-like extremity.
+
+All whaleboats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented
+by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs. Two thick squares of wood
+of equal size are stoutly clenched together, so that they cross each
+other's grain at right angles; a line of considerable length is then
+attached to the middle of this block, and the other end of the line
+being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon. It is chiefly
+among gallied whales that this drugg is used. For then, more whales
+are close round you than you can possibly chase at one time. But sperm
+whales are not every day encountered; while you may, then, you must
+kill all you can. And if you cannot kill them all at once, you must wing
+them, so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure. Hence it
+is, that at times like these the drugg, comes into requisition. Our boat
+was furnished with three of them. The first and second were successfully
+darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the
+enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg. They were cramped like
+malefactors with the chain and ball. But upon flinging the third, in the
+act of tossing overboard the clumsy wooden block, it caught under one
+of the seats of the boat, and in an instant tore it out and carried it
+away, dropping the oarsman in the boat's bottom as the seat slid from
+under him. On both sides the sea came in at the wounded planks, but we
+stuffed two or three drawers and shirts in, and so stopped the leaks for
+the time.
+
+It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were
+it not that as we advanced into the herd, our whale's way greatly
+diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from the
+circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning. So that
+when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways
+vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we
+glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if
+from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake. Here
+the storms in the roaring glens between the outermost whales, were heard
+but not felt. In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth
+satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture
+thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods. Yes, we were now
+in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every
+commotion. And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of
+the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight
+or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of
+horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic
+circus-rider might easily have over-arched the middle ones, and so have
+gone round on their backs. Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing
+whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no
+possible chance of escape was at present afforded us. We must watch for
+a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only
+admitted us in order to shut us up. Keeping at the centre of the lake,
+we were occasionally visited by small tame cows and calves; the women
+and children of this routed host.
+
+Now, inclusive of the occasional wide intervals between the revolving
+outer circles, and inclusive of the spaces between the various pods in
+any one of those circles, the entire area at this juncture, embraced by
+the whole multitude, must have contained at least two or three square
+miles. At any rate--though indeed such a test at such a time might be
+deceptive--spoutings might be discovered from our low boat that
+seemed playing up almost from the rim of the horizon. I mention this
+circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves had been purposely
+locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the
+herd had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its
+stopping; or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way
+innocent and inexperienced; however it may have been, these smaller
+whales--now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin of the
+lake--evinced a wondrous fearlessness and confidence, or else a still
+becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel at. Like household
+dogs they came snuffling round us, right up to our gunwales, and
+touching them; till it almost seemed that some spell had suddenly
+domesticated them. Queequeg patted their foreheads; Starbuck scratched
+their backs with his lance; but fearful of the consequences, for the
+time refrained from darting it.
+
+But far beneath this wondrous world upon the surface, another and still
+stranger world met our eyes as we gazed over the side. For, suspended
+in those watery vaults, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the
+whales, and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to
+become mothers. The lake, as I have hinted, was to a considerable depth
+exceedingly transparent; and as human infants while suckling will calmly
+and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different
+lives at the time; and while yet drawing mortal nourishment, be still
+spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence;--even so did the
+young of these whales seem looking up towards us, but not at us, as if
+we were but a bit of Gulfweed in their new-born sight. Floating on their
+sides, the mothers also seemed quietly eyeing us. One of these little
+infants, that from certain queer tokens seemed hardly a day old, might
+have measured some fourteen feet in length, and some six feet in
+girth. He was a little frisky; though as yet his body seemed scarce yet
+recovered from that irksome position it had so lately occupied in the
+maternal reticule; where, tail to head, and all ready for the final
+spring, the unborn whale lies bent like a Tartar's bow. The delicate
+side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the
+plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign
+parts.
+
+"Line! line!" cried Queequeg, looking over the gunwale; "him fast! him
+fast!--Who line him! Who struck?--Two whale; one big, one little!"
+
+"What ails ye, man?" cried Starbuck.
+
+"Look-e here," said Queequeg, pointing down.
+
+As when the stricken whale, that from the tub has reeled out hundreds of
+fathoms of rope; as, after deep sounding, he floats up again, and shows
+the slackened curling line buoyantly rising and spiralling towards the
+air; so now, Starbuck saw long coils of the umbilical cord of Madame
+Leviathan, by which the young cub seemed still tethered to its dam. Not
+seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with
+the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that
+the cub is thereby trapped. Some of the subtlest secrets of the seas
+seemed divulged to us in this enchanted pond. We saw young Leviathan
+amours in the deep.*
+
+
+*The sperm whale, as with all other species of the Leviathan, but unlike
+most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a gestation
+which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but one at a
+time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an Esau and
+Jacob:--a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats, curiously
+situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves
+extend upwards from that. When by chance these precious parts in a
+nursing whale are cut by the hunter's lance, the mother's pouring milk
+and blood rivallingly discolour the sea for rods. The milk is very sweet
+and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries.
+When overflowing with mutual esteem, the whales salute MORE HOMINUM.
+
+
+And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations
+and affrights, did these inscrutable creatures at the centre freely and
+fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments; yea, serenely revelled
+in dalliance and delight. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of
+my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and
+while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and
+deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
+
+Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced, the occasional sudden frantic
+spectacles in the distance evinced the activity of the other boats,
+still engaged in drugging the whales on the frontier of the host; or
+possibly carrying on the war within the first circle, where abundance of
+room and some convenient retreats were afforded them. But the sight
+of the enraged drugged whales now and then blindly darting to and fro
+across the circles, was nothing to what at last met our eyes. It is
+sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful
+and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or
+maiming his gigantic tail-tendon. It is done by darting a short-handled
+cutting-spade, to which is attached a rope for hauling it back again.
+A whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in this part, but not
+effectually, as it seemed, had broken away from the boat, carrying along
+with him half of the harpoon line; and in the extraordinary agony of
+the wound, he was now dashing among the revolving circles like the lone
+mounted desperado Arnold, at the battle of Saratoga, carrying dismay
+wherever he went.
+
+But agonizing as was the wound of this whale, and an appalling spectacle
+enough, any way; yet the peculiar horror with which he seemed to
+inspire the rest of the herd, was owing to a cause which at first the
+intervening distance obscured from us. But at length we perceived that
+by one of the unimaginable accidents of the fishery, this whale had
+become entangled in the harpoon-line that he towed; he had also run
+away with the cutting-spade in him; and while the free end of the rope
+attached to that weapon, had permanently caught in the coils of the
+harpoon-line round his tail, the cutting-spade itself had worked loose
+from his flesh. So that tormented to madness, he was now churning
+through the water, violently flailing with his flexible tail, and
+tossing the keen spade about him, wounding and murdering his own
+comrades.
+
+This terrific object seemed to recall the whole herd from their
+stationary fright. First, the whales forming the margin of our lake
+began to crowd a little, and tumble against each other, as if lifted
+by half spent billows from afar; then the lake itself began faintly to
+heave and swell; the submarine bridal-chambers and nurseries vanished;
+in more and more contracting orbits the whales in the more central
+circles began to swim in thickening clusters. Yes, the long calm was
+departing. A low advancing hum was soon heard; and then like to the
+tumultuous masses of block-ice when the great river Hudson breaks up in
+Spring, the entire host of whales came tumbling upon their inner centre,
+as if to pile themselves up in one common mountain. Instantly Starbuck
+and Queequeg changed places; Starbuck taking the stern.
+
+"Oars! Oars!" he intensely whispered, seizing the helm--"gripe your
+oars, and clutch your souls, now! My God, men, stand by! Shove him off,
+you Queequeg--the whale there!--prick him!--hit him! Stand up--stand
+up, and stay so! Spring, men--pull, men; never mind their backs--scrape
+them!--scrape away!"
+
+The boat was now all but jammed between two vast black bulks, leaving a
+narrow Dardanelles between their long lengths. But by desperate endeavor
+we at last shot into a temporary opening; then giving way rapidly,
+and at the same time earnestly watching for another outlet. After many
+similar hair-breadth escapes, we at last swiftly glided into what had
+just been one of the outer circles, but now crossed by random whales,
+all violently making for one centre. This lucky salvation was cheaply
+purchased by the loss of Queequeg's hat, who, while standing in the bows
+to prick the fugitive whales, had his hat taken clean from his head by
+the air-eddy made by the sudden tossing of a pair of broad flukes close
+by.
+
+Riotous and disordered as the universal commotion now was, it soon
+resolved itself into what seemed a systematic movement; for having
+clumped together at last in one dense body, they then renewed their
+onward flight with augmented fleetness. Further pursuit was useless; but
+the boats still lingered in their wake to pick up what drugged whales
+might be dropped astern, and likewise to secure one which Flask had
+killed and waifed. The waif is a pennoned pole, two or three of which
+are carried by every boat; and which, when additional game is at hand,
+are inserted upright into the floating body of a dead whale, both to
+mark its place on the sea, and also as token of prior possession, should
+the boats of any other ship draw near.
+
+The result of this lowering was somewhat illustrative of that sagacious
+saying in the Fishery,--the more whales the less fish. Of all the
+drugged whales only one was captured. The rest contrived to escape for
+the time, but only to be taken, as will hereafter be seen, by some other
+craft than the Pequod.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
+
+
+The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm
+Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those
+vast aggregations.
+
+Now, though such great bodies are at times encountered, yet, as must
+have been seen, even at the present day, small detached bands are
+occasionally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each.
+Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts; those
+composed almost entirely of females, and those mustering none but young
+vigorous males, or bulls, as they are familiarly designated.
+
+In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a
+male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces
+his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his
+ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about
+over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces
+and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and
+his concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the largest
+leviathanic proportions, the ladies, even at full growth, are not
+more than one-third of the bulk of an average-sized male. They are
+comparatively delicate, indeed; I dare say, not to exceed half a dozen
+yards round the waist. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the
+whole they are hereditarily entitled to EMBONPOINT.
+
+It is very curious to watch this harem and its lord in their indolent
+ramblings. Like fashionables, they are for ever on the move in leisurely
+search of variety. You meet them on the Line in time for the full flower
+of the Equatorial feeding season, having just returned, perhaps, from
+spending the summer in the Northern seas, and so cheating summer of all
+unpleasant weariness and warmth. By the time they have lounged up and
+down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental
+waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other
+excessive temperature of the year.
+
+When serenely advancing on one of these journeys, if any strange
+suspicious sights are seen, my lord whale keeps a wary eye on his
+interesting family. Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan coming
+that way, presume to draw confidentially close to one of the ladies,
+with what prodigious fury the Bashaw assails him, and chases him away!
+High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be
+permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the
+Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed;
+for, alas! all fish bed in common. As ashore, the ladies often cause the
+most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales,
+who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love. They fence with
+their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving
+for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers. Not
+a few are captured having the deep scars of these encounters,--furrowed
+heads, broken teeth, scolloped fins; and in some instances, wrenched and
+dislocated mouths.
+
+But supposing the invader of domestic bliss to betake himself away at
+the first rush of the harem's lord, then is it very diverting to watch
+that lord. Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and
+revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario,
+like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.
+Granting other whales to be in sight, the fishermen will seldom give
+chase to one of these Grand Turks; for these Grand Turks are too lavish
+of their strength, and hence their unctuousness is small. As for the
+sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must
+take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help. For
+like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my Lord
+Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and so,
+being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the
+world; every baby an exotic. In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour
+of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends
+her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated
+Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our
+Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life,
+forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old
+soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his
+prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.
+
+Now, as the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so
+is the lord and master of that school technically known as the
+schoolmaster. It is therefore not in strict character, however admirably
+satirical, that after going to school himself, he should then go abroad
+inculcating not what he learned there, but the folly of it. His title,
+schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed
+upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the man who first
+thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of
+Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that
+famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of
+those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils.
+
+The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale
+betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm
+Whales. Almost universally, a lone whale--as a solitary Leviathan is
+called--proves an ancient one. Like venerable moss-bearded Daniel Boone,
+he will have no one near him but Nature herself; and her he takes to
+wife in the wilderness of waters, and the best of wives she is, though
+she keeps so many moody secrets.
+
+The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously
+mentioned, offer a strong contrast to the harem schools. For while
+those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or
+forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious
+of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter;
+excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met,
+and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout.
+
+The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools. Like
+a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness,
+tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no
+prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous
+lad at Yale or Harvard. They soon relinquish this turbulence though,
+and when about three-fourths grown, break up, and separately go about in
+quest of settlements, that is, harems.
+
+Another point of difference between the male and female schools is
+still more characteristic of the sexes. Say you strike a
+Forty-barrel-bull--poor devil! all his comrades quit him. But strike
+a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with
+every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as
+themselves to fall a prey.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
+
+
+The allusion to the waif and waif-poles in the last chapter but one,
+necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale
+fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge.
+
+It frequently happens that when several ships are cruising in company,
+a whale may be struck by one vessel, then escape, and be finally killed
+and captured by another vessel; and herein are indirectly comprised
+many minor contingencies, all partaking of this one grand feature. For
+example,--after a weary and perilous chase and capture of a whale,
+the body may get loose from the ship by reason of a violent storm; and
+drifting far away to leeward, be retaken by a second whaler, who, in a
+calm, snugly tows it alongside, without risk of life or line. Thus
+the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between
+the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal,
+undisputed law applicable to all cases.
+
+Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative
+enactment, was that of Holland. It was decreed by the States-General in
+A.D. 1695. But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling
+law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and
+lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse
+comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of
+the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's
+Business. Yes; these laws might be engraven on a Queen Anne's farthing,
+or the barb of a harpoon, and worn round the neck, so small are they.
+
+I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it.
+
+II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.
+
+But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable
+brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to
+expound it.
+
+First: What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast,
+when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all
+controllable by the occupant or occupants,--a mast, an oar, a nine-inch
+cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.
+Likewise a fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other
+recognised symbol of possession; so long as the party waifing it plainly
+evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well as their
+intention so to do.
+
+These are scientific commentaries; but the commentaries of the whalemen
+themselves sometimes consist in hard words and harder knocks--the
+Coke-upon-Littleton of the fist. True, among the more upright and
+honourable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases,
+where it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim
+possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party. But
+others are by no means so scrupulous.
+
+Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated
+in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of
+a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had
+succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of
+their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat
+itself. Ultimately the defendants (the crew of another ship) came up
+with the whale, struck, killed, seized, and finally appropriated it
+before the very eyes of the plaintiffs. And when those defendants were
+remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs'
+teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had done,
+he would now retain their line, harpoons, and boat, which had remained
+attached to the whale at the time of the seizure. Wherefore the
+plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale, line,
+harpoons, and boat.
+
+Mr. Erskine was counsel for the defendants; Lord Ellenborough was
+the judge. In the course of the defence, the witty Erskine went on
+to illustrate his position, by alluding to a recent crim. con.
+case, wherein a gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wife's
+viciousness, had at last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in
+the course of years, repenting of that step, he instituted an action to
+recover possession of her. Erskine was on the other side; and he
+then supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally
+harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of the
+great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet
+abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and therefore
+when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then became that
+subsequent gentleman's property, along with whatever harpoon might have
+been found sticking in her.
+
+Now in the present case Erskine contended that the examples of the whale
+and the lady were reciprocally illustrative of each other.
+
+These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very
+learned Judge in set terms decided, to wit,--That as for the boat, he
+awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it
+to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale,
+harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because
+it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons
+and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish)
+acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards
+took the fish had a right to them. Now the defendants afterwards took
+the fish; ergo, the aforesaid articles were theirs.
+
+A common man looking at this decision of the very learned Judge, might
+possibly object to it. But ploughed up to the primary rock of the
+matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws
+previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in
+the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish,
+I say, will, on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human
+jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture,
+the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has but two
+props to stand on.
+
+Is it not a saying in every one's mouth, Possession is half of the law:
+that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often
+possession is the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of
+Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is
+the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last
+mite but a Fast-Fish? What is yonder undetected villain's marble mansion
+with a door-plate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish? What is the
+ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone,
+the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation;
+what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish? What is the Archbishop of
+Savesoul's income of L100,000 seized from the scant bread and cheese
+of hundreds of thousands of broken-backed laborers (all sure of heaven
+without any of Savesoul's help) what is that globular L100,000 but a
+Fast-Fish? What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets
+but Fast-Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor
+Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother
+Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all these, is not
+Possession the whole of the law?
+
+But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable,
+the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so. That is
+internationally and universally applicable.
+
+What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the
+Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and mistress?
+What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India
+to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All
+Loose-Fish.
+
+What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but
+Loose-Fish? What all men's minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is
+the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to
+the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but
+Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what
+are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
+
+
+"De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam."
+BRACTON, L. 3, C. 3.
+
+
+Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the
+context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of
+that land, the King, as Honourary Grand Harpooneer, must have the head,
+and the Queen be respectfully presented with the tail. A division which,
+in the whale, is much like halving an apple; there is no intermediate
+remainder. Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in
+force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly
+touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of
+in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts
+the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially
+reserved for the accommodation of royalty. In the first place, in
+curious proof of the fact that the above-mentioned law is still in
+force, I proceed to lay before you a circumstance that happened within
+the last two years.
+
+It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one
+of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and
+beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from
+the shore. Now the Cinque Ports are partially or somehow under the
+jurisdiction of a sort of policeman or beadle, called a Lord Warden.
+Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal
+emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment
+his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so.
+Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his
+perquisites; which are his chiefly by virtue of that same fobbing of
+them.
+
+Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their
+trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their fat
+fish high and dry, promising themselves a good L150 from the precious
+oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their wives, and good
+ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their respective shares; up
+steps a very learned and most Christian and charitable gentleman, with
+a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and laying it upon the whale's head,
+he says--"Hands off! this fish, my masters, is a Fast-Fish. I seize it
+as the Lord Warden's." Upon this the poor mariners in their respectful
+consternation--so truly English--knowing not what to say, fall to
+vigorously scratching their heads all round; meanwhile ruefully glancing
+from the whale to the stranger. But that did in nowise mend the matter,
+or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy
+of Blackstone. At length one of them, after long scratching about for
+his ideas, made bold to speak,
+
+"Please, sir, who is the Lord Warden?"
+
+"The Duke."
+
+"But the duke had nothing to do with taking this fish?"
+
+"It is his."
+
+"We have been at great trouble, and peril, and some expense, and is
+all that to go to the Duke's benefit; we getting nothing at all for our
+pains but our blisters?"
+
+"It is his."
+
+"Is the Duke so very poor as to be forced to this desperate mode of
+getting a livelihood?"
+
+"It is his."
+
+"I thought to relieve my old bed-ridden mother by part of my share of
+this whale."
+
+"It is his."
+
+"Won't the Duke be content with a quarter or a half?"
+
+"It is his."
+
+In a word, the whale was seized and sold, and his Grace the Duke of
+Wellington received the money. Thinking that viewed in some particular
+lights, the case might by a bare possibility in some small degree be
+deemed, under the circumstances, a rather hard one, an honest clergyman
+of the town respectfully addressed a note to his Grace, begging him to
+take the case of those unfortunate mariners into full consideration. To
+which my Lord Duke in substance replied (both letters were published)
+that he had already done so, and received the money, and would be
+obliged to the reverend gentleman if for the future he (the reverend
+gentleman) would decline meddling with other people's business. Is
+this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three
+kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?
+
+It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the
+Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign. We must needs
+inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with
+that right. The law itself has already been set forth. But Plowdon gives
+us the reason for it. Says Plowdon, the whale so caught belongs to
+the King and Queen, "because of its superior excellence." And by the
+soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such
+matters.
+
+But why should the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason
+for that, ye lawyers!
+
+In his treatise on "Queen-Gold," or Queen-pinmoney, an old King's Bench
+author, one William Prynne, thus discourseth: "Ye tail is ye Queen's,
+that ye Queen's wardrobe may be supplied with ye whalebone." Now this
+was written at a time when the black limber bone of the Greenland or
+Right whale was largely used in ladies' bodices. But this same bone
+is not in the tail; it is in the head, which is a sad mistake for
+a sagacious lawyer like Prynne. But is the Queen a mermaid, to be
+presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here.
+
+There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers--the whale
+and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain limitations, and
+nominally supplying the tenth branch of the crown's ordinary revenue.
+I know not that any other author has hinted of the matter; but by
+inference it seems to me that the sturgeon must be divided in the same
+way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head
+peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be
+humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality. And thus there
+seems a reason in all things, even in law.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
+
+
+"In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan,
+insufferable fetor denying not inquiry." SIR T. BROWNE, V.E.
+
+
+It was a week or two after the last whaling scene recounted, and when we
+were slowly sailing over a sleepy, vapoury, mid-day sea, that the many
+noses on the Pequod's deck proved more vigilant discoverers than the
+three pairs of eyes aloft. A peculiar and not very pleasant smell was
+smelt in the sea.
+
+"I will bet something now," said Stubb, "that somewhere hereabouts are
+some of those drugged whales we tickled the other day. I thought they
+would keel up before long."
+
+Presently, the vapours in advance slid aside; and there in the distance
+lay a ship, whose furled sails betokened that some sort of whale must be
+alongside. As we glided nearer, the stranger showed French colours from
+his peak; and by the eddying cloud of vulture sea-fowl that circled, and
+hovered, and swooped around him, it was plain that the whale alongside
+must be what the fishermen call a blasted whale, that is, a whale that
+has died unmolested on the sea, and so floated an unappropriated corpse.
+It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must
+exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are
+incompetent to bury the departed. So intolerable indeed is it regarded
+by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
+Yet are there those who will still do it; notwithstanding the fact that
+the oil obtained from such subjects is of a very inferior quality, and
+by no means of the nature of attar-of-rose.
+
+Coming still nearer with the expiring breeze, we saw that the Frenchman
+had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed even more
+of a nosegay than the first. In truth, it turned out to be one of
+those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort
+of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies
+almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil. Nevertheless, in the
+proper place we shall see that no knowing fisherman will ever turn
+up his nose at such a whale as this, however much he may shun blasted
+whales in general.
+
+The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed
+he recognised his cutting spade-pole entangled in the lines that were
+knotted round the tail of one of these whales.
+
+"There's a pretty fellow, now," he banteringly laughed, standing in the
+ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes
+of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery; sometimes lowering
+their boats for breakers, mistaking them for Sperm Whale spouts; yes,
+and sometimes sailing from their port with their hold full of boxes of
+tallow candles, and cases of snuffers, foreseeing that all the oil they
+will get won't be enough to dip the Captain's wick into; aye, we all
+know these things; but look ye, here's a Crappo that is content with our
+leavings, the drugged whale there, I mean; aye, and is content too with
+scraping the dry bones of that other precious fish he has there. Poor
+devil! I say, pass round a hat, some one, and let's make him a present
+of a little oil for dear charity's sake. For what oil he'll get from
+that drugged whale there, wouldn't be fit to burn in a jail; no, not
+in a condemned cell. And as for the other whale, why, I'll agree to get
+more oil by chopping up and trying out these three masts of ours, than
+he'll get from that bundle of bones; though, now that I think of it, it
+may contain something worth a good deal more than oil; yes, ambergris.
+I wonder now if our old man has thought of that. It's worth trying. Yes,
+I'm for it;" and so saying he started for the quarter-deck.
+
+By this time the faint air had become a complete calm; so that whether
+or no, the Pequod was now fairly entrapped in the smell, with no hope of
+escaping except by its breezing up again. Issuing from the cabin, Stubb
+now called his boat's crew, and pulled off for the stranger. Drawing
+across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the fanciful French
+taste, the upper part of her stem-piece was carved in the likeness of a
+huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for thorns had copper
+spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole terminating in a
+symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red colour. Upon her head boards, in
+large gilt letters, he read "Bouton de Rose,"--Rose-button, or Rose-bud;
+and this was the romantic name of this aromatic ship.
+
+Though Stubb did not understand the BOUTON part of the inscription, yet
+the word ROSE, and the bulbous figure-head put together, sufficiently
+explained the whole to him.
+
+"A wooden rose-bud, eh?" he cried with his hand to his nose, "that will
+do very well; but how like all creation it smells!"
+
+Now in order to hold direct communication with the people on deck, he
+had to pull round the bows to the starboard side, and thus come close to
+the blasted whale; and so talk over it.
+
+Arrived then at this spot, with one hand still to his nose, he
+bawled--"Bouton-de-Rose, ahoy! are there any of you Bouton-de-Roses that
+speak English?"
+
+"Yes," rejoined a Guernsey-man from the bulwarks, who turned out to be
+the chief-mate.
+
+"Well, then, my Bouton-de-Rose-bud, have you seen the White Whale?"
+
+"WHAT whale?"
+
+"The WHITE Whale--a Sperm Whale--Moby Dick, have ye seen him?
+
+"Never heard of such a whale. Cachalot Blanche! White Whale--no."
+
+"Very good, then; good bye now, and I'll call again in a minute."
+
+Then rapidly pulling back towards the Pequod, and seeing Ahab leaning
+over the quarter-deck rail awaiting his report, he moulded his two hands
+into a trumpet and shouted--"No, Sir! No!" Upon which Ahab retired, and
+Stubb returned to the Frenchman.
+
+He now perceived that the Guernsey-man, who had just got into the
+chains, and was using a cutting-spade, had slung his nose in a sort of
+bag.
+
+"What's the matter with your nose, there?" said Stubb. "Broke it?"
+
+"I wish it was broken, or that I didn't have any nose at all!" answered
+the Guernsey-man, who did not seem to relish the job he was at very
+much. "But what are you holding YOURS for?"
+
+"Oh, nothing! It's a wax nose; I have to hold it on. Fine day, ain't it?
+Air rather gardenny, I should say; throw us a bunch of posies, will ye,
+Bouton-de-Rose?"
+
+"What in the devil's name do you want here?" roared the Guernseyman,
+flying into a sudden passion.
+
+"Oh! keep cool--cool? yes, that's the word! why don't you pack those
+whales in ice while you're working at 'em? But joking aside, though; do
+you know, Rose-bud, that it's all nonsense trying to get any oil out of
+such whales? As for that dried up one, there, he hasn't a gill in his
+whole carcase."
+
+"I know that well enough; but, d'ye see, the Captain here won't believe
+it; this is his first voyage; he was a Cologne manufacturer before. But
+come aboard, and mayhap he'll believe you, if he won't me; and so I'll
+get out of this dirty scrape."
+
+"Anything to oblige ye, my sweet and pleasant fellow," rejoined Stubb,
+and with that he soon mounted to the deck. There a queer scene presented
+itself. The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the
+heavy tackles in readiness for the whales. But they worked rather slow
+and talked very fast, and seemed in anything but a good humor. All their
+noses upwardly projected from their faces like so many jib-booms.
+Now and then pairs of them would drop their work, and run up to the
+mast-head to get some fresh air. Some thinking they would catch the
+plague, dipped oakum in coal-tar, and at intervals held it to their
+nostrils. Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short
+off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it
+constantly filled their olfactories.
+
+Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from
+the Captain's round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a
+fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within.
+This was the tormented surgeon, who, after in vain remonstrating
+against the proceedings of the day, had betaken himself to the Captain's
+round-house (CABINET he called it) to avoid the pest; but still, could
+not help yelling out his entreaties and indignations at times.
+
+Marking all this, Stubb argued well for his scheme, and turning to the
+Guernsey-man had a little chat with him, during which the stranger mate
+expressed his detestation of his Captain as a conceited ignoramus,
+who had brought them all into so unsavory and unprofitable a pickle.
+Sounding him carefully, Stubb further perceived that the Guernsey-man
+had not the slightest suspicion concerning the ambergris. He therefore
+held his peace on that head, but otherwise was quite frank and
+confidential with him, so that the two quickly concocted a little plan
+for both circumventing and satirizing the Captain, without his at all
+dreaming of distrusting their sincerity. According to this little plan
+of theirs, the Guernsey-man, under cover of an interpreter's office, was
+to tell the Captain what he pleased, but as coming from Stubb; and as
+for Stubb, he was to utter any nonsense that should come uppermost in
+him during the interview.
+
+By this time their destined victim appeared from his cabin. He was a
+small and dark, but rather delicate looking man for a sea-captain, with
+large whiskers and moustache, however; and wore a red cotton velvet vest
+with watch-seals at his side. To this gentleman, Stubb was now politely
+introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put on the
+aspect of interpreting between them.
+
+"What shall I say to him first?" said he.
+
+"Why," said Stubb, eyeing the velvet vest and the watch and seals, "you
+may as well begin by telling him that he looks a sort of babyish to me,
+though I don't pretend to be a judge."
+
+"He says, Monsieur," said the Guernsey-man, in French, turning to his
+captain, "that only yesterday his ship spoke a vessel, whose captain
+and chief-mate, with six sailors, had all died of a fever caught from a
+blasted whale they had brought alongside."
+
+Upon this the captain started, and eagerly desired to know more.
+
+"What now?" said the Guernsey-man to Stubb.
+
+"Why, since he takes it so easy, tell him that now I have eyed him
+carefully, I'm quite certain that he's no more fit to command a
+whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me he's a
+baboon."
+
+"He vows and declares, Monsieur, that the other whale, the dried one, is
+far more deadly than the blasted one; in fine, Monsieur, he conjures us,
+as we value our lives, to cut loose from these fish."
+
+Instantly the captain ran forward, and in a loud voice commanded his
+crew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast loose
+the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship.
+
+"What now?" said the Guernsey-man, when the Captain had returned to
+them.
+
+"Why, let me see; yes, you may as well tell him now that--that--in
+fact, tell him I've diddled him, and (aside to himself) perhaps somebody
+else."
+
+"He says, Monsieur, that he's very happy to have been of any service to
+us."
+
+Hearing this, the captain vowed that they were the grateful parties
+(meaning himself and mate) and concluded by inviting Stubb down into his
+cabin to drink a bottle of Bordeaux.
+
+"He wants you to take a glass of wine with him," said the interpreter.
+
+"Thank him heartily; but tell him it's against my principles to drink
+with the man I've diddled. In fact, tell him I must go."
+
+"He says, Monsieur, that his principles won't admit of his drinking; but
+that if Monsieur wants to live another day to drink, then Monsieur had
+best drop all four boats, and pull the ship away from these whales, for
+it's so calm they won't drift."
+
+By this time Stubb was over the side, and getting into his boat, hailed
+the Guernsey-man to this effect,--that having a long tow-line in his
+boat, he would do what he could to help them, by pulling out the lighter
+whale of the two from the ship's side. While the Frenchman's boats,
+then, were engaged in towing the ship one way, Stubb benevolently towed
+away at his whale the other way, ostentatiously slacking out a most
+unusually long tow-line.
+
+Presently a breeze sprang up; Stubb feigned to cast off from the whale;
+hoisting his boats, the Frenchman soon increased his distance, while the
+Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale. Whereupon Stubb quickly
+pulled to the floating body, and hailing the Pequod to give notice of
+his intentions, at once proceeded to reap the fruit of his unrighteous
+cunning. Seizing his sharp boat-spade, he commenced an excavation in the
+body, a little behind the side fin. You would almost have thought he was
+digging a cellar there in the sea; and when at length his spade struck
+against the gaunt ribs, it was like turning up old Roman tiles and
+pottery buried in fat English loam. His boat's crew were all in high
+excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking as anxious as
+gold-hunters.
+
+And all the time numberless fowls were diving, and ducking, and
+screaming, and yelling, and fighting around them. Stubb was beginning
+to look disappointed, especially as the horrible nosegay increased, when
+suddenly from out the very heart of this plague, there stole a faint
+stream of perfume, which flowed through the tide of bad smells without
+being absorbed by it, as one river will flow into and then along with
+another, without at all blending with it for a time.
+
+"I have it, I have it," cried Stubb, with delight, striking something in
+the subterranean regions, "a purse! a purse!"
+
+Dropping his spade, he thrust both hands in, and drew out handfuls
+of something that looked like ripe Windsor soap, or rich mottled old
+cheese; very unctuous and savory withal. You might easily dent it with
+your thumb; it is of a hue between yellow and ash colour. And this, good
+friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist.
+Some six handfuls were obtained; but more was unavoidably lost in the
+sea, and still more, perhaps, might have been secured were it not for
+impatient Ahab's loud command to Stubb to desist, and come on board,
+else the ship would bid them good bye.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
+
+
+Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as
+an article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain
+Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on that
+subject. For at that time, and indeed until a comparatively late day,
+the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem
+to the learned. Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for
+grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct. For amber, though
+at times found on the sea-coast, is also dug up in some far inland
+soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea. Besides,
+amber is a hard, transparent, brittle, odorless substance, used for
+mouth-pieces to pipes, for beads and ornaments; but ambergris is soft,
+waxy, and so highly fragrant and spicy, that it is largely used in
+perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair-powders, and pomatum.
