WHALE.
whaling. whale. whale."
Whales.
whale? whales. whale!
The Penultimate Quartering
whale himself. WHALE.
whale yet.
white whale. whaling. whale. the whale. whale."
Whale's head. whale's head? Whales. this whale."
"sick whale!
whale? whales. Sir
whale.
hated whale. grinning whale! whale!
Quartered, yet again
whale himself. WHALING NOT RESPECTABLE? Whaling is imperial! dignity in whaling.
the DUODECIMO WHALE.
SPERM WHALE; II. WHALE.
Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right
Whale. Whale Cruising Grounds.
whales; bunched whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales, are
white whale. whaling. whale.
Whale largely feeds. The White Whale, the White Whale!"
the whale. to dat whale? whale-steak yet."
after the whale! behead a sperm whale?
whale."
Whale's head. This whale is
Whale's head.
whale's head? Whales. this whale."
"WHAT whale?"
White Whale--no."
sick whale! Spitzbergen whale fishery.
whale? whales. Sir
whale.
whale's visible jets. hated whale. grinning whale! whale!
Again, Quartered
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.
whale himself. Ahab?"
young man. ye?
The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
THE WHALE NO FAMOUS AUTHOR, AND WHALING NO FAMOUS CHRONICLER? WHALING NOT RESPECTABLE? Whaling is imperial! dignity in whaling.
NO DIGNITY IN WHALING? man?
the DUODECIMO WHALE.
SPERM WHALE; II. WHALE.
Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right
Whale. Whale Cruising Grounds.
whales; bunched whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales, are
officer called the Specksynder. whale yet.
white whale. men. whaling. the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part,
the whale. whale. isolated instances of the presence of the sperm whale in the
sperm whale. probability have been a sperm whale.
boat? of the whale all wrong.
Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as
As for the book-binder's whale winding
you will find some curious whales.
Spermaceti Whale Fisheries." alleged "whale" and a "narwhale."
Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash.
Whale largely feeds. The White Whale, the White Whale!"
All men live enveloped in whale-lines.
poor whale, was thy last. the whale. to dat whale? whale-steak yet."
Whale in this particular. the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for
the whale. after the whale! like the great whale, retain, O man! vast as the whale!
behead a sperm whale?
mast-heads proved her a whale-ship. candidate for the Jeroboam's whaling voyage. boat. whale."
the ship by the towing whale. Whale's head. call a "grey-headed whale."
This whale is
Whale's head.
great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. A large whale's case generally yields
Whale's case.
Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever
the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
the Sperm Whale's hump. in the Sperm Whale. three
head!
spout of the whale.
twenty Right Whales do. Whale has no proper olfactories. whale's head? Whales. this whale."
whale must be alongside. Frenchman had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed
blasted whales in general.
"WHAT whale?"
White Whale--no."
out of such whales? sick whale! of the Frenchman's two whales. men.
Ship, old ship! old Ahab! Spitzbergen whale fishery.
whale? whales. Sir
whale.
of a large sized modern whale. The whale of
whale alone should have degenerated.
Captain Ahab?"
Ahab.
Ahab's.
men.
Thank ye, man. Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?"
Is Ahab, Ahab? the White Whale first. whale's visible jets. hated whale. grinning whale! whale!
Quartered
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.
whale himself. head-peddler. time. Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"
Old
of shipping ye."
Ahab?"
Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
young man. Captain Peleg."
ye, Bildad. thou art shipped."
Queequeg! "Queequeg!--Queequeg!""cried. at Queequeg.
"Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?"
"Ye said true--ye hav'n't seen Old
"Captain Ahab."
"What! Ye
word with Captain Ahab. Morning to ye, shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye;
Morning to ye,
"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning."
"the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles
remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed
ship.
"Ye be, be ye? "Morning to ye."
ye?
"Morning to ye! off, Queequeg! sleeper's head.
longer.
feet. whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be
the world! The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
THE WHALE NO FAMOUS AUTHOR, AND WHALING NO FAMOUS CHRONICLER? WHALING NOT RESPECTABLE? Whaling is imperial! dignity in whaling.
NO DIGNITY IN WHALING? honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College
substantiated facts. the man. A staid, steadfast man, whose
man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
Little Flask was one
men. before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans
seen of Captain Ahab. laid eye upon wild Ahab. queerest old man Stubb ever sailed with. A hot old
man! insult, my little man. 'Wise
'Look ye
Captain Ahab kicked ye,
Listen, wise Stubb. man?
the DUODECIMO WHALE.
SPERM WHALE; II. WHALE.
Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right
Whale. Whale Cruising Grounds.
whales; bunched whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales, are
officer called the Specksynder. awful Ahab.
In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost
whale-ship at sea. frozen seas. whale yet.
white whale. Look ye! men. "God bless ye,
men. Starbuck. Men, ye seem the
"Advance, ye mates! Starbuck! Drink, ye harpooneers!
reach ye. man has ye there.
Horrible old man! OLD MANX SAILOR.
secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. whaling. the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part,
the whale. whale. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac
white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale. sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe
construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.*
"This chart divides
feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in
Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular
whales. For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming, unappeasedly steadfast
Meanwhile, the whale he
This man and this whale again came
Whale HAS done it.
be dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship
I tell you, the sperm whale will
transferred to the ship, and secured there; the whale towing her
whale; and I am strongly inclined to think a sperm whale. isolated instances of the presence of the sperm whale in the
sperm whale. probability have been a sperm whale.
soon cashier Ahab.
to Ahab personally. "Quick, steward!" cried Ahab. "Time! time!"
boat? Pull, will ye? pull,
pull, won't ye? the boat. maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? time.
sea-ravens. By night
Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night
Terrible old man!
mast-heads. "Ship ahoy!
ship would receive the latest whaling intelligence from the
whaling vessels crossing each other's track on the cruising-ground
sea-peasant. High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water
tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and
imagine, gentlemen. deck.
of the true whale's majestic flukes.
Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as
As for the book-binder's whale winding
you will find some curious whales.
Spermaceti Whale Fisheries." alleged "whale" and a "narwhale."
Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash. "However recklessly the whale may
Some of the Sperm Whale drawings in J. not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to
represent attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. Sea fowls
spirit of the whale hunt. American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the
Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside; the vessel (in the
giving chase to whales in the distance.
leg. whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm
Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone,
As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs
At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales
whales are seldom remarkable as faithful essays. some old-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed
profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges.
Whale largely feeds. The White Whale, the White Whale!"
For though other species of whales
feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones
whale-line.
All men live enveloped in whale-lines.
poor whale, was thy last. Luff!" cried Ahab. pilot-boat.
the whale. skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the
directions. cook!"
to dat whale? whale-steak yet."
Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in
species of whale. for marks in my whale-books. Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this
whale remains undecipherable. Whale in this particular. the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for
the whale. after the whale! like the great whale, retain, O man! vast as the whale!
many insulting poniards in the whale. bursting sea. behead a sperm whale?
mast-heads proved her a whale-ship. candidate for the Jeroboam's whaling voyage. Gabriel!" cried Captain Mayhew; "thou must either--" But
"Hast thou seen the White Whale?" demanded Ahab, when the boat
forewarnings, Macey succeeded in persuading five men to man his boat.
boat. hand.
life. ginger?--sea-coal? Starbuck. whale."
the ship by the towing whale. Stubb?"
whale's head hoisted up opposite that parmacetti's."
Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever
Right Whale's sadly lacks. Whale's head. call a "grey-headed whale."
of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if
whale's eyes corresponds to that of a man's ears; and you may fancy,
If your
then, with the whale? observed between the sperm whale and the right. This whale is
Whale's head.
with--that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
different heads. of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's. Nor in the Sperm Whale are
Again, the Right Whale has two external
spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.
great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. A large whale's case generally yields
Whale's case.
Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature.
Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever
the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? the Sperm Whale's hump. in the Sperm Whale.
arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
other boats.
boats were diagonically in the whale's immediate wake, while
The whale was
fin. three
head!
spout of the whale.
twenty Right Whales do. whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely
George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and
of St. George. whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with
involuntary whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not
the whale. If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale
time.
Whale has no proper olfactories. whale's head? the precise nature of the whale spout. Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached
outermost whales, were heard but not felt. "Line! Who struck?--Two whale; one big, one
esteem, the whales salute MORE HOMINUM.
all the drugged whales only one was captured. Whales. this whale."
whale must be alongside. Frenchman had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed
blasted whales in general.
"WHAT whale?"
White Whale--no."
out of such whales? whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. while the Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale. sick whale! of the Frenchman's two whales.
I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's
Sperm Whale to for fragrance, considering his magnitude? men.
completed ship. sea-sofa. Ship, old ship! old Ahab! boat's bow. "The White Whale," said the Englishman, pointing his ivory arm
time. captain). captain's bidding.
captain, addressing Ahab; "go on, boy."
Captain?"heading?"
boat! Spitzbergen whale fishery.
whale? whales. Sir
whale.
of a large sized modern whale. The whale of
whale alone should have degenerated.
man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily
whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years
savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at
pursuit from man.
Sir?
sir. Starbuck!
What cares Ahab? deck!"
Captain Ahab?"
beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man."
murmured Ahab, as Starbuck disappeared.
Poor Queequeg! Queequeg dies
game!--mind ye that; Queequeg dies game!--take ye good heed of that;
Queequeg dies game! Hark ye; if ye find
coward! thou making there?"
"Look ye,
Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then,
Ahab exclaimed, "Good! Hast lost any men?"
Ahab.
Aye, aye! Curse thee, thou
Old man of oceans!
"Aye, aye, men!" cried Ahab. the boat!" cried Starbuck, "look at thy boat, old man!"
cry. withstand thee, then, old man. "Ha, ha, my ship! sea!"
"Ahab's.
sea parts the log-line. "Pip? Pip's
Captain Ahab! sir, sir! Pip! Pip! men.
"Life-buoy, sir. Thank ye, man. "Sir? Dost thou never?"
"Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?"
Pip! heard from aft,--"Man the mast-heads!"So Ahab's
Ahab's hat was never restored; the wild hawk
the sea.
life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most
"Hast seen the White Whale?"
"Starbuck!"
sea! very old, Starbuck? God! God! old? Close! Is Ahab, Ahab? Man the mast-heads! the White Whale first. whale's visible jets. Boats, boats!"
leeward; and Ahab heading the onset. From the boat's
Man, man!
mast-head cry.
Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he
whale's sidelong vision. boat's crews."
"Sir?"
Muster the men. Ahab is for ever Ahab,
man. Aye,
Ahab's head! Aye, aye,
thou
ship! hated whale. sea. grinning whale! whale! Ahab
Job.
Moby Dick
Whenever I
sight of land. oceans. a passenger. passengers get sea-sick--grow quarrelsome--don't sleep of nights--do
must pay. paying and being paid. "WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.
whale himself. seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Saturday night in December. business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is
stranded. place. Ha! Ha, Ishmael, muttered
thought I. Euroclydon,
house. Euroclydon!
adjoining room. complexioned" harpooneer. "Landlord! "Landlord! slanderin' his head."
big bed that. head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. head-peddler. room. "Landlord!
Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm
felt dreadfully. Sixteen hours in bed!
my room. arm thrown round me. "Queequeg!--in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake!" At
boots. Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots
ablutions to his chest, arms, and hands. Thinks I, Queequeg,
third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea
who could show a cheek like Queequeg? array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.
went to breakfast.
ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch
mode of attaining a high social polish. every man maintained a profound silence. bears, these timid warrior whalemen!
beefsteaks, done rare.
daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
foreign parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean
Regent Street
beats all Water Street and Wapping. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one--I mean a
Still New Bedford is
a queer place. opulent, than in New Bedford. avenues of green and gold.
several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on
SACRED
THIS TABLET
Is erected to his Memory
SACRED
PACIFIC,
THIS MARBLE
THIS TABLET
matter of Life and Death. cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they
chaplain. Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort
history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the
arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular
side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly
cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its
noble ship," the angel seemed to say, "beat on, beat on, thou noble
ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo!
question mangles Jonah! Jonah, that's another stab. Then the Captain knows that Jonah
the contraband was Jonah. Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone
the sea. The lot is Jonah's; that
shipmates? Woe
shipmates!
time. astonishment. Queequeg was George
book. world. I'll try a pagan friend, thought
I drew
thought I.
man. little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before
Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs
noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans. We
delightfully and unmistakably warm. snugness of being in bed. identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were
congenial to our clayey part. coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I
though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed
I no more felt unduly
slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated
sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong
unconquerable warriors. A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a
passage to Christian lands. Queequeg budged not. wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and
savage--this sea Prince of Wales, never saw the Captain's cabin.
Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily
poor Queequeg gave it up for lost. seamen.
harpoons. wharf. Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten. Well;
High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father. "Now," said Queequeg, "what you
schooner. "Capting! Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"
All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump;
Nantucket! blotting paper. found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles. empty ivory casket,--the poor little Indian's skeleton.
take to the sea for a livelihood! cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea,
explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of
That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed
Nantucketer's. pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the
gallows. There's Mrs. Hussey."
"Clam or Cod?" she repeated.
"A clam for supper? time, ain't it, Mrs. Hussey?"
cod-chowder was placed before us.
harpoon?"
Chowder
Mrs. Hussey wore a
chowder; clam or cod to-morrow for breakfast, men?"
Old
of shipping ye."
Ahab?"
Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
young man. Peleg. "Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Captain Peleg."
ye, Bildad. thou art shipped."
Queequeg! "Queequeg!--Queequeg!""La! cried. Kill? "Queequeg," said I, going up to him, "Queequeg, what's the matter
You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg."
Ramadan!
In one word, Queequeg,
impression upon Queequeg.
papers.
at Queequeg.
Congregational Church. Deacon
dost thou sign
Quohog.
harpooneer," Peleg. "Peleg! Peleg!" said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, "thou
Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg.
"Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?"
"Ye said true--ye hav'n't seen Old
"Captain Ahab."
"What! Ye
word with Captain Ahab. Morning to ye, shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye;
Morning to ye,
"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning."
"Elijah."
Elijah!
soon the vessel might be sailing. the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles
remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed
ship.
some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of
like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle
all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was
aboard every day; meantime, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could
If
certainly sail.
"Ye be, be ye? "Never mind him," said I, "Queequeg, come on."
"Morning to ye."
ye?
"Morning to ye! off, Queequeg! sleeper's head.
"What's that for, Queequeg?"
rigger. "Holloa!
the two Captains, Peleg and Bildad, issued from the cabin, and
Captain Ahab
Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on
Captain Ahab stayed below. commanding, and not Bildad.
ye spring, I say, all of ye--spring! longer. mate.
ye, Starbuck--luck to ye, Mr. Stubb--luck to ye, Mr. Flask--good-bye
Bildad, almost incoherently.
feet. Bulkington. 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
Know ye now, Bulkington? safety! who would craven crawl to land!
heart, O Bulkington! of thy ocean-perishing--straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be
the world! The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
THE WHALE NO FAMOUS AUTHOR, AND WHALING NO FAMOUS CHRONICLER? Who
times! WHALING NOT RESPECTABLE? Whaling is imperial! dignity in whaling.