+The Turks use it in cooking, and also carry it to Mecca, for the same
+purpose that frankincense is carried to St. Peter's in Rome. Some wine
+merchants drop a few grains into claret, to flavor it.
+
+Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale
+themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick
+whale! Yet so it is. By some, ambergris is supposed to be the cause, and
+by others the effect, of the dyspepsia in the whale. How to cure such
+a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four
+boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as
+laborers do in blasting rocks.
+
+I have forgotten to say that there were found in this ambergris, certain
+hard, round, bony plates, which at first Stubb thought might be sailors'
+trowsers buttons; but it afterwards turned out that they were nothing
+more than pieces of small squid bones embalmed in that manner.
+
+Now that the incorruption of this most fragrant ambergris should be
+found in the heart of such decay; is this nothing? Bethink thee of that
+saying of St. Paul in Corinthians, about corruption and incorruption;
+how that we are sown in dishonour, but raised in glory. And likewise
+call to mind that saying of Paracelsus about what it is that maketh
+the best musk. Also forget not the strange fact that of all things of
+ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the
+worst.
+
+I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot,
+owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen,
+and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be
+considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of
+the Frenchman's two whales. Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous
+aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout
+a slatternly, untidy business. But there is another thing to rebut. They
+hint that all whales always smell bad. Now how did this odious stigma
+originate?
+
+I opine, that it is plainly traceable to the first arrival of the
+Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago. Because
+those whalemen did not then, and do not now, try out their oil at sea as
+the Southern ships have always done; but cutting up the fresh blubber in
+small bits, thrust it through the bung holes of large casks, and carry
+it home in that manner; the shortness of the season in those Icy Seas,
+and the sudden and violent storms to which they are exposed, forbidding
+any other course. The consequence is, that upon breaking into the hold,
+and unloading one of these whale cemeteries, in the Greenland dock, a
+savor is given forth somewhat similar to that arising from excavating an
+old city grave-yard, for the foundations of a Lying-in-Hospital.
+
+I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be
+likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former
+times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which
+latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great
+work on Smells, a text-book on that subject. As its name imports (smeer,
+fat; berg, to put up), this village was founded in order to afford a
+place for the blubber of the Dutch whale fleet to be tried out, without
+being taken home to Holland for that purpose. It was a collection of
+furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full
+operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor. But all this is
+quite different with a South Sea Sperm Whaler; which in a voyage of four
+years perhaps, after completely filling her hold with oil, does not,
+perhaps, consume fifty days in the business of boiling out; and in the
+state that it is casked, the oil is nearly scentless. The truth is, that
+living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by
+no means creatures of ill odor; nor can whalemen be recognised, as the
+people of the middle ages affected to detect a Jew in the company, by
+the nose. Nor indeed can the whale possibly be otherwise than fragrant,
+when, as a general thing, he enjoys such high health; taking abundance
+of exercise; always out of doors; though, it is true, seldom in the
+open air. I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water
+dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a
+warm parlor. What then shall I liken the Sperm Whale to for fragrance,
+considering his magnitude? Must it not be to that famous elephant, with
+jewelled tusks, and redolent with myrrh, which was led out of an Indian
+town to do honour to Alexander the Great?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
+
+
+It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most
+significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an
+event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes
+madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying
+prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.
+
+Now, in the whale ship, it is not every one that goes in the boats. Some
+few hands are reserved called ship-keepers, whose province it is to work
+the vessel while the boats are pursuing the whale. As a general thing,
+these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising the boats'
+crews. But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous
+wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper. It
+was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by
+abbreviation. Poor Pip! ye have heard of him before; ye must remember
+his tambourine on that dramatic midnight, so gloomy-jolly.
+
+In outer aspect, Pip and Dough-Boy made a match, like a black pony and a
+white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar colour, driven in
+one eccentric span. But while hapless Dough-Boy was by nature dull and
+torpid in his intellects, Pip, though over tender-hearted, was at bottom
+very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to
+his tribe; a tribe, which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with
+finer, freer relish than any other race. For blacks, the year's calendar
+should show naught but three hundred and sixty-five Fourth of Julys and
+New Year's Days. Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was
+brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous
+ebony, panelled in king's cabinets. But Pip loved life, and all life's
+peaceable securities; so that the panic-striking business in which he
+had somehow unaccountably become entrapped, had most sadly blurred his
+brightness; though, as ere long will be seen, what was thus temporarily
+subdued in him, in the end was destined to be luridly illumined by
+strange wild fires, that fictitiously showed him off to ten times the
+natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut,
+he had once enlivened many a fiddler's frolic on the green; and at
+melodious even-tide, with his gay ha-ha! had turned the round horizon
+into one star-belled tambourine. So, though in the clear air of day,
+suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop
+will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you
+the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy
+ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural
+gases. Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then
+the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies,
+looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell. But let us to
+the story.
+
+It came to pass, that in the ambergris affair Stubb's after-oarsman
+chanced so to sprain his hand, as for a time to become quite maimed;
+and, temporarily, Pip was put into his place.
+
+The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness;
+but happily, for that time, escaped close contact with the whale; and
+therefore came off not altogether discreditably; though Stubb observing
+him, took care, afterwards, to exhort him to cherish his courageousness
+to the utmost, for he might often find it needful.
+
+Now upon the second lowering, the boat paddled upon the whale; and as
+the fish received the darted iron, it gave its customary rap, which
+happened, in this instance, to be right under poor Pip's seat. The
+involuntary consternation of the moment caused him to leap, paddle in
+hand, out of the boat; and in such a way, that part of the slack whale
+line coming against his chest, he breasted it overboard with him, so as
+to become entangled in it, when at last plumping into the water. That
+instant the stricken whale started on a fierce run, the line swiftly
+straightened; and presto! poor Pip came all foaming up to the chocks
+of the boat, remorselessly dragged there by the line, which had taken
+several turns around his chest and neck.
+
+Tashtego stood in the bows. He was full of the fire of the hunt. He
+hated Pip for a poltroon. Snatching the boat-knife from its sheath,
+he suspended its sharp edge over the line, and turning towards Stubb,
+exclaimed interrogatively, "Cut?" Meantime Pip's blue, choked face
+plainly looked, Do, for God's sake! All passed in a flash. In less than
+half a minute, this entire thing happened.
+
+"Damn him, cut!" roared Stubb; and so the whale was lost and Pip was
+saved.
+
+So soon as he recovered himself, the poor little negro was assailed
+by yells and execrations from the crew. Tranquilly permitting these
+irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, business-like,
+but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially; and that done,
+unofficially gave him much wholesome advice. The substance was, Never
+jump from a boat, Pip, except--but all the rest was indefinite, as the
+soundest advice ever is. Now, in general, STICK TO THE BOAT, is your
+true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM
+THE BOAT, is still better. Moreover, as if perceiving at last that if he
+should give undiluted conscientious advice to Pip, he would be leaving
+him too wide a margin to jump in for the future; Stubb suddenly dropped
+all advice, and concluded with a peremptory command, "Stick to the boat,
+Pip, or by the Lord, I won't pick you up if you jump; mind that. We
+can't afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would sell for
+thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in mind, and
+don't jump any more." Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that
+though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which
+propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
+
+But we are all in the hands of the Gods; and Pip jumped again. It was
+under very similar circumstances to the first performance; but this time
+he did not breast out the line; and hence, when the whale started to
+run, Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller's trunk.
+Alas! Stubb was but too true to his word. It was a beautiful, bounteous,
+blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away,
+all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the
+extremest. Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pip's ebon head showed
+like a head of cloves. No boat-knife was lifted when he fell so rapidly
+astern. Stubb's inexorable back was turned upon him; and the whale was
+winged. In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between
+Pip and Stubb. Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his
+crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though
+the loftiest and the brightest.
+
+Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the
+practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful
+lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the
+middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? Mark, how
+when sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea--mark how closely they
+hug their ship and only coast along her sides.
+
+But had Stubb really abandoned the poor little negro to his fate? No; he
+did not mean to, at least. Because there were two boats in his wake,
+and he supposed, no doubt, that they would of course come up to Pip very
+quickly, and pick him up; though, indeed, such considerations towards
+oarsmen jeopardized through their own timidity, is not always manifested
+by the hunters in all similar instances; and such instances not
+unfrequently occur; almost invariably in the fishery, a coward, so
+called, is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to
+military navies and armies.
+
+But it so happened, that those boats, without seeing Pip, suddenly
+spying whales close to them on one side, turned, and gave chase; and
+Stubb's boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent
+upon his fish, that Pip's ringed horizon began to expand around him
+miserably. By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but
+from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at
+least, they said he was. The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body
+up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though.
+Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of
+the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes;
+and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the
+joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous,
+God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters
+heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the
+loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's
+insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man
+comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and
+frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his
+God.
+
+For the rest, blame not Stubb too hardly. The thing is common in that
+fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what
+like abandonment befell myself.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
+
+
+That whale of Stubb's, so dearly purchased, was duly brought to
+the Pequod's side, where all those cutting and hoisting operations
+previously detailed, were regularly gone through, even to the baling of
+the Heidelburgh Tun, or Case.
+
+While some were occupied with this latter duty, others were employed
+in dragging away the larger tubs, so soon as filled with the sperm; and
+when the proper time arrived, this same sperm was carefully manipulated
+ere going to the try-works, of which anon.
+
+It had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with several
+others, I sat down before a large Constantine's bath of it, I found
+it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there rolling about in the
+liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid.
+A sweet and unctuous duty! No wonder that in old times this sperm was
+such a favourite cosmetic. Such a clearer! such a sweetener! such a
+softener! such a delicious molifier! After having my hands in it for
+only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to
+serpentine and spiralise.
+
+As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter
+exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under
+indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among
+those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, woven almost within
+the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their
+opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as I snuffed up that
+uncontaminated aroma,--literally and truly, like the smell of spring
+violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky
+meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible
+sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit
+the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying
+the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from
+all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
+
+Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm
+till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a
+strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly
+squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the
+gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving
+feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually
+squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as
+much as to say,--Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish
+any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come;
+let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into
+each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and
+sperm of kindness.
+
+Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by
+many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases
+man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable
+felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in
+the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fireside, the
+country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case
+eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of
+angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
+
+Now, while discoursing of sperm, it behooves to speak of other things
+akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the
+try-works.
+
+First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering
+part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes. It
+is tough with congealed tendons--a wad of muscle--but still contains
+some oil. After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first
+cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer. They look much like
+blocks of Berkshire marble.
+
+Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the
+whale's flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and
+often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness. It is
+a most refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold. As its name
+imports, it is of an exceedingly rich, mottled tint, with a bestreaked
+snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson and
+purple. It is plums of rubies, in pictures of citron. Spite of reason,
+it is hard to keep yourself from eating it. I confess, that once I stole
+behind the foremast to try it. It tasted something as I should conceive
+a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have tasted,
+supposing him to have been killed the first day after the venison
+season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an
+unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.
+
+There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in
+the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling
+adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion; an appellation
+original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
+It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the
+tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.
+I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured membranes of the case,
+coalescing.
+
+Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but
+sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen. It designates the
+dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland
+or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior
+souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan.
+
+Nippers. Strictly this word is not indigenous to the whale's vocabulary.
+But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so. A whaleman's nipper is
+a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of
+Leviathan's tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is
+about the size of the iron part of a hoe. Edgewise moved along the
+oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee; and by nameless
+blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.
+
+But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at once
+to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its inmates.
+This place has previously been mentioned as the receptacle for the
+blanket-pieces, when stript and hoisted from the whale. When the proper
+time arrives for cutting up its contents, this apartment is a scene of
+terror to all tyros, especially by night. On one side, lit by a dull
+lantern, a space has been left clear for the workmen. They generally
+go in pairs,--a pike-and-gaffman and a spade-man. The whaling-pike is
+similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is
+something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a
+sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship
+pitches and lurches about. Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet
+itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces. This
+spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless;
+the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from
+him, like a sledge. If he cuts off one of his own toes, or one of his
+assistants', would you be very much astonished? Toes are scarce among
+veteran blubber-room men.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
+
+
+Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this
+post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the
+windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small
+curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen
+there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers. Not the wondrous
+cistern in the whale's huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower
+jaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail; none of these would so
+surprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone,--longer than
+a Kentuckian is tall, nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and jet-black
+as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg. And an idol, indeed, it is; or,
+rather, in old times, its likeness was. Such an idol as that found in
+the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which,
+King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol, and burnt it
+for an abomination at the brook Kedron, as darkly set forth in the 15th
+chapter of the First Book of Kings.
+
+Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted
+by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it,
+and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier
+carrying a dead comrade from the field. Extending it upon the forecastle
+deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an
+African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt inside
+out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to
+double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the rigging,
+to dry. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some three feet of it,
+towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two slits for arm-holes
+at the other end, he lengthwise slips himself bodily into it. The mincer
+now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling.
+Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately
+protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office.
+
+That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the
+pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted
+endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into
+which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's
+desk. Arrayed in decent black; occupying a conspicuous pulpit; intent
+on bible leaves; what a candidate for an archbishopric, what a lad for a
+Pope were this mincer!*
+
+
+*Bible leaves! Bible leaves! This is the invariable cry from the mates
+to the mincer. It enjoins him to be careful, and cut his work into as
+thin slices as possible, inasmuch as by so doing the business of
+boiling out the oil is much accelerated, and its quantity considerably
+increased, besides perhaps improving it in quality.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
+
+
+Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished
+by her try-works. She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid
+masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.
+It is as if from the open field a brick-kiln were transported to her
+planks.
+
+The try-works are planted between the foremast and mainmast, the most
+roomy part of the deck. The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength,
+fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and
+mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height. The
+foundation does not penetrate the deck, but the masonry is firmly
+secured to the surface by ponderous knees of iron bracing it on all
+sides, and screwing it down to the timbers. On the flanks it is cased
+with wood, and at top completely covered by a large, sloping, battened
+hatchway. Removing this hatch we expose the great try-pots, two in
+number, and each of several barrels' capacity. When not in use, they are
+kept remarkably clean. Sometimes they are polished with soapstone
+and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls. During the
+night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them and coil
+themselves away there for a nap. While employed in polishing them--one
+man in each pot, side by side--many confidential communications
+are carried on, over the iron lips. It is a place also for profound
+mathematical meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the Pequod,
+with the soapstone diligently circling round me, that I was first
+indirectly struck by the remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies
+gliding along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will descend from
+any point in precisely the same time.
+
+Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare
+masonry of that side is exposed, penetrated by the two iron mouths of
+the furnaces, directly underneath the pots. These mouths are fitted
+with heavy doors of iron. The intense heat of the fire is prevented
+from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir
+extending under the entire inclosed surface of the works. By a tunnel
+inserted at the rear, this reservoir is kept replenished with water as
+fast as it evaporates. There are no external chimneys; they open direct
+from the rear wall. And here let us go back for a moment.
+
+It was about nine o'clock at night that the Pequod's try-works were
+first started on this present voyage. It belonged to Stubb to oversee
+the business.
+
+"All ready there? Off hatch, then, and start her. You cook, fire the
+works." This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his
+shavings into the furnace throughout the passage. Here be it said that
+in a whaling voyage the first fire in the try-works has to be fed for a
+time with wood. After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick
+ignition to the staple fuel. In a word, after being tried out, the
+crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains
+considerable of its unctuous properties. These fritters feed the flames.
+Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once
+ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.
+Would that he consumed his own smoke! for his smoke is horrible to
+inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in
+it for the time. It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such
+as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres. It smells like the left
+wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.
+
+By midnight the works were in full operation. We were clear from the
+carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean
+darkness was intense. But that darkness was licked up by the fierce
+flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and
+illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek
+fire. The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to
+some vengeful deed. So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the
+bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad
+sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and
+folded them in conflagrations.
+
+The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth
+in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the
+pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship's stokers. With huge pronged
+poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or
+stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out
+of the doors to catch them by the feet. The smoke rolled away in sullen
+heaps. To every pitch of the ship there was a pitch of the boiling oil,
+which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces. Opposite the mouth
+of the works, on the further side of the wide wooden hearth, was the
+windlass. This served for a sea-sofa. Here lounged the watch, when not
+otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the fire, till their
+eyes felt scorched in their heads. Their tawny features, now all
+begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting
+barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in
+the capricious emblazonings of the works. As they narrated to each other
+their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth;
+as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the
+flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their front, the harpooneers
+wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the
+wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and
+yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness
+of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in
+her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing
+Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning
+a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the
+material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.
+
+So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently
+guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval,
+in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the
+ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before
+me, capering half in smoke and half in fire, these at last begat kindred
+visions in my soul, so soon as I began to yield to that unaccountable
+drowsiness which ever would come over me at a midnight helm.
+
+But that night, in particular, a strange (and ever since inexplicable)
+thing occurred to me. Starting from a brief standing sleep, I was
+horribly conscious of something fatally wrong. The jaw-bone tiller smote
+my side, which leaned against it; in my ears was the low hum of sails,
+just beginning to shake in the wind; I thought my eyes were open; I
+was half conscious of putting my fingers to the lids and mechanically
+stretching them still further apart. But, spite of all this, I could see
+no compass before me to steer by; though it seemed but a minute since I
+had been watching the card, by the steady binnacle lamp illuminating it.
+Nothing seemed before me but a jet gloom, now and then made ghastly by
+flashes of redness. Uppermost was the impression, that whatever swift,
+rushing thing I stood on was not so much bound to any haven ahead as
+rushing from all havens astern. A stark, bewildered feeling, as of
+death, came over me. Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with
+the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way,
+inverted. My God! what is the matter with me? thought I. Lo! in my brief
+sleep I had turned myself about, and was fronting the ship's stern, with
+my back to her prow and the compass. In an instant I faced back, just
+in time to prevent the vessel from flying up into the wind, and very
+probably capsizing her. How glad and how grateful the relief from this
+unnatural hallucination of the night, and the fatal contingency of being
+brought by the lee!
+
+Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy
+hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first
+hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its
+redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun,
+the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking
+flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the
+glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp--all others but liars!
+
+Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's
+accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of
+deserts and of griefs beneath the moon. The sun hides not the ocean,
+which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this
+earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow
+in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped. With
+books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the
+truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered
+steel of woe. "All is vanity." ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold
+of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet. But he who dodges hospitals and
+jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of
+operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all
+of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as
+passing wise, and therefore jolly;--not that man is fitted to sit
+down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably
+wondrous Solomon.
+
+But even Solomon, he says, "the man that wandereth out of the way
+of understanding shall remain" (I.E., even while living) "in the
+congregation of the dead." Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it
+invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom
+that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill
+eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges,
+and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.
+And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the
+mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still
+higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
+
+
+Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's
+forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single
+moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some
+illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay
+in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a
+score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
+
+In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of
+queens. To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in
+darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot. But the whaleman, as he
+seeks the food of light, so he lives in light. He makes his berth an
+Aladdin's lamp, and lays him down in it; so that in the pitchiest night
+the ship's black hull still houses an illumination.
+
+See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of
+lamps--often but old bottles and vials, though--to the copper cooler at
+the try-works, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat. He
+burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore,
+unvitiated state; a fluid unknown to solar, lunar, or astral
+contrivances ashore. It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He
+goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and
+genuineness, even as the traveller on the prairie hunts up his own
+supper of game.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
+
+
+Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off
+descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and
+slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed alongside
+and beheaded; and how (on the principle which entitled the headsman of
+old to the garments in which the beheaded was killed) his great padded
+surtout becomes the property of his executioner; how, in due time, he
+is condemned to the pots, and, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, his
+spermaceti, oil, and bone pass unscathed through the fire;--but now it
+remains to conclude the last chapter of this part of the description by
+rehearsing--singing, if I may--the romantic proceeding of decanting off
+his oil into the casks and striking them down into the hold, where
+once again leviathan returns to his native profundities, sliding along
+beneath the surface as before; but, alas! never more to rise and blow.
+
+While still warm, the oil, like hot punch, is received into the
+six-barrel casks; and while, perhaps, the ship is pitching and rolling
+this way and that in the midnight sea, the enormous casks are slewed
+round and headed over, end for end, and sometimes perilously scoot
+across the slippery deck, like so many land slides, till at last
+man-handled and stayed in their course; and all round the hoops, rap,
+rap, go as many hammers as can play upon them, for now, EX OFFICIO,
+every sailor is a cooper.
+
+At length, when the last pint is casked, and all is cool, then the great
+hatchways are unsealed, the bowels of the ship are thrown open, and down
+go the casks to their final rest in the sea. This done, the hatches are
+replaced, and hermetically closed, like a closet walled up.
+
+In the sperm fishery, this is perhaps one of the most remarkable
+incidents in all the business of whaling. One day the planks stream with
+freshets of blood and oil; on the sacred quarter-deck enormous masses of
+the whale's head are profanely piled; great rusty casks lie about, as
+in a brewery yard; the smoke from the try-works has besooted all the
+bulwarks; the mariners go about suffused with unctuousness; the entire
+ship seems great leviathan himself; while on all hands the din is
+deafening.
+
+But a day or two after, you look about you, and prick your ears in this
+self-same ship; and were it not for the tell-tale boats and try-works,
+you would all but swear you trod some silent merchant vessel, with a
+most scrupulously neat commander. The unmanufactured sperm oil possesses
+a singularly cleansing virtue. This is the reason why the decks never
+look so white as just after what they call an affair of oil. Besides,
+from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent lye is
+readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale
+remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates it. Hands
+go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags
+restore them to their full tidiness. The soot is brushed from the lower
+rigging. All the numerous implements which have been in use are likewise
+faithfully cleansed and put away. The great hatch is scrubbed and placed
+upon the try-works, completely hiding the pots; every cask is out of
+sight; all tackles are coiled in unseen nooks; and when by the combined
+and simultaneous industry of almost the entire ship's company, the
+whole of this conscientious duty is at last concluded, then the crew
+themselves proceed to their own ablutions; shift themselves from top to
+toe; and finally issue to the immaculate deck, fresh and all aglow, as
+bridegrooms new-leaped from out the daintiest Holland.
+
+Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and
+humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics;
+propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not
+to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle. To hint to
+such musked mariners of oil, and bone, and blubber, were little short
+of audacity. They know not the thing you distantly allude to. Away, and
+bring us napkins!
+
+But mark: aloft there, at the three mast heads, stand three men intent
+on spying out more whales, which, if caught, infallibly will again
+soil the old oaken furniture, and drop at least one small grease-spot
+somewhere. Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest
+uninterrupted labors, which know no night; continuing straight through
+for ninety-six hours; when from the boat, where they have swelled their
+wrists with all day rowing on the Line,--they only step to the deck to
+carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass, and cut and slash, yea,
+and in their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the combined
+fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works; when, on the
+heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves to cleanse the
+ship, and make a spotless dairy room of it; many is the time the poor
+fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by
+the cry of "There she blows!" and away they fly to fight another whale,
+and go through the whole weary thing again. Oh! my friends, but this
+is man-killing! Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long
+toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable
+sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its
+defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul;
+hardly is this done, when--THERE SHE BLOWS!--the ghost is spouted up,
+and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's
+old routine again.
+
+Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two
+thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with
+thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage--and, foolish as I am, taught
+thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
+
+
+Ere now it has been related how Ahab was wont to pace his quarter-deck,
+taking regular turns at either limit, the binnacle and mainmast; but
+in the multiplicity of other things requiring narration it has not been
+added how that sometimes in these walks, when most plunged in his mood,
+he was wont to pause in turn at each spot, and stand there strangely
+eyeing the particular object before him. When he halted before the
+binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass,
+that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his
+purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast,
+then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin
+there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed
+with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.
+
+But one morning, turning to pass the doubloon, he seemed to be newly
+attracted by the strange figures and inscriptions stamped on it, as
+though now for the first time beginning to interpret for himself in
+some monomaniac way whatever significance might lurk in them. And some
+certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little
+worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by
+the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in
+the Milky Way.
+
+Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the
+heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the
+head-waters of many a Pactolus flows. And though now nailed amidst all
+the rustiness of iron bolts and the verdigris of copper spikes, yet,
+untouchable and immaculate to any foulness, it still preserved its Quito
+glow. Nor, though placed amongst a ruthless crew and every hour passed
+by ruthless hands, and through the livelong nights shrouded with thick
+darkness which might cover any pilfering approach, nevertheless every
+sunrise found the doubloon where the sunset left it last. For it was
+set apart and sanctified to one awe-striking end; and however wanton
+in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white
+whale's talisman. Sometimes they talked it over in the weary watch by
+night, wondering whose it was to be at last, and whether he would ever
+live to spend it.
+
+Now those noble golden coins of South America are as medals of the sun
+and tropic token-pieces. Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun's disks
+and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in
+luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to
+derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through
+those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.
+
+It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod was a most wealthy example
+of these things. On its round border it bore the letters, REPUBLICA DEL
+ECUADOR: QUITO. So this bright coin came from a country planted in the
+middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it;
+and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that
+knows no autumn. Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three
+Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a
+crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned
+zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the
+keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra.
+
+Before this equatorial coin, Ahab, not unobserved by others, was now
+pausing.
+
+"There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and
+all other grand and lofty things; look here,--three peaks as proud as
+Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the
+courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all
+are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe,
+which, like a magician's glass, to each and every man in turn but
+mirrors back his own mysterious self. Great pains, small gains for those
+who ask the world to solve them; it cannot solve itself. Methinks now
+this coined sun wears a ruddy face; but see! aye, he enters the sign
+of storms, the equinox! and but six months before he wheeled out of a
+former equinox at Aries! From storm to storm! So be it, then. Born in
+throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be
+it, then! Here's stout stuff for woe to work on. So be it, then."
+
+"No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devil's claws must
+have left their mouldings there since yesterday," murmured Starbuck
+to himself, leaning against the bulwarks. "The old man seems to read
+Belshazzar's awful writing. I have never marked the coin inspectingly.
+He goes below; let me read. A dark valley between three mighty,
+heaven-abiding peaks, that almost seem the Trinity, in some faint
+earthly symbol. So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over
+all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a
+hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil;
+but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer.
+Yet, oh, the great sun is no fixture; and if, at midnight, we would fain
+snatch some sweet solace from him, we gaze for him in vain! This coin
+speaks wisely, mildly, truly, but still sadly to me. I will quit it,
+lest Truth shake me falsely."
+
+"There now's the old Mogul," soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, "he's
+been twigging it; and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with
+faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long.
+And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have it now on
+Negro Hill or in Corlaer's Hook, I'd not look at it very long ere
+spending it. Humph! in my poor, insignificant opinion, I regard this as
+queer. I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons
+of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your
+doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold
+moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes. What
+then should there be in this doubloon of the Equator that is so killing
+wonderful? By Golconda! let me read it once. Halloa! here's signs and
+wonders truly! That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the
+zodiac, and what my almanac below calls ditto. I'll get the almanac and
+as I have heard devils can be raised with Daboll's arithmetic, I'll try
+my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with
+the Massachusetts calendar. Here's the book. Let's see now. Signs and
+wonders; and the sun, he's always among 'em. Hem, hem, hem; here they
+are--here they go--all alive:--Aries, or the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull
+and Jimimi! here's Gemini himself, or the Twins. Well; the sun he
+wheels among 'em. Aye, here on the coin he's just crossing the threshold
+between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring. Book! you lie there;
+the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the
+bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. That's my
+small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditch's
+navigator, and Daboll's arithmetic go. Signs and wonders, eh? Pity if
+there is nothing wonderful in signs, and significant in wonders! There's
+a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist--hark! By Jove, I have it! Look you,
+Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter;
+and now I'll read it off, straight out of the book. Come, Almanack! To
+begin: there's Aries, or the Ram--lecherous dog, he begets us; then,
+Taurus, or the Bull--he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the
+Twins--that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes
+Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo,
+a roaring Lion, lies in the path--he gives a few fierce bites and surly
+dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the Virgin! that's our
+first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes
+Libra, or the Scales--happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we
+are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the
+Scorpion, stings us in the rear; we are curing the wound, when whang
+come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing
+himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the
+battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing,
+and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours
+out his whole deluge and drowns us; and to wind up with Pisces, or the
+Fishes, we sleep. There's a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the
+sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and
+hearty. Jollily he, aloft there, wheels through toil and trouble; and
+so, alow here, does jolly Stubb. Oh, jolly's the word for aye! Adieu,
+Doubloon! But stop; here comes little King-Post; dodge round the
+try-works, now, and let's hear what he'll have to say. There; he's
+before it; he'll out with something presently. So, so; he's beginning."
+
+"I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises
+a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. So, what's all this
+staring been about? It is worth sixteen dollars, that's true; and at
+two cents the cigar, that's nine hundred and sixty cigars. I won't smoke
+dirty pipes like Stubb, but I like cigars, and here's nine hundred and
+sixty of them; so here goes Flask aloft to spy 'em out."
+
+"Shall I call that wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a
+foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort
+of wiseish look to it. But, avast; here comes our old Manxman--the old
+hearse-driver, he must have been, that is, before he took to the sea. He
+luffs up before the doubloon; halloa, and goes round on the other side
+of the mast; why, there's a horse-shoe nailed on that side; and now he's
+back again; what does that mean? Hark! he's muttering--voice like an old
+worn-out coffee-mill. Prick ears, and listen!"
+
+"If the White Whale be raised, it must be in a month and a day, when
+the sun stands in some one of these signs. I've studied signs, and know
+their marks; they were taught me two score years ago, by the old witch
+in Copenhagen. Now, in what sign will the sun then be? The horse-shoe
+sign; for there it is, right opposite the gold. And what's the
+horse-shoe sign? The lion is the horse-shoe sign--the roaring and
+devouring lion. Ship, old ship! my old head shakes to think of thee."
+
+"There's another rendering now; but still one text. All sorts of men
+in one kind of world, you see. Dodge again! here comes Queequeg--all
+tattooing--looks like the signs of the Zodiac himself. What says the
+Cannibal? As I live he's comparing notes; looking at his thigh bone;
+thinks the sun is in the thigh, or in the calf, or in the bowels, I
+suppose, as the old women talk Surgeon's Astronomy in the back country.
+And by Jove, he's found something there in the vicinity of his thigh--I
+guess it's Sagittarius, or the Archer. No: he don't know what to make
+of the doubloon; he takes it for an old button off some king's trowsers.
+But, aside again! here comes that ghost-devil, Fedallah; tail coiled out
+of sight as usual, oakum in the toes of his pumps as usual. What does he
+say, with that look of his? Ah, only makes a sign to the sign and bows
+himself; there is a sun on the coin--fire worshipper, depend upon it.
+Ho! more and more. This way comes Pip--poor boy! would he had died,
+or I; he's half horrible to me. He too has been watching all of these
+interpreters--myself included--and look now, he comes to read, with that
+unearthly idiot face. Stand away again and hear him. Hark!"
+
+"I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look."
+
+"Upon my soul, he's been studying Murray's Grammar! Improving his mind,
+poor fellow! But what's that he says now--hist!"
+
+"I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look."
+
+"Why, he's getting it by heart--hist! again."
+
+"I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look."
+
+"Well, that's funny."
+
+"And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I'm a crow,
+especially when I stand a'top of this pine tree here. Caw! caw! caw!
+caw! caw! caw! Ain't I a crow? And where's the scare-crow? There he
+stands; two bones stuck into a pair of old trowsers, and two more poked
+into the sleeves of an old jacket."
+
+"Wonder if he means me?--complimentary!--poor lad!--I could go hang
+myself. Any way, for the present, I'll quit Pip's vicinity. I can stand
+the rest, for they have plain wits; but he's too crazy-witty for my
+sanity. So, so, I leave him muttering."
+
+"Here's the ship's navel, this doubloon here, and they are all on fire
+to unscrew it. But, unscrew your navel, and what's the consequence? Then
+again, if it stays here, that is ugly, too, for when aught's nailed to
+the mast it's a sign that things grow desperate. Ha, ha! old Ahab!
+the White Whale; he'll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old
+Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown
+over in it; some old darkey's wedding ring. How did it get there? And
+so they'll say in the resurrection, when they come to fish up this old
+mast, and find a doubloon lodged in it, with bedded oysters for the
+shaggy bark. Oh, the gold! the precious, precious, gold! the green
+miser'll hoard ye soon! Hish! hish! God goes 'mong the worlds
+blackberrying. Cook! ho, cook! and cook us! Jenny! hey, hey, hey, hey,
+hey, Jenny, Jenny! and get your hoe-cake done!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
+
+The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.
+
+
+"Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?"
+
+So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing English colours, bearing
+down under the stern. Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his
+hoisted quarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger
+captain, who was carelessly reclining in his own boat's bow. He was
+a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or
+thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in
+festoons of blue pilot-cloth; and one empty arm of this jacket streamed
+behind him like the broidered arm of a hussar's surcoat.
+
+"Hast seen the White Whale!"
+
+"See you this?" and withdrawing it from the folds that had hidden it,
+he held up a white arm of sperm whale bone, terminating in a wooden head
+like a mallet.
+
+"Man my boat!" cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars near
+him--"Stand by to lower!"
+
+In less than a minute, without quitting his little craft, he and his
+crew were dropped to the water, and were soon alongside of the stranger.
+But here a curious difficulty presented itself. In the excitement of the
+moment, Ahab had forgotten that since the loss of his leg he had never
+once stepped on board of any vessel at sea but his own, and then it was
+always by an ingenious and very handy mechanical contrivance peculiar to
+the Pequod, and a thing not to be rigged and shipped in any other
+vessel at a moment's warning. Now, it is no very easy matter
+for anybody--except those who are almost hourly used to it, like
+whalemen--to clamber up a ship's side from a boat on the open sea; for
+the great swells now lift the boat high up towards the bulwarks, and
+then instantaneously drop it half way down to the kelson. So, deprived
+of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied
+with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a
+clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height
+he could hardly hope to attain.
+
+It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward
+circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his
+luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab. And
+in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the
+two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the
+perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a
+pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem
+to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to
+use their sea bannisters. But this awkwardness only lasted a minute,
+because the strange captain, observing at a glance how affairs stood,
+cried out, "I see, I see!--avast heaving there! Jump, boys, and swing
+over the cutting-tackle."
+
+As good luck would have it, they had had a whale alongside a day or two
+previous, and the great tackles were still aloft, and the massive curved
+blubber-hook, now clean and dry, was still attached to the end. This
+was quickly lowered to Ahab, who at once comprehending it all, slid his
+solitary thigh into the curve of the hook (it was like sitting in the
+fluke of an anchor, or the crotch of an apple tree), and then giving the
+word, held himself fast, and at the same time also helped to hoist his
+own weight, by pulling hand-over-hand upon one of the running parts of
+the tackle. Soon he was carefully swung inside the high bulwarks, and
+gently landed upon the capstan head. With his ivory arm frankly thrust
+forth in welcome, the other captain advanced, and Ahab, putting out his
+ivory leg, and crossing the ivory arm (like two sword-fish blades)
+cried out in his walrus way, "Aye, aye, hearty! let us shake bones
+together!--an arm and a leg!--an arm that never can shrink, d'ye
+see; and a leg that never can run. Where did'st thou see the White
+Whale?--how long ago?"
+
+"The White Whale," said the Englishman, pointing his ivory arm towards
+the East, and taking a rueful sight along it, as if it had been a
+telescope; "there I saw him, on the Line, last season."
+
+"And he took that arm off, did he?" asked Ahab, now sliding down from
+the capstan, and resting on the Englishman's shoulder, as he did so.
+
+"Aye, he was the cause of it, at least; and that leg, too?"
+
+"Spin me the yarn," said Ahab; "how was it?"
+
+"It was the first time in my life that I ever cruised on the Line,"
+began the Englishman. "I was ignorant of the White Whale at that time.
+Well, one day we lowered for a pod of four or five whales, and my boat
+fastened to one of them; a regular circus horse he was, too, that went
+milling and milling round so, that my boat's crew could only trim dish,
+by sitting all their sterns on the outer gunwale. Presently up breaches
+from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white
+head and hump, all crows' feet and wrinkles."
+
+"It was he, it was he!" cried Ahab, suddenly letting out his suspended
+breath.
+
+"And harpoons sticking in near his starboard fin."
+
+"Aye, aye--they were mine--MY irons," cried Ahab, exultingly--"but on!"
+
+"Give me a chance, then," said the Englishman, good-humoredly. "Well,
+this old great-grandfather, with the white head and hump, runs all afoam
+into the pod, and goes to snapping furiously at my fast-line!
+
+"Aye, I see!--wanted to part it; free the fast-fish--an old trick--I
+know him."
+
+"How it was exactly," continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know;
+but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow;
+but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the
+line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's;
+that went off to windward, all fluking. Seeing how matters stood, and
+what a noble great whale it was--the noblest and biggest I ever saw,
+sir, in my life--I resolved to capture him, spite of the boiling rage
+he seemed to be in. And thinking the hap-hazard line would get loose, or
+the tooth it was tangled to might draw (for I have a devil of a boat's
+crew for a pull on a whale-line); seeing all this, I say, I jumped
+into my first mate's boat--Mr. Mounttop's here (by the way,
+Captain--Mounttop; Mounttop--the captain);--as I was saying, I jumped
+into Mounttop's boat, which, d'ye see, was gunwale and gunwale
+with mine, then; and snatching the first harpoon, let this old
+great-grandfather have it. But, Lord, look you, sir--hearts and souls
+alive, man--the next instant, in a jiff, I was blind as a bat--both
+eyes out--all befogged and bedeadened with black foam--the whale's tail
+looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air, like a marble
+steeple. No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday, with
+a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; as I was groping, I say, after the
+second iron, to toss it overboard--down comes the tail like a Lima
+tower, cutting my boat in two, leaving each half in splinters; and,
+flukes first, the white hump backed through the wreck, as though it was
+all chips. We all struck out. To escape his terrible flailings, I seized
+hold of my harpoon-pole sticking in him, and for a moment clung to that
+like a sucking fish. But a combing sea dashed me off, and at the same
+instant, the fish, taking one good dart forwards, went down like a
+flash; and the barb of that cursed second iron towing along near me
+caught me here" (clapping his hand just below his shoulder); "yes,
+caught me just here, I say, and bore me down to Hell's flames, I was
+thinking; when, when, all of a sudden, thank the good God, the barb ript
+its way along the flesh--clear along the whole length of my arm--came
+out nigh my wrist, and up I floated;--and that gentleman there will tell
+you the rest (by the way, captain--Dr. Bunger, ship's surgeon: Bunger,
+my lad,--the captain). Now, Bunger boy, spin your part of the yarn."
+
+The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all the
+time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote his
+gentlemanly rank on board. His face was an exceedingly round but sober
+one; he was dressed in a faded blue woollen frock or shirt, and patched
+trowsers; and had thus far been dividing his attention between a
+marlingspike he held in one hand, and a pill-box held in the other,
+occasionally casting a critical glance at the ivory limbs of the two
+crippled captains. But, at his superior's introduction of him to Ahab,
+he politely bowed, and straightway went on to do his captain's bidding.
+
+"It was a shocking bad wound," began the whale-surgeon; "and, taking my
+advice, Captain Boomer here, stood our old Sammy--"
+
+"Samuel Enderby is the name of my ship," interrupted the one-armed
+captain, addressing Ahab; "go on, boy."
+
+"Stood our old Sammy off to the northward, to get out of the blazing hot
+weather there on the Line. But it was no use--I did all I could; sat up
+with him nights; was very severe with him in the matter of diet--"
+
+"Oh, very severe!" chimed in the patient himself; then suddenly altering
+his voice, "Drinking hot rum toddies with me every night, till he
+couldn't see to put on the bandages; and sending me to bed, half seas
+over, about three o'clock in the morning. Oh, ye stars! he sat up with
+me indeed, and was very severe in my diet. Oh! a great watcher, and very
+dietetically severe, is Dr. Bunger. (Bunger, you dog, laugh out! why
+don't ye? You know you're a precious jolly rascal.) But, heave ahead,
+boy, I'd rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other man."
+
+"My captain, you must have ere this perceived, respected sir"--said the
+imperturbable godly-looking Bunger, slightly bowing to Ahab--"is apt to
+be facetious at times; he spins us many clever things of that sort. But
+I may as well say--en passant, as the French remark--that I myself--that
+is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy--am a strict total
+abstinence man; I never drink--"
+
+"Water!" cried the captain; "he never drinks it; it's a sort of fits to
+him; fresh water throws him into the hydrophobia; but go on--go on with
+the arm story."
+
+"Yes, I may as well," said the surgeon, coolly. "I was about observing,
+sir, before Captain Boomer's facetious interruption, that spite of my
+best and severest endeavors, the wound kept getting worse and worse; the
+truth was, sir, it was as ugly gaping wound as surgeon ever saw; more
+than two feet and several inches long. I measured it with the lead line.
+In short, it grew black; I knew what was threatened, and off it came.
+But I had no hand in shipping that ivory arm there; that thing is
+against all rule"--pointing at it with the marlingspike--"that is the
+captain's work, not mine; he ordered the carpenter to make it; he had
+that club-hammer there put to the end, to knock some one's brains
+out with, I suppose, as he tried mine once. He flies into diabolical
+passions sometimes. Do ye see this dent, sir"--removing his hat, and
+brushing aside his hair, and exposing a bowl-like cavity in his skull,
+but which bore not the slightest scarry trace, or any token of ever
+having been a wound--"Well, the captain there will tell you how that
+came here; he knows."
+
+"No, I don't," said the captain, "but his mother did; he was born with
+it. Oh, you solemn rogue, you--you Bunger! was there ever such another
+Bunger in the watery world? Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in
+pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal."
+
+"What became of the White Whale?" now cried Ahab, who thus far had been
+impatiently listening to this by-play between the two Englishmen.
+
+"Oh!" cried the one-armed captain, "oh, yes! Well; after he sounded,
+we didn't see him again for some time; in fact, as I before hinted, I
+didn't then know what whale it was that had served me such a trick, till
+some time afterwards, when coming back to the Line, we heard about Moby
+Dick--as some call him--and then I knew it was he."
+
+"Did'st thou cross his wake again?"
+
+"Twice."
+
+"But could not fasten?"
+
+"Didn't want to try to: ain't one limb enough? What should I do without
+this other arm? And I'm thinking Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he
+swallows."
+
+"Well, then," interrupted Bunger, "give him your left arm for bait to
+get the right. Do you know, gentlemen"--very gravely and mathematically
+bowing to each Captain in succession--"Do you know, gentlemen, that the
+digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine
+Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest
+even a man's arm? And he knows it too. So that what you take for the
+White Whale's malice is only his awkwardness. For he never means
+to swallow a single limb; he only thinks to terrify by feints. But
+sometimes he is like the old juggling fellow, formerly a patient of mine
+in Ceylon, that making believe swallow jack-knives, once upon a time let
+one drop into him in good earnest, and there it stayed for a twelvemonth
+or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks,
+d'ye see. No possible way for him to digest that jack-knife, and fully
+incorporate it into his general bodily system. Yes, Captain Boomer, if
+you are quick enough about it, and have a mind to pawn one arm for the
+sake of the privilege of giving decent burial to the other, why in that
+case the arm is yours; only let the whale have another chance at you
+shortly, that's all."
+
+"No, thank ye, Bunger," said the English Captain, "he's welcome to the
+arm he has, since I can't help it, and didn't know him then; but not to
+another one. No more White Whales for me; I've lowered for him once, and
+that has satisfied me. There would be great glory in killing him, I know
+that; and there is a ship-load of precious sperm in him, but, hark ye,
+he's best let alone; don't you think so, Captain?"--glancing at the
+ivory leg.
+
+"He is. But he will still be hunted, for all that. What is best let
+alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. He's all a
+magnet! How long since thou saw'st him last? Which way heading?"
+
+"Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiend's," cried Bunger, stoopingly
+walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing; "this man's
+blood--bring the thermometer!--it's at the boiling point!--his pulse
+makes these planks beat!--sir!"--taking a lancet from his pocket, and
+drawing near to Ahab's arm.
+
+"Avast!" roared Ahab, dashing him against the bulwarks--"Man the boat!
+Which way heading?"
+
+"Good God!" cried the English Captain, to whom the question was put.
+"What's the matter? He was heading east, I think.--Is your Captain
+crazy?" whispering Fedallah.
+
+But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to
+take the boat's steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle
+towards him, commanded the ship's sailors to stand by to lower.
+
+In a moment he was standing in the boat's stern, and the Manilla men
+were springing to their oars. In vain the English Captain hailed him.
+With back to the stranger ship, and face set like a flint to his own,
+Ahab stood upright till alongside of the Pequod.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
+
+
+Ere the English ship fades from sight, be it set down here, that
+she hailed from London, and was named after the late Samuel Enderby,
+merchant of that city, the original of the famous whaling house of
+Enderby & Sons; a house which in my poor whaleman's opinion, comes not
+far behind the united royal houses of the Tudors and Bourbons, in point
+of real historical interest. How long, prior to the year of our
+Lord 1775, this great whaling house was in existence, my numerous
+fish-documents do not make plain; but in that year (1775) it fitted
+out the first English ships that ever regularly hunted the Sperm Whale;
+though for some score of years previous (ever since 1726) our valiant
+Coffins and Maceys of Nantucket and the Vineyard had in large fleets
+pursued that Leviathan, but only in the North and South Atlantic: not
+elsewhere. Be it distinctly recorded here, that the Nantucketers were
+the first among mankind to harpoon with civilized steel the great Sperm
+Whale; and that for half a century they were the only people of the
+whole globe who so harpooned him.
+
+In 1778, a fine ship, the Amelia, fitted out for the express purpose,
+and at the sole charge of the vigorous Enderbys, boldly rounded Cape
+Horn, and was the first among the nations to lower a whale-boat of any
+sort in the great South Sea. The voyage was a skilful and lucky one;
+and returning to her berth with her hold full of the precious sperm, the
+Amelia's example was soon followed by other ships, English and American,
+and thus the vast Sperm Whale grounds of the Pacific were thrown open.
+But not content with this good deed, the indefatigable house again
+bestirred itself: Samuel and all his Sons--how many, their mother only
+knows--and under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their
+expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop-of-war
+Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea. Commanded
+by a naval Post-Captain, the Rattler made a rattling voyage of it, and
+did some service; how much does not appear. But this is not all. In
+1819, the same house fitted out a discovery whale ship of their own, to
+go on a tasting cruise to the remote waters of Japan. That ship--well
+called the "Syren"--made a noble experimental cruise; and it was thus
+that the great Japanese Whaling Ground first became generally known.
+The Syren in this famous voyage was commanded by a Captain Coffin, a
+Nantucketer.
+
+All honour to the Enderbies, therefore, whose house, I think, exists to
+the present day; though doubtless the original Samuel must long ago have
+slipped his cable for the great South Sea of the other world.
+
+The ship named after him was worthy of the honour, being a very fast
+sailer and a noble craft every way. I boarded her once at midnight
+somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the
+forecastle. It was a fine gam we had, and they were all trumps--every
+soul on board. A short life to them, and a jolly death. And that fine
+gam I had--long, very long after old Ahab touched her planks with his
+ivory heel--it minds me of the noble, solid, Saxon hospitality of that
+ship; and may my parson forget me, and the devil remember me, if I ever
+lose sight of it. Flip? Did I say we had flip? Yes, and we flipped it
+at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's
+squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands--visitors and all--were
+called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each
+other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our
+jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the
+howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars. However, the masts
+did not go overboard; and by and by we scrambled down, so sober, that we
+had to pass the flip again, though the savage salt spray bursting down
+the forecastle scuttle, rather too much diluted and pickled it to my
+taste.
+
+The beef was fine--tough, but with body in it. They said it was
+bull-beef; others, that it was dromedary beef; but I do not know, for
+certain, how that was. They had dumplings too; small, but substantial,
+symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings. I fancied that you
+could feel them, and roll them about in you after they were swallowed.
+If you stooped over too far forward, you risked their pitching out
+of you like billiard-balls. The bread--but that couldn't be helped;
+besides, it was an anti-scorbutic; in short, the bread contained the
+only fresh fare they had. But the forecastle was not very light, and it
+was very easy to step over into a dark corner when you ate it. But all
+in all, taking her from truck to helm, considering the dimensions of the
+cook's boilers, including his own live parchment boilers; fore and aft,
+I say, the Samuel Enderby was a jolly ship; of good fare and plenty;
+fine flip and strong; crack fellows all, and capital from boot heels to
+hat-band.
+
+But why was it, think ye, that the Samuel Enderby, and some other
+English whalers I know of--not all though--were such famous, hospitable
+ships; that passed round the beef, and the bread, and the can, and the
+joke; and were not soon weary of eating, and drinking, and laughing?
+I will tell you. The abounding good cheer of these English whalers
+is matter for historical research. Nor have I been at all sparing of
+historical whale research, when it has seemed needed.
+
+The English were preceded in the whale fishery by the Hollanders,
+Zealanders, and Danes; from whom they derived many terms still extant
+in the fishery; and what is yet more, their fat old fashions,
+touching plenty to eat and drink. For, as a general thing, the English
+merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler. Hence, in
+the English, this thing of whaling good cheer is not normal and natural,
+but incidental and particular; and, therefore, must have some special
+origin, which is here pointed out, and will be still further elucidated.
+
+During my researches in the Leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an
+ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I
+knew must be about whalers. The title was, "Dan Coopman," wherefore I
+concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam
+cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper. I was
+reinforced in this opinion by seeing that it was the production of one
+"Fitz Swackhammer." But my friend Dr. Snodhead, a very learned man,
+professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus and
+St. Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box
+of sperm candles for his trouble--this same Dr. Snodhead, so soon as he
+spied the book, assured me that "Dan Coopman" did not mean "The Cooper,"
+but "The Merchant." In short, this ancient and learned Low Dutch book
+treated of the commerce of Holland; and, among other subjects, contained
+a very interesting account of its whale fishery. And in this chapter it
+was, headed, "Smeer," or "Fat," that I found a long detailed list of the
+outfits for the larders and cellars of 180 sail of Dutch whalemen; from
+which list, as translated by Dr. Snodhead, I transcribe the following:
+
+400,000 lbs. of beef. 60,000 lbs. Friesland pork. 150,000 lbs. of stock
+fish. 550,000 lbs. of biscuit. 72,000 lbs. of soft bread. 2,800 firkins
+of butter. 20,000 lbs. Texel & Leyden cheese. 144,000 lbs. cheese
+(probably an inferior article). 550 ankers of Geneva. 10,800 barrels of
+beer.
+
+Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in
+the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes,
+barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.
+
+At the time, I devoted three days to the studious digesting of all
+this beer, beef, and bread, during which many profound thoughts were
+incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic
+application; and, furthermore, I compiled supplementary tables of my
+own, touching the probable quantity of stock-fish, etc., consumed by
+every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen
+whale fishery. In the first place, the amount of butter, and Texel and
+Leyden cheese consumed, seems amazing. I impute it, though, to their
+naturally unctuous natures, being rendered still more unctuous by the
+nature of their vocation, and especially by their pursuing their game
+in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux country
+where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil.
+
+The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, as those
+polar fisheries could only be prosecuted in the short summer of that
+climate, so that the whole cruise of one of these Dutch whalemen,
+including the short voyage to and from the Spitzbergen sea, did not much
+exceed three months, say, and reckoning 30 men to each of their fleet
+of 180 sail, we have 5,400 Low Dutch seamen in all; therefore, I say,
+we have precisely two barrels of beer per man, for a twelve weeks'
+allowance, exclusive of his fair proportion of that 550 ankers of gin.
+Now, whether these gin and beer harpooneers, so fuddled as one might
+fancy them to have been, were the right sort of men to stand up in
+a boat's head, and take good aim at flying whales; this would seem
+somewhat improbable. Yet they did aim at them, and hit them too. But
+this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with
+the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would
+be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his
+boat; and grievous loss might ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford.
+
+But no more; enough has been said to show that the old Dutch whalers
+of two or three centuries ago were high livers; and that the English
+whalers have not neglected so excellent an example. For, say they, when
+cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the
+world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. And this empties the
+decanter.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
+
+
+Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly
+dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail
+upon some few interior structural features. But to a large and thorough
+sweeping comprehension of him, it behooves me now to unbutton him still
+further, and untagging the points of his hose, unbuckling his garters,
+and casting loose the hooks and the eyes of the joints of his innermost
+bones, set him before you in his ultimatum; that is to say, in his
+unconditional skeleton.
+
+But how now, Ishmael? How is it, that you, a mere oarsman in the
+fishery, pretend to know aught about the subterranean parts of the
+whale? Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures
+on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a
+specimen rib for exhibition? Explain thyself, Ishmael. Can you land
+a full-grown whale on your deck for examination, as a cook dishes a
+roast-pig? Surely not. A veritable witness have you hitherto been,
+Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone;
+the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters,
+ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of
+leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and
+cheeseries in his bowels.
+
+I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated very far
+beneath the skin of the adult whale; nevertheless, I have been blessed
+with an opportunity to dissect him in miniature. In a ship I belonged
+to, a small cub Sperm Whale was once bodily hoisted to the deck for his
+poke or bag, to make sheaths for the barbs of the harpoons, and for the
+heads of the lances. Think you I let that chance go, without using my
+boat-hatchet and jack-knife, and breaking the seal and reading all the
+contents of that young cub?
+
+And as for my exact knowledge of the bones of the leviathan in their
+gigantic, full grown development, for that rare knowledge I am indebted
+to my late royal friend Tranquo, king of Tranque, one of the Arsacides.
+For being at Tranque, years ago, when attached to the trading-ship Dey
+of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with
+the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a sea-side
+glen not very far distant from what our sailors called Bamboo-Town, his
+capital.
+
+Among many other fine qualities, my royal friend Tranquo, being gifted
+with a devout love for all matters of barbaric vertu, had brought
+together in Pupella whatever rare things the more ingenious of his
+people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices,
+chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes;
+and all these distributed among whatever natural wonders, the
+wonder-freighted, tribute-rendering waves had cast upon his shores.
+
+Chief among these latter was a great Sperm Whale, which, after an
+unusually long raging gale, had been found dead and stranded, with his
+head against a cocoa-nut tree, whose plumage-like, tufted droopings
+seemed his verdant jet. When the vast body had at last been stripped of
+its fathom-deep enfoldings, and the bones become dust dry in the sun,
+then the skeleton was carefully transported up the Pupella glen, where a
+grand temple of lordly palms now sheltered it.
+
+The ribs were hung with trophies; the vertebrae were carved with
+Arsacidean annals, in strange hieroglyphics; in the skull, the priests
+kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head
+again sent forth its vapoury spout; while, suspended from a bough, the
+terrific lower jaw vibrated over all the devotees, like the hair-hung
+sword that so affrighted Damocles.
+
+It was a wondrous sight. The wood was green as mosses of the Icy
+Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the
+industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet
+on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and
+the living flowers the figures. All the trees, with all their laden
+branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the message-carrying
+air; all these unceasingly were active. Through the lacings of the
+leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied
+verdure. Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver!--pause!--one word!--whither
+flows the fabric? what palace may it deck? wherefore all these ceaseless
+toilings? Speak, weaver!--stay thy hand!--but one single word with
+thee! Nay--the shuttle flies--the figures float from forth the loom; the
+freshet-rushing carpet for ever slides away. The weaver-god, he weaves;
+and by that weaving is he deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and
+by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only
+when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through
+it. For even so it is in all material factories. The spoken words that
+are inaudible among the flying spindles; those same words are plainly
+heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements. Thereby
+have villainies been detected. Ah, mortal! then, be heedful; for so, in
+all this din of the great world's loom, thy subtlest thinkings may be
+overheard afar.
+
+Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the
+great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging--a gigantic idler! Yet,
+as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around
+him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven
+over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but
+himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim
+god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
+
+Now, when with royal Tranquo I visited this wondrous whale, and saw the
+skull an altar, and the artificial smoke ascending from where the real
+jet had issued, I marvelled that the king should regard a chapel as
+an object of vertu. He laughed. But more I marvelled that the priests
+should swear that smoky jet of his was genuine. To and fro I paced
+before this skeleton--brushed the vines aside--broke through the
+ribs--and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid
+its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours. But soon my line was
+out; and following it back, I emerged from the opening where I entered.
+I saw no living thing within; naught was there but bones.
+
+Cutting me a green measuring-rod, I once more dived within the skeleton.
+From their arrow-slit in the skull, the priests perceived me taking the
+altitude of the final rib, "How now!" they shouted; "Dar'st thou measure
+this our god! That's for us." "Aye, priests--well, how long do ye make
+him, then?" But hereupon a fierce contest rose among them, concerning
+feet and inches; they cracked each other's sconces with their
+yard-sticks--the great skull echoed--and seizing that lucky chance, I
+quickly concluded my own admeasurements.
+
+These admeasurements I now propose to set before you. But first, be
+it recorded, that, in this matter, I am not free to utter any fancied
+measurement I please. Because there are skeleton authorities you can
+refer to, to test my accuracy. There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell
+me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that country, where
+they have some fine specimens of fin-backs and other whales. Likewise, I
+have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have
+what the proprietors call "the only perfect specimen of a Greenland or
+River Whale in the United States." Moreover, at a place in Yorkshire,
+England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has
+in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale, but of moderate size,
+by no means of the full-grown magnitude of my friend King Tranquo's.
+
+In both cases, the stranded whales to which these two skeletons
+belonged, were originally claimed by their proprietors upon similar
+grounds. King Tranquo seizing his because he wanted it; and Sir
+Clifford, because he was lord of the seignories of those parts. Sir
+Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout; so that, like a
+great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his bony
+cavities--spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan--and swing all day
+upon his lower jaw. Locks are to be put upon some of his trap-doors and
+shutters; and a footman will show round future visitors with a bunch of
+keys at his side. Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep at
+the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the echo
+in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view
+from his forehead.
+
+The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied
+verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild
+wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving
+such valuable statistics. But as I was crowded for space, and wished
+the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was
+then composing--at least, what untattooed parts might remain--I did not
+trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all
+enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
+
+
+In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain
+statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we
+are briefly to exhibit. Such a statement may prove useful here.
+
+According to a careful calculation I have made, and which I partly base
+upon Captain Scoresby's estimate, of seventy tons for the largest
+sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to my careful
+calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between
+eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty
+feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least
+ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would
+considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one
+thousand one hundred inhabitants.
+
+Think you not then that brains, like yoked cattle, should be put to this
+leviathan, to make him at all budge to any landsman's imagination?
+
+Having already in various ways put before you his skull, spout-hole,
+jaw, teeth, tail, forehead, fins, and divers other parts, I shall now
+simply point out what is most interesting in the general bulk of his
+unobstructed bones. But as the colossal skull embraces so very large
+a proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the
+most complicated part; and as nothing is to be repeated concerning it in
+this chapter, you must not fail to carry it in your mind, or under your
+arm, as we proceed, otherwise you will not gain a complete notion of the
+general structure we are about to view.
+
+In length, the Sperm Whale's skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two
+Feet; so that when fully invested and extended in life, he must have
+been ninety feet long; for in the whale, the skeleton loses about one
+fifth in length compared with the living body. Of this seventy-two feet,
+his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some fifty feet of
+plain back-bone. Attached to this back-bone, for something less than a
+third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs which once
+enclosed his vitals.
+
+To me this vast ivory-ribbed chest, with the long, unrelieved spine,
+extending far away from it in a straight line, not a little resembled
+the hull of a great ship new-laid upon the stocks, when only some twenty
+of her naked bow-ribs are inserted, and the keel is otherwise, for the
+time, but a long, disconnected timber.
+
+The ribs were ten on a side. The first, to begin from the neck,
+was nearly six feet long; the second, third, and fourth were each
+successively longer, till you came to the climax of the fifth, or one
+of the middle ribs, which measured eight feet and some inches. From
+that part, the remaining ribs diminished, till the tenth and last only
+spanned five feet and some inches. In general thickness, they all bore
+a seemly correspondence to their length. The middle ribs were the most
+arched. In some of the Arsacides they are used for beams whereon to lay
+footpath bridges over small streams.
+
+In considering these ribs, I could not but be struck anew with the
+circumstance, so variously repeated in this book, that the skeleton of
+the whale is by no means the mould of his invested form. The largest of
+the Tranque ribs, one of the middle ones, occupied that part of the fish
+which, in life, is greatest in depth. Now, the greatest depth of the
+invested body of this particular whale must have been at least sixteen
+feet; whereas, the corresponding rib measured but little more than eight
+feet. So that this rib only conveyed half of the true notion of the
+living magnitude of that part. Besides, for some way, where I now saw
+but a naked spine, all that had been once wrapped round with tons of
+added bulk in flesh, muscle, blood, and bowels. Still more, for the
+ample fins, I here saw but a few disordered joints; and in place of the
+weighty and majestic, but boneless flukes, an utter blank!
+
+How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try
+to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead
+attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood. No. Only in the
+heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry
+flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale
+be truly and livingly found out.
+
+But the spine. For that, the best way we can consider it is, with a
+crane, to pile its bones high up on end. No speedy enterprise. But now
+it's done, it looks much like Pompey's Pillar.
+
+There are forty and odd vertebrae in all, which in the skeleton are
+not locked together. They mostly lie like the great knobbed blocks on
+a Gothic spire, forming solid courses of heavy masonry. The largest,
+a middle one, is in width something less than three feet, and in depth
+more than four. The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the
+tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white
+billiard-ball. I was told that there were still smaller ones, but they
+had been lost by some little cannibal urchins, the priest's children,
+who had stolen them to play marbles with. Thus we see how that the
+spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple
+child's play.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
+
+
+From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon
+to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate. Would you, you could not
+compress him. By good rights he should only be treated of in imperial
+folio. Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail,
+and the yards he measures about the waist; only think of the gigantic
+involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great
+cables and hawsers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a
+line-of-battle-ship.
+
+Since I have undertaken to manhandle this Leviathan, it behooves me
+to approve myself omnisciently exhaustive in the enterprise; not
+overlooking the minutest seminal germs of his blood, and spinning him
+out to the uttermost coil of his bowels. Having already described him
+in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it
+now remains to magnify him in an archaeological, fossiliferous, and
+antediluvian point of view. Applied to any other creature than the
+Leviathan--to an ant or a flea--such portly terms might justly be deemed
+unwarrantably grandiloquent. But when Leviathan is the text, the case is
+altered. Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest
+words of the dictionary. And here be it said, that whenever it has been
+convenient to consult one in the course of these dissertations, I have
+invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson, expressly purchased
+for that purpose; because that famous lexicographer's uncommon personal
+bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author
+like me.
+
+One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject,
+though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing
+of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard
+capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an
+inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my
+thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their
+outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole
+circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and
+mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas
+of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its
+suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal
+theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose
+a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the
+flea, though many there be who have tried it.
+
+Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials
+as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time I have been
+a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals and wells,
+wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts. Likewise, by way of
+preliminary, I desire to remind the reader, that while in the earlier
+geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now almost
+completely extinct; the subsequent relics discovered in what are called
+the Tertiary formations seem the connecting, or at any rate intercepted
+links, between the antichronical creatures, and those whose remote
+posterity are said to have entered the Ark; all the Fossil Whales
+hitherto discovered belong to the Tertiary period, which is the last
+preceding the superficial formations. And though none of them
+precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet
+sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking
+rank as Cetacean fossils.
+
+Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their bones
+and skeletons, have within thirty years past, at various intervals, been
+found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England, in
+Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
+Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the
+year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street
+opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries; and bones
+disinterred in excavating the great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's
+time. Cuvier pronounced these fragments to have belonged to some utterly
+unknown Leviathanic species.
+
+But by far the most wonderful of all Cetacean relics was the almost
+complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year 1842, on
+the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken credulous
+slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen
+angels. The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and bestowed
+upon it the name of Basilosaurus. But some specimen bones of it being
+taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out
+that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species. A
+significant illustration of the fact, again and again repeated in this
+book, that the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the
+shape of his fully invested body. So Owen rechristened the monster
+Zeuglodon; and in his paper read before the London Geological Society,
+pronounced it, in substance, one of the most extraordinary creatures
+which the mutations of the globe have blotted out of existence.