NO DIGNITY IN WHALING? honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College
substantiated facts. blameworthy?
solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. run well, as they anoint machinery? anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has
macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor
cod-liver oil. we whalemen supply your kings and
queens with coronation stuff!
the man. A staid, steadfast man, whose
man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
them for theirs; and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck
well knew. Men may seem detestable as
undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. robed investiture. The great God
Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God!
Stubb was the second mate. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted
encountered. Little Flask was one
men. Pequod's boats as headsmen. harpooneers. Tashtego was Stubb the
second mate's squire.
before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans
seen of Captain Ahab. cabin.
Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his
quarter-deck.
elemental strife at sea. laid eye upon wild Ahab. Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the
beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow. cabin. smile.
to visit the night-cloaked deck. Stubb, thou didst not know Ahab
scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly,
called a dog, sir."
"It's very queer. queerest old man Stubb ever sailed with. A hot old
man! queer, too. somehow.
Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the
In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were
Ahab.
smoking no longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! sereneness, to send up mild white vapours among mild white hairs, not
I'll smoke no more--"
He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea. pipe made. With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.
Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
kept kicking at it. insult, my little man. kick?' 'Wise
'Look ye
Captain Ahab kicked ye,
Listen, wise Stubb. man? it, Flask.
the DUODECIMO WHALE.
SPERM WHALE; II. WHALE.
Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right
Whale. Whale Cruising Grounds.
whales; bunched whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales, are
Greenland whale. Horned whale, and the Unicorn whale. Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the
officer called the Specksynder. Harpooneer. Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. captain's more inferior subalterns. conduct of the harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely
watches on a whaling ground) the command of the ship's deck is also
Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is
For be a man's
whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical
Oh, Ahab!
saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck," disappears into the cabin.
rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows after his predecessors.
face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little Flask
it was, Flask, alas! For hereby Flask's dinner was
precede Flask to the deck. awful Ahab.
table in the Pequod's cabin. Dough-Boy!
quarters.
the other seamen my first mast-head came round.
In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost
whale-ship at sea. The three mast-heads are kept manned from
watch-coat.
frozen seas. Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads
When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in
head. whale yet.
white whale. Look ye! men. "God bless ye,
men. Starbuck. Men, ye seem the
"Advance, ye mates! Starbuck! Drink, ye harpooneers!
hill. this Iron Crown of
enjoy. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists,
ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! reach ye. Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can
swerve me. ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve
yourselves! man has ye there.
Horrible old man! Time and tide flow wide. Oh, God! Hark! revelry is forward! pictures life. Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch!
Oh, life! me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures!
Ha! ha! ha! ha! Well, Stubb, WISE
Stubb--that's my title--well, Stubb, what of it, Stubb? Fa, la! lirra, skirra! Mr. Starbuck? Aye, aye, sir--(ASIDE)
DUTCH SAILOR.
FRENCH SAILOR.
FRENCH SAILOR.
MALTESE SAILOR.
SICILIAN SAILOR.
AZORE SAILOR.
OLD MANX SAILOR.
ENGLISH SAILOR.
SPANISH SAILOR.
SPANISH SAILOR.
secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. whaling. the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part,
the whale. whale. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac
white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. in Moby Dick. all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale.
four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great-white
Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of
the white-shrouded bear or shark.*
As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in
before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its
sea. the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger,
Albatross.
White Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
whiteness--as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white
"HIST! passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt. "Hist! "Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d'ye mean?"
"Cough be damned! have done, shipmate, will ye? biscuits ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye--nothing else.
Hark ye, Cabaco, there is
the bucket!"
cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe
construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.*
"This chart divides
feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in
Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular
whales. the Season-on-the-Line. next ensuing season. For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming, unappeasedly steadfast
Meanwhile, the whale he
This man and this whale again came
Whale HAS done it.
be dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship
I tell you, the sperm whale will
transferred to the ship, and secured there; the whale towing her
whale; and I am strongly inclined to think a sperm whale. isolated instances of the presence of the sperm whale in the
sperm whale. probability have been a sperm whale.
hunted. Starbuck's
body and Starbuck's coerced will were Ahab's, so long as Ahab kept
Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested
manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness. White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and
I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of all hopes of
cash--aye, cash. soon cashier Ahab.
to Ahab personally.
waters. mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates. This warp
Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting
must be chance--aye, chance, free will, and necessity--nowise
blow at events.
"Quick, steward!" cried Ahab. "Time! time!"
air.
This boat had
tossed boats below.
boat? Pull, will ye? pull,
pull, won't ye? pull, and
Boat and
Pull, babes--pull, sucklings--pull, all.
the boat.
disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem
nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort
whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
Cape Horn."
back-foremost into death's jaws?"
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!"
own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving
Flask. perils of the chase. maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little
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
called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee
the time. boat's crew being assigned to that boat.
unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating
silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was
uprising from the sea. lowering.
that night. time.
sea-ravens. jet would at times be descried.
By night
Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night
Terrible old man!
(Albatross) by name. from home.
mast-heads. cruising. "Ship ahoy! Meantime his ship was still
threatening wind forbade. world! themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks. evinced.
ship would receive the latest whaling intelligence from the
whaling vessels crossing each other's track on the cruising-ground
sea-peasant. some merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the mid-Atlantic,
As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are
whalers hail--"How many barrels?" free-and-easy whaler! GAM. High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water
tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and
imagine, gentlemen. gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.
deck. Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. "'Sink the ship?' cried Steelkilt. forecastle there, men? 'Damn ye,' cried the Captain, pacing
Steelkilt; 'no lies.'
sailor headed. gentlemen?'
of the whale all wrong.
of the true whale's majestic flukes.
Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as
As for the book-binder's whale winding
you will find some curious whales.
Spermaceti Whale Fisheries." alleged "whale" and a "narwhale." Greenland whale (that is to say, the Right whale), even Scoresby, a
Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash. "However recklessly the whale may
Some of the Sperm Whale drawings in J. Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but
whale as seen by his living hunters.
not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to
represent attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. Sea fowls
spirit of the whale hunt. American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the
Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside; the vessel (in the
giving chase to whales in the distance.
leg. whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm
Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone,
As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With
Dutch savage, Albert Durer.
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs
At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales
whales are seldom remarkable as faithful essays. some old-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed
profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges.
Whale largely feeds. leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.*
time beholds this species of the leviathans of the sea. seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and
of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
wrecks of ships. the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures
world began.
appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man
In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher
glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank. this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo. The White Whale, the White Whale!"
Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab
glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long
the sperm whale his only food. For though other species of whales
feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones
whale-line.
entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though
In length, the common sperm whale-line
used in stowing the line in its tub. In the English boats two tubs are used instead of one; the same line
on the American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off
line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound
to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end
the line, and lost. All men live enveloped in whale-lines.
poor whale, was thy last. "Clear away the boats! Luff!" cried Ahab. pilot-boat.
cried Stubb, spluttering out the smoke as he spoke. keels cut the sea. wet the line!" cried Stubb to the tub oarsman (him
"Haul in--haul in!" cried Stubb to the bowsman! like red men. the sea.
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. the whale. No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body,
blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are
owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer
Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical
harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent
productive subjects, grow the chapters.
mention. owing to the instantaneous, violent, convulsive running of the whale
second iron into him. connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon
all hands. the spare coils of box line (mentioned in a preceding chapter) making
casualties.
skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the
directions.
"Cook, cook!--where's that old Fleece?" he cried at length, widening
stabbing with his lance; "cook, you cook!--sail this way, cook!"
cook!"
fellow-critters, dat dat woraciousness--'top dat dam slappin' ob de
dat is de pint. to dat whale? you, cook?"
How old are you, cook?"
"Where were you born, cook?"
whale-steak yet."
Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large
species of whale. eating. turtle-balls or veal balls. like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are
rare old vintages of prime old train oil. dish. Cannibals? very ox you are eating? devouring that fat goose?
When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and
morning. sharks; for immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side,
whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks,* by
vital part. departed. steel; is about the bigness of a man's spread hand; and in general
razor. "Queequeg no care what god made him shark," said the savage,
Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin."
conducted to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles
was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook,
broad, semicircular line is cut round the hole, the hook is inserted,
the first strip of blubber. swaying mass. short lower part is still fast, the long upper strip, called a
blubber-room. 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
of the whale. for marks in my whale-books. Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this
whale remains undecipherable. Whale in this particular. the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for
the whale. after the whale! like the great whale, retain, O man! vast as the whale!
colossal. many insulting poniards in the whale. The vast white headless
it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of
fowls, augment the murderous din. earth! Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost
white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high
There's
There's orthodoxy!
bursting sea. behead a sperm whale?
The Pequod's whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head
"Speak, thou
vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished
divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper
Thou saw'st the
O head! "Sail ho!" cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head.
mast-heads proved her a whale-ship. candidate for the Jeroboam's whaling voyage. "Gabriel! Gabriel!" cried Captain Mayhew; "thou must either--" But
"Hast thou seen the White Whale?" demanded Ahab, when the boat
forewarnings, Macey succeeded in persuading five men to man his boat.
descried from the ship. terror to the ship.
boat. hand.
life. monkey-rope holder.
"Ginger? ginger? ginger? Ginger! ginger?--sea-coal? "Ginger-jub! Starbuck. whale."
boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit. the ship by the towing whale. side. devil in disguise. The devil,
the old governor. Stubb?"
whale's head hoisted up opposite that parmacetti's."
right.
Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever
Right Whale's sadly lacks. Whale's head. call a "grey-headed whale."
of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if
whale's eyes corresponds to that of a man's ears; and you may fancy,
If your
then, with the whale? eye. observed between the sperm whale and the right. This whale is
Whale's head.
bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale
time. with--that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
different heads. of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's. Nor in the Sperm Whale are
Again, the Right Whale has two external
spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.
This Right Whale I
Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale's head, I would have
You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm
Whale, the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane
that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall,
backward sloping part of the front of the head, is there the
Just so with the head;
wood. distension and contraction. smallest insect. eye-brow.
forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale. A quoin is
both sides.
great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical
adornment of his wondrous tun. ice is just forming in water. A large whale's case generally yields
Whale's case.
Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
Then, hand-over-hand, down the other part, the Indian drops through
three alert hands. bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this
head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.
hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should
iron-bound bucket on top of his head? tackles, while poor, buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down
the slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made
the Sperm Whale's well.
honey head, and sweetly perished there?
Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature.
the nose. mountain defiles, the elephant's brow is majestic. forehead's middle, which, in man, is Lavater's mark of genius.
Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever
the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
being's face. to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? brow before you.
square.
mere handful of this monster's brain. rudimental resemblance to the skull proper. that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls. directly communicates with the brain. many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord
map out the whale's spine phrenologically? spinal cord.
the Sperm Whale's hump. in the Sperm Whale.
arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
other boats.
boats were diagonically in the whale's immediate wake, while
The whale was
fin. three Nantucket irons entered the whale. this whale carries the
head!
spout of the whale.
twenty Right Whales do.
bones of the monster that Perseus slew. whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely
George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and
of St. George. whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with
involuntary whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not
the whale. more ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versa;
Was not this Vishnoo a whaleman,
then? Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo!
Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in
historical story of Jonah and the whale. One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew
represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head--a peculiarity
consider Jonah as tombed in the whale's belly, but as temporarily
For truly, the Right Whale's mouth would
right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the Mediterranean Sea, and
too shallow for any whale to swim in. Besides, this idea of Jonah's
in the historical story of Jonah.
It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be
pitchpoling. running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance
rocking, jerking boat, under extreme headway. hand after darting.
bow of the flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is
Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or
of the whale. were old Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old
live punch-bowl quaff the living stuff."
surface. blood. If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale
time.
Whale has no proper olfactories. Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it is
cannot spout even if he would. whale's head? the precise nature of the whale spout. spout alone.
celestial, I celebrate a tail.
Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale's tail to begin at that point
tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across.
as anything else, imparts power to the tail. never wriggles. To the whale, his tail is the sole means of propulsion. play. elephant's trunk. touch! to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but
whaling season there. Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached
outermost whales, were heard but not felt. "Line! Who struck?--Two whale; one big, one
esteem, the whales salute MORE HOMINUM.
A whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in
First, the whales forming the margin of our lake
random whales, all violently making for one centre. all the drugged whales only one was captured.
average-sized male. Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan
watch that lord. Now, as the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so
schoolmaster. Whales. The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously
mentioned, offer a strong contrast to the harem schools. those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or
The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools.
cases.
First: What is a Fast-Fish? case,
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the
discount but a Fast-Fish? Fast-Fish? hamlets but Fast-Fish? is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? All Loose-Fish.
Loose-Fish?
Warden. this fish, my
stranger. "The Duke."
this whale."
Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign. Says Plowdon, the whale so
In his treatise on "Queen-Gold," or Queen-pinmoney, an old King's
Queen's, that ye Queen's wardrobe may be supplied with ye whalebone."
law.
whale must be alongside. Frenchman had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed
blasted whales in general.
"WHAT whale?"
White Whale--no."
out of such whales? "What now?" said the Guernsey-man to Stubb.
whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. while the Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale. Stubb was
late day, the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber
Though the word ambergris is but
except upon the sea. sick whale! manner.
of the Frenchman's two whales. Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago.
pleasant savor. I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's
Sperm Whale to for fragrance, considering his magnitude?
negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation. Poor Pip! The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness;
poor Pip came all foaming up
hated Pip for a poltroon. Meantime Pip's blue, choked face
substance was, Never jump from a boat, Pip, except--but all the rest
Stubb's
Stubb. eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that
sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till
unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their
hands for the gentle globules. frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing,
Nippers. men.
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. Kings.
to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.
The mincer now stands
That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the
Arrayed in decent black; occupying a
*Bible leaves! Bible leaves! mates to the mincer.
completed ship. employed in polishing them--one man in each pot, side by side--many
Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare
You cook, fire
the works." smoke! fire. sea-sofa. capricious emblazonings of the works. wondrous Solomon.
Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's
illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of
queens. night the ship's black hull still houses an illumination.
lamps--often but old bottles and vials, though--to the copper cooler
vat. astral contrivances ashore. April.
romantic proceeding of decanting off his oil into the casks and
never more to rise and blow.
great hatchways are unsealed, the bowels of the ship are thrown open,
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
unctuousness; the entire ship seems great leviathan himself; while on
sperm oil possesses a singularly cleansing virtue. an affair of oil. step to the deck to carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass,
man-killing!
doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of
Signs and
Signs and wonders, eh? here's
Adieu, Doubloon! what's the horse-shoe sign? Ship, old ship! Caw!
old Ahab! the gold!
boat's bow. "The White Whale," said the Englishman, pointing his ivory arm
time. captain). captain's bidding.
captain, addressing Ahab; "go on, boy."
Captain?"heading?"
drawing near to Ahab's arm.
boat!
That ship--well
forecastle. Flip? English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English
whaler. cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper. I
400,000 lbs. of beef.
20,000 lbs. Texel & Leyden cheese.
10,800 barrels of beer.
Spitzbergen whale fishery.
whale? Oh, busy weaver! Speak, weaver!--stay thy hand!--but
great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging--a gigantic idler!
skeleton. admeasurements.
whales. magnitude of my friend King Tranquo's.