+
+When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks,
+jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, all characterized by partial resemblances to
+the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on
+the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical
+Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back
+to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun;
+for time began with man. Here Saturn's grey chaos rolls over me, and I
+obtain dim, shuddering glimpses into those Polar eternities; when wedged
+bastions of ice pressed hard upon what are now the Tropics; and in
+all the 25,000 miles of this world's circumference, not an inhabitable
+hand's breadth of land was visible. Then the whole world was the
+whale's; and, king of creation, he left his wake along the present lines
+of the Andes and the Himmalehs. Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan?
+Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh's. Methuselah seems
+a school-boy. I look round to shake hands with Shem. I am horror-struck
+at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of
+the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after
+all humane ages are over.
+
+But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the
+stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his
+ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim
+for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable
+print of his fin. In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah,
+some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a
+sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and
+dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the
+moderns. Gliding among them, old Leviathan swam as of yore; was there
+swimming in that planisphere, centuries before Solomon was cradled.
+
+Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity
+of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by
+the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
+
+"Not far from the Sea-side, they have a Temple, the Rafters and Beams
+of which are made of Whale-Bones; for Whales of a monstrous size are
+oftentimes cast up dead upon that shore. The Common People imagine, that
+by a secret Power bestowed by God upon the temple, no Whale can pass it
+without immediate death. But the truth of the Matter is, that on either
+side of the Temple, there are Rocks that shoot two Miles into the Sea,
+and wound the Whales when they light upon 'em. They keep a Whale's Rib
+of an incredible length for a Miracle, which lying upon the Ground with
+its convex part uppermost, makes an Arch, the Head of which cannot be
+reached by a Man upon a Camel's Back. This Rib (says John Leo) is said
+to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it. Their Historians
+affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy'd of Mahomet, came from this Temple,
+and some do not stand to assert, that the Prophet Jonas was cast forth
+by the Whale at the Base of the Temple."
+
+In this Afric Temple of the Whale I leave you, reader, and if you be a
+Nantucketer, and a whaleman, you will silently worship there.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?--Will He Perish?
+
+
+Inasmuch, then, as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from
+the head-waters of the Eternities, it may be fitly inquired, whether,
+in the long course of his generations, he has not degenerated from the
+original bulk of his sires.
+
+But upon investigation we find, that not only are the whales of the
+present day superior in magnitude to those whose fossil remains are
+found in the Tertiary system (embracing a distinct geological period
+prior to man), but of the whales found in that Tertiary system, those
+belonging to its latter formations exceed in size those of its earlier
+ones.
+
+Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the
+Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than
+seventy feet in length in the skeleton. Whereas, we have already seen,
+that the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a large
+sized modern whale. And I have heard, on whalemen's authority, that
+Sperm Whales have been captured near a hundred feet long at the time of
+capture.
+
+But may it not be, that while the whales of the present hour are an
+advance in magnitude upon those of all previous geological periods; may
+it not be, that since Adam's time they have degenerated?
+
+Assuredly, we must conclude so, if we are to credit the accounts of such
+gentlemen as Pliny, and the ancient naturalists generally. For Pliny
+tells us of Whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and Aldrovandus
+of others which measured eight hundred feet in length--Rope Walks and
+Thames Tunnels of Whales! And even in the days of Banks and Solander,
+Cooke's naturalists, we find a Danish member of the Academy of Sciences
+setting down certain Iceland Whales (reydan-siskur, or Wrinkled Bellies)
+at one hundred and twenty yards; that is, three hundred and sixty feet.
+And Lacepede, the French naturalist, in his elaborate history of whales,
+in the very beginning of his work (page 3), sets down the Right Whale at
+one hundred metres, three hundred and twenty-eight feet. And this work
+was published so late as A.D. 1825.
+
+But will any whaleman believe these stories? No. The whale of to-day is
+as big as his ancestors in Pliny's time. And if ever I go where Pliny
+is, I, a whaleman (more than he was), will make bold to tell him so.
+Because I cannot understand how it is, that while the Egyptian mummies
+that were buried thousands of years before even Pliny was born, do not
+measure so much in their coffins as a modern Kentuckian in his socks;
+and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest Egyptian
+and Nineveh tablets, by the relative proportions in which they are
+drawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize cattle
+of Smithfield, not only equal, but far exceed in magnitude the fattest
+of Pharaoh's fat kine; in the face of all this, I will not admit that of
+all animals the whale alone should have degenerated.
+
+But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more
+recondite Nantucketers. Whether owing to the almost omniscient look-outs
+at the mast-heads of the whaleships, now penetrating even through
+Behring's straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers
+of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all
+continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure
+so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last
+be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man,
+smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.
+
+Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo,
+which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies
+of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with
+their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals,
+where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such
+a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that
+the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.
+
+But you must look at this matter in every light. Though so short a
+period ago--not a good lifetime--the census of the buffalo in Illinois
+exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day
+not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the
+cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far
+different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an
+end to the Leviathan. Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whales for
+forty-eight months think they have done extremely well, and thank God,
+if at last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days
+of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when
+the far west (in whose sunset suns still rise) was a wilderness and
+a virgin, the same number of moccasined men, for the same number of
+months, mounted on horse instead of sailing in ships, would have slain
+not forty, but forty thousand and more buffaloes; a fact that, if need
+were, could be statistically stated.
+
+Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favour of the
+gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, that in former years
+(the latter part of the last century, say) these Leviathans, in
+small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in
+consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were also much more
+remunerative. Because, as has been elsewhere noticed, those whales,
+influenced by some views to safety, now swim the seas in immense
+caravans, so that to a large degree the scattered solitaries, yokes, and
+pods, and schools of other days are now aggregated into vast but widely
+separated, unfrequent armies. That is all. And equally fallacious seems
+the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone whales no longer
+haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that
+species also is declining. For they are only being driven from
+promontory to cape; and if one coast is no longer enlivened with
+their jets, then, be sure, some other and remoter strand has been very
+recently startled by the unfamiliar spectacle.
+
+Furthermore: concerning these last mentioned Leviathans, they have two
+firm fortresses, which, in all human probability, will for ever remain
+impregnable. And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss
+have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas and
+glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to
+their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and
+walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle
+of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.
+
+But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one
+cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this
+positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
+But though for some time past a number of these whales, not less than
+13,000, have been annually slain on the nor'-west coast by the Americans
+alone; yet there are considerations which render even this circumstance
+of little or no account as an opposing argument in this matter.
+
+Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness
+of the more enormous creatures of the globe, yet what shall we say to
+Harto, the historian of Goa, when he tells us that at one hunting the
+King of Siam took 4,000 elephants; that in those regions elephants are
+numerous as droves of cattle in the temperate climes. And there seems no
+reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for
+thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the
+successive monarchs of the East--if they still survive there in great
+numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he
+has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all
+Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles
+of the sea combined.
+
+Moreover: we are to consider, that from the presumed great longevity
+of whales, their probably attaining the age of a century and more,
+therefore at any one period of time, several distinct adult generations
+must be contemporary. And what that is, we may soon gain some idea
+of, by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of
+creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children
+who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this countless host to
+the present human population of the globe.
+
+Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his
+species, however perishable in his individuality. He swam the seas
+before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the
+Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin. In Noah's flood he
+despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like
+the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still
+survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood,
+spout his frothed defiance to the skies.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 106. Ahab's Leg.
+
+
+The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel
+Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to
+his own person. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his
+boat that his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock. And
+when after gaining his own deck, and his own pivot-hole there, he so
+vehemently wheeled round with an urgent command to the steersman (it
+was, as ever, something about his not steering inflexibly enough); then,
+the already shaken ivory received such an additional twist and wrench,
+that though it still remained entire, and to all appearances lusty, yet
+Ahab did not deem it entirely trustworthy.
+
+And, indeed, it seemed small matter for wonder, that for all his
+pervading, mad recklessness, Ahab did at times give careful heed to the
+condition of that dead bone upon which he partly stood. For it had not
+been very long prior to the Pequod's sailing from Nantucket, that he
+had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible;
+by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable, unimaginable casualty, his
+ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise
+smitten, and all but pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme
+difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured.
+
+Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all
+the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a
+former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous
+reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest
+songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable
+events do naturally beget their like. Yea, more than equally, thought
+Ahab; since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the
+ancestry and posterity of Joy. For, not to hint of this: that it is
+an inference from certain canonic teachings, that while some natural
+enjoyments here shall have no children born to them for the other world,
+but, on the contrary, shall be followed by the joy-childlessness of
+all hell's despair; whereas, some guilty mortal miseries shall still
+fertilely beget to themselves an eternally progressive progeny of griefs
+beyond the grave; not at all to hint of this, there still seems an
+inequality in the deeper analysis of the thing. For, thought Ahab, while
+even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying
+pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic
+significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their
+diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. To trail the
+genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the
+sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the
+glad, hay-making suns, and soft cymballing, round harvest-moons, we must
+needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad.
+The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of
+sorrow in the signers.
+
+Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged, which perhaps might more
+properly, in set way, have been disclosed before. With many other
+particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some,
+why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing
+of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like
+exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought speechless refuge, as
+it were, among the marble senate of the dead. Captain Peleg's bruited
+reason for this thing appeared by no means adequate; though, indeed,
+as touching all Ahab's deeper part, every revelation partook more of
+significant darkness than of explanatory light. But, in the end, it all
+came out; this one matter did, at least. That direful mishap was at
+the bottom of his temporary recluseness. And not only this, but to that
+ever-contracting, dropping circle ashore, who, for any reason, possessed
+the privilege of a less banned approach to him; to that timid circle the
+above hinted casualty--remaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by
+Ahab--invested itself with terrors, not entirely underived from the land
+of spirits and of wails. So that, through their zeal for him, they had
+all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of
+this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable
+interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.
+
+But be all this as it may; let the unseen, ambiguous synod in the air,
+or the vindictive princes and potentates of fire, have to do or not
+with earthly Ahab, yet, in this present matter of his leg, he took plain
+practical procedures;--he called the carpenter.
+
+And when that functionary appeared before him, he bade him without delay
+set about making a new leg, and directed the mates to see him supplied
+with all the studs and joists of jaw-ivory (Sperm Whale) which had thus
+far been accumulated on the voyage, in order that a careful selection
+of the stoutest, clearest-grained stuff might be secured. This done, the
+carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to
+provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to
+the distrusted one in use. Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be
+hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and, to accelerate
+the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the
+forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
+
+
+Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high
+abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But
+from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they
+seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
+But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of
+the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate;
+hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
+
+Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging
+to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain off-handed, practical extent,
+alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own;
+the carpenter's pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all
+those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an
+auxiliary material. But, besides the application to him of the generic
+remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in
+those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring
+in a large ship, upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized
+and far-distant seas. For not to speak of his readiness in ordinary
+duties:--repairing stove boats, sprung spars, reforming the shape of
+clumsy-bladed oars, inserting bull's eyes in the deck, or new tree-nails
+in the side planks, and other miscellaneous matters more directly
+pertaining to his special business; he was moreover unhesitatingly
+expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes, both useful and
+capricious.
+
+The one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold,
+was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table furnished with several
+vices, of different sizes, and both of iron and of wood. At all times
+except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed
+athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
+
+A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole:
+the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway
+files it smaller. A lost land-bird of strange plumage strays on board,
+and is made a captive: out of clean shaved rods of right-whale bone, and
+cross-beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter makes a pagoda-looking
+cage for it. An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter concocts a
+soothing lotion. Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon
+the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood,
+the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation. A sailor takes
+a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears.
+Another has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping
+one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow
+unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the
+handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his jaw in
+that, if he would have him draw the tooth.
+
+Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent
+and without respect in all. Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he
+deemed but top-blocks; men themselves he lightly held for capstans. But
+while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with such
+liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some
+uncommon vivacity of intelligence. But not precisely so. For nothing was
+this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as
+it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding
+infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity
+discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active
+in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you,
+though you dig foundations for cathedrals. Yet was this half-horrible
+stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying
+heartlessness;--yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old,
+crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now
+and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served
+to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle
+of Noah's ark. Was it that this old carpenter had been a life-long
+wanderer, whose much rolling, to and fro, not only had gathered no moss;
+but what is more, had rubbed off whatever small outward clingings
+might have originally pertained to him? He was a stript abstract; an
+unfractioned integral; uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without
+premeditated reference to this world or the next. You might almost
+say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of
+unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so
+much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to
+it, or by any intermixture of all these, even or uneven; but merely by
+a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process. He was a pure
+manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early
+oozed along into the muscles of his fingers. He was like one of
+those unreasoning but still highly useful, MULTUM IN PARVO, Sheffield
+contrivances, assuming the exterior--though a little swelled--of a
+common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes,
+but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers,
+nail-filers, countersinkers. So, if his superiors wanted to use the
+carpenter for a screw-driver, all they had to do was to open that part
+of him, and the screw was fast: or if for tweezers, take him up by the
+legs, and there they were.
+
+Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter,
+was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton. If he did not have a
+common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously
+did its duty. What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few
+drops of hartshorn, there is no telling. But there it was; and there it
+had abided for now some sixty years or more. And this it was, this same
+unaccountable, cunning life-principle in him; this it was, that kept
+him a great part of the time soliloquizing; but only like an unreasoning
+wheel, which also hummingly soliloquizes; or rather, his body was a
+sentry-box and this soliloquizer on guard there, and talking all the
+time to keep himself awake.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
+
+The Deck--First Night Watch.
+
+
+(CARPENTER STANDING BEFORE HIS VICE-BENCH, AND BY THE LIGHT OF TWO
+LANTERNS BUSILY FILING THE IVORY JOIST FOR THE LEG, WHICH JOIST IS
+FIRMLY FIXED IN THE VICE. SLABS OF IVORY, LEATHER STRAPS, PADS, SCREWS,
+AND VARIOUS TOOLS OF ALL SORTS LYING ABOUT THE BENCH. FORWARD, THE RED
+FLAME OF THE FORGE IS SEEN, WHERE THE BLACKSMITH IS AT WORK.)
+
+
+Drat the file, and drat the bone! That is hard which should be soft,
+and that is soft which should be hard. So we go, who file old jaws and
+shinbones. Let's try another. Aye, now, this works better (SNEEZES).
+Halloa, this bone dust is (SNEEZES)--why it's (SNEEZES)--yes it's
+(SNEEZES)--bless my soul, it won't let me speak! This is what an old
+fellow gets now for working in dead lumber. Saw a live tree, and
+you don't get this dust; amputate a live bone, and you don't get it
+(SNEEZES). Come, come, you old Smut, there, bear a hand, and let's have
+that ferule and buckle-screw; I'll be ready for them presently. Lucky
+now (SNEEZES) there's no knee-joint to make; that might puzzle a little;
+but a mere shinbone--why it's easy as making hop-poles; only I should
+like to put a good finish on. Time, time; if I but only had the time, I
+could turn him out as neat a leg now as ever (SNEEZES) scraped to a lady
+in a parlor. Those buckskin legs and calves of legs I've seen in shop
+windows wouldn't compare at all. They soak water, they do; and of
+course get rheumatic, and have to be doctored (SNEEZES) with washes and
+lotions, just like live legs. There; before I saw it off, now, I must
+call his old Mogulship, and see whether the length will be all right;
+too short, if anything, I guess. Ha! that's the heel; we are in luck;
+here he comes, or it's somebody else, that's certain.
+
+AHAB (ADVANCING)
+
+(DURING THE ENSUING SCENE, THE CARPENTER CONTINUES SNEEZING AT TIMES)
+
+
+Well, manmaker!
+
+Just in time, sir. If the captain pleases, I will now mark the length.
+Let me measure, sir.
+
+Measured for a leg! good. Well, it's not the first time. About it!
+There; keep thy finger on it. This is a cogent vice thou hast here,
+carpenter; let me feel its grip once. So, so; it does pinch some.
+
+Oh, sir, it will break bones--beware, beware!
+
+No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this
+slippery world that can hold, man. What's Prometheus about there?--the
+blacksmith, I mean--what's he about?
+
+He must be forging the buckle-screw, sir, now.
+
+Right. It's a partnership; he supplies the muscle part. He makes a
+fierce red flame there!
+
+Aye, sir; he must have the white heat for this kind of fine work.
+
+Um-m. So he must. I do deem it now a most meaning thing, that that
+old Greek, Prometheus, who made men, they say, should have been a
+blacksmith, and animated them with fire; for what's made in fire must
+properly belong to fire; and so hell's probable. How the soot flies!
+This must be the remainder the Greek made the Africans of. Carpenter,
+when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel
+shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack.
+
+Sir?
+
+Hold; while Prometheus is about it, I'll order a complete man after a
+desirable pattern. Imprimis, fifty feet high in his socks; then, chest
+modelled after the Thames Tunnel; then, legs with roots to 'em, to stay
+in one place; then, arms three feet through the wrist; no heart at all,
+brass forehead, and about a quarter of an acre of fine brains; and let
+me see--shall I order eyes to see outwards? No, but put a sky-light on
+top of his head to illuminate inwards. There, take the order, and away.
+
+Now, what's he speaking about, and who's he speaking to, I should like
+to know? Shall I keep standing here? (ASIDE).
+
+'Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here's one. No,
+no, no; I must have a lantern.
+
+Ho, ho! That's it, hey? Here are two, sir; one will serve my turn.
+
+What art thou thrusting that thief-catcher into my face for, man?
+Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols.
+
+I thought, sir, that you spoke to carpenter.
+
+
+Carpenter? why that's--but no;--a very tidy, and, I may say,
+an extremely gentlemanlike sort of business thou art in here,
+carpenter;--or would'st thou rather work in clay?
+
+Sir?--Clay? clay, sir? That's mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir.
+
+The fellow's impious! What art thou sneezing about?
+
+Bone is rather dusty, sir.
+
+Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under
+living people's noses.
+
+Sir?--oh! ah!--I guess so;--yes--dear!
+
+Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good
+workmanlike workman, eh? Well, then, will it speak thoroughly well
+for thy work, if, when I come to mount this leg thou makest, I shall
+nevertheless feel another leg in the same identical place with it; that
+is, carpenter, my old lost leg; the flesh and blood one, I mean. Canst
+thou not drive that old Adam away?
+
+Truly, sir, I begin to understand somewhat now. Yes, I have heard
+something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never
+entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still
+pricking him at times. May I humbly ask if it be really so, sir?
+
+It is, man. Look, put thy live leg here in the place where mine once
+was; so, now, here is only one distinct leg to the eye, yet two to the
+soul. Where thou feelest tingling life; there, exactly there, there to a
+hair, do I. Is't a riddle?
+
+I should humbly call it a poser, sir.
+
+Hist, then. How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing
+may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where
+thou now standest; aye, and standing there in thy spite? In thy most
+solitary hours, then, dost thou not fear eavesdroppers? Hold, don't
+speak! And if I still feel the smart of my crushed leg, though it be now
+so long dissolved; then, why mayst not thou, carpenter, feel the fiery
+pains of hell for ever, and without a body? Hah!
+
+Good Lord! Truly, sir, if it comes to that, I must calculate over again;
+I think I didn't carry a small figure, sir.
+
+Look ye, pudding-heads should never grant premises.--How long before the
+leg is done?
+
+Perhaps an hour, sir.
+
+Bungle away at it then, and bring it to me (TURNS TO GO). Oh, Life! Here
+I am, proud as Greek god, and yet standing debtor to this blockhead for
+a bone to stand on! Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will
+not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I'm down in the
+whole world's books. I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with
+the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was
+the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with. By
+heavens! I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself down to
+one small, compendious vertebra. So.
+
+CARPENTER (RESUMING HIS WORK).
+
+
+Well, well, well! Stubb knows him best of all, and Stubb always says
+he's queer; says nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's
+queer, says Stubb; he's queer--queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into
+Mr. Starbuck all the time--queer--sir--queer, queer, very queer. And
+here's his leg! Yes, now that I think of it, here's his bedfellow! has
+a stick of whale's jaw-bone for a wife! And this is his leg; he'll stand
+on this. What was that now about one leg standing in three places, and
+all three places standing in one hell--how was that? Oh! I don't wonder
+he looked so scornful at me! I'm a sort of strange-thoughted sometimes,
+they say; but that's only haphazard-like. Then, a short, little old body
+like me, should never undertake to wade out into deep waters with tall,
+heron-built captains; the water chucks you under the chin pretty quick,
+and there's a great cry for life-boats. And here's the heron's leg!
+long and slim, sure enough! Now, for most folks one pair of legs lasts
+a lifetime, and that must be because they use them mercifully, as a
+tender-hearted old lady uses her roly-poly old coach-horses. But Ahab;
+oh he's a hard driver. Look, driven one leg to death, and spavined the
+other for life, and now wears out bone legs by the cord. Halloa, there,
+you Smut! bear a hand there with those screws, and let's finish it
+before the resurrection fellow comes a-calling with his horn for
+all legs, true or false, as brewery-men go round collecting old beer
+barrels, to fill 'em up again. What a leg this is! It looks like a real
+live leg, filed down to nothing but the core; he'll be standing on this
+to-morrow; he'll be taking altitudes on it. Halloa! I almost forgot the
+little oval slate, smoothed ivory, where he figures up the latitude. So,
+so; chisel, file, and sand-paper, now!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.
+
+
+According to usage they were pumping the ship next morning; and lo! no
+inconsiderable oil came up with the water; the casks below must have
+sprung a bad leak. Much concern was shown; and Starbuck went down into
+the cabin to report this unfavourable affair.*
+
+
+*In Sperm-whalemen with any considerable quantity of oil on board, it
+is a regular semiweekly duty to conduct a hose into the hold, and drench
+the casks with sea-water; which afterwards, at varying intervals, is
+removed by the ship's pumps. Hereby the casks are sought to be kept
+damply tight; while by the changed character of the withdrawn water, the
+mariners readily detect any serious leakage in the precious cargo.
+
+
+Now, from the South and West the Pequod was drawing nigh to Formosa and
+the Bashee Isles, between which lies one of the tropical outlets from
+the China waters into the Pacific. And so Starbuck found Ahab with
+a general chart of the oriental archipelagoes spread before him;
+and another separate one representing the long eastern coasts of the
+Japanese islands--Niphon, Matsmai, and Sikoke. With his snow-white new
+ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long
+pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with his
+back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his old
+courses again.
+
+"Who's there?" hearing the footstep at the door, but not turning round
+to it. "On deck! Begone!"
+
+"Captain Ahab mistakes; it is I. The oil in the hold is leaking, sir. We
+must up Burtons and break out."
+
+"Up Burtons and break out? Now that we are nearing Japan; heave-to here
+for a week to tinker a parcel of old hoops?"
+
+"Either do that, sir, or waste in one day more oil than we may make good
+in a year. What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving,
+sir."
+
+"So it is, so it is; if we get it."
+
+"I was speaking of the oil in the hold, sir."
+
+"And I was not speaking or thinking of that at all. Begone! Let it leak!
+I'm all aleak myself. Aye! leaks in leaks! not only full of leaky casks,
+but those leaky casks are in a leaky ship; and that's a far worse plight
+than the Pequod's, man. Yet I don't stop to plug my leak; for who can
+find it in the deep-loaded hull; or how hope to plug it, even if
+found, in this life's howling gale? Starbuck! I'll not have the Burtons
+hoisted."
+
+"What will the owners say, sir?"
+
+"Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the Typhoons. What
+cares Ahab? Owners, owners? Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck,
+about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience. But
+look ye, the only real owner of anything is its commander; and hark ye,
+my conscience is in this ship's keel.--On deck!"
+
+"Captain Ahab," said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin,
+with a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost seemed
+not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest outward manifestation
+of itself, but within also seemed more than half distrustful of itself;
+"A better man than I might well pass over in thee what he would quickly
+enough resent in a younger man; aye, and in a happier, Captain Ahab."
+
+"Devils! Dost thou then so much as dare to critically think of me?--On
+deck!"
+
+"Nay, sir, not yet; I do entreat. And I do dare, sir--to be forbearing!
+Shall we not understand each other better than hitherto, Captain Ahab?"
+
+Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most
+South-Sea-men's cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck,
+exclaimed: "There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one
+Captain that is lord over the Pequod.--On deck!"
+
+For an instant in the flashing eyes of the mate, and his fiery cheeks,
+you would have almost thought that he had really received the blaze of
+the levelled tube. But, mastering his emotion, he half calmly rose,
+and as he quitted the cabin, paused for an instant and said: "Thou hast
+outraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of
+Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of
+thyself, old man."
+
+"He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!"
+murmured Ahab, as Starbuck disappeared. "What's that he said--Ahab
+beware of Ahab--there's something there!" Then unconsciously using the
+musket for a staff, with an iron brow he paced to and fro in the little
+cabin; but presently the thick plaits of his forehead relaxed, and
+returning the gun to the rack, he went to the deck.
+
+"Thou art but too good a fellow, Starbuck," he said lowly to the mate;
+then raising his voice to the crew: "Furl the t'gallant-sails, and
+close-reef the top-sails, fore and aft; back the main-yard; up Burton,
+and break out in the main-hold."
+
+It were perhaps vain to surmise exactly why it was, that as respecting
+Starbuck, Ahab thus acted. It may have been a flash of honesty in him;
+or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously
+forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient,
+in the important chief officer of his ship. However it was, his orders
+were executed; and the Burtons were hoisted.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
+
+
+Upon searching, it was found that the casks last struck into the hold
+were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be further off. So, it
+being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the
+slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight
+sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above. So deep did they
+go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost
+puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask
+containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards,
+vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood. Tierce after
+tierce, too, of water, and bread, and beef, and shooks of staves, and
+iron bundles of hoops, were hoisted out, till at last the piled decks
+were hard to get about; and the hollow hull echoed under foot, as if
+you were treading over empty catacombs, and reeled and rolled in the sea
+like an air-freighted demijohn. Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless
+student with all Aristotle in his head. Well was it that the Typhoons
+did not visit them then.
+
+Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, and fast
+bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh
+to his endless end.
+
+Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown;
+dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the
+higher you rise the harder you toil. So with poor Queequeg, who, as
+harpooneer, must not only face all the rage of the living whale, but--as
+we have elsewhere seen--mount his dead back in a rolling sea; and
+finally descend into the gloom of the hold, and bitterly sweating
+all day in that subterraneous confinement, resolutely manhandle the
+clumsiest casks and see to their stowage. To be short, among whalemen,
+the harpooneers are the holders, so called.
+
+Poor Queequeg! when the ship was about half disembowelled, you should
+have stooped over the hatchway, and peered down upon him there; where,
+stripped to his woollen drawers, the tattooed savage was crawling about
+amid that dampness and slime, like a green spotted lizard at the bottom
+of a well. And a well, or an ice-house, it somehow proved to him, poor
+pagan; where, strange to say, for all the heat of his sweatings, he
+caught a terrible chill which lapsed into a fever; and at last, after
+some days' suffering, laid him in his hammock, close to the very sill
+of the door of death. How he wasted and wasted away in those few
+long-lingering days, till there seemed but little left of him but his
+frame and tattooing. But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones
+grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller;
+they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply
+looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that
+immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened. And like
+circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes
+seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity. An awe that
+cannot be named would steal over you as you sat by the side of this
+waning savage, and saw as strange things in his face, as any beheld who
+were bystanders when Zoroaster died. For whatever is truly wondrous and
+fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. And the drawing
+near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last
+revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.
+So that--let us say it again--no dying Chaldee or Greek had higher and
+holier thoughts than those, whose mysterious shades you saw creeping
+over the face of poor Queequeg, as he quietly lay in his swaying
+hammock, and the rolling sea seemed gently rocking him to his final
+rest, and the ocean's invisible flood-tide lifted him higher and higher
+towards his destined heaven.
+
+Not a man of the crew but gave him up; and, as for Queequeg himself,
+what he thought of his case was forcibly shown by a curious favour he
+asked. He called one to him in the grey morning watch, when the day was
+just breaking, and taking his hand, said that while in Nantucket he
+had chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich
+war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all
+whalemen who died in Nantucket, were laid in those same dark canoes,
+and that the fancy of being so laid had much pleased him; for it was not
+unlike the custom of his own race, who, after embalming a dead warrior,
+stretched him out in his canoe, and so left him to be floated away to
+the starry archipelagoes; for not only do they believe that the stars
+are isles, but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own mild,
+uncontinented seas, interflow with the blue heavens; and so form the
+white breakers of the milky way. He added, that he shuddered at
+the thought of being buried in his hammock, according to the usual
+sea-custom, tossed like something vile to the death-devouring sharks.
+No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial
+to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes
+were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and
+much lee-way adown the dim ages.
+
+Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter
+was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might
+include. There was some heathenish, coffin-coloured old lumber aboard,
+which, upon a long previous voyage, had been cut from the aboriginal
+groves of the Lackaday islands, and from these dark planks the coffin
+was recommended to be made. No sooner was the carpenter apprised of
+the order, than taking his rule, he forthwith with all the indifferent
+promptitude of his character, proceeded into the forecastle and took
+Queequeg's measure with great accuracy, regularly chalking Queequeg's
+person as he shifted the rule.
+
+"Ah! poor fellow! he'll have to die now," ejaculated the Long Island
+sailor.
+
+Going to his vice-bench, the carpenter for convenience sake and general
+reference, now transferringly measured on it the exact length the coffin
+was to be, and then made the transfer permanent by cutting two notches
+at its extremities. This done, he marshalled the planks and his tools,
+and to work.
+
+When the last nail was driven, and the lid duly planed and fitted,
+he lightly shouldered the coffin and went forward with it, inquiring
+whether they were ready for it yet in that direction.
+
+Overhearing the indignant but half-humorous cries with which the
+people on deck began to drive the coffin away, Queequeg, to every one's
+consternation, commanded that the thing should be instantly brought to
+him, nor was there any denying him; seeing that, of all mortals, some
+dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will
+shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be
+indulged.
+
+Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with
+an attentive eye. He then called for his harpoon, had the wooden stock
+drawn from it, and then had the iron part placed in the coffin along
+with one of the paddles of his boat. All by his own request, also,
+biscuits were then ranged round the sides within: a flask of fresh water
+was placed at the head, and a small bag of woody earth scraped up in
+the hold at the foot; and a piece of sail-cloth being rolled up for a
+pillow, Queequeg now entreated to be lifted into his final bed, that he
+might make trial of its comforts, if any it had. He lay without moving
+a few minutes, then told one to go to his bag and bring out his little
+god, Yojo. Then crossing his arms on his breast with Yojo between, he
+called for the coffin lid (hatch he called it) to be placed over him.
+The head part turned over with a leather hinge, and there lay Queequeg
+in his coffin with little but his composed countenance in view. "Rarmai"
+(it will do; it is easy), he murmured at last, and signed to be replaced
+in his hammock.
+
+But ere this was done, Pip, who had been slily hovering near by all this
+while, drew nigh to him where he lay, and with soft sobbings, took him
+by the hand; in the other, holding his tambourine.
+
+"Poor rover! will ye never have done with all this weary roving? where
+go ye now? But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles where
+the beaches are only beat with water-lilies, will ye do one little
+errand for me? Seek out one Pip, who's now been missing long: I think
+he's in those far Antilles. If ye find him, then comfort him; for he
+must be very sad; for look! he's left his tambourine behind;--I found
+it. Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! Now, Queequeg, die; and I'll beat ye your dying
+march."
+
+"I have heard," murmured Starbuck, gazing down the scuttle, "that in
+violent fevers, men, all ignorance, have talked in ancient tongues;
+and that when the mystery is probed, it turns out always that in their
+wholly forgotten childhood those ancient tongues had been really spoken
+in their hearing by some lofty scholars. So, to my fond faith, poor Pip,
+in this strange sweetness of his lunacy, brings heavenly vouchers of all
+our heavenly homes. Where learned he that, but there?--Hark! he speaks
+again: but more wildly now."
+
+"Form two and two! Let's make a General of him! Ho, where's his harpoon?
+Lay it across here.--Rig-a-dig, dig, dig! huzza! Oh for a game cock
+now to sit upon his head and crow! Queequeg dies game!--mind ye that;
+Queequeg dies game!--take ye good heed of that; Queequeg dies game! I
+say; game, game, game! but base little Pip, he died a coward; died all
+a'shiver;--out upon Pip! Hark ye; if ye find Pip, tell all the Antilles
+he's a runaway; a coward, a coward, a coward! Tell them he jumped from
+a whale-boat! I'd never beat my tambourine over base Pip, and hail
+him General, if he were once more dying here. No, no! shame upon all
+cowards--shame upon them! Let 'em go drown like Pip, that jumped from a
+whale-boat. Shame! shame!"
+
+During all this, Queequeg lay with closed eyes, as if in a dream. Pip
+was led away, and the sick man was replaced in his hammock.
+
+But now that he had apparently made every preparation for death; now
+that his coffin was proved a good fit, Queequeg suddenly rallied; soon
+there seemed no need of the carpenter's box: and thereupon, when some
+expressed their delighted surprise, he, in substance, said, that the
+cause of his sudden convalescence was this;--at a critical moment, he
+had just recalled a little duty ashore, which he was leaving undone;
+and therefore had changed his mind about dying: he could not die yet,
+he averred. They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of
+his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly. In a word,
+it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere
+sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some
+violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.
+
+Now, there is this noteworthy difference between savage and civilized;
+that while a sick, civilized man may be six months convalescing,
+generally speaking, a sick savage is almost half-well again in a day.
+So, in good time my Queequeg gained strength; and at length after
+sitting on the windlass for a few indolent days (but eating with a
+vigorous appetite) he suddenly leaped to his feet, threw out his arms
+and legs, gave himself a good stretching, yawned a little bit, and then
+springing into the head of his hoisted boat, and poising a harpoon,
+pronounced himself fit for a fight.
+
+With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a sea-chest; and
+emptying into it his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there.
+Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of
+grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was
+striving, in his rude way, to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on
+his body. And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and
+seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on
+his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical
+treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own
+proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but
+whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart
+beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in
+the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were
+inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought it must
+have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when
+one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg--"Oh, devilish
+tantalization of the gods!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.
+
+
+When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South
+Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific
+with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my youth was
+answered; that serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a thousand leagues
+of blue.
+
+There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently
+awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those
+fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St.
+John. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery
+prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should
+rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed
+shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that
+we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like
+slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their
+restlessness.
+
+To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must
+ever after be the sea of his adoption. It rolls the midmost waters of
+the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic being but its arms. The same
+waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday
+planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still
+gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between
+float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown
+Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans. Thus this mysterious, divine
+Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay
+to it; seems the tide-beating heart of earth. Lifted by those eternal
+swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.
+
+But few thoughts of Pan stirred Ahab's brain, as standing like an
+iron statue at his accustomed place beside the mizen rigging, with one
+nostril he unthinkingly snuffed the sugary musk from the Bashee isles
+(in whose sweet woods mild lovers must be walking), and with the other
+consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea; that sea in
+which the hated White Whale must even then be swimming. Launched at
+length upon these almost final waters, and gliding towards the Japanese
+cruising-ground, the old man's purpose intensified itself. His firm lips
+met like the lips of a vice; the Delta of his forehead's veins swelled
+like overladen brooks; in his very sleep, his ringing cry ran through
+the vaulted hull, "Stern all! the White Whale spouts thick blood!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
+
+
+Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in
+these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active
+pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old
+blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after
+concluding his contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained
+it on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast; being now almost
+incessantly invoked by the headsmen, and harpooneers, and bowsmen to do
+some little job for them; altering, or repairing, or new shaping their
+various weapons and boat furniture. Often he would be surrounded by an
+eager circle, all waiting to be served; holding boat-spades, pike-heads,
+harpoons, and lances, and jealously watching his every sooty movement,
+as he toiled. Nevertheless, this old man's was a patient hammer wielded
+by a patient arm. No murmur, no impatience, no petulance did come from
+him. Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically
+broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the
+heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart. And so it
+was.--Most miserable!
+
+A peculiar walk in this old man, a certain slight but painful appearing
+yawing in his gait, had at an early period of the voyage excited the
+curiosity of the mariners. And to the importunity of their persisted
+questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every
+one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate.
+
+Belated, and not innocently, one bitter winter's midnight, on the road
+running between two country towns, the blacksmith half-stupidly felt
+the deadly numbness stealing over him, and sought refuge in a leaning,
+dilapidated barn. The issue was, the loss of the extremities of both
+feet. Out of this revelation, part by part, at last came out the four
+acts of the gladness, and the one long, and as yet uncatastrophied fifth
+act of the grief of his life's drama.
+
+He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly
+encountered that thing in sorrow's technicals called ruin. He had been
+an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house
+and garden; embraced a youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three
+blithe, ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church,
+planted in a grove. But one night, under cover of darkness, and further
+concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into
+his happy home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to
+tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into
+his family's heart. It was the Bottle Conjuror! Upon the opening of that
+fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home. Now, for
+prudent, most wise, and economic reasons, the blacksmith's shop was in
+the basement of his dwelling, but with a separate entrance to it; so
+that always had the young and loving healthy wife listened with no
+unhappy nervousness, but with vigorous pleasure, to the stout ringing of
+her young-armed old husband's hammer; whose reverberations, muffled by
+passing through the floors and walls, came up to her, not unsweetly,
+in her nursery; and so, to stout Labor's iron lullaby, the blacksmith's
+infants were rocked to slumber.
+
+Oh, woe on woe! Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be timely? Hadst
+thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin came upon
+him, then had the young widow had a delicious grief, and her orphans a
+truly venerable, legendary sire to dream of in their after years; and
+all of them a care-killing competency. But Death plucked down some
+virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely hung the
+responsibilities of some other family, and left the worse than useless
+old man standing, till the hideous rot of life should make him easier to
+harvest.
+
+Why tell the whole? The blows of the basement hammer every day grew more
+and more between; and each blow every day grew fainter than the last;
+the wife sat frozen at the window, with tearless eyes, glitteringly
+gazing into the weeping faces of her children; the bellows fell; the
+forge choked up with cinders; the house was sold; the mother dived
+down into the long church-yard grass; her children twice followed her
+thither; and the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond
+in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen
+curls!
+
+Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death
+is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but
+the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the
+Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of
+such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against
+suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly
+spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and
+wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite
+Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them--"Come hither,
+broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate
+death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them. Come
+hither! bury thyself in a life which, to your now equally abhorred and
+abhorring, landed world, is more oblivious than death. Come hither! put
+up THY gravestone, too, within the churchyard, and come hither, till we
+marry thee!"
+
+Hearkening to these voices, East and West, by early sunrise, and by fall
+of eve, the blacksmith's soul responded, Aye, I come! And so Perth went
+a-whaling.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
+
+
+With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about
+mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter
+placed upon an iron-wood log, with one hand holding a pike-head in the
+coals, and with the other at his forge's lungs, when Captain Ahab came
+along, carrying in his hand a small rusty-looking leathern bag. While
+yet a little distance from the forge, moody Ahab paused; till at last,
+Perth, withdrawing his iron from the fire, began hammering it upon the
+anvil--the red mass sending off the sparks in thick hovering flights,
+some of which flew close to Ahab.
+
+"Are these thy Mother Carey's chickens, Perth? they are always flying
+in thy wake; birds of good omen, too, but not to all;--look here, they
+burn; but thou--thou liv'st among them without a scorch."
+
+"Because I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab," answered Perth, resting
+for a moment on his hammer; "I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou
+scorch a scar."
+
+"Well, well; no more. Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful
+to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others
+that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou
+not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet
+hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?--What wert thou making there?"
+
+"Welding an old pike-head, sir; there were seams and dents in it."
+
+"And can'st thou make it all smooth again, blacksmith, after such hard
+usage as it had?"
+
+"I think so, sir."
+
+"And I suppose thou can'st smoothe almost any seams and dents; never
+mind how hard the metal, blacksmith?"
+
+"Aye, sir, I think I can; all seams and dents but one."
+
+"Look ye here, then," cried Ahab, passionately advancing, and leaning
+with both hands on Perth's shoulders; "look ye here--HERE--can ye
+smoothe out a seam like this, blacksmith," sweeping one hand across his
+ribbed brow; "if thou could'st, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay
+my head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes.
+Answer! Can'st thou smoothe this seam?"
+
+"Oh! that is the one, sir! Said I not all seams and dents but one?"
+
+"Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; for
+though thou only see'st it here in my flesh, it has worked down into the
+bone of my skull--THAT is all wrinkles! But, away with child's play; no
+more gaffs and pikes to-day. Look ye here!" jingling the leathern bag,
+as if it were full of gold coins. "I, too, want a harpoon made; one that
+a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will
+stick in a whale like his own fin-bone. There's the stuff," flinging
+the pouch upon the anvil. "Look ye, blacksmith, these are the gathered
+nail-stubbs of the steel shoes of racing horses."
+
+"Horse-shoe stubbs, sir? Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then, the
+best and stubbornest stuff we blacksmiths ever work."
+
+"I know it, old man; these stubbs will weld together like glue from the
+melted bones of murderers. Quick! forge me the harpoon. And forge me
+first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these
+twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line. Quick! I'll
+blow the fire."
+
+When at last the twelve rods were made, Ahab tried them, one by one, by
+spiralling them, with his own hand, round a long, heavy iron bolt. "A
+flaw!" rejecting the last one. "Work that over again, Perth."
+
+This done, Perth was about to begin welding the twelve into one, when
+Ahab stayed his hand, and said he would weld his own iron. As, then,
+with regular, gasping hems, he hammered on the anvil, Perth passing to
+him the glowing rods, one after the other, and the hard pressed forge
+shooting up its intense straight flame, the Parsee passed silently, and
+bowing over his head towards the fire, seemed invoking some curse or
+some blessing on the toil. But, as Ahab looked up, he slid aside.
+
+"What's that bunch of lucifers dodging about there for?" muttered Stubb,
+looking on from the forecastle. "That Parsee smells fire like a fusee;
+and smells of it himself, like a hot musket's powder-pan."
+
+At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as
+Perth, to temper it, plunged it all hissing into the cask of water near
+by, the scalding steam shot up into Ahab's bent face.
+
+"Would'st thou brand me, Perth?" wincing for a moment with the pain;
+"have I been but forging my own branding-iron, then?"
+
+"Pray God, not that; yet I fear something, Captain Ahab. Is not this
+harpoon for the White Whale?"
+
+"For the white fiend! But now for the barbs; thou must make them
+thyself, man. Here are my razors--the best of steel; here, and make the
+barbs sharp as the needle-sleet of the Icy Sea."
+
+For a moment, the old blacksmith eyed the razors as though he would fain
+not use them.
+
+"Take them, man, I have no need for them; for I now neither shave, sup,
+nor pray till--but here--to work!"
+
+Fashioned at last into an arrowy shape, and welded by Perth to the
+shank, the steel soon pointed the end of the iron; and as the blacksmith
+was about giving the barbs their final heat, prior to tempering them, he
+cried to Ahab to place the water-cask near.
+
+"No, no--no water for that; I want it of the true death-temper. Ahoy,
+there! Tashtego, Queequeg, Daggoo! What say ye, pagans! Will ye give me
+as much blood as will cover this barb?" holding it high up. A cluster of
+dark nods replied, Yes. Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh,
+and the White Whale's barbs were then tempered.
+
+"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!"
+deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the
+baptismal blood.
+
+Now, mustering the spare poles from below, and selecting one of hickory,
+with the bark still investing it, Ahab fitted the end to the socket of
+the iron. A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of
+it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension. Pressing
+his foot upon it, till the rope hummed like a harp-string, then eagerly
+bending over it, and seeing no strandings, Ahab exclaimed, "Good! and
+now for the seizings."
+
+At one extremity the rope was unstranded, and the separate spread yarns
+were all braided and woven round the socket of the harpoon; the pole
+was then driven hard up into the socket; from the lower end the rope
+was traced half-way along the pole's length, and firmly secured so, with
+intertwistings of twine. This done, pole, iron, and rope--like the Three
+Fates--remained inseparable, and Ahab moodily stalked away with the
+weapon; the sound of his ivory leg, and the sound of the hickory pole,
+both hollowly ringing along every plank. But ere he entered his cabin,
+light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most piteous sound was heard. Oh,
+Pip! thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange
+mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the
+melancholy ship, and mocked it!
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 114. The Gilder.
+
+
+Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising
+ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. Often, in mild,
+pleasant weather, for twelve, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty hours on the
+stretch, they were engaged in the boats, steadily pulling, or sailing,
+or paddling after the whales, or for an interlude of sixty or seventy
+minutes calmly awaiting their uprising; though with but small success
+for their pains.
+
+At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow
+heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so
+sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone
+cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy
+quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the
+ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and
+would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a
+remorseless fang.
+
+These are the times, when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a
+certain filial, confident, land-like feeling towards the sea; that he
+regards it as so much flowery earth; and the distant ship revealing
+only the tops of her masts, seems struggling forward, not through high
+rolling waves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when
+the western emigrants' horses only show their erected ears, while their
+hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure.
+
+The long-drawn virgin vales; the mild blue hill-sides; as over these
+there steals the hush, the hum; you almost swear that play-wearied
+children lie sleeping in these solitudes, in some glad May-time, when
+the flowers of the woods are plucked. And all this mixes with your most
+mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate,
+and form one seamless whole.
+
+Nor did such soothing scenes, however temporary, fail of at least as
+temporary an effect on Ahab. But if these secret golden keys did seem
+to open in him his own secret golden treasuries, yet did his breath upon
+them prove but tarnishing.
+
+Oh, grassy glades! oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in
+ye,--though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life,--in ye,
+men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some
+few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.
+Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling
+threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a
+storm for every calm. There is no steady unretracing progress in this
+life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one
+pause:--through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless
+faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then
+disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If. But once
+gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and men,
+and Ifs eternally. Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no
+more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will
+never weary? Where is the foundling's father hidden? Our souls are like
+those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of
+our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
+
+And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boat's side into that
+same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:--
+
+"Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride's
+eye!--Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping
+cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep
+down and do believe."
+
+And Stubb, fish-like, with sparkling scales, leaped up in that same
+golden light:--
+
+"I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths that
+he has always been jolly!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
+
+
+And jolly enough were the sights and the sounds that came bearing down
+before the wind, some few weeks after Ahab's harpoon had been welded.
+
+It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her
+last cask of oil, and bolted down her bursting hatches; and now, in glad
+holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vain-gloriously, sailing
+round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous to
+pointing her prow for home.
+
+The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red bunting
+at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended, bottom down;
+and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long lower jaw of the
+last whale they had slain. Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colours
+were flying from her rigging, on every side. Sideways lashed in each of
+her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm; above which, in her
+top-mast cross-trees, you saw slender breakers of the same precious
+fluid; and nailed to her main truck was a brazen lamp.
+
+As was afterwards learned, the Bachelor had met with the most surprising
+success; all the more wonderful, for that while cruising in the same
+seas numerous other vessels had gone entire months without securing a
+single fish. Not only had barrels of beef and bread been given away to
+make room for the far more valuable sperm, but additional supplemental
+casks had been bartered for, from the ships she had met; and these were
+stowed along the deck, and in the captain's and officers' state-rooms.
+Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood; and the
+cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt, lashed down to the
+floor for a centrepiece. In the forecastle, the sailors had actually
+caulked and pitched their chests, and filled them; it was humorously
+added, that the cook had clapped a head on his largest boiler, and
+filled it; that the steward had plugged his spare coffee-pot and filled
+it; that the harpooneers had headed the sockets of their irons and
+filled them; that indeed everything was filled with sperm, except the
+captain's pantaloons pockets, and those he reserved to thrust his hands
+into, in self-complacent testimony of his entire satisfaction.
+
+As this glad ship of good luck bore down upon the moody Pequod, the
+barbarian sound of enormous drums came from her forecastle; and drawing
+still nearer, a crowd of her men were seen standing round her huge
+try-pots, which, covered with the parchment-like POKE or stomach skin of
+the black fish, gave forth a loud roar to every stroke of the clenched
+hands of the crew. On the quarter-deck, the mates and harpooneers were
+dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with them from the
+Polynesian Isles; while suspended in an ornamented boat, firmly secured
+aloft between the foremast and mainmast, three Long Island negroes, with
+glittering fiddle-bows of whale ivory, were presiding over the hilarious
+jig. Meanwhile, others of the ship's company were tumultuously busy at
+the masonry of the try-works, from which the huge pots had been
+removed. You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed
+Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and
+mortar were being hurled into the sea.
+
+Lord and master over all this scene, the captain stood erect on the
+ship's elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was
+full before him, and seemed merely contrived for his own individual
+diversion.
+
+And Ahab, he too was standing on his quarter-deck, shaggy and black,
+with a stubborn gloom; and as the two ships crossed each other's
+wakes--one all jubilations for things passed, the other all forebodings
+as to things to come--their two captains in themselves impersonated the
+whole striking contrast of the scene.
+
+"Come aboard, come aboard!" cried the gay Bachelor's commander, lifting
+a glass and a bottle in the air.
+
+"Hast seen the White Whale?" gritted Ahab in reply.
+
+"No; only heard of him; but don't believe in him at all," said the other
+good-humoredly. "Come aboard!"
+
+"Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on. Hast lost any men?"
+
+"Not enough to speak of--two islanders, that's all;--but come aboard,
+old hearty, come along. I'll soon take that black from your brow. Come
+along, will ye (merry's the play); a full ship and homeward-bound."
+
+"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" muttered Ahab; then aloud, "Thou art
+a full ship and homeward bound, thou sayst; well, then, call me an empty
+ship, and outward-bound. So go thy ways, and I will mine. Forward there!
+Set all sail, and keep her to the wind!"
+
+And thus, while the one ship went cheerily before the breeze, the other
+stubbornly fought against it; and so the two vessels parted; the crew
+of the Pequod looking with grave, lingering glances towards the receding
+Bachelor; but the Bachelor's men never heeding their gaze for the lively
+revelry they were in. And as Ahab, leaning over the taffrail, eyed the
+homewardbound craft, he took from his pocket a small vial of sand, and
+then looking from the ship to the vial, seemed thereby bringing two
+remote associations together, for that vial was filled with Nantucket
+soundings.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
+
+
+Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites
+sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the
+rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. So seemed
+it with the Pequod. For next day after encountering the gay Bachelor,
+whales were seen and four were slain; and one of them by Ahab.
+
+It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson
+fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun
+and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such
+plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that
+it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of
+the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had
+gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.
+
+Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned
+off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now
+tranquil boat. For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales
+dying--the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring--that strange
+spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a
+wondrousness unknown before.
+
+"He turns and turns him to it,--how slowly, but how steadfastly, his
+homage-rendering and invoking brow, with his last dying motions. He too
+worships fire; most faithful, broad, baronial vassal of the sun!--Oh
+that these too-favouring eyes should see these too-favouring sights.
+Look! here, far water-locked; beyond all hum of human weal or woe;
+in these most candid and impartial seas; where to traditions no rocks
+furnish tablets; where for long Chinese ages, the billows have still
+rolled on speechless and unspoken to, as stars that shine upon the
+Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith; but
+see! no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse, and it heads
+some other way.
+
+"Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded
+thy separate throne somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas;
+thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly speakest to me in the
+wide-slaughtering Typhoon, and the hushed burial of its after calm. Nor
+has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying head, and then gone round
+again, without a lesson to me.
+
+"Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed
+jet!--that one strivest, this one jettest all in vain! In vain, oh
+whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that
+only calls forth life, but gives it not again. Yet dost thou, darker
+half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. All thy unnamable
+imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living
+things, exhaled as air, but water now.
+
+"Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild
+fowl finds his only rest. Born of earth, yet suckled by the sea; though
+hill and valley mothered me, ye billows are my foster-brothers!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch.
+
+
+The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to
+windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern. These
+last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one
+could not be reached till morning; and the boat that had killed it lay
+by its side all night; and that boat was Ahab's.
+
+The waif-pole was thrust upright into the dead whale's spout-hole; and
+the lantern hanging from its top, cast a troubled flickering glare
+upon the black, glossy back, and far out upon the midnight waves, which
+gently chafed the whale's broad flank, like soft surf upon a beach.
+
+Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; who crouching
+in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally played round the
+whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails. A sound
+like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of
+Gomorrah, ran shuddering through the air.
+
+Started from his slumbers, Ahab, face to face, saw the Parsee; and
+hooped round by the gloom of the night they seemed the last men in a
+flooded world. "I have dreamed it again," said he.
+
+"Of the hearses? Have I not said, old man, that neither hearse nor
+coffin can be thine?"
+
+"And who are hearsed that die on the sea?"
+
+"But I said, old man, that ere thou couldst die on this voyage, two
+hearses must verily be seen by thee on the sea; the first not made by
+mortal hands; and the visible wood of the last one must be grown in
+America."
+
+"Aye, aye! a strange sight that, Parsee:--a hearse and its plumes
+floating over the ocean with the waves for the pall-bearers. Ha! Such a
+sight we shall not soon see."
+
+"Believe it or not, thou canst not die till it be seen, old man."
+
+"And what was that saying about thyself?"
+
+"Though it come to the last, I shall still go before thee thy pilot."
+
+"And when thou art so gone before--if that ever befall--then ere I can
+follow, thou must still appear to me, to pilot me still?--Was it not
+so? Well, then, did I believe all ye say, oh my pilot! I have here two
+pledges that I shall yet slay Moby Dick and survive it."
+
+"Take another pledge, old man," said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted up
+like fire-flies in the gloom--"Hemp only can kill thee."
+
+"The gallows, ye mean.--I am immortal then, on land and on sea," cried
+Ahab, with a laugh of derision;--"Immortal on land and on sea!"
+
+Both were silent again, as one man. The grey dawn came on, and the
+slumbering crew arose from the boat's bottom, and ere noon the dead
+whale was brought to the ship.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
+
+
+The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab,
+coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would
+ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to
+the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed
+on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the ship's
+prow for the equator. In good time the order came. It was hard upon high
+noon; and Ahab, seated in the bows of his high-hoisted boat, was
+about taking his wonted daily observation of the sun to determine his
+latitude.
+
+Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of
+effulgences. That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing
+focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass. The sky looks
+lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness
+of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.
+Well that Ahab's quadrant was furnished with coloured glasses, through
+which to take sight of that solar fire. So, swinging his seated form
+to the roll of the ship, and with his astrological-looking instrument
+placed to his eye, he remained in that posture for some moments to
+catch the precise instant when the sun should gain its precise meridian.
+Meantime while his whole attention was absorbed, the Parsee was kneeling
+beneath him on the ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's,
+was eyeing the same sun with him; only the lids of his eyes half hooded
+their orbs, and his wild face was subdued to an earthly passionlessness.
+At length the desired observation was taken; and with his pencil upon
+his ivory leg, Ahab soon calculated what his latitude must be at that
+precise instant. Then falling into a moment's revery, he again looked up
+towards the sun and murmured to himself: "Thou sea-mark! thou high and
+mighty Pilot! thou tellest me truly where I AM--but canst thou cast the
+least hint where I SHALL be? Or canst thou tell where some other thing
+besides me is this moment living? Where is Moby Dick? This instant thou
+must be eyeing him. These eyes of mine look into the very eye that is
+even now beholding him; aye, and into the eye that is even now equally
+beholding the objects on the unknown, thither side of thee, thou sun!"
+
+Then gazing at his quadrant, and handling, one after the other, its
+numerous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered:
+"Foolish toy! babies' plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and
+Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cunning and might; but what
+after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou
+thyself happenest to be on this wide planet, and the hand that holds
+thee: no! not one jot more! Thou canst not tell where one drop of water
+or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon; and yet with thy impotence
+thou insultest the sun! Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed
+be all the things that cast man's eyes aloft to that heaven, whose live
+vividness but scorches him, as these old eyes are even now scorched
+with thy light, O sun! Level by nature to this earth's horizon are the
+glances of man's eyes; not shot from the crown of his head, as if God
+had meant him to gaze on his firmament. Curse thee, thou quadrant!"
+dashing it to the deck, "no longer will I guide my earthly way by thee;
+the level ship's compass, and the level deadreckoning, by log and by
+line; THESE shall conduct me, and show me my place on the sea. Aye,"
+lighting from the boat to the deck, "thus I trample on thee, thou paltry
+thing that feebly pointest on high; thus I split and destroy thee!"
+
+As the frantic old man thus spoke and thus trampled with his live
+and dead feet, a sneering triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a
+fatalistic despair that seemed meant for himself--these passed over
+the mute, motionless Parsee's face. Unobserved he rose and glided away;
+while, awestruck by the aspect of their commander, the seamen clustered
+together on the forecastle, till Ahab, troubledly pacing the deck,
+shouted out--"To the braces! Up helm!--square in!"
+
+In an instant the yards swung round; and as the ship half-wheeled upon
+her heel, her three firm-seated graceful masts erectly poised upon
+her long, ribbed hull, seemed as the three Horatii pirouetting on one
+sufficient steed.
+
+Standing between the knight-heads, Starbuck watched the Pequod's
+tumultuous way, and Ahab's also, as he went lurching along the deck.
+
+"I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of
+its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down,
+to dumbest dust. Old man of oceans! of all this fiery life of thine,
+what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes!"
+
+"Aye," cried Stubb, "but sea-coal ashes--mind ye that, Mr.
+Starbuck--sea-coal, not your common charcoal. Well, well; I heard Ahab
+mutter, 'Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine;
+swears that I must play them, and no others.' And damn me, Ahab, but
+thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
+
+
+Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal
+crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent
+but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes
+that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in these
+resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all
+storms, the Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless
+sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.
+
+Towards evening of that day, the Pequod was torn of her canvas, and
+bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon which had struck her directly
+ahead. When darkness came on, sky and sea roared and split with the
+thunder, and blazed with the lightning, that showed the disabled masts
+fluttering here and there with the rags which the first fury of the
+tempest had left for its after sport.
+
+Holding by a shroud, Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck; at every
+flash of the lightning glancing aloft, to see what additional disaster
+might have befallen the intricate hamper there; while Stubb and Flask
+were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of the
+boats. But all their pains seemed naught. Though lifted to the very
+top of the cranes, the windward quarter boat (Ahab's) did not escape.
+A great rolling sea, dashing high up against the reeling ship's high
+teetering side, stove in the boat's bottom at the stern, and left it
+again, all dripping through like a sieve.
+
+"Bad work, bad work! Mr. Starbuck," said Stubb, regarding the wreck,
+"but the sea will have its way. Stubb, for one, can't fight it. You see,
+Mr. Starbuck, a wave has such a great long start before it leaps, all
+round the world it runs, and then comes the spring! But as for me, all
+the start I have to meet it, is just across the deck here. But never
+mind; it's all in fun: so the old song says;"--(SINGS.)
+
+  Oh! jolly is the gale,
+  And a joker is the whale,
+  A' flourishin' his tail,--
+  Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
+
+  The scud all a flyin',
+  That's his flip only foamin';
+  When he stirs in the spicin',--
+  Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
+
+  Thunder splits the ships,
+  But he only smacks his lips,
+  A tastin' of this flip,--
+  Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
+
+
+"Avast Stubb," cried Starbuck, "let the Typhoon sing, and strike his
+harp here in our rigging; but if thou art a brave man thou wilt hold thy
+peace."
+
+"But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I am a coward;
+and I sing to keep up my spirits. And I tell you what it is, Mr.
+Starbuck, there's no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my
+throat. And when that's done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a
+wind-up."
+
+"Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own."
+
+"What! how can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never
+mind how foolish?"
+
+"Here!" cried Starbuck, seizing Stubb by the shoulder, and pointing his
+hand towards the weather bow, "markest thou not that the gale comes from
+the eastward, the very course Ahab is to run for Moby Dick? the very
+course he swung to this day noon? now mark his boat there; where is
+that stove? In the stern-sheets, man; where he is wont to stand--his
+stand-point is stove, man! Now jump overboard, and sing away, if thou
+must!
+
+"I don't half understand ye: what's in the wind?"
+
+"Yes, yes, round the Cape of Good Hope is the shortest way to
+Nantucket," soliloquized Starbuck suddenly, heedless of Stubb's
+question. "The gale that now hammers at us to stave us, we can turn it
+into a fair wind that will drive us towards home. Yonder, to windward,
+all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward--I see it lightens up
+there; but not with the lightning."
+
+At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following
+the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same
+instant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.
+
+"Who's there?"
+
+"Old Thunder!" said Ahab, groping his way along the bulwarks to his
+pivot-hole; but suddenly finding his path made plain to him by elbowed
+lances of fire.
+
+Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off
+the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some
+ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water. But
+as this conductor must descend to considerable depth, that its end may
+avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly
+towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering
+not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the
+vessel's way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a
+ship's lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made
+in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into the
+chains outside, or thrown down into the sea, as occasion may require.
+
+"The rods! the rods!" cried Starbuck to the crew, suddenly admonished to
+vigilance by the vivid lightning that had just been darting flambeaux,
+to light Ahab to his post. "Are they overboard? drop them over, fore and
+aft. Quick!"
+
+"Avast!" cried Ahab; "let's have fair play here, though we be the weaker
+side. Yet I'll contribute to raise rods on the Himmalehs and Andes, that
+all the world may be secured; but out on privileges! Let them be, sir."
+
+"Look aloft!" cried Starbuck. "The corpusants! the corpusants!"
+
+All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each
+tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of
+the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like
+three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.
+
+"Blast the boat! let it go!" cried Stubb at this instant, as a swashing
+sea heaved up under his own little craft, so that its gunwale violently
+jammed his hand, as he was passing a lashing. "Blast it!"--but
+slipping backward on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught the flames; and
+immediately shifting his tone he cried--"The corpusants have mercy on us
+all!"
+
+To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of
+the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses
+from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething
+sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when
+God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His "Mene, Mene,
+Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.
+
+While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the
+enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle,
+all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away
+constellation of stars. Relieved against the ghostly light, the gigantic
+jet negro, Daggoo, loomed up to thrice his real stature, and seemed
+the black cloud from which the thunder had come. The parted mouth of
+Tashtego revealed his shark-white teeth, which strangely gleamed as
+if they too had been tipped by corpusants; while lit up by the
+preternatural light, Queequeg's tattooing burned like Satanic blue
+flames on his body.
+
+The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more
+the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall. A moment
+or two passed, when Starbuck, going forward, pushed against some one. It
+was Stubb. "What thinkest thou now, man; I heard thy cry; it was not the
+same in the song."
+
+"No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I
+hope they will, still. But do they only have mercy on long faces?--have
+they no bowels for a laugh? And look ye, Mr. Starbuck--but it's too dark
+to look. Hear me, then: I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign
+of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be
+chock a' block with sperm-oil, d'ye see; and so, all that sperm will
+work up into the masts, like sap in a tree. Yes, our three masts will
+yet be as three spermaceti candles--that's the good promise we saw."
+
+At that moment Starbuck caught sight of Stubb's face slowly beginning
+to glimmer into sight. Glancing upwards, he cried: "See! see!" and once
+more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled
+supernaturalness in their pallor.
+
+"The corpusants have mercy on us all," cried Stubb, again.
+
+At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame,
+the Parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away
+from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where
+they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen,
+arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a
+knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig. In various enchanted
+attitudes, like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in
+Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes
+upcast.
+
+"Aye, aye, men!" cried Ahab. "Look up at it; mark it well; the white
+flame but lights the way to the White Whale! Hand me those mainmast
+links there; I would fain feel this pulse, and let mine beat against it;
+blood against fire! So."
+
+Then turning--the last link held fast in his left hand, he put his foot
+upon the Parsee; and with fixed upward eye, and high-flung right arm, he
+stood erect before the lofty tri-pointed trinity of flames.
+
+"Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas I as Persian
+once did worship, till in the sacramental act so burned by thee, that to
+this hour I bear the scar; I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now
+know that thy right worship is defiance. To neither love nor reverence
+wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all
+are killed. No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless,
+placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will
+dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me. In the midst of the
+personified impersonal, a personality stands here. Though but a point at
+best; whencesoe'er I came; wheresoe'er I go; yet while I earthly live,
+the queenly personality lives in me, and feels her royal rights. But war
+is pain, and hate is woe. Come in thy lowest form of love, and I will
+kneel and kiss thee; but at thy highest, come as mere supernal power;
+and though thou launchest navies of full-freighted worlds, there's that
+in here that still remains indifferent. Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy
+fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to
+thee."
+
+[SUDDEN, REPEATED FLASHES OF LIGHTNING; THE NINE FLAMES LEAP LENGTHWISE
+TO THRICE THEIR PREVIOUS HEIGHT; AHAB, WITH THE REST, CLOSES HIS EYES,
+HIS RIGHT HAND PRESSED HARD UPON THEM.]