Sir
whale.
largest sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to
unobstructed bones. In length, the Sperm Whale's skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two
been ninety feet long; for in the whale, the skeleton loses about one
feet, his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some
fifty feet of plain back-bone. of the middle ribs, which measured eight feet and some inches. From
The middle ribs
have been at least sixteen feet; whereas, the corresponding rib
part.
From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon
Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my
have entered the Ark; all the Fossil Whales hitherto discovered
Cetacean fossils.
Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their
great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's time. species.
When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks,
pedigree like Leviathan? Base of the Temple."
of a large sized modern whale. authority, that Sperm Whales have been captured near a hundred feet
Pliny tells us of Whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and
length--Rope Walks and Thames Tunnels of Whales! The whale of
whale alone should have degenerated.
man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily
whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years
savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at
pursuit from man.
The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel
pervading, mad recklessness, Ahab did at times give careful heed to
cured.
For, thought Ahab, while even the
particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to
light. recluseness. Pequod's decks.
not with earthly Ahab, yet, in this present matter of his leg, he
secured.
an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter
practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings
manifold, was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table furnished
right-whale bone, and cross-beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter
the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion. screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter
has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand
the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his
Was it that this old carpenter had been a life-long
various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls,
(SNEEZES). (SNEEZES)just like live legs. Sir?
Carpenter? Sir?--Clay? clay, sir? Sir?--oh! queer. And here's his leg!
sir. saving, sir."
leak! Starbuck!
What cares Ahab? Owners, owners? deck!"
Captain Ahab?"
beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man."
murmured Ahab, as Starbuck disappeared.
Poor Queequeg! poor fellow! Now, Queequeg,
die; and I'll beat ye your dying march."
Queequeg dies
game!--mind ye that; Queequeg dies game!--take ye good heed of that;
Queequeg dies game! Hark ye; if ye find
coward! dying here.
youth was answered; that serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a
lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds;
It rolls the midmost
arms. low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.
Thus this mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk
seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.
the other consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea;
towards the Japanese cruising-ground, the old man's purpose
the White Whale spouts thick blood!"
toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of
family's heart. the stout ringing of her young-armed old husband's hammer; whose
Oh, woe on woe! Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin
the worse than useless old man standing, till the hideous rot of life
twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man
Come hither! than death. Come hither!
"Because I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab," answered Perth,
can'st thou scorch a scar."
Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why
dost thou not go mad? thou making there?"
Can'st thou smoothe this seam?"
"Oh! "Look ye,
Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then,
Ahab exclaimed, "Good! thy wretched laugh, thy
life,--in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning
life immortal on them. calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. pondering repose of If. Where lies
foundling's father hidden? that same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:--
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look
golden light:--
"I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths
sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground,
captain's and officers' state-rooms. ship's elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was
"Come aboard, come aboard!" cried the gay Bachelor's commander,
"Come aboard!"
"Thou art too damned jolly. Hast lost any men?"
homeward-bound."
an empty ship, and outward-bound. vial was filled with Nantucket soundings.
Ahab.
sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness
wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper
hymns.
all sperm whales dying--the turning sunwards of the head, and so
upon the Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full
unverdured seas; thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly
vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening
thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. All
foster-brothers!"
waves, which gently chafed the whale's broad flank, like soft surf
flooded world. "Of the hearses? America."
"Aye, aye! a strange sight that, Parsee:--a hearse and its plumes
"Believe it or not, thou canst not die till it be seen, old man."
"Take another pledge, old man," said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted
cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;--"Immortal on land and on sea!"
slumbering crew arose from the boat's bottom, and ere noon the dead
ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same
instant. towards the sun and murmured to himself: "Thou sea-mark! thou high
thou tellest me truly where I AM--but canst thou
This instant thou must be eyeing him. thither side of thee, thou sun!"
thy impotence thou insultest the sun! Curse thee, thou
Old man of oceans!
thy peace."
"Look aloft!" cried Starbuck. "Aye, aye, men!" cried Ahab. Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest
Through thee,
Oh, thou
foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy
Leap! the boat!" cried Starbuck, "look at thy boat, old man!"
cry.
Shall I strike it, sir?"
"Strike nothing; lash it. "Sir!--in God's name!--sir?"
"Well."
"The anchors are working, sir. The wind
Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho,
brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud. medicine, take medicine!"
THE ANCHORS THERE HANGING.
Here are hydrants, Flask. Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's
Never mind;
Thank ye. Midnight Aloft.--Thunder and Lightning.
"Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Um, um, um. Um, um, um!"
astern; aye, the foul breeze became fair!
THE FAIR
WIND! Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck's
Loaded? Sleeping? withstand thee, then, old man. Aye,
hope to wrest this old man's
boy!
"Ha, ha, my ship! of the sun. sea!"
"Heading East at
compasses--that's all. mate, gloomily.
than an old wife's knitting needle. Ahab's.
needles. Quick!"
Ahab's needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his
log and line. thee? sea parts the log-line. Ha, Pip? "Pip? Pip's
Captain Ahab! sir, sir! Pip! Pip!
wild cry remained within hearing. men.
old Manxman said nay.
"A life-buoy of a coffin!" cried Starbuck, starting.
caulking-iron.
Make a life-buoy of the coffin,
It's the old
Some superstitious old carpenters, now,
coffin! coffins and hearses.
"Life-buoy, sir. Oh, look, sir! hatchway!"
"Thank ye, man. "Sir? coffin? Dost thou never?"
"Sing, sir? "Faith, sir, I've--"
sir."
Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?"
all sail--stunsail on stunsail--after the missing boat; kindling a
two pious whale-ships cruising after one missing whale-boat in the
conjure"--here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far
coat and watch--what says Ahab? one of the Captain's sons among the number of the missing boat's
mate's instinctively adopting the ordinary procedure of a whale-ship
a boy, Captain Ahab--though but a child, and nestling safely at home
God bless ye, man, and
stepped into his boat, and returned to his ship.
Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. thee by him. shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain. Aye, lad, thou shalt
Sir, I
"Oh good master, master, master!
Pip! Pip! epaulets!
master!
mortar of Ahab's iron soul. the deck, ever conscious that the old man's despot eye was on them.
times affected it. Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his
rib and keel was solid Ahab.
heard from aft,--"Man the mast-heads!"Ahab must have the doubloon! So Ahab's
Ahab's hat was never restored; the wild hawk
the sea.
life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most
"Hast seen the White Whale?"
Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning
"Then God keep thee, old man--see'st thou that"--pointing to the
hammock with uplifted hands--"may the resurrection and the life--"
"Brace forward! Up helm!" cried Ahab like lightning to his men.
"Ha! yonder! "In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us
Ahab turned.
"Starbuck!"
sea! very old, Starbuck? God! God! old? Close! Is Ahab, Ahab? Sleeping? swaths--Starbuck!"
"Man the mast-heads! the White Whale first. whale's visible jets. top-gallant-sails! Boats, boats!"
leeward; and Ahab heading the onset. jaw. From the boat's
Man, man!
air.
mast-head cry.
Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he
whale's sidelong vision. "Aye! boat's crews."
"Sir?"
Muster the men. Ahab is for ever Ahab,
man. D'ye feel brave men, brave?"
Aye,
Ahab's head! Aye, aye,
thou
ship! hated whale. sea. grinning whale! whale! Ahab
Job.
astern. I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and
great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot
lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side. Buoyed
with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with
sheathed beaks. orphan.
sight of land. oceans. a passenger. passengers get sea-sick--grow quarrelsome--don't sleep of nights--do
must pay. paying and being paid. "WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL.
whale himself. seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Saturday night in December. business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is
stranded. place. Ha! Ha, Ishmael, muttered
thought I. Euroclydon,
house. Euroclydon!
adjoining room. complexioned" harpooneer. "Landlord! "Landlord! slanderin' his head."
big bed that. head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat. head-peddler. room. "Landlord!
Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm
felt dreadfully. Sixteen hours in bed!
my room. arm thrown round me. "Queequeg!--in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake!" At
boots. Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots
ablutions to his chest, arms, and hands. Thinks I, Queequeg,
third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea
who could show a cheek like Queequeg? array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.
went to breakfast.
ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch
mode of attaining a high social polish. every man maintained a profound silence. bears, these timid warrior whalemen!
beefsteaks, done rare.
daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
foreign parts. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean
Regent Street
beats all Water Street and Wapping. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one--I mean a
Still New Bedford is
a queer place. opulent, than in New Bedford. avenues of green and gold.
several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on
SACRED
THIS TABLET
Is erected to his Memory
SACRED
PACIFIC,
THIS MARBLE
THIS TABLET
matter of Life and Death. cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they
chaplain. Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort
history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the
arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular
side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly
cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its
noble ship," the angel seemed to say, "beat on, beat on, thou noble
ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo!
question mangles Jonah! Jonah, that's another stab. Then the Captain knows that Jonah
the contraband was Jonah. Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone
the sea. The lot is Jonah's; that
shipmates? Woe
shipmates!
time. astonishment. Queequeg was George
book. world. I'll try a pagan friend, thought
I drew
thought I.
man. little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before
Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs
noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans. We
delightfully and unmistakably warm. snugness of being in bed. identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were
congenial to our clayey part. coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I
though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed
I no more felt unduly
slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated
sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong
unconquerable warriors. A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a
passage to Christian lands. Queequeg budged not. wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and
savage--this sea Prince of Wales, never saw the Captain's cabin.
Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily
poor Queequeg gave it up for lost. seamen.
harpoons. wharf. Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten. Well;
High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father. "Now," said Queequeg, "what you
schooner. "Capting! Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"
All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump;
Nantucket! blotting paper. found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles. empty ivory casket,--the poor little Indian's skeleton.
take to the sea for a livelihood! cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea,
explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of
That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed
Nantucketer's. pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the
gallows. There's Mrs. Hussey."
"Clam or Cod?" she repeated.
"A clam for supper? time, ain't it, Mrs. Hussey?"
cod-chowder was placed before us.
harpoon?"
Chowder
Mrs. Hussey wore a
chowder; clam or cod to-morrow for breakfast, men?"
Old
of shipping ye."
Ahab?"
Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
young man. Peleg. "Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh? Captain Peleg."
ye, Bildad. thou art shipped."
Queequeg! "Queequeg!--Queequeg!""La! cried. Kill? "Queequeg," said I, going up to him, "Queequeg, what's the matter
You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg."
Ramadan!
In one word, Queequeg,
impression upon Queequeg.
papers.
at Queequeg.
Congregational Church. Deacon
dost thou sign
Quohog.
harpooneer," Peleg. "Peleg! Peleg!" said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands, "thou
Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg.
"Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?"
"Ye said true--ye hav'n't seen Old
"Captain Ahab."
"What! Ye
word with Captain Ahab. Morning to ye, shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye;
Morning to ye,
"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning."
"Elijah."
Elijah!
soon the vessel might be sailing. the great length of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles
remembered, that of all ships, whaling vessels are the most exposed
ship.
some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of
like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle
all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was
aboard every day; meantime, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad, could
If
certainly sail.
"Ye be, be ye? "Never mind him," said I, "Queequeg, come on."
"Morning to ye."
ye?
"Morning to ye! off, Queequeg! sleeper's head.
"What's that for, Queequeg?"
rigger. "Holloa!
the two Captains, Peleg and Bildad, issued from the cabin, and
Captain Ahab
Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on
Captain Ahab stayed below. commanding, and not Bildad.
ye spring, I say, all of ye--spring! longer. mate.
ye, Starbuck--luck to ye, Mr. Stubb--luck to ye, Mr. Flask--good-bye
Bildad, almost incoherently.
feet. Bulkington. 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
Know ye now, Bulkington? safety! who would craven crawl to land!
heart, O Bulkington! of thy ocean-perishing--straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be
the world! The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you
THE WHALE NO FAMOUS AUTHOR, AND WHALING NO FAMOUS CHRONICLER? Who
times! WHALING NOT RESPECTABLE? Whaling is imperial! dignity in whaling.
NO DIGNITY IN WHALING? honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College
substantiated facts. blameworthy?
solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. run well, as they anoint machinery? anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has
macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor
cod-liver oil. we whalemen supply your kings and
queens with coronation stuff!
the man. A staid, steadfast man, whose
man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
them for theirs; and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck
well knew. Men may seem detestable as
undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. robed investiture. The great God
Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God!
Stubb was the second mate. Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted
encountered. Little Flask was one
men. Pequod's boats as headsmen. harpooneers. Tashtego was Stubb the
second mate's squire.
before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans
seen of Captain Ahab. cabin.
Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his
quarter-deck.
elemental strife at sea. laid eye upon wild Ahab. Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the
beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow. cabin. smile.
to visit the night-cloaked deck. Stubb, thou didst not know Ahab
scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly,
called a dog, sir."
"It's very queer. queerest old man Stubb ever sailed with. A hot old
man! queer, too. somehow.
Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the
In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were
Ahab.
smoking no longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! sereneness, to send up mild white vapours among mild white hairs, not
I'll smoke no more--"
He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea. pipe made. With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.
Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
kept kicking at it. insult, my little man. kick?' 'Wise
'Look ye
Captain Ahab kicked ye,
Listen, wise Stubb. man? it, Flask.
the DUODECIMO WHALE.
SPERM WHALE; II. WHALE.
Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right
Whale. Whale Cruising Grounds.
whales; bunched whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales, are
Greenland whale. Horned whale, and the Unicorn whale. Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the
officer called the Specksynder. Harpooneer. Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. captain's more inferior subalterns. conduct of the harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely
watches on a whaling ground) the command of the ship's deck is also
Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is
For be a man's
whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical
Oh, Ahab!
saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck," disappears into the cabin.
rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows after his predecessors.
face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little Flask
it was, Flask, alas! For hereby Flask's dinner was
precede Flask to the deck. awful Ahab.
table in the Pequod's cabin. Dough-Boy!
quarters.
the other seamen my first mast-head came round.
In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost
whale-ship at sea. The three mast-heads are kept manned from
watch-coat.
frozen seas. Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads
When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in
head. whale yet.
white whale. Look ye! men. "God bless ye,
men. Starbuck. Men, ye seem the
"Advance, ye mates! Starbuck! Drink, ye harpooneers!
hill. this Iron Crown of
enjoy. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists,
ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! reach ye. Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can
swerve me. ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve
yourselves! man has ye there.
Horrible old man! Time and tide flow wide. Oh, God! Hark! revelry is forward! pictures life. Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch!
Oh, life! me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures!
Ha! ha! ha! ha! Well, Stubb, WISE
Stubb--that's my title--well, Stubb, what of it, Stubb? Fa, la! lirra, skirra! Mr. Starbuck? Aye, aye, sir--(ASIDE)
DUTCH SAILOR.
FRENCH SAILOR.
FRENCH SAILOR.
MALTESE SAILOR.
SICILIAN SAILOR.
AZORE SAILOR.
OLD MANX SAILOR.
ENGLISH SAILOR.
SPANISH SAILOR.
SPANISH SAILOR.
secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. whaling. the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part,
the whale. whale. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac
white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. in Moby Dick. all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale.
four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great-white
Witness the white bear of the poles, and the white shark of
the white-shrouded bear or shark.*
As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in
before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its
sea. the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger,
Albatross.
White Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
whiteness--as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white
"HIST! passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt. "Hist! "Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d'ye mean?"
"Cough be damned! have done, shipmate, will ye? biscuits ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye--nothing else.
Hark ye, Cabaco, there is
the bucket!"
cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts. sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe
construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.*
"This chart divides
feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in
Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular
whales. the Season-on-the-Line. next ensuing season. For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming, unappeasedly steadfast
Meanwhile, the whale he
This man and this whale again came
Whale HAS done it.
be dining with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship
I tell you, the sperm whale will
transferred to the ship, and secured there; the whale towing her
whale; and I am strongly inclined to think a sperm whale. isolated instances of the presence of the sperm whale in the
sperm whale. probability have been a sperm whale.
hunted. Starbuck's
body and Starbuck's coerced will were Ahab's, so long as Ahab kept
Ahab respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested
manufactured man, thought Ahab, is sordidness. White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and
I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of all hopes of
cash--aye, cash. soon cashier Ahab.
to Ahab personally.
waters. mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates. This warp
Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting
must be chance--aye, chance, free will, and necessity--nowise
blow at events.
"Quick, steward!" cried Ahab. "Time! time!"
air.
This boat had
tossed boats below.
boat? Pull, will ye? pull,
pull, won't ye? pull, and
Boat and
Pull, babes--pull, sucklings--pull, all.
the boat.
disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem
nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort
whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
Cape Horn."
back-foremost into death's jaws?"
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!"
own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving
Flask. perils of the chase. maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little
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
called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee
the time. boat's crew being assigned to that boat.
unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating
silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was
uprising from the sea. lowering.
that night. time.
sea-ravens. jet would at times be descried.
By night
Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night
Terrible old man!
(Albatross) by name. from home.
mast-heads. cruising. "Ship ahoy! Meantime his ship was still
threatening wind forbade. world! themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks. evinced.
ship would receive the latest whaling intelligence from the
whaling vessels crossing each other's track on the cruising-ground
sea-peasant. some merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the mid-Atlantic,
As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are
whalers hail--"How many barrels?" free-and-easy whaler! GAM. High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water
tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and
imagine, gentlemen. gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.
deck. Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. "'Sink the ship?' cried Steelkilt. forecastle there, men? 'Damn ye,' cried the Captain, pacing
Steelkilt; 'no lies.'
sailor headed. gentlemen?'
of the whale all wrong.
of the true whale's majestic flukes.
Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as
As for the book-binder's whale winding
you will find some curious whales.
Spermaceti Whale Fisheries." alleged "whale" and a "narwhale." Greenland whale (that is to say, the Right whale), even Scoresby, a
Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash. "However recklessly the whale may
Some of the Sperm Whale drawings in J. Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but
whale as seen by his living hunters.
not the most correct, presentations of whales and whaling scenes to
represent attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale. Sea fowls
spirit of the whale hunt. American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the
Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside; the vessel (in the
giving chase to whales in the distance.
leg. whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm
Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone,
As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With
Dutch savage, Albert Durer.
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs
At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales
whales are seldom remarkable as faithful essays. some old-fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed
profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges.
Whale largely feeds. leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.*
time beholds this species of the leviathans of the sea. seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and
of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
wrecks of ships. the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures
world began.
appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man
In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher
glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank. this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo. The White Whale, the White Whale!"
Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab
glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long
the sperm whale his only food. For though other species of whales
feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones
whale-line.
entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though
In length, the common sperm whale-line
used in stowing the line in its tub. In the English boats two tubs are used instead of one; the same line
on the American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off
line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound
to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end
the line, and lost. All men live enveloped in whale-lines.
poor whale, was thy last. "Clear away the boats! Luff!" cried Ahab. pilot-boat.
cried Stubb, spluttering out the smoke as he spoke. keels cut the sea. wet the line!" cried Stubb to the tub oarsman (him
"Haul in--haul in!" cried Stubb to the bowsman! like red men. the sea.
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. the whale. No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body,
blood-vessels in the boat; no wonder that some sperm whalemen are
owners, whaling is but a losing concern; for it is the harpooneer
Again, if the dart be successful, then at the second critical
harpooneer likewise start to running fore and aft, to the imminent
productive subjects, grow the chapters.
mention. owing to the instantaneous, violent, convulsive running of the whale
second iron into him. connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon
all hands. the spare coils of box line (mentioned in a preceding chapter) making
casualties.
skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the
directions.
"Cook, cook!--where's that old Fleece?" he cried at length, widening
stabbing with his lance; "cook, you cook!--sail this way, cook!"
cook!"
fellow-critters, dat dat woraciousness--'top dat dam slappin' ob de
dat is de pint. to dat whale? you, cook?"
How old are you, cook?"
"Where were you born, cook?"
whale-steak yet."
Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large
species of whale. eating. turtle-balls or veal balls. like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are
rare old vintages of prime old train oil. dish. Cannibals? very ox you are eating? devouring that fat goose?
When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and
morning. sharks; for immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side,
whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks,* by
vital part. departed. steel; is about the bigness of a man's spread hand; and in general
razor. "Queequeg no care what god made him shark," said the savage,
Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin."
conducted to the windlass, and the huge lower block of the tackles
was swung over the whale; to this block the great blubber hook,
broad, semicircular line is cut round the hole, the hook is inserted,
the first strip of blubber. swaying mass. short lower part is still fast, the long upper strip, called a
blubber-room. 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
of the whale. for marks in my whale-books. Assuming the blubber to be the skin of the whale; then, when this
whale remains undecipherable. Whale in this particular. the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for
the whale. after the whale! like the great whale, retain, O man! vast as the whale!
colossal. many insulting poniards in the whale. The vast white headless
it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of
fowls, augment the murderous din. earth! Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost
white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high
There's
There's orthodoxy!
bursting sea. behead a sperm whale?
The Pequod's whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head
"Speak, thou
vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished
divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper
Thou saw'st the
O head! "Sail ho!" cried a triumphant voice from the main-mast-head.
mast-heads proved her a whale-ship. candidate for the Jeroboam's whaling voyage. "Gabriel! Gabriel!" cried Captain Mayhew; "thou must either--" But
"Hast thou seen the White Whale?" demanded Ahab, when the boat
forewarnings, Macey succeeded in persuading five men to man his boat.
descried from the ship. terror to the ship.
boat. hand.
life. monkey-rope holder.
"Ginger? ginger? ginger? Ginger! ginger?--sea-coal? "Ginger-jub! Starbuck. whale."
boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit. the ship by the towing whale. side. devil in disguise. The devil,
the old governor. Stubb?"
whale's head hoisted up opposite that parmacetti's."
right.
Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever
Right Whale's sadly lacks. Whale's head. call a "grey-headed whale."
of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale's jaw, if
whale's eyes corresponds to that of a man's ears; and you may fancy,
If your
then, with the whale? eye. observed between the sperm whale and the right. This whale is
Whale's head.
bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale
time. with--that the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely
different heads. of a lower jaw, like the Sperm Whale's. Nor in the Sperm Whale are
Again, the Right Whale has two external
spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.
This Right Whale I
Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale's head, I would have
You observe that in the ordinary swimming position of the Sperm
Whale, the front of his head presents an almost wholly vertical plane
that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall,
backward sloping part of the front of the head, is there the
Just so with the head;
wood. distension and contraction. smallest insect. eye-brow.
forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale. A quoin is
both sides.
great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical
adornment of his wondrous tun. ice is just forming in water. A large whale's case generally yields
Whale's case.
Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped.