+
+"I own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so? Nor was it wrung
+from me; nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind; but I can then
+grope. Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes. Take the homage of
+these poor eyes, and shutter-hands. I would not take it. The lightning
+flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten
+brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Oh, oh!
+Yet blindfold, yet will I talk to thee. Light though thou be, thou
+leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping
+out of thee! The javelins cease; open eyes; see, or not? There burn the
+flames! Oh, thou magnanimous! now I do glory in my genealogy. But thou
+art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not. Oh, cruel! what
+hast thou done with her? There lies my puzzle; but thine is greater.
+Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten;
+certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun. I
+know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent.
+There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom
+all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical. Through
+thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly see it. Oh, thou
+foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable
+riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with haughty agony, I read
+my sire. Leap! leap up, and lick the sky! I leap with thee; I burn with
+thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!"
+
+"The boat! the boat!" cried Starbuck, "look at thy boat, old man!"
+
+Ahab's harpoon, the one forged at Perth's fire, remained firmly lashed
+in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boat's
+bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather
+sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel barb there now came a
+levelled flame of pale, forked fire. As the silent harpoon burned there
+like a serpent's tongue, Starbuck grasped Ahab by the arm--"God, God
+is against thee, old man; forbear! 'tis an ill voyage! ill begun, ill
+continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a
+fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this."
+
+Overhearing Starbuck, the panic-stricken crew instantly ran to the
+braces--though not a sail was left aloft. For the moment all the aghast
+mate's thoughts seemed theirs; they raised a half mutinous cry. But
+dashing the rattling lightning links to the deck, and snatching the
+burning harpoon, Ahab waved it like a torch among them; swearing to
+transfix with it the first sailor that but cast loose a rope's end.
+Petrified by his aspect, and still more shrinking from the fiery dart
+that he held, the men fell back in dismay, and Ahab again spoke:--
+
+"All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and
+heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye
+may know to what tune this heart beats; look ye here; thus I blow out
+the last fear!" And with one blast of his breath he extinguished the
+flame.
+
+As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neighborhood of
+some lone, gigantic elm, whose very height and strength but render it so
+much the more unsafe, because so much the more a mark for thunderbolts;
+so at those last words of Ahab's many of the mariners did run from him
+in a terror of dismay.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.
+
+AHAB STANDING BY THE HELM. STARBUCK APPROACHING HIM.
+
+
+"We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose
+and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it, sir?"
+
+"Strike nothing; lash it. If I had sky-sail poles, I'd sway them up
+now."
+
+"Sir!--in God's name!--sir?"
+
+"Well."
+
+"The anchors are working, sir. Shall I get them inboard?"
+
+"Strike nothing, and stir nothing, but lash everything. The wind rises,
+but it has not got up to my table-lands yet. Quick, and see to it.--By
+masts and keels! he takes me for the hunch-backed skipper of some
+coasting smack. Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho, gluepots! Loftiest
+trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now
+sails amid the cloud-scud. Shall I strike that? Oh, none but cowards
+send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft
+there! I would e'en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic
+is a noisy malady. Oh, take medicine, take medicine!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 121. Midnight.--The Forecastle Bulwarks.
+
+
+STUBB AND FLASK MOUNTED ON THEM, AND PASSING ADDITIONAL LASHINGS OVER
+THE ANCHORS THERE HANGING.
+
+
+"No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you
+will never pound into me what you were just now saying. And how long
+ago is it since you said the very contrary? Didn't you once say that
+whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its
+insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft
+and boxes of lucifers forward? Stop, now; didn't you say so?"
+
+"Well, suppose I did? What then? I've part changed my flesh since that
+time, why not my mind? Besides, supposing we ARE loaded with powder
+barrels aft and lucifers forward; how the devil could the lucifers get
+afire in this drenching spray here? Why, my little man, you have
+pretty red hair, but you couldn't get afire now. Shake yourself; you're
+Aquarius, or the water-bearer, Flask; might fill pitchers at your coat
+collar. Don't you see, then, that for these extra risks the Marine
+Insurance companies have extra guarantees? Here are hydrants, Flask. But
+hark, again, and I'll answer ye the other thing. First take your leg off
+from the crown of the anchor here, though, so I can pass the rope;
+now listen. What's the mighty difference between holding a mast's
+lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn't
+got any lightning-rod at all in a storm? Don't you see, you timber-head,
+that no harm can come to the holder of the rod, unless the mast is first
+struck? What are you talking about, then? Not one ship in a hundred
+carries rods, and Ahab,--aye, man, and all of us,--were in no more
+danger then, in my poor opinion, than all the crews in ten thousand
+ships now sailing the seas. Why, you King-Post, you, I suppose you would
+have every man in the world go about with a small lightning-rod running
+up the corner of his hat, like a militia officer's skewered feather,
+and trailing behind like his sash. Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's
+easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be
+sensible."
+
+"I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard."
+
+"Yes, when a fellow's soaked through, it's hard to be sensible, that's
+a fact. And I am about drenched with this spray. Never mind; catch the
+turn there, and pass it. Seems to me we are lashing down these anchors
+now as if they were never going to be used again. Tying these two
+anchors here, Flask, seems like tying a man's hands behind him. And what
+big generous hands they are, to be sure. These are your iron fists,
+hey? What a hold they have, too! I wonder, Flask, whether the world is
+anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable,
+though. There, hammer that knot down, and we've done. So; next to
+touching land, lighting on deck is the most satisfactory. I say, just
+wring out my jacket skirts, will ye? Thank ye. They laugh at long-togs
+so, Flask; but seems to me, a Long tailed coat ought always to be worn
+in all storms afloat. The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry
+off the water, d'ye see. Same with cocked hats; the cocks form gable-end
+eave-troughs, Flask. No more monkey-jackets and tarpaulins for me; I
+must mount a swallow-tail, and drive down a beaver; so. Halloa! whew!
+there goes my tarpaulin overboard; Lord, Lord, that the winds that come
+from heaven should be so unmannerly! This is a nasty night, lad."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.--Thunder and Lightning.
+
+
+THE MAIN-TOP-SAIL YARD.--TASHTEGO PASSING NEW LASHINGS AROUND IT.
+
+
+"Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's
+the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give
+us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
+
+
+During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod's
+jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by
+its spasmodic motions, even though preventer tackles had been attached
+to it--for they were slack--because some play to the tiller was
+indispensable.
+
+In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock
+to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the
+compasses, at intervals, go round and round. It was thus with the
+Pequod's; at almost every shock the helmsman had not failed to notice
+the whirling velocity with which they revolved upon the cards; it is
+a sight that hardly anyone can behold without some sort of unwonted
+emotion.
+
+Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the
+strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb--one engaged forward and the
+other aft--the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails
+were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like
+the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when
+that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
+
+The three corresponding new sails were now bent and reefed, and a
+storm-trysail was set further aft; so that the ship soon went through
+the water with some precision again; and the course--for the present,
+East-south-east--which he was to steer, if practicable, was once more
+given to the helmsman. For during the violence of the gale, he had only
+steered according to its vicissitudes. But as he was now bringing the
+ship as near her course as possible, watching the compass meanwhile, lo!
+a good sign! the wind seemed coming round astern; aye, the foul breeze
+became fair!
+
+Instantly the yards were squared, to the lively song of "HO! THE
+FAIR WIND! OH-YE-HO, CHEERLY MEN!" the crew singing for joy, that so
+promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents
+preceding it.
+
+In compliance with the standing order of his commander--to report
+immediately, and at any one of the twenty-four hours, any decided change
+in the affairs of the deck,--Starbuck had no sooner trimmed the yards to
+the breeze--however reluctantly and gloomily,--than he mechanically went
+below to apprise Captain Ahab of the circumstance.
+
+Ere knocking at his state-room, he involuntarily paused before it
+a moment. The cabin lamp--taking long swings this way and that--was
+burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man's bolted
+door,--a thin one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels.
+The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming
+silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of
+the elements. The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed, as
+they stood upright against the forward bulkhead. Starbuck was an honest,
+upright man; but out of Starbuck's heart, at that instant when he saw
+the muskets, there strangely evolved an evil thought; but so blent with
+its neutral or good accompaniments that for the instant he hardly knew
+it for itself.
+
+"He would have shot me once," he murmured, "yes, there's the very musket
+that he pointed at me;--that one with the studded stock; let me touch
+it--lift it. Strange, that I, who have handled so many deadly lances,
+strange, that I should shake so now. Loaded? I must see. Aye, aye; and
+powder in the pan;--that's not good. Best spill it?--wait. I'll cure
+myself of this. I'll hold the musket boldly while I think.--I come
+to report a fair wind to him. But how fair? Fair for death and
+doom,--THAT'S fair for Moby Dick. It's a fair wind that's only fair for
+that accursed fish.--The very tube he pointed at me!--the very one;
+THIS one--I hold it here; he would have killed me with the very thing I
+handle now.--Aye and he would fain kill all his crew. Does he not say
+he will not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not dashed his heavenly
+quadrant? and in these same perilous seas, gropes he not his way by mere
+dead reckoning of the error-abounding log? and in this very Typhoon, did
+he not swear that he would have no lightning-rods? But shall this crazed
+old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom
+with him?--Yes, it would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men and
+more, if this ship come to any deadly harm; and come to deadly harm, my
+soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have his way. If, then, he were this
+instant--put aside, that crime would not be his. Ha! is he muttering in
+his sleep? Yes, just there,--in there, he's sleeping. Sleeping? aye,
+but still alive, and soon awake again. I can't withstand thee, then, old
+man. Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to;
+all this thou scornest. Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is
+all thou breathest. Aye, and say'st the men have vow'd thy vow; say'st
+all of us are Ahabs. Great God forbid!--But is there no other way? no
+lawful way?--Make him a prisoner to be taken home? What! hope to wrest
+this old man's living power from his own living hands? Only a fool
+would try it. Say he were pinioned even; knotted all over with ropes
+and hawsers; chained down to ring-bolts on this cabin floor; he would
+be more hideous than a caged tiger, then. I could not endure the
+sight; could not possibly fly his howlings; all comfort, sleep itself,
+inestimable reason would leave me on the long intolerable voyage. What,
+then, remains? The land is hundreds of leagues away, and locked Japan
+the nearest. I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and
+a whole continent between me and law.--Aye, aye, 'tis so.--Is heaven
+a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed,
+tindering sheets and skin together?--And would I be a murderer, then,
+if"--and slowly, stealthily, and half sideways looking, he placed the
+loaded musket's end against the door.
+
+"On this level, Ahab's hammock swings within; his head this way. A
+touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again.--Oh
+Mary! Mary!--boy! boy! boy!--But if I wake thee not to death, old man,
+who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck's body this day week
+may sink, with all the crew! Great God, where art Thou? Shall I? shall
+I?--The wind has gone down and shifted, sir; the fore and main topsails
+are reefed and set; she heads her course."
+
+"Stern all! Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!"
+
+Such were the sounds that now came hurtling from out the old man's
+tormented sleep, as if Starbuck's voice had caused the long dumb dream
+to speak.
+
+The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkard's arm against the panel;
+Starbuck seemed wrestling with an angel; but turning from the door, he
+placed the death-tube in its rack, and left the place.
+
+"He's too sound asleep, Mr. Stubb; go thou down, and wake him, and tell
+him. I must see to the deck here. Thou know'st what to say."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
+
+
+Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of
+mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on
+like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded
+so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world
+boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible
+sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his
+bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian
+kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of
+molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
+
+Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time
+the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye
+the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly settled by
+the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward place, and how
+the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake.
+
+"Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot of
+the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye!
+Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!"
+
+But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the
+helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
+
+"East-sou-east, sir," said the frightened steersman.
+
+"Thou liest!" smiting him with his clenched fist. "Heading East at this
+hour in the morning, and the sun astern?"
+
+Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then
+observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very
+blinding palpableness must have been the cause.
+
+Thrusting his head half way into the binnacle, Ahab caught one glimpse
+of the compasses; his uplifted arm slowly fell; for a moment he almost
+seemed to stagger. Standing behind him Starbuck looked, and lo! the two
+compasses pointed East, and the Pequod was as infallibly going West.
+
+But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad among the crew,
+the old man with a rigid laugh exclaimed, "I have it! It has happened
+before. Mr. Starbuck, last night's thunder turned our compasses--that's
+all. Thou hast before now heard of such a thing, I take it."
+
+"Aye; but never before has it happened to me, sir," said the pale mate,
+gloomily.
+
+Here, it must needs be said, that accidents like this have in more than
+one case occurred to ships in violent storms. The magnetic energy, as
+developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with
+the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled
+at, that such things should be. Instances where the lightning has
+actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and
+rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal;
+all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic
+steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle. But in
+either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original
+virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected,
+the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were
+the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
+
+Deliberately standing before the binnacle, and eyeing the transpointed
+compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took
+the precise bearing of the sun, and satisfied that the needles were
+exactly inverted, shouted out his orders for the ship's course to be
+changed accordingly. The yards were hard up; and once more the Pequod
+thrust her undaunted bows into the opposing wind, for the supposed fair
+one had only been juggling her.
+
+Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts, Starbuck said nothing,
+but quietly he issued all requisite orders; while Stubb and Flask--who
+in some small degree seemed then to be sharing his feelings--likewise
+unmurmuringly acquiesced. As for the men, though some of them lowly
+rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate. But as
+ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed;
+or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their
+congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
+
+For a space the old man walked the deck in rolling reveries. But
+chancing to slip with his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper
+sight-tubes of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to the deck.
+
+"Thou poor, proud heaven-gazer and sun's pilot! yesterday I wrecked
+thee, and to-day the compasses would fain have wrecked me. So, so. But
+Ahab is lord over the level loadstone yet. Mr. Starbuck--a lance without
+a pole; a top-maul, and the smallest of the sail-maker's needles.
+Quick!"
+
+Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about
+to do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to
+revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a
+matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses. Besides, the old
+man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles, though clumsily
+practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious sailors,
+without some shudderings and evil portents.
+
+"Men," said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed
+him the things he had demanded, "my men, the thunder turned old Ahab's
+needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his own, that
+will point as true as any."
+
+Abashed glances of servile wonder were exchanged by the sailors, as this
+was said; and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic might
+follow. But Starbuck looked away.
+
+With a blow from the top-maul Ahab knocked off the steel head of the
+lance, and then handing to the mate the long iron rod remaining, bade
+him hold it upright, without its touching the deck. Then, with the maul,
+after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the
+blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered
+that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before. Then
+going through some small strange motions with it--whether indispensable
+to the magnetizing of the steel, or merely intended to augment the awe
+of the crew, is uncertain--he called for linen thread; and moving to the
+binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there, and horizontally
+suspended the sail-needle by its middle, over one of the compass-cards.
+At first, the steel went round and round, quivering and vibrating at
+either end; but at last it settled to its place, when Ahab, who had
+been intently watching for this result, stepped frankly back from the
+binnacle, and pointing his stretched arm towards it, exclaimed,--"Look
+ye, for yourselves, if Ahab be not lord of the level loadstone! The sun
+is East, and that compass swears it!"
+
+One after another they peered in, for nothing but their own eyes could
+persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk
+away.
+
+In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his
+fatal pride.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
+
+
+While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log
+and line had but very seldom been in use. Owing to a confident reliance
+upon other means of determining the vessel's place, some merchantmen,
+and many whalemen, especially when cruising, wholly neglect to heave the
+log; though at the same time, and frequently more for form's sake than
+anything else, regularly putting down upon the customary slate the
+course steered by the ship, as well as the presumed average rate of
+progression every hour. It had been thus with the Pequod. The wooden
+reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the
+railing of the after bulwarks. Rains and spray had damped it; sun and
+wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that
+hung so idly. But heedless of all this, his mood seized Ahab, as he
+happened to glance upon the reel, not many hours after the magnet scene,
+and he remembered how his quadrant was no more, and recalled his frantic
+oath about the level log and line. The ship was sailing plungingly;
+astern the billows rolled in riots.
+
+"Forward, there! Heave the log!"
+
+Two seamen came. The golden-hued Tahitian and the grizzly Manxman. "Take
+the reel, one of ye, I'll heave."
+
+They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship's lee side, where the
+deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into
+the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea.
+
+The Manxman took the reel, and holding it high up, by the projecting
+handle-ends of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so
+stood with the angular log hanging downwards, till Ahab advanced to him.
+
+Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty
+turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old
+Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to
+speak.
+
+"Sir, I mistrust it; this line looks far gone, long heat and wet have
+spoiled it."
+
+"'Twill hold, old gentleman. Long heat and wet, have they spoiled thee?
+Thou seem'st to hold. Or, truer perhaps, life holds thee; not thou it."
+
+"I hold the spool, sir. But just as my captain says. With these
+grey hairs of mine 'tis not worth while disputing, 'specially with a
+superior, who'll ne'er confess."
+
+"What's that? There now's a patched professor in Queen Nature's
+granite-founded College; but methinks he's too subservient. Where wert
+thou born?"
+
+"In the little rocky Isle of Man, sir."
+
+"Excellent! Thou'st hit the world by that."
+
+"I know not, sir, but I was born there."
+
+"In the Isle of Man, hey? Well, the other way, it's good. Here's a man
+from Man; a man born in once independent Man, and now unmanned of Man;
+which is sucked in--by what? Up with the reel! The dead, blind wall
+butts all inquiring heads at last. Up with it! So."
+
+The log was heaved. The loose coils rapidly straightened out in a long
+dragging line astern, and then, instantly, the reel began to whirl. In
+turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing
+resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
+
+"Hold hard!"
+
+Snap! the overstrained line sagged down in one long festoon; the tugging
+log was gone.
+
+"I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles, and now the mad
+sea parts the log-line. But Ahab can mend all. Haul in here, Tahitian;
+reel up, Manxman. And look ye, let the carpenter make another log, and
+mend thou the line. See to it."
+
+"There he goes now; to him nothing's happened; but to me, the skewer
+seems loosening out of the middle of the world. Haul in, haul in,
+Tahitian! These lines run whole, and whirling out: come in broken, and
+dragging slow. Ha, Pip? come to help; eh, Pip?"
+
+"Pip? whom call ye Pip? Pip jumped from the whale-boat. Pip's missing.
+Let's see now if ye haven't fished him up here, fisherman. It drags
+hard; I guess he's holding on. Jerk him, Tahiti! Jerk him off; we haul
+in no cowards here. Ho! there's his arm just breaking water. A hatchet!
+a hatchet! cut it off--we haul in no cowards here. Captain Ahab! sir,
+sir! here's Pip, trying to get on board again."
+
+"Peace, thou crazy loon," cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm.
+"Away from the quarter-deck!"
+
+"The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser," muttered Ahab, advancing.
+"Hands off from that holiness! Where sayest thou Pip was, boy?
+
+"Astern there, sir, astern! Lo! lo!"
+
+"And who art thou, boy? I see not my reflection in the vacant pupils of
+thy eyes. Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve
+through! Who art thou, boy?"
+
+"Bell-boy, sir; ship's-crier; ding, dong, ding! Pip! Pip! Pip!
+One hundred pounds of clay reward for Pip; five feet high--looks
+cowardly--quickest known by that! Ding, dong, ding! Who's seen Pip the
+coward?"
+
+"There can be no hearts above the snow-line. Oh, ye frozen heavens! look
+down here. Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him,
+ye creative libertines. Here, boy; Ahab's cabin shall be Pip's home
+henceforth, while Ahab lives. Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou
+art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings. Come, let's down."
+
+"What's this? here's velvet shark-skin," intently gazing at Ahab's hand,
+and feeling it. "Ah, now, had poor Pip but felt so kind a thing as this,
+perhaps he had ne'er been lost! This seems to me, sir, as a man-rope;
+something that weak souls may hold by. Oh, sir, let old Perth now come
+and rivet these two hands together; the black one with the white, for I
+will not let this go."
+
+"Oh, boy, nor will I thee, unless I should thereby drag thee to worse
+horrors than are here. Come, then, to my cabin. Lo! ye believers in
+gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods
+oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not
+what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude. Come!
+I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an
+Emperor's!"
+
+"There go two daft ones now," muttered the old Manxman. "One daft with
+strength, the other daft with weakness. But here's the end of the rotten
+line--all dripping, too. Mend it, eh? I think we had best have a new
+line altogether. I'll see Mr. Stubb about it."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
+
+
+Steering now south-eastward by Ahab's levelled steel, and her progress
+solely determined by Ahab's level log and line; the Pequod held on
+her path towards the Equator. Making so long a passage through such
+unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled
+by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed
+the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.
+
+At last, when the ship drew near to the outskirts, as it were, of the
+Equatorial fishing-ground, and in the deep darkness that goes before the
+dawn, was sailing by a cluster of rocky islets; the watch--then headed
+by Flask--was startled by a cry so plaintively wild and unearthly--like
+half-articulated wailings of the ghosts of all Herod's murdered
+Innocents--that one and all, they started from their reveries, and for
+the space of some moments stood, or sat, or leaned all transfixedly
+listening, like the carved Roman slave, while that wild cry remained
+within hearing. The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was
+mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled.
+Yet the grey Manxman--the oldest mariner of all--declared that the wild
+thrilling sounds that were heard, were the voices of newly drowned men
+in the sea.
+
+Below in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till grey dawn, when
+he came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by Flask, not
+unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings. He hollowly laughed, and thus
+explained the wonder.
+
+Those rocky islands the ship had passed were the resort of great numbers
+of seals, and some young seals that had lost their dams, or some dams
+that had lost their cubs, must have risen nigh the ship and kept company
+with her, crying and sobbing with their human sort of wail. But this
+only the more affected some of them, because most mariners cherish a
+very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not only from their
+peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the human look of their
+round heads and semi-intelligent faces, seen peeringly uprising from
+the water alongside. In the sea, under certain circumstances, seals have
+more than once been mistaken for men.
+
+But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible
+confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning. At
+sun-rise this man went from his hammock to his mast-head at the fore;
+and whether it was that he was not yet half waked from his sleep (for
+sailors sometimes go aloft in a transition state), whether it was thus
+with the man, there is now no telling; but, be that as it may, he
+had not been long at his perch, when a cry was heard--a cry and a
+rushing--and looking up, they saw a falling phantom in the air; and
+looking down, a little tossed heap of white bubbles in the blue of the
+sea.
+
+The life-buoy--a long slender cask--was dropped from the stern, where it
+always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it,
+and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it
+slowly filled, and that parched wood also filled at its every pore; and
+the studded iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to
+yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one.
+
+And thus the first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast to look out
+for the White Whale, on the White Whale's own peculiar ground; that man
+was swallowed up in the deep. But few, perhaps, thought of that at the
+time. Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at
+least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a foreshadowing of evil
+in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged. They
+declared that now they knew the reason of those wild shrieks they had
+heard the night before. But again the old Manxman said nay.
+
+The lost life-buoy was now to be replaced; Starbuck was directed to see
+to it; but as no cask of sufficient lightness could be found, and as
+in the feverish eagerness of what seemed the approaching crisis of
+the voyage, all hands were impatient of any toil but what was directly
+connected with its final end, whatever that might prove to be;
+therefore, they were going to leave the ship's stern unprovided with a
+buoy, when by certain strange signs and inuendoes Queequeg hinted a hint
+concerning his coffin.
+
+"A life-buoy of a coffin!" cried Starbuck, starting.
+
+"Rather queer, that, I should say," said Stubb.
+
+"It will make a good enough one," said Flask, "the carpenter here can
+arrange it easily."
+
+"Bring it up; there's nothing else for it," said Starbuck, after a
+melancholy pause. "Rig it, carpenter; do not look at me so--the coffin,
+I mean. Dost thou hear me? Rig it."
+
+"And shall I nail down the lid, sir?" moving his hand as with a hammer.
+
+"Aye."
+
+"And shall I caulk the seams, sir?" moving his hand as with a
+caulking-iron.
+
+"Aye."
+
+"And shall I then pay over the same with pitch, sir?" moving his hand as
+with a pitch-pot.
+
+"Away! what possesses thee to this? Make a life-buoy of the coffin, and
+no more.--Mr. Stubb, Mr. Flask, come forward with me."
+
+"He goes off in a huff. The whole he can endure; at the parts he baulks.
+Now I don't like this. I make a leg for Captain Ahab, and he wears it
+like a gentleman; but I make a bandbox for Queequeg, and he won't put
+his head into it. Are all my pains to go for nothing with that coffin?
+And now I'm ordered to make a life-buoy of it. It's like turning an old
+coat; going to bring the flesh on the other side now. I don't like this
+cobbling sort of business--I don't like it at all; it's undignified;
+it's not my place. Let tinkers' brats do tinkerings; we are their
+betters. I like to take in hand none but clean, virgin, fair-and-square
+mathematical jobs, something that regularly begins at the beginning, and
+is at the middle when midway, and comes to an end at the conclusion; not
+a cobbler's job, that's at an end in the middle, and at the beginning at
+the end. It's the old woman's tricks to be giving cobbling jobs. Lord!
+what an affection all old women have for tinkers. I know an old woman of
+sixty-five who ran away with a bald-headed young tinker once. And that's
+the reason I never would work for lonely widow old women ashore, when
+I kept my job-shop in the Vineyard; they might have taken it into their
+lonely old heads to run off with me. But heigh-ho! there are no caps at
+sea but snow-caps. Let me see. Nail down the lid; caulk the seams; pay
+over the same with pitch; batten them down tight, and hang it with the
+snap-spring over the ship's stern. Were ever such things done before
+with a coffin? Some superstitious old carpenters, now, would be tied
+up in the rigging, ere they would do the job. But I'm made of knotty
+Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge. Cruppered with a coffin! Sailing
+about with a grave-yard tray! But never mind. We workers in woods make
+bridal-bedsteads and card-tables, as well as coffins and hearses. We
+work by the month, or by the job, or by the profit; not for us to ask
+the why and wherefore of our work, unless it be too confounded cobbling,
+and then we stash it if we can. Hem! I'll do the job, now, tenderly.
+I'll have me--let's see--how many in the ship's company, all told? But
+I've forgotten. Any way, I'll have me thirty separate, Turk's-headed
+life-lines, each three feet long hanging all round to the coffin. Then,
+if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for
+one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun! Come hammer,
+caulking-iron, pitch-pot, and marling-spike! Let's to it."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 127. The Deck.
+
+
+THE COFFIN LAID UPON TWO LINE-TUBS, BETWEEN THE VICE-BENCH AND THE OPEN
+HATCHWAY; THE CARPENTER CAULKING ITS SEAMS; THE STRING OF TWISTED OAKUM
+SLOWLY UNWINDING FROM A LARGE ROLL OF IT PLACED IN THE BOSOM OF
+HIS FROCK.--AHAB COMES SLOWLY FROM THE CABIN-GANGWAY, AND HEARS PIP
+FOLLOWING HIM.
+
+
+"Back, lad; I will be with ye again presently. He goes! Not this hand
+complies with my humor more genially than that boy.--Middle aisle of a
+church! What's here?"
+
+"Life-buoy, sir. Mr. Starbuck's orders. Oh, look, sir! Beware the
+hatchway!"
+
+"Thank ye, man. Thy coffin lies handy to the vault."
+
+"Sir? The hatchway? oh! So it does, sir, so it does."
+
+"Art not thou the leg-maker? Look, did not this stump come from thy
+shop?"
+
+"I believe it did, sir; does the ferrule stand, sir?"
+
+"Well enough. But art thou not also the undertaker?"
+
+"Aye, sir; I patched up this thing here as a coffin for Queequeg; but
+they've set me now to turning it into something else."
+
+"Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, intermeddling,
+monopolising, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the
+next day coffins to clap them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those
+same coffins? Thou art as unprincipled as the gods, and as much of a
+jack-of-all-trades."
+
+"But I do not mean anything, sir. I do as I do."
+
+"The gods again. Hark ye, dost thou not ever sing working about a
+coffin? The Titans, they say, hummed snatches when chipping out the
+craters for volcanoes; and the grave-digger in the play sings, spade in
+hand. Dost thou never?"
+
+"Sing, sir? Do I sing? Oh, I'm indifferent enough, sir, for that; but
+the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there
+was none in his spade, sir. But the caulking mallet is full of it. Hark
+to it."
+
+"Aye, and that's because the lid there's a sounding-board; and what in
+all things makes the sounding-board is this--there's naught beneath. And
+yet, a coffin with a body in it rings pretty much the same, Carpenter.
+Hast thou ever helped carry a bier, and heard the coffin knock against
+the churchyard gate, going in?
+
+"Faith, sir, I've--"
+
+"Faith? What's that?"
+
+"Why, faith, sir, it's only a sort of exclamation-like--that's all,
+sir."
+
+"Um, um; go on."
+
+"I was about to say, sir, that--"
+
+"Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?
+Look at thy bosom! Despatch! and get these traps out of sight."
+
+"He goes aft. That was sudden, now; but squalls come sudden in hot
+latitudes. I've heard that the Isle of Albemarle, one of the Gallipagos,
+is cut by the Equator right in the middle. Seems to me some sort of
+Equator cuts yon old man, too, right in his middle. He's always under
+the Line--fiery hot, I tell ye! He's looking this way--come, oakum;
+quick. Here we go again. This wooden mallet is the cork, and I'm the
+professor of musical glasses--tap, tap!"
+
+(AHAB TO HIMSELF.)
+
+"There's a sight! There's a sound! The grey-headed woodpecker tapping
+the hollow tree! Blind and dumb might well be envied now. See! that
+thing rests on two line-tubs, full of tow-lines. A most malicious wag,
+that fellow. Rat-tat! So man's seconds tick! Oh! how immaterial are all
+materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here
+now's the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made
+the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life.
+A life-buoy of a coffin! Does it go further? Can it be that in some
+spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver!
+I'll think of that. But no. So far gone am I in the dark side of earth,
+that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain
+twilight to me. Will ye never have done, Carpenter, with that accursed
+sound? I go below; let me not see that thing here when I return
+again. Now, then, Pip, we'll talk this over; I do suck most wondrous
+philosophies from thee! Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds
+must empty into thee!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
+
+
+Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down
+upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men. At the
+time the Pequod was making good speed through the water; but as the
+broad-winged windward stranger shot nigh to her, the boastful sails all
+fell together as blank bladders that are burst, and all life fled from
+the smitten hull.
+
+"Bad news; she brings bad news," muttered the old Manxman. But ere her
+commander, who, with trumpet to mouth, stood up in his boat; ere he
+could hopefully hail, Ahab's voice was heard.
+
+"Hast seen the White Whale?"
+
+"Aye, yesterday. Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?"
+
+Throttling his joy, Ahab negatively answered this unexpected question;
+and would then have fain boarded the stranger, when the stranger captain
+himself, having stopped his vessel's way, was seen descending her
+side. A few keen pulls, and his boat-hook soon clinched the Pequod's
+main-chains, and he sprang to the deck. Immediately he was recognised by
+Ahab for a Nantucketer he knew. But no formal salutation was exchanged.
+
+"Where was he?--not killed!--not killed!" cried Ahab, closely advancing.
+"How was it?"
+
+It seemed that somewhat late on the afternoon of the day previous, while
+three of the stranger's boats were engaged with a shoal of whales, which
+had led them some four or five miles from the ship; and while they were
+yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head of Moby Dick had
+suddenly loomed up out of the water, not very far to leeward; whereupon,
+the fourth rigged boat--a reserved one--had been instantly lowered in
+chase. After a keen sail before the wind, this fourth boat--the swiftest
+keeled of all--seemed to have succeeded in fastening--at least, as
+well as the man at the mast-head could tell anything about it. In the
+distance he saw the diminished dotted boat; and then a swift gleam
+of bubbling white water; and after that nothing more; whence it was
+concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run away with
+his pursuers, as often happens. There was some apprehension, but no
+positive alarm, as yet. The recall signals were placed in the rigging;
+darkness came on; and forced to pick up her three far to windward
+boats--ere going in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite
+direction--the ship had not only been necessitated to leave that boat to
+its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to increase her distance
+from it. But the rest of her crew being at last safe aboard, she crowded
+all sail--stunsail on stunsail--after the missing boat; kindling a fire
+in her try-pots for a beacon; and every other man aloft on the look-out.
+But though when she had thus sailed a sufficient distance to gain the
+presumed place of the absent ones when last seen; though she then
+paused to lower her spare boats to pull all around her; and not finding
+anything, had again dashed on; again paused, and lowered her boats; and
+though she had thus continued doing till daylight; yet not the least
+glimpse of the missing keel had been seen.
+
+The story told, the stranger Captain immediately went on to reveal his
+object in boarding the Pequod. He desired that ship to unite with his
+own in the search; by sailing over the sea some four or five miles
+apart, on parallel lines, and so sweeping a double horizon, as it were.
+
+"I will wager something now," whispered Stubb to Flask, "that some one
+in that missing boat wore off that Captain's best coat; mayhap, his
+watch--he's so cursed anxious to get it back. Who ever heard of two
+pious whale-ships cruising after one missing whale-boat in the height of
+the whaling season? See, Flask, only see how pale he looks--pale in the
+very buttons of his eyes--look--it wasn't the coat--it must have been
+the--"
+
+"My boy, my own boy is among them. For God's sake--I beg, I
+conjure"--here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far
+had but icily received his petition. "For eight-and-forty hours let me
+charter your ship--I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it--if
+there be no other way--for eight-and-forty hours only--only that--you
+must, oh, you must, and you SHALL do this thing."
+
+"His son!" cried Stubb, "oh, it's his son he's lost! I take back the
+coat and watch--what says Ahab? We must save that boy."
+
+"He's drowned with the rest on 'em, last night," said the old Manx
+sailor standing behind them; "I heard; all of ye heard their spirits."
+
+Now, as it shortly turned out, what made this incident of the Rachel's
+the more melancholy, was the circumstance, that not only was one of the
+Captain's sons among the number of the missing boat's crew; but among
+the number of the other boat's crews, at the same time, but on the other
+hand, separated from the ship during the dark vicissitudes of the chase,
+there had been still another son; as that for a time, the wretched
+father was plunged to the bottom of the cruellest perplexity; which
+was only solved for him by his chief mate's instinctively adopting the
+ordinary procedure of a whale-ship in such emergencies, that is, when
+placed between jeopardized but divided boats, always to pick up the
+majority first. But the captain, for some unknown constitutional reason,
+had refrained from mentioning all this, and not till forced to it by
+Ahab's iciness did he allude to his one yet missing boy; a little lad,
+but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving
+hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to
+initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially
+the destiny of all his race. Nor does it unfrequently occur, that
+Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them,
+for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than
+their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall
+be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely
+partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
+
+Meantime, now the stranger was still beseeching his poor boon of Ahab;
+and Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without
+the least quivering of his own.
+
+"I will not go," said the stranger, "till you say aye to me. Do to me
+as you would have me do to you in the like case. For YOU too have a boy,
+Captain Ahab--though but a child, and nestling safely at home now--a
+child of your old age too--Yes, yes, you relent; I see it--run, run,
+men, now, and stand by to square in the yards."
+
+"Avast," cried Ahab--"touch not a rope-yarn"; then in a voice that
+prolongingly moulded every word--"Captain Gardiner, I will not do it.
+Even now I lose time. Good-bye, good-bye. God bless ye, man, and may I
+forgive myself, but I must go. Mr. Starbuck, look at the binnacle watch,
+and in three minutes from this present instant warn off all strangers:
+then brace forward again, and let the ship sail as before."
+
+Hurriedly turning, with averted face, he descended into his cabin,
+leaving the strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter
+rejection of his so earnest suit. But starting from his enchantment,
+Gardiner silently hurried to the side; more fell than stepped into his
+boat, and returned to his ship.
+
+Soon the two ships diverged their wakes; and long as the strange vessel
+was in view, she was seen to yaw hither and thither at every dark spot,
+however small, on the sea. This way and that her yards were swung round;
+starboard and larboard, she continued to tack; now she beat against a
+head sea; and again it pushed her before it; while all the while, her
+masts and yards were thickly clustered with men, as three tall cherry
+trees, when the boys are cherrying among the boughs.
+
+But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw
+that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort.
+She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
+
+
+(AHAB MOVING TO GO ON DECK; PIP CATCHES HIM BY THE HAND TO FOLLOW.)
+
+"Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. The hour is coming
+when Ahab would not scare thee from him, yet would not have thee by him.
+There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady.
+Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired
+health. Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee, as if
+thou wert the captain. Aye, lad, thou shalt sit here in my own screwed
+chair; another screw to it, thou must be."
+
+"No, no, no! ye have not a whole body, sir; do ye but use poor me for
+your one lost leg; only tread upon me, sir; I ask no more, so I remain a
+part of ye."
+
+"Oh! spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless
+fidelity of man!--and a black! and crazy!--but methinks like-cures-like
+applies to him too; he grows so sane again."
+
+"They tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose
+drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin.
+But I will never desert ye, sir, as Stubb did him. Sir, I must go with
+ye."
+
+"If thou speakest thus to me much more, Ahab's purpose keels up in him.
+I tell thee no; it cannot be."
+
+"Oh good master, master, master!
+
+"Weep so, and I will murder thee! have a care, for Ahab too is mad.
+Listen, and thou wilt often hear my ivory foot upon the deck, and still
+know that I am there. And now I quit thee. Thy hand!--Met! True art
+thou, lad, as the circumference to its centre. So: God for ever bless
+thee; and if it come to that,--God for ever save thee, let what will
+befall."
+
+(AHAB GOES; PIP STEPS ONE STEP FORWARD.)
+
+
+"Here he this instant stood; I stand in his air,--but I'm alone. Now
+were even poor Pip here I could endure it, but he's missing. Pip! Pip!
+Ding, dong, ding! Who's seen Pip? He must be up here; let's try the
+door. What? neither lock, nor bolt, nor bar; and yet there's no opening
+it. It must be the spell; he told me to stay here: Aye, and told me this
+screwed chair was mine. Here, then, I'll seat me, against the transom,
+in the ship's full middle, all her keel and her three masts before me.
+Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy-fours great
+admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and
+lieutenants. Ha! what's this? epaulets! epaulets! the epaulets all come
+crowding! Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye; fill up, monsieurs!
+What an odd feeling, now, when a black boy's host to white men with gold
+lace upon their coats!--Monsieurs, have ye seen one Pip?--a little
+negro lad, five feet high, hang-dog look, and cowardly! Jumped from a
+whale-boat once;--seen him? No! Well then, fill up again, captains, and
+let's drink shame upon all cowards! I name no names. Shame upon them!
+Put one foot upon the table. Shame upon all cowards.--Hist! above there,
+I hear ivory--Oh, master! master! I am indeed down-hearted when you walk
+over me. But here I'll stay, though this stern strikes rocks; and they
+bulge through; and oysters come to join me."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
+
+
+And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a
+preliminary cruise, Ahab,--all other whaling waters swept--seemed to
+have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely
+there; now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and
+longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a
+vessel had been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually
+encountered Moby Dick;--and now that all his successive meetings with
+various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference
+with which the white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned
+against; now it was that there lurked a something in the old man's eyes,
+which it was hardly sufferable for feeble souls to see. As the unsetting
+polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night
+sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now
+fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew. It
+domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings,
+fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a
+single spear or leaf.
+
+In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural,
+vanished. Stubb no more strove to raise a smile; Starbuck no more strove
+to check one. Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to
+finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of
+Ahab's iron soul. Like machines, they dumbly moved about the deck, ever
+conscious that the old man's despot eye was on them.
+
+But did you deeply scan him in his more secret confidential hours; when
+he thought no glance but one was on him; then you would have seen that
+even as Ahab's eyes so awed the crew's, the inscrutable Parsee's glance
+awed his; or somehow, at least, in some wild way, at times affected it.
+Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah
+now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked dubious
+at him; half uncertain, as it seemed, whether indeed he were a mortal
+substance, or else a tremulous shadow cast upon the deck by some unseen
+being's body. And that shadow was always hovering there. For not by
+night, even, had Fedallah ever certainly been known to slumber, or go
+below. He would stand still for hours: but never sat or leaned; his wan
+but wondrous eyes did plainly say--We two watchmen never rest.
+
+Nor, at any time, by night or day could the mariners now step upon the
+deck, unless Ahab was before them; either standing in his pivot-hole, or
+exactly pacing the planks between two undeviating limits,--the main-mast
+and the mizen; or else they saw him standing in the cabin-scuttle,--his
+living foot advanced upon the deck, as if to step; his hat slouched
+heavily over his eyes; so that however motionless he stood, however the
+days and nights were added on, that he had not swung in his hammock;
+yet hidden beneath that slouching hat, they could never tell unerringly
+whether, for all this, his eyes were really closed at times; or whether
+he was still intently scanning them; no matter, though he stood so in
+the scuttle for a whole hour on the stretch, and the unheeded night-damp
+gathered in beads of dew upon that stone-carved coat and hat. The
+clothes that the night had wet, the next day's sunshine dried upon him;
+and so, day after day, and night after night; he went no more beneath
+the planks; whatever he wanted from the cabin that thing he sent for.
+
+He ate in the same open air; that is, his two only meals,--breakfast and
+dinner: supper he never touched; nor reaped his beard; which darkly grew
+all gnarled, as unearthed roots of trees blown over, which still grow
+idly on at naked base, though perished in the upper verdure. But though
+his whole life was now become one watch on deck; and though the Parsee's
+mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these two never
+seemed to speak--one man to the other--unless at long intervals some
+passing unmomentous matter made it necessary. Though such a potent spell
+seemed secretly to join the twain; openly, and to the awe-struck crew,
+they seemed pole-like asunder. If by day they chanced to speak one word;
+by night, dumb men were both, so far as concerned the slightest verbal
+interchange. At times, for longest hours, without a single hail, they
+stood far parted in the starlight; Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by
+the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the
+Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned
+substance.
+
+And yet, somehow, did Ahab--in his own proper self, as daily, hourly,
+and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates,--Ahab
+seemed an independent lord; the Parsee but his slave. Still again both
+seemed yoked together, and an unseen tyrant driving them; the lean shade
+siding the solid rib. For be this Parsee what he may, all rib and keel
+was solid Ahab.
+
+At the first faintest glimmering of the dawn, his iron voice was heard
+from aft,--"Man the mast-heads!"--and all through the day, till after
+sunset and after twilight, the same voice every hour, at the striking of
+the helmsman's bell, was heard--"What d'ye see?--sharp! sharp!"
+
+But when three or four days had slided by, after meeting the
+children-seeking Rachel; and no spout had yet been seen; the monomaniac
+old man seemed distrustful of his crew's fidelity; at least, of nearly
+all except the Pagan harpooneers; he seemed to doubt, even, whether
+Stubb and Flask might not willingly overlook the sight he sought. But if
+these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from verbally
+expressing them, however his actions might seem to hint them.
+
+"I will have the first sight of the whale myself,"--he said. "Aye!
+Ahab must have the doubloon! and with his own hands he rigged a nest
+of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved
+block, to secure to the main-mast head, he received the two ends of the
+downward-reeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared a pin for
+the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail. This done, with that
+end yet in his hand and standing beside the pin, he looked round upon
+his crew, sweeping from one to the other; pausing his glance long upon
+Daggoo, Queequeg, Tashtego; but shunning Fedallah; and then settling his
+firm relying eye upon the chief mate, said,--"Take the rope, sir--I give
+it into thy hands, Starbuck." Then arranging his person in the basket,
+he gave the word for them to hoist him to his perch, Starbuck being
+the one who secured the rope at last; and afterwards stood near it. And
+thus, with one hand clinging round the royal mast, Ahab gazed abroad
+upon the sea for miles and miles,--ahead, astern, this side, and
+that,--within the wide expanded circle commanded at so great a height.
+
+When in working with his hands at some lofty almost isolated place in
+the rigging, which chances to afford no foothold, the sailor at sea is
+hoisted up to that spot, and sustained there by the rope; under these
+circumstances, its fastened end on deck is always given in strict charge
+to some one man who has the special watch of it. Because in such a
+wilderness of running rigging, whose various different relations aloft
+cannot always be infallibly discerned by what is seen of them at the
+deck; and when the deck-ends of these ropes are being every few minutes
+cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a natural fatality, if,
+unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted sailor should by some
+carelessness of the crew be cast adrift and fall all swooping to the
+sea. So Ahab's proceedings in this matter were not unusual; the only
+strange thing about them seemed to be, that Starbuck, almost the one
+only man who had ever ventured to oppose him with anything in the
+slightest degree approaching to decision--one of those too, whose
+faithfulness on the look-out he had seemed to doubt somewhat;--it was
+strange, that this was the very man he should select for his watchman;
+freely giving his whole life into such an otherwise distrusted person's
+hands.
+
+Now, the first time Ahab was perched aloft; ere he had been there ten
+minutes; one of those red-billed savage sea-hawks which so often fly
+incommodiously close round the manned mast-heads of whalemen in these
+latitudes; one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head
+in a maze of untrackably swift circlings. Then it darted a thousand feet
+straight up into the air; then spiralized downwards, and went eddying
+again round his head.
+
+But with his gaze fixed upon the dim and distant horizon, Ahab seemed
+not to mark this wild bird; nor, indeed, would any one else have marked
+it much, it being no uncommon circumstance; only now almost the least
+heedful eye seemed to see some sort of cunning meaning in almost every
+sight.
+
+"Your hat, your hat, sir!" suddenly cried the Sicilian seaman, who
+being posted at the mizen-mast-head, stood directly behind Ahab, though
+somewhat lower than his level, and with a deep gulf of air dividing
+them.
+
+But already the sable wing was before the old man's eyes; the long
+hooked bill at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with
+his prize.
+
+An eagle flew thrice round Tarquin's head, removing his cap to replace
+it, and thereupon Tanaquil, his wife, declared that Tarquin would
+be king of Rome. But only by the replacing of the cap was that omen
+accounted good. Ahab's hat was never restored; the wild hawk flew on and
+on with it; far in advance of the prow: and at last disappeared; while
+from the point of that disappearance, a minute black spot was dimly
+discerned, falling from that vast height into the sea.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.
+
+
+The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the
+life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably
+misnamed the Delight, was descried. As she drew nigh, all eyes were
+fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships,
+cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to
+carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.
+
+Upon the stranger's shears were beheld the shattered, white ribs, and
+some few splintered planks, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you
+now saw through this wreck, as plainly as you see through the peeled,
+half-unhinged, and bleaching skeleton of a horse.
+
+"Hast seen the White Whale?"
+
+"Look!" replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail; and with
+his trumpet he pointed to the wreck.
+
+"Hast killed him?"
+
+"The harpoon is not yet forged that ever will do that," answered the
+other, sadly glancing upon a rounded hammock on the deck, whose gathered
+sides some noiseless sailors were busy in sewing together.
+
+"Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab
+held it out, exclaiming--"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold
+his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs;
+and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin,
+where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!"
+
+"Then God keep thee, old man--see'st thou that"--pointing to the
+hammock--"I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only
+yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only THAT one I bury; the rest were
+buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb." Then turning to his
+crew--"Are ye ready there? place the plank then on the rail, and
+lift the body; so, then--Oh! God"--advancing towards the hammock with
+uplifted hands--"may the resurrection and the life--"
+
+"Brace forward! Up helm!" cried Ahab like lightning to his men.
+
+But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound
+of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea; not so
+quick, indeed, but that some of the flying bubbles might have sprinkled
+her hull with their ghostly baptism.
+
+As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy
+hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.
+
+"Ha! yonder! look yonder, men!" cried a foreboding voice in her wake.
+"In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us your
+taffrail to show us your coffin!"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
+
+
+It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were
+hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was
+transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and
+man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's
+chest in his sleep.
+
+Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small,
+unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air;
+but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed
+mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong,
+troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.
+
+But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in shades and
+shadows without; those two seemed one; it was only the sex, as it were,
+that distinguished them.
+
+Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle
+air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom. And at the
+girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion--most seen
+here at the Equator--denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving
+alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom away.
+
+Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm
+and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the
+ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the
+morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's
+forehead of heaven.
+
+Oh, immortal infancy, and innocency of the azure! Invisible winged
+creatures that frolic all round us! Sweet childhood of air and sky! how
+oblivious were ye of old Ahab's close-coiled woe! But so have I seen
+little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around
+their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on
+the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.
+
+Slowly crossing the deck from the scuttle, Ahab leaned over the side and
+watched how his shadow in the water sank and sank to his gaze, the more
+and the more that he strove to pierce the profundity. But the lovely
+aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment,
+the cankerous thing in his soul. That glad, happy air, that winsome
+sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world, so long
+cruel--forbidding--now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck,
+and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that however
+wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save and to
+bless. From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea;
+nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
+
+Starbuck saw the old man; saw him, how he heavily leaned over the side;
+and he seemed to hear in his own true heart the measureless sobbing that
+stole out of the centre of the serenity around. Careful not to touch
+him, or be noticed by him, he yet drew near to him, and stood there.
+
+Ahab turned.
+
+"Starbuck!"
+
+"Sir."
+
+"Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such
+a day--very much such a sweetness as this--I struck my first whale--a
+boy-harpooneer of eighteen! Forty--forty--forty years ago!--ago! Forty
+years of continual whaling! forty years of privation, and peril, and
+storm-time! forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab
+forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors
+of the deep! Aye and yes, Starbuck, out of those forty years I have not
+spent three ashore. When I think of this life I have led; the desolation
+of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's
+exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the
+green country without--oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of
+solitary command!--when I think of all this; only half-suspected, not so
+keenly known to me before--and how for forty years I have fed upon dry
+salted fare--fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil!--when the
+poorest landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily hand, and broken the
+world's fresh bread to my mouldy crusts--away, whole oceans away, from
+that young girl-wife I wedded past fifty, and sailed for Cape Horn
+the next day, leaving but one dent in my marriage pillow--wife?
+wife?--rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor
+girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy,
+the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand
+lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey--more a
+demon than a man!--aye, aye! what a forty years' fool--fool--old fool,
+has old Ahab been! Why this strife of the chase? why weary, and palsy
+the arm at the oar, and the iron, and the lance? how the richer or
+better is Ahab now? Behold. Oh, Starbuck! is it not hard, that with this
+weary load I bear, one poor leg should have been snatched from under
+me? Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep.
+Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look
+very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and
+humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled
+centuries since Paradise. God! God! God!--crack my heart!--stave my
+brain!--mockery! mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have
+I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?
+Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is
+better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By
+the green land; by the bright hearth-stone! this is the magic glass,
+man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on
+board!--lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick.
+That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see
+in that eye!"
+
+"Oh, my Captain! my Captain! noble soul! grand old heart, after all! why
+should any one give chase to that hated fish! Away with me! let us
+fly these deadly waters! let us home! Wife and child, too, are
+Starbuck's--wife and child of his brotherly, sisterly, play-fellow
+youth; even as thine, sir, are the wife and child of thy loving,
+longing, paternal old age! Away! let us away!--this instant let me alter
+the course! How cheerily, how hilariously, O my Captain, would we bowl
+on our way to see old Nantucket again! I think, sir, they have some such
+mild blue days, even as this, in Nantucket."
+
+"They have, they have. I have seen them--some summer days in the
+morning. About this time--yes, it is his noon nap now--the boy
+vivaciously wakes; sits up in bed; and his mother tells him of me, of
+cannibal old me; how I am abroad upon the deep, but will yet come back
+to dance him again."
+
+"'Tis my Mary, my Mary herself! She promised that my boy, every morning,
+should be carried to the hill to catch the first glimpse of his father's
+sail! Yes, yes! no more! it is done! we head for Nantucket! Come, my
+Captain, study out the course, and let us away! See, see! the boy's face
+from the window! the boy's hand on the hill!"
+
+But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and
+cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.
+
+"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what
+cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor
+commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep
+pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly
+making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not
+so much as dare? Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this
+arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy
+in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power;
+how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think
+thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that
+living, and not I. By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in
+this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike. And all
+the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea! Look! see yon
+Albicore! who put it into him to chase and fang that flying-fish? Where
+do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged
+to the bar? But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and
+the air smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been
+making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the
+mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping? Aye, toil we how
+we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid
+greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut
+swaths--Starbuck!"
+
+But blanched to a corpse's hue with despair, the Mate had stolen away.
+
+Ahab crossed the deck to gaze over on the other side; but started at
+two reflected, fixed eyes in the water there. Fedallah was motionlessly
+leaning over the same rail.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 133. The Chase--First Day.
+
+
+That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man--as his wont at
+intervals--stepped forth from the scuttle in which he leaned, and went
+to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing
+up the sea air as a sagacious ship's dog will, in drawing nigh to
+some barbarous isle. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that
+peculiar odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the
+living sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch; nor was any mariner
+surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and
+then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible,
+Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered, and the
+sail to be shortened.
+
+The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated
+at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and
+lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery
+wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift
+tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.
+
+"Man the mast-heads! Call all hands!"
+
+Thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle
+deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers with such judgment claps that they
+seemed to exhale from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear
+with their clothes in their hands.
+
+"What d'ye see?" cried Ahab, flattening his face to the sky.
+
+"Nothing, nothing sir!" was the sound hailing down in reply.
+
+"T'gallant sails!--stunsails! alow and aloft, and on both sides!"
+
+All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for
+swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were
+hoisting him thither, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft,
+and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the
+main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the
+air. "There she blows!--there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is
+Moby Dick!"
+
+Fired by the cry which seemed simultaneously taken up by the three
+look-outs, the men on deck rushed to the rigging to behold the famous
+whale they had so long been pursuing. Ahab had now gained his final
+perch, some feet above the other look-outs, Tashtego standing just
+beneath him on the cap of the top-gallant-mast, so that the Indian's
+head was almost on a level with Ahab's heel. From this height the whale
+was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing
+his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the
+air. To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they had
+so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
+
+"And did none of ye see it before?" cried Ahab, hailing the perched men
+all around him.
+
+"I saw him almost that same instant, sir, that Captain Ahab did, and I
+cried out," said Tashtego.
+
+"Not the same instant; not the same--no, the doubloon is mine, Fate
+reserved the doubloon for me. I only; none of ye could have raised the
+White Whale first. There she blows!--there she blows!--there she blows!
+There again!--there again!" he cried, in long-drawn, lingering, methodic
+tones, attuned to the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets.
+"He's going to sound! In stunsails! Down top-gallant-sails! Stand by
+three boats. Mr. Starbuck, remember, stay on board, and keep the ship.
+Helm there! Luff, luff a point! So; steady, man, steady! There go
+flukes! No, no; only black water! All ready the boats there? Stand by,
+stand by! Lower me, Mr. Starbuck; lower, lower,--quick, quicker!" and he
+slid through the air to the deck.
+
+"He is heading straight to leeward, sir," cried Stubb, "right away from
+us; cannot have seen the ship yet."
+
+"Be dumb, man! Stand by the braces! Hard down the helm!--brace up!
+Shiver her!--shiver her!--So; well that! Boats, boats!"
+
+Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails
+set--all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to
+leeward; and Ahab heading the onset. A pale, death-glimmer lit up
+Fedallah's sunken eyes; a hideous motion gnawed his mouth.
+
+Like noiseless nautilus shells, their light prows sped through the sea;
+but only slowly they neared the foe. As they neared him, the ocean grew
+still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a
+noon-meadow, so serenely it spread. At length the breathless hunter came
+so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey, that his entire dazzling hump
+was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated thing,
+and continually set in a revolving ring of finest, fleecy, greenish
+foam. He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting head
+beyond. Before it, far out on the soft Turkish-rugged waters, went
+the glistening white shadow from his broad, milky forehead, a musical
+rippling playfully accompanying the shade; and behind, the blue waters
+interchangeably flowed over into the moving valley of his steady wake;
+and on either hand bright bubbles arose and danced by his side. But
+these were broken again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowl softly
+feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like to
+some flag-staff rising from the painted hull of an argosy, the tall but
+shattered pole of a recent lance projected from the white whale's back;
+and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering, and
+to and fro skimming like a canopy over the fish, silently perched and
+rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons.
+
+A gentle joyousness--a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested
+the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with
+ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering
+eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness,
+rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that
+great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so
+divinely swam.
+
+On each soft side--coincident with the parted swell, that but once
+leaving him, then flowed so wide away--on each bright side, the whale
+shed off enticings. No wonder there had been some among the hunters who
+namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured
+to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of
+tornadoes. Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all
+who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way
+thou may'st have bejuggled and destroyed before.
+
+And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among
+waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby
+Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his
+submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw.
+But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant
+his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural
+Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the
+grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight. Hoveringly
+halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered
+over the agitated pool that he left.
+
+With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the
+three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance.
+
+"An hour," said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed
+beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing
+vacancies to leeward. It was only an instant; for again his eyes seemed
+whirling round in his head as he swept the watery circle. The breeze now
+freshened; the sea began to swell.
+
+"The birds!--the birds!" cried Tashtego.
+
+In long Indian file, as when herons take wing, the white birds were
+now all flying towards Ahab's boat; and when within a few yards began
+fluttering over the water there, wheeling round and round, with joyous,
+expectant cries. Their vision was keener than man's; Ahab could discover
+no sign in the sea. But suddenly as he peered down and down into its
+depths, he profoundly saw a white living spot no bigger than a white
+weasel, with wonderful celerity uprising, and magnifying as it rose,
+till it turned, and then there were plainly revealed two long crooked
+rows of white, glistening teeth, floating up from the undiscoverable
+bottom. It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw; his vast,
+shadowed bulk still half blending with the blue of the sea. The
+glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble
+tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar, Ahab whirled
+the craft aside from this tremendous apparition. Then, calling upon
+Fedallah to change places with him, went forward to the bows, and
+seizing Perth's harpoon, commanded his crew to grasp their oars and
+stand by to stern.
+
+Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis, its
+bow, by anticipation, was made to face the whale's head while yet
+under water. But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that
+malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself,
+as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath
+the boat.
+
+Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for
+an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner of
+a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his
+mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into
+the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock. The bluish
+pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab's
+head, and reached higher than that. In this attitude the White Whale
+now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse. With
+unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed, and crossed his arms; but the
+tiger-yellow crew were tumbling over each other's heads to gain the
+uttermost stern.
+
+And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the
+whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way; and from his
+body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from
+the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and
+while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis
+impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with
+this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and
+helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized
+the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from
+its gripe. As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the
+frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an
+enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain,
+and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two
+floating wrecks. These floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the crew
+at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast
+to the oars to lash them across.
+
+At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first
+to perceive the whale's intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a
+movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand
+had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite. But only
+slipping further into the whale's mouth, and tilting over sideways as it
+slipped, the boat had shaken off his hold on the jaw; spilled him out of
+it, as he leaned to the push; and so he fell flat-faced upon the sea.
+
+Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little
+distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the
+billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body;
+so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose--some twenty or more feet
+out of the water--the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves,
+dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered spray
+still higher into the air.* So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel
+billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to
+overleap its summit with their scud.
+
+
+*This motion is peculiar to the sperm whale. It receives its designation
+(pitchpoling) from its being likened to that preliminary up-and-down
+poise of the whale-lance, in the exercise called pitchpoling, previously
+described. By this motion the whale must best and most comprehensively
+view whatever objects may be encircling him.
+
+
+But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round
+and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful
+wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly assault.
+The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of
+grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book
+of Maccabees. Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the whale's
+insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim,--though he could still
+keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as that; helpless
+Ahab's head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least chance shock
+might burst. From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and
+mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not
+succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves.
+For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so
+planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed
+horizontally swooping upon them. And though the other boats, unharmed,
+still hovered hard by; still they dared not pull into the eddy to
+strike, lest that should be the signal for the instant destruction of
+the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that case could they
+themselves hope to escape. With straining eyes, then, they remained on
+the outer edge of the direful zone, whose centre had now become the old
+man's head.
+
+Meantime, from the beginning all this had been descried from the ship's
+mast heads; and squaring her yards, she had borne down upon the scene;
+and was now so nigh, that Ahab in the water hailed her!--"Sail on
+the"--but that moment a breaking sea dashed on him from Moby Dick, and
+whelmed him for the time. But struggling out of it again, and chancing
+to rise on a towering crest, he shouted,--"Sail on the whale!--Drive him
+off!"
+
+The Pequod's prows were pointed; and breaking up the charmed circle, she
+effectually parted the white whale from his victim. As he sullenly swam
+off, the boats flew to the rescue.
+
+Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white brine
+caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did
+crack, and helplessly he yielded to his body's doom: for a time, lying
+all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one trodden under foot
+of herds of elephants. Far inland, nameless wails came from him, as
+desolate sounds from out ravines.
+
+But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so much the more
+abbreviate it. In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense
+to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused
+through feebler men's whole lives. And so, such hearts, though summary
+in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their
+life-time aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous
+intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures
+contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls.
+
+"The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one
+bended arm--"is it safe?"
+
+"Aye, sir, for it was not darted; this is it," said Stubb, showing it.
+
+"Lay it before me;--any missing men?"
+
+"One, two, three, four, five;--there were five oars, sir, and here are
+five men."
+
+"That's good.--Help me, man; I wish to stand. So, so, I see him! there!
+there! going to leeward still; what a leaping spout!--Hands off from me!
+The eternal sap runs up in Ahab's bones again! Set the sail; out oars;
+the helm!"
+
+It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked
+up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is thus
+continued with what is called double-banked oars. It was thus now. But
+the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale,
+for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin; swimming with a
+velocity which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances,
+pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a
+hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an
+unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing barely tolerable
+only in some one brief vicissitude. The ship itself, then, as it
+sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of
+overtaking the chase. Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were
+soon swayed up to their cranes--the two parts of the wrecked boat having
+been previously secured by her--and then hoisting everything to her
+side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it
+with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the
+Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby-Dick. At the well known,
+methodic intervals, the whale's glittering spout was regularly announced
+from the manned mast-heads; and when he would be reported as just gone
+down, Ahab would take the time, and then pacing the deck, binnacle-watch
+in hand, so soon as the last second of the allotted hour expired, his
+voice was heard.--"Whose is the doubloon now? D'ye see him?" and if the
+reply was, No, sir! straightway he commanded them to lift him to his
+perch. In this way the day wore on; Ahab, now aloft and motionless;
+anon, unrestingly pacing the planks.
+
+As he was thus walking, uttering no sound, except to hail the men aloft,
+or to bid them hoist a sail still higher, or to spread one to a still
+greater breadth--thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat, at
+every turn he passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon
+the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered stern.
+At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded sky fresh
+troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old man's face
+there now stole some such added gloom as this.
+
+Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to
+evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in
+his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed--"The
+thistle the ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha! ha!"
+
+"What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck? Man, man! did
+I not know thee brave as fearless fire (and as mechanical) I could swear
+thou wert a poltroon. Groan nor laugh should be heard before a wreck."
+
+"Aye, sir," said Starbuck drawing near, "'tis a solemn sight; an omen,
+and an ill one."
+
+"Omen? omen?--the dictionary! If the gods think to speak outright to
+man, they will honourably speak outright; not shake their heads, and
+give an old wives' darkling hint.--Begone! Ye two are the opposite poles
+of one thing; Starbuck is Stubb reversed, and Stubb is Starbuck; and
+ye two are all mankind; and Ahab stands alone among the millions of
+the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors! Cold, cold--I
+shiver!--How now? Aloft there! D'ye see him? Sing out for every spout,
+though he spout ten times a second!"
+
+The day was nearly done; only the hem of his golden robe was rustling.
+Soon, it was almost dark, but the look-out men still remained unset.
+
+"Can't see the spout now, sir;--too dark"--cried a voice from the air.
+
+"How heading when last seen?"
+
+"As before, sir,--straight to leeward."
+
+"Good! he will travel slower now 'tis night. Down royals and top-gallant
+stun-sails, Mr. Starbuck. We must not run over him before morning; he's
+making a passage now, and may heave-to a while. Helm there! keep her
+full before the wind!--Aloft! come down!--Mr. Stubb, send a fresh hand
+to the fore-mast head, and see it manned till morning."--Then advancing
+towards the doubloon in the main-mast--"Men, this gold is mine, for I
+earned it; but I shall let it abide here till the White Whale is dead;
+and then, whosoever of ye first raises him, upon the day he shall be
+killed, this gold is that man's; and if on that day I shall again raise
+him, then, ten times its sum shall be divided among all of ye! Away
+now!--the deck is thine, sir!"
+
+And so saying, he placed himself half way within the scuttle, and
+slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at intervals
+rousing himself to see how the night wore on.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 134. The Chase--Second Day.
+
+
+At day-break, the three mast-heads were punctually manned afresh.
+
+"D'ye see him?" cried Ahab after allowing a little space for the light
+to spread.