Then, hand-over-hand, down the other part, the Indian drops through
three alert hands. bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this
head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.
hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should
iron-bound bucket on top of his head? tackles, while poor, buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down
the slowly descending head, Queequeg with his keen sword had made
the Sperm Whale's well.
honey head, and sweetly perished there?
Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature.
the nose. mountain defiles, the elephant's brow is majestic. forehead's middle, which, in man, is Lavater's mark of genius.
Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever
the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
being's face. to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? brow before you.
square.
mere handful of this monster's brain. rudimental resemblance to the skull proper. that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls. directly communicates with the brain. many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord
map out the whale's spine phrenologically? spinal cord.
the Sperm Whale's hump. in the Sperm Whale.
arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
other boats.
boats were diagonically in the whale's immediate wake, while
The whale was
fin. three Nantucket irons entered the whale. this whale carries the
head!
spout of the whale.
twenty Right Whales do.
bones of the monster that Perseus slew. whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely
George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and
of St. George. whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer with
involuntary whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not
the whale. more ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice versa;
Was not this Vishnoo a whaleman,
then? Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo!
Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in
historical story of Jonah and the whale. One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew
represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head--a peculiarity
consider Jonah as tombed in the whale's belly, but as temporarily
For truly, the Right Whale's mouth would
right: Jonah was swallowed by the whale in the Mediterranean Sea, and
too shallow for any whale to swim in. Besides, this idea of Jonah's
in the historical story of Jonah.
It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be
pitchpoling. running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance
rocking, jerking boat, under extreme headway. hand after darting.
bow of the flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is
Handling the long lance lightly, glancing twice or
of the whale. were old Orleans whiskey, or old Ohio, or unspeakable old
live punch-bowl quaff the living stuff."
surface. blood. If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale
time.
Whale has no proper olfactories. Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it is
cannot spout even if he would. whale's head? the precise nature of the whale spout. spout alone.
celestial, I celebrate a tail.
Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale's tail to begin at that point
tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across.
as anything else, imparts power to the tail. never wriggles. To the whale, his tail is the sole means of propulsion. play. elephant's trunk. touch! to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but
whaling season there. Whales, instead of almost invariably sailing in small detached
outermost whales, were heard but not felt. "Line! Who struck?--Two whale; one big, one
esteem, the whales salute MORE HOMINUM.
A whale wounded (as we afterwards learned) in
First, the whales forming the margin of our lake
random whales, all violently making for one centre. all the drugged whales only one was captured.
average-sized male. Should any unwarrantably pert young Leviathan
watch that lord. Now, as the harem of whales is called by the fishermen a school, so
schoolmaster. Whales. The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously
mentioned, offer a strong contrast to the harem schools. those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or
The Forty-barrel-bull schools are larger than the harem schools.
cases.
First: What is a Fast-Fish? case,
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will, on reflection, be found the
discount but a Fast-Fish? Fast-Fish? hamlets but Fast-Fish? is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? All Loose-Fish.
Loose-Fish?
Warden. this fish, my
stranger. "The Duke."
this whale."
Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign. Says Plowdon, the whale so
In his treatise on "Queen-Gold," or Queen-pinmoney, an old King's
Queen's, that ye Queen's wardrobe may be supplied with ye whalebone."
law.
whale must be alongside. Frenchman had a second whale alongside; and this second whale seemed
blasted whales in general.
"WHAT whale?"
White Whale--no."
out of such whales? "What now?" said the Guernsey-man to Stubb.
whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. while the Pequod slid in between him and Stubb's whale. Stubb was
late day, the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber
Though the word ambergris is but
except upon the sea. sick whale! manner.
of the Frenchman's two whales. Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago.
pleasant savor. I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's
Sperm Whale to for fragrance, considering his magnitude?
negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation. Poor Pip! The first time Stubb lowered with him, Pip evinced much nervousness;
poor Pip came all foaming up
hated Pip for a poltroon. Meantime Pip's blue, choked face
substance was, Never jump from a boat, Pip, except--but all the rest
Stubb's
Stubb. eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that
sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till
unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their
hands for the gentle globules. frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing,
Nippers. men.
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. Kings.
to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.
The mincer now stands
That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the
Arrayed in decent black; occupying a
*Bible leaves! Bible leaves! mates to the mincer.
completed ship. employed in polishing them--one man in each pot, side by side--many
Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare
You cook, fire
the works." smoke! fire. sea-sofa. capricious emblazonings of the works. wondrous Solomon.
Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's
illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of
queens. night the ship's black hull still houses an illumination.
lamps--often but old bottles and vials, though--to the copper cooler
vat. astral contrivances ashore. April.
romantic proceeding of decanting off his oil into the casks and
never more to rise and blow.
great hatchways are unsealed, the bowels of the ship are thrown open,
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
unctuousness; the entire ship seems great leviathan himself; while on
sperm oil possesses a singularly cleansing virtue. an affair of oil. step to the deck to carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass,
man-killing!
doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of
Signs and
Signs and wonders, eh? here's
Adieu, Doubloon! what's the horse-shoe sign? Ship, old ship! Caw!
old Ahab! the gold!
boat's bow. "The White Whale," said the Englishman, pointing his ivory arm
time. captain). captain's bidding.
captain, addressing Ahab; "go on, boy."
Captain?"heading?"
drawing near to Ahab's arm.
boat!
That ship--well
forecastle. Flip? English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English
whaler. cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper. I
400,000 lbs. of beef.
20,000 lbs. Texel & Leyden cheese.
10,800 barrels of beer.
Spitzbergen whale fishery.
whale? Oh, busy weaver! Speak, weaver!--stay thy hand!--but
great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging--a gigantic idler!
skeleton. admeasurements.
whales. magnitude of my friend King Tranquo's.
Sir
whale.
largest sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to
unobstructed bones. In length, the Sperm Whale's skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two
been ninety feet long; for in the whale, the skeleton loses about one
feet, his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some
fifty feet of plain back-bone. of the middle ribs, which measured eight feet and some inches. From
The middle ribs
have been at least sixteen feet; whereas, the corresponding rib
part.
From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon
Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my
have entered the Ark; all the Fossil Whales hitherto discovered
Cetacean fossils.
Detached broken fossils of pre-adamite whales, fragments of their
great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's time. species.
When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks,
pedigree like Leviathan? Base of the Temple."
of a large sized modern whale. authority, that Sperm Whales have been captured near a hundred feet
Pliny tells us of Whales that embraced acres of living bulk, and
length--Rope Walks and Thames Tunnels of Whales! The whale of
whale alone should have degenerated.
man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily
whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years
savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at
pursuit from man.
The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel
pervading, mad recklessness, Ahab did at times give careful heed to
cured.
For, thought Ahab, while even the
particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to
light. recluseness. Pequod's decks.
not with earthly Ahab, yet, in this present matter of his leg, he
secured.
an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter
practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings
manifold, was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table furnished
right-whale bone, and cross-beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter
the carpenter concocts a soothing lotion. screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter
has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand
the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his
Was it that this old carpenter had been a life-long
various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls,
(SNEEZES). (SNEEZES)just like live legs. Sir?
Carpenter? Sir?--Clay? clay, sir? Sir?--oh! queer. And here's his leg!
sir. saving, sir."
leak! Starbuck!
What cares Ahab? Owners, owners? deck!"
Captain Ahab?"
beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man."
murmured Ahab, as Starbuck disappeared.
Poor Queequeg! poor fellow! Now, Queequeg,
die; and I'll beat ye your dying march."
Queequeg dies
game!--mind ye that; Queequeg dies game!--take ye good heed of that;
Queequeg dies game! Hark ye; if ye find
coward! dying here.
youth was answered; that serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a
lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds;
It rolls the midmost
arms. low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.
Thus this mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk
seductive god, bowing your head to Pan.
the other consciously