+
+"See nothing, sir."
+
+"Turn up all hands and make sail! he travels faster than I thought
+for;--the top-gallant sails!--aye, they should have been kept on her all
+night. But no matter--'tis but resting for the rush."
+
+Here be it said, that this pertinacious pursuit of one particular whale,
+continued through day into night, and through night into day, is a thing
+by no means unprecedented in the South sea fishery. For such is the
+wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible confidence
+acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket commanders;
+that from the simple observation of a whale when last descried, they
+will, under certain given circumstances, pretty accurately foretell both
+the direction in which he will continue to swim for a time, while out of
+sight, as well as his probable rate of progression during that period.
+And, in these cases, somewhat as a pilot, when about losing sight of
+a coast, whose general trending he well knows, and which he desires
+shortly to return to again, but at some further point; like as this
+pilot stands by his compass, and takes the precise bearing of the
+cape at present visible, in order the more certainly to hit aright
+the remote, unseen headland, eventually to be visited: so does the
+fisherman, at his compass, with the whale; for after being chased, and
+diligently marked, through several hours of daylight, then, when night
+obscures the fish, the creature's future wake through the darkness
+is almost as established to the sagacious mind of the hunter, as the
+pilot's coast is to him. So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the
+proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all
+desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land. And as the
+mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in
+its every pace, that, with watches in their hands, men time his rate as
+doctors that of a baby's pulse; and lightly say of it, the up train or
+the down train will reach such or such a spot, at such or such an hour;
+even so, almost, there are occasions when these Nantucketers time that
+other Leviathan of the deep, according to the observed humor of his
+speed; and say to themselves, so many hours hence this whale will have
+gone two hundred miles, will have about reached this or that degree of
+latitude or longitude. But to render this acuteness at all successful in
+the end, the wind and the sea must be the whaleman's allies; for of what
+present avail to the becalmed or windbound mariner is the skill that
+assures him he is exactly ninety-three leagues and a quarter from his
+port? Inferable from these statements, are many collateral subtile
+matters touching the chase of whales.
+
+The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a
+cannon-ball, missent, becomes a plough-share and turns up the level
+field.
+
+"By salt and hemp!" cried Stubb, "but this swift motion of the deck
+creeps up one's legs and tingles at the heart. This ship and I are two
+brave fellows!--Ha, ha! Some one take me up, and launch me, spine-wise,
+on the sea,--for by live-oaks! my spine's a keel. Ha, ha! we go the gait
+that leaves no dust behind!"
+
+"There she blows--she blows!--she blows!--right ahead!" was now the
+mast-head cry.
+
+"Aye, aye!" cried Stubb, "I knew it--ye can't escape--blow on and
+split your spout, O whale! the mad fiend himself is after ye! blow your
+trump--blister your lungs!--Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller
+shuts his watergate upon the stream!"
+
+And Stubb did but speak out for well nigh all that crew. The frenzies
+of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine
+worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might
+have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the
+growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed,
+as timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison. The hand
+of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils of
+the previous day; the rack of the past night's suspense; the fixed,
+unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging
+towards its flying mark; by all these things, their hearts were bowled
+along. The wind that made great bellies of their sails, and rushed the
+vessel on by arms invisible as irresistible; this seemed the symbol of
+that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.
+
+They were one man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all;
+though it was put together of all contrasting things--oak, and maple,
+and pine wood; iron, and pitch, and hemp--yet all these ran into each
+other in the one concrete hull, which shot on its way, both balanced and
+directed by the long central keel; even so, all the individualities of
+the crew, this man's valor, that man's fear; guilt and guiltiness, all
+varieties were welded into oneness, and were all directed to that fatal
+goal which Ahab their one lord and keel did point to.
+
+The rigging lived. The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were
+outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs. Clinging to a spar with one
+hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others,
+shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking
+yards; all the spars in full bearing of mortals, ready and ripe for
+their fate. Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to
+seek out the thing that might destroy them!
+
+"Why sing ye not out for him, if ye see him?" cried Ahab, when, after
+the lapse of some minutes since the first cry, no more had been heard.
+"Sway me up, men; ye have been deceived; not Moby Dick casts one odd jet
+that way, and then disappears."
+
+It was even so; in their headlong eagerness, the men had mistaken some
+other thing for the whale-spout, as the event itself soon proved; for
+hardly had Ahab reached his perch; hardly was the rope belayed to its
+pin on deck, when he struck the key-note to an orchestra, that made the
+air vibrate as with the combined discharges of rifles. The triumphant
+halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as--much nearer to the ship
+than the place of the imaginary jet, less than a mile ahead--Moby Dick
+bodily burst into view! For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not
+by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White
+Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon
+of breaching. Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths,
+the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of
+air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam, shows his place to the
+distance of seven miles and more. In those moments, the torn, enraged
+waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his
+act of defiance.
+
+"There she breaches! there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his
+immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to
+Heaven. So suddenly seen in the blue plain of the sea, and relieved
+against the still bluer margin of the sky, the spray that he raised, for
+the moment, intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier; and
+stood there gradually fading and fading away from its first sparkling
+intensity, to the dim mistiness of an advancing shower in a vale.
+
+"Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!" cried Ahab, "thy hour and
+thy harpoon are at hand!--Down! down all of ye, but one man at the fore.
+The boats!--stand by!"
+
+Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like
+shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and
+halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from
+his perch.
+
+"Lower away," he cried, so soon as he had reached his boat--a spare one,
+rigged the afternoon previous. "Mr. Starbuck, the ship is thine--keep
+away from the boats, but keep near them. Lower, all!"
+
+As if to strike a quick terror into them, by this time being the first
+assailant himself, Moby Dick had turned, and was now coming for the
+three crews. Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he told them
+he would take the whale head-and-head,--that is, pull straight up to his
+forehead,--a not uncommon thing; for when within a certain limit, such
+a course excludes the coming onset from the whale's sidelong vision.
+But ere that close limit was gained, and while yet all three boats were
+plain as the ship's three masts to his eye; the White Whale churning
+himself into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were, rushing
+among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling
+battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every
+boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which
+those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling
+like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him;
+though, at times, but by a plank's breadth; while all the time, Ahab's
+unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds.
+
+But at last in his untraceable evolutions, the White Whale so crossed
+and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three
+lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves,
+warped the devoted boats towards the planted irons in him; though now
+for a moment the whale drew aside a little, as if to rally for a more
+tremendous charge. Seizing that opportunity, Ahab first paid out more
+line: and then was rapidly hauling and jerking in upon it again--hoping
+that way to disencumber it of some snarls--when lo!--a sight more savage
+than the embattled teeth of sharks!
+
+Caught and twisted--corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons
+and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing
+and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab's boat. Only one
+thing could be done. Seizing the boat-knife, he critically reached
+within--through--and then, without--the rays of steel; dragged in
+the line beyond, passed it, inboard, to the bowsman, and then, twice
+sundering the rope near the chocks--dropped the intercepted fagot of
+steel into the sea; and was all fast again. That instant, the White
+Whale made a sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the other lines;
+by so doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of Stubb and
+Flask towards his flukes; dashed them together like two rolling husks on
+a surf-beaten beach, and then, diving down into the sea, disappeared in
+a boiling maelstrom, in which, for a space, the odorous cedar chips of
+the wrecks danced round and round, like the grated nutmeg in a swiftly
+stirred bowl of punch.
+
+While the two crews were yet circling in the waters, reaching out after
+the revolving line-tubs, oars, and other floating furniture, while
+aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching his
+legs upwards to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks; and Stubb was lustily
+singing out for some one to ladle him up; and while the old man's
+line--now parting--admitted of his pulling into the creamy pool to
+rescue whom he could;--in that wild simultaneousness of a thousand
+concreted perils,--Ahab's yet unstricken boat seemed drawn up towards
+Heaven by invisible wires,--as, arrow-like, shooting perpendicularly
+from the sea, the White Whale dashed his broad forehead against its
+bottom, and sent it, turning over and over, into the air; till it fell
+again--gunwale downwards--and Ahab and his men struggled out from under
+it, like seals from a sea-side cave.
+
+The first uprising momentum of the whale--modifying its direction as
+he struck the surface--involuntarily launched him along it, to a little
+distance from the centre of the destruction he had made; and with his
+back to it, he now lay for a moment slowly feeling with his flukes from
+side to side; and whenever a stray oar, bit of plank, the least chip
+or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and
+came sideways smiting the sea. But soon, as if satisfied that his work
+for that time was done, he pushed his pleated forehead through the
+ocean, and trailing after him the intertangled lines, continued his
+leeward way at a traveller's methodic pace.
+
+As before, the attentive ship having descried the whole fight, again
+came bearing down to the rescue, and dropping a boat, picked up the
+floating mariners, tubs, oars, and whatever else could be caught at, and
+safely landed them on her decks. Some sprained shoulders, wrists, and
+ankles; livid contusions; wrenched harpoons and lances; inextricable
+intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks; all these were there;
+but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen any one. As
+with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly clinging to
+his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy float; nor
+did it so exhaust him as the previous day's mishap.
+
+But when he was helped to the deck, all eyes were fastened upon him; as
+instead of standing by himself he still half-hung upon the shoulder of
+Starbuck, who had thus far been the foremost to assist him. His ivory
+leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.
+
+"Aye, aye, Starbuck, 'tis sweet to lean sometimes, be the leaner who he
+will; and would old Ahab had leaned oftener than he has."
+
+"The ferrule has not stood, sir," said the carpenter, now coming up; "I
+put good work into that leg."
+
+"But no bones broken, sir, I hope," said Stubb with true concern.
+
+"Aye! and all splintered to pieces, Stubb!--d'ye see it.--But even with
+a broken bone, old Ahab is untouched; and I account no living bone of
+mine one jot more me, than this dead one that's lost. Nor white whale,
+nor man, nor fiend, can so much as graze old Ahab in his own proper and
+inaccessible being. Can any lead touch yonder floor, any mast scrape
+yonder roof?--Aloft there! which way?"
+
+"Dead to leeward, sir."
+
+"Up helm, then; pile on the sail again, ship keepers! down the rest of
+the spare boats and rig them--Mr. Starbuck away, and muster the boat's
+crews."
+
+"Let me first help thee towards the bulwarks, sir."
+
+"Oh, oh, oh! how this splinter gores me now! Accursed fate! that the
+unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!"
+
+"Sir?"
+
+"My body, man, not thee. Give me something for a cane--there, that
+shivered lance will do. Muster the men. Surely I have not seen him yet.
+By heaven it cannot be!--missing?--quick! call them all."
+
+The old man's hinted thought was true. Upon mustering the company, the
+Parsee was not there.
+
+"The Parsee!" cried Stubb--"he must have been caught in--"
+
+"The black vomit wrench thee!--run all of ye above, alow, cabin,
+forecastle--find him--not gone--not gone!"
+
+But quickly they returned to him with the tidings that the Parsee was
+nowhere to be found.
+
+"Aye, sir," said Stubb--"caught among the tangles of your line--I
+thought I saw him dragging under."
+
+"MY line! MY line? Gone?--gone? What means that little word?--What
+death-knell rings in it, that old Ahab shakes as if he were the belfry.
+The harpoon, too!--toss over the litter there,--d'ye see it?--the forged
+iron, men, the white whale's--no, no, no,--blistered fool! this hand did
+dart it!--'tis in the fish!--Aloft there! Keep him nailed--Quick!--all
+hands to the rigging of the boats--collect the oars--harpooneers!
+the irons, the irons!--hoist the royals higher--a pull on all the
+sheets!--helm there! steady, steady for your life! I'll ten times girdle
+the unmeasured globe; yea and dive straight through it, but I'll slay
+him yet!
+
+"Great God! but for one single instant show thyself," cried Starbuck;
+"never, never wilt thou capture him, old man--In Jesus' name no more of
+this, that's worse than devil's madness. Two days chased; twice stove
+to splinters; thy very leg once more snatched from under thee; thy evil
+shadow gone--all good angels mobbing thee with warnings:--
+
+"What more wouldst thou have?--Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish
+till he swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom
+of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world? Oh,
+oh,--Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!"
+
+"Starbuck, of late I've felt strangely moved to thee; ever since that
+hour we both saw--thou know'st what, in one another's eyes. But in this
+matter of the whale, be the front of thy face to me as the palm of this
+hand--a lipless, unfeatured blank. Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This
+whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion
+years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act
+under orders. Look thou, underling! that thou obeyest mine.--Stand round
+me, men. Ye see an old man cut down to the stump; leaning on a shivered
+lance; propped up on a lonely foot. 'Tis Ahab--his body's part; but
+Ahab's soul's a centipede, that moves upon a hundred legs. I feel
+strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale;
+and I may look so. But ere I break, yell hear me crack; and till ye hear
+THAT, know that Ahab's hawser tows his purpose yet. Believe ye, men, in
+the things called omens? Then laugh aloud, and cry encore! For ere they
+drown, drowning things will twice rise to the surface; then rise again,
+to sink for evermore. So with Moby Dick--two days he's floated--tomorrow
+will be the third. Aye, men, he'll rise once more,--but only to spout
+his last! D'ye feel brave men, brave?"
+
+"As fearless fire," cried Stubb.
+
+"And as mechanical," muttered Ahab. Then as the men went forward, he
+muttered on: "The things called omens! And yesterday I talked the same
+to Starbuck there, concerning my broken boat. Oh! how valiantly I seek
+to drive out of others' hearts what's clinched so fast in mine!--The
+Parsee--the Parsee!--gone, gone? and he was to go before:--but still was
+to be seen again ere I could perish--How's that?--There's a riddle now
+might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line
+of judges:--like a hawk's beak it pecks my brain. I'LL, I'LL solve it,
+though!"
+
+When dusk descended, the whale was still in sight to leeward.
+
+So once more the sail was shortened, and everything passed nearly as
+on the previous night; only, the sound of hammers, and the hum of the
+grindstone was heard till nearly daylight, as the men toiled by lanterns
+in the complete and careful rigging of the spare boats and sharpening
+their fresh weapons for the morrow. Meantime, of the broken keel of
+Ahab's wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as
+on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his
+hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; sat due
+eastward for the earliest sun.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER 135. The Chase.--Third Day.
+
+
+The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the
+solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the
+daylight look-outs, who dotted every mast and almost every spar.
+
+"D'ye see him?" cried Ahab; but the whale was not yet in sight.
+
+"In his infallible wake, though; but follow that wake, that's all. Helm
+there; steady, as thou goest, and hast been going. What a lovely day
+again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the
+angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a
+fairer day could not dawn upon that world. Here's food for thought, had
+Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels;
+THAT'S tingling enough for mortal man! to think's audacity. God only has
+that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a
+calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much
+for that. And yet, I've sometimes thought my brain was very calm--frozen
+calm, this old skull cracks so, like a glass in which the contents
+turned to ice, and shiver it. And still this hair is growing now; this
+moment growing, and heat must breed it; but no, it's like that sort
+of common grass that will grow anywhere, between the earthy clefts of
+Greenland ice or in Vesuvius lava. How the wild winds blow it; they whip
+it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they
+cling to. A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison
+corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and
+now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces. Out upon it!--it's
+tainted. Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable
+world. I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there. And yet, 'tis a
+noble and heroic thing, the wind! who ever conquered it? In every fight
+it has the last and bitterest blow. Run tilting at it, and you but run
+through it. Ha! a coward wind that strikes stark naked men, but will not
+stand to receive a single blow. Even Ahab is a braver thing--a nobler
+thing than THAT. Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things
+that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are
+bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents. There's a most
+special, a most cunning, oh, a most malicious difference! And yet, I
+say again, and swear it now, that there's something all glorious and
+gracious in the wind. These warm Trade Winds, at least, that in the
+clear heavens blow straight on, in strong and steadfast, vigorous
+mildness; and veer not from their mark, however the baser currents of
+the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest Mississippies of the land swift
+and swerve about, uncertain where to go at last. And by the eternal
+Poles! these same Trades that so directly blow my good ship on; these
+Trades, or something like them--something so unchangeable, and full as
+strong, blow my keeled soul along! To it! Aloft there! What d'ye see?"
+
+"Nothing, sir."
+
+"Nothing! and noon at hand! The doubloon goes a-begging! See the sun!
+Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye,
+he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad; I might have known it, too.
+Fool! the lines--the harpoons he's towing. Aye, aye, I have run him by
+last night. About! about! Come down, all of ye, but the regular look
+outs! Man the braces!"
+
+Steering as she had done, the wind had been somewhat on the Pequod's
+quarter, so that now being pointed in the reverse direction, the braced
+ship sailed hard upon the breeze as she rechurned the cream in her own
+white wake.
+
+"Against the wind he now steers for the open jaw," murmured Starbuck to
+himself, as he coiled the new-hauled main-brace upon the rail. "God keep
+us, but already my bones feel damp within me, and from the inside wet my
+flesh. I misdoubt me that I disobey my God in obeying him!"
+
+"Stand by to sway me up!" cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket.
+"We should meet him soon."
+
+"Aye, aye, sir," and straightway Starbuck did Ahab's bidding, and once
+more Ahab swung on high.
+
+A whole hour now passed; gold-beaten out to ages. Time itself now held
+long breaths with keen suspense. But at last, some three points off the
+weather bow, Ahab descried the spout again, and instantly from the three
+mast-heads three shrieks went up as if the tongues of fire had voiced
+it.
+
+"Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick! On deck
+there!--brace sharper up; crowd her into the wind's eye. He's too
+far off to lower yet, Mr. Starbuck. The sails shake! Stand over that
+helmsman with a top-maul! So, so; he travels fast, and I must down. But
+let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; there's
+time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and
+not changed a wink since I first saw it, a boy, from the sand-hills of
+Nantucket! The same!--the same!--the same to Noah as to me. There's
+a soft shower to leeward. Such lovely leewardings! They must lead
+somewhere--to something else than common land, more palmy than the
+palms. Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward,
+then; the better if the bitterer quarter. But good bye, good bye, old
+mast-head! What's this?--green? aye, tiny mosses in these warped cracks.
+No such green weather stains on Ahab's head! There's the difference now
+between man's old age and matter's. But aye, old mast, we both grow old
+together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not, my ship? Aye, minus
+a leg, that's all. By heaven this dead wood has the better of my live
+flesh every way. I can't compare with it; and I've known some ships made
+of dead trees outlast the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of
+vital fathers. What's that he said? he should still go before me, my
+pilot; and yet to be seen again? But where? Will I have eyes at the
+bottom of the sea, supposing I descend those endless stairs? and all
+night I've been sailing from him, wherever he did sink to. Aye, aye,
+like many more thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O Parsee;
+but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short. Good-bye, mast-head--keep a good
+eye upon the whale, the while I'm gone. We'll talk to-morrow, nay,
+to-night, when the white whale lies down there, tied by head and tail."
+
+He gave the word; and still gazing round him, was steadily lowered
+through the cloven blue air to the deck.
+
+In due time the boats were lowered; but as standing in his shallop's
+stern, Ahab just hovered upon the point of the descent, he waved to the
+mate,--who held one of the tackle-ropes on deck--and bade him pause.
+
+"Starbuck!"
+
+"Sir?"
+
+"For the third time my soul's ship starts upon this voyage, Starbuck."
+
+"Aye, sir, thou wilt have it so."
+
+"Some ships sail from their ports, and ever afterwards are missing,
+Starbuck!"
+
+"Truth, sir: saddest truth."
+
+"Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of
+the flood;--and I feel now like a billow that's all one crested comb,
+Starbuck. I am old;--shake hands with me, man."
+
+Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
+
+"Oh, my captain, my captain!--noble heart--go not--go not!--see, it's a
+brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!"
+
+"Lower away!"--cried Ahab, tossing the mate's arm from him. "Stand by
+the crew!"
+
+In an instant the boat was pulling round close under the stern.
+
+"The sharks! the sharks!" cried a voice from the low cabin-window there;
+"O master, my master, come back!"
+
+But Ahab heard nothing; for his own voice was high-lifted then; and the
+boat leaped on.
+
+Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when
+numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath
+the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they
+dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with their
+bites. It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in
+those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in
+the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching
+regiments in the east. But these were the first sharks that had been
+observed by the Pequod since the White Whale had been first descried;
+and whether it was that Ahab's crew were all such tiger-yellow
+barbarians, and therefore their flesh more musky to the senses of the
+sharks--a matter sometimes well known to affect them,--however it was,
+they seemed to follow that one boat without molesting the others.
+
+"Heart of wrought steel!" murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and
+following with his eyes the receding boat--"canst thou yet ring boldly
+to that sight?--lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by
+them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical third day?--For
+when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure
+the first is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening
+and the end of that thing--be that end what it may. Oh! my God! what
+is this that shoots through me, and leaves me so deadly calm, yet
+expectant,--fixed at the top of a shudder! Future things swim before me,
+as in empty outlines and skeletons; all the past is somehow grown dim.
+Mary, girl! thou fadest in pale glories behind me; boy! I seem to
+see but thy eyes grown wondrous blue. Strangest problems of life seem
+clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming? My legs
+feel faint; like his who has footed it all day. Feel thy heart,--beats
+it yet? Stir thyself, Starbuck!--stave it off--move, move!
+speak aloud!--Mast-head there! See ye my boy's hand on the
+hill?--Crazed;--aloft there!--keep thy keenest eye upon the boats:--
+
+"Mark well the whale!--Ho! again!--drive off that hawk! see! he pecks--he
+tears the vane"--pointing to the red flag flying at the main-truck--"Ha!
+he soars away with it!--Where's the old man now? see'st thou that sight,
+oh Ahab!--shudder, shudder!"
+
+The boats had not gone very far, when by a signal from the mast-heads--a
+downward pointed arm, Ahab knew that the whale had sounded; but
+intending to be near him at the next rising, he held on his way a little
+sideways from the vessel; the becharmed crew maintaining the profoundest
+silence, as the head-beat waves hammered and hammered against the
+opposing bow.
+
+"Drive, drive in your nails, oh ye waves! to their uttermost heads
+drive them in! ye but strike a thing without a lid; and no coffin and no
+hearse can be mine:--and hemp only can kill me! Ha! ha!"
+
+Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then
+quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of
+ice, swiftly rising to the surface. A low rumbling sound was heard; a
+subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with
+trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise,
+but obliquely from the sea. Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist, it
+hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping back
+into the deep. Crushed thirty feet upwards, the waters flashed for
+an instant like heaps of fountains, then brokenly sank in a shower of
+flakes, leaving the circling surface creamed like new milk round the
+marble trunk of the whale.
+
+"Give way!" cried Ahab to the oarsmen, and the boats darted forward to
+the attack; but maddened by yesterday's fresh irons that corroded in
+him, Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell
+from heaven. The wide tiers of welded tendons overspreading his broad
+white forehead, beneath the transparent skin, looked knitted together;
+as head on, he came churning his tail among the boats; and once more
+flailed them apart; spilling out the irons and lances from the two
+mates' boats, and dashing in one side of the upper part of their bows,
+but leaving Ahab's almost without a scar.
+
+While Daggoo and Queequeg were stopping the strained planks; and as the
+whale swimming out from them, turned, and showed one entire flank as he
+shot by them again; at that moment a quick cry went up. Lashed round
+and round to the fish's back; pinioned in the turns upon turns in which,
+during the past night, the whale had reeled the involutions of the lines
+around him, the half torn body of the Parsee was seen; his sable raiment
+frayed to shreds; his distended eyes turned full upon old Ahab.
+
+The harpoon dropped from his hand.
+
+"Befooled, befooled!"--drawing in a long lean breath--"Aye, Parsee! I
+see thee again.--Aye, and thou goest before; and this, THIS then is the
+hearse that thou didst promise. But I hold thee to the last letter of
+thy word. Where is the second hearse? Away, mates, to the ship! those
+boats are useless now; repair them if ye can in time, and return to
+me; if not, Ahab is enough to die--Down, men! the first thing that but
+offers to jump from this boat I stand in, that thing I harpoon. Ye are
+not other men, but my arms and my legs; and so obey me.--Where's the
+whale? gone down again?"
+
+But he looked too nigh the boat; for as if bent upon escaping with the
+corpse he bore, and as if the particular place of the last encounter had
+been but a stage in his leeward voyage, Moby Dick was now again steadily
+swimming forward; and had almost passed the ship,--which thus far had
+been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for the present
+her headway had been stopped. He seemed swimming with his utmost
+velocity, and now only intent upon pursuing his own straight path in the
+sea.
+
+"Oh! Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third
+day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that
+madly seekest him!"
+
+Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely boat was swiftly impelled to
+leeward, by both oars and canvas. And at last when Ahab was sliding
+by the vessel, so near as plainly to distinguish Starbuck's face as he
+leaned over the rail, he hailed him to turn the vessel about, and follow
+him, not too swiftly, at a judicious interval. Glancing upwards, he
+saw Tashtego, Queequeg, and Daggoo, eagerly mounting to the three
+mast-heads; while the oarsmen were rocking in the two staved boats
+which had but just been hoisted to the side, and were busily at work in
+repairing them. One after the other, through the port-holes, as he sped,
+he also caught flying glimpses of Stubb and Flask, busying themselves
+on deck among bundles of new irons and lances. As he saw all this; as he
+heard the hammers in the broken boats; far other hammers seemed driving
+a nail into his heart. But he rallied. And now marking that the vane or
+flag was gone from the main-mast-head, he shouted to Tashtego, who had
+just gained that perch, to descend again for another flag, and a hammer
+and nails, and so nail it to the mast.
+
+Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance
+to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some
+latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White
+Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly
+nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been
+so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glided over the waves the
+unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the
+boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became
+jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost
+every dip.
+
+"Heed them not! those teeth but give new rowlocks to your oars. Pull on!
+'tis the better rest, the shark's jaw than the yielding water."
+
+"But at every bite, sir, the thin blades grow smaller and smaller!"
+
+"They will last long enough! pull on!--But who can tell"--he
+muttered--"whether these sharks swim to feast on the whale or on
+Ahab?--But pull on! Aye, all alive, now--we near him. The helm! take the
+helm! let me pass,"--and so saying two of the oarsmen helped him forward
+to the bows of the still flying boat.
+
+At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along
+with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its
+advance--as the whale sometimes will--and Ahab was fairly within the
+smoky mountain mist, which, thrown off from the whale's spout, curled
+round his great, Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when,
+with body arched back, and both arms lengthwise high-lifted to the
+poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse into the
+hated whale. As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked
+into a morass, Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh
+flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so suddenly
+canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the
+gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have been tossed
+into the sea. As it was, three of the oarsmen--who foreknew not the
+precise instant of the dart, and were therefore unprepared for its
+effects--these were flung out; but so fell, that, in an instant two of
+them clutched the gunwale again, and rising to its level on a combing
+wave, hurled themselves bodily inboard again; the third man helplessly
+dropping astern, but still afloat and swimming.
+
+Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated,
+instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering
+sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new turns with
+the line, and hold it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their
+seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; the moment the treacherous line
+felt that double strain and tug, it snapped in the empty air!
+
+"What breaks in me? Some sinew cracks!--'tis whole again; oars! oars!
+Burst in upon him!"
+
+Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled
+round to present his blank forehead at bay; but in that evolution,
+catching sight of the nearing black hull of the ship; seemingly seeing
+in it the source of all his persecutions; bethinking it--it may be--a
+larger and nobler foe; of a sudden, he bore down upon its advancing
+prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers of foam.
+
+Ahab staggered; his hand smote his forehead. "I grow blind; hands!
+stretch out before me that I may yet grope my way. Is't night?"
+
+"The whale! The ship!" cried the cringing oarsmen.
+
+"Oars! oars! Slope downwards to thy depths, O sea, that ere it be for
+ever too late, Ahab may slide this last, last time upon his mark! I see:
+the ship! the ship! Dash on, my men! Will ye not save my ship?"
+
+But as the oarsmen violently forced their boat through the
+sledge-hammering seas, the before whale-smitten bow-ends of two planks
+burst through, and in an instant almost, the temporarily disabled boat
+lay nearly level with the waves; its half-wading, splashing crew, trying
+hard to stop the gap and bale out the pouring water.
+
+Meantime, for that one beholding instant, Tashtego's mast-head hammer
+remained suspended in his hand; and the red flag, half-wrapping him as
+with a plaid, then streamed itself straight out from him, as his own
+forward-flowing heart; while Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the
+bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster just as soon
+as he.
+
+"The whale, the whale! Up helm, up helm! Oh, all ye sweet powers of air,
+now hug me close! Let not Starbuck die, if die he must, in a woman's
+fainting fit. Up helm, I say--ye fools, the jaw! the jaw! Is this the
+end of all my bursting prayers? all my life-long fidelities? Oh, Ahab,
+Ahab, lo, thy work. Steady! helmsman, steady. Nay, nay! Up helm again!
+He turns to meet us! Oh, his unappeasable brow drives on towards one,
+whose duty tells him he cannot depart. My God, stand by me now!"
+
+"Stand not by me, but stand under me, whoever you are that will now help
+Stubb; for Stubb, too, sticks here. I grin at thee, thou grinning whale!
+Who ever helped Stubb, or kept Stubb awake, but Stubb's own unwinking
+eye? And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too
+soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! I grin at thee, thou
+grinning whale! Look ye, sun, moon, and stars! I call ye assassins of
+as good a fellow as ever spouted up his ghost. For all that, I would yet
+ring glasses with ye, would ye but hand the cup! Oh, oh! oh, oh! thou
+grinning whale, but there'll be plenty of gulping soon! Why fly ye
+not, O Ahab! For me, off shoes and jacket to it; let Stubb die in
+his drawers! A most mouldy and over salted death, though;--cherries!
+cherries! cherries! Oh, Flask, for one red cherry ere we die!"
+
+"Cherries? I only wish that we were where they grow. Oh, Stubb, I hope
+my poor mother's drawn my part-pay ere this; if not, few coppers will
+now come to her, for the voyage is up."
+
+From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers,
+bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their
+hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all their
+enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely
+vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading
+semicircular foam before him as he rushed. Retribution, swift vengeance,
+eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal
+man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's
+starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled. Some fell flat upon their
+faces. Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook
+on their bull-like necks. Through the breach, they heard the waters
+pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.
+
+"The ship! The hearse!--the second hearse!" cried Ahab from the boat;
+"its wood could only be American!"
+
+Diving beneath the settling ship, the whale ran quivering along its
+keel; but turning under water, swiftly shot to the surface again, far
+off the other bow, but within a few yards of Ahab's boat, where, for a
+time, he lay quiescent.
+
+"I turn my body from the sun. What ho, Tashtego! let me hear thy hammer.
+Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only
+god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and haughty helm, and Pole-pointed
+prow,--death-glorious ship! must ye then perish, and without me? Am I
+cut off from the last fond pride of meanest shipwrecked captains? Oh,
+lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in
+my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in,
+ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber
+of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering
+whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at
+thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins
+and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let
+me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee,
+thou damned whale! THUS, I give up the spear!"
+
+The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting
+velocity the line ran through the grooves;--ran foul. Ahab stooped to
+clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the
+neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was
+shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the
+heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty
+tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its
+depths.
+
+For an instant, the tranced boat's crew stood still; then turned. "The
+ship? Great God, where is the ship?" Soon they through dim, bewildering
+mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana;
+only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or
+fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers
+still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea. And now, concentric
+circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating
+oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all
+round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod
+out of sight.
+
+But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the
+sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the
+erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag,
+which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying
+billows they almost touched;--at that instant, a red arm and a hammer
+hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing
+the flag faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar. A sky-hawk that
+tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home
+among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there;
+this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the
+hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill,
+the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen
+there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his
+imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the
+flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink
+to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and
+helmeted herself with it.
+
+Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white
+surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great
+shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
+
+
+
+
+Epilogue
+
+"AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE" Job.
+
+The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?--Because one
+did survive the wreck.
+
+It so chanced, that after the Parsee's disappearance, I was he whom the
+Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab's bowsman, when that bowsman
+assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three
+men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern. So,
+floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it,
+when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then,
+but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had
+subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting
+towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling
+circle, like another Ixion I did revolve. Till, gaining that vital
+centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated by reason of
+its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great
+force, the coffin life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and
+floated by my side. Buoyed up by that coffin, for almost one whole day
+and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main. The unharming sharks,
+they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks
+sailed with sheathed beaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer,
+and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in
+her retracing search after her missing children, only found another
+orphan.
+
+
+
+
+
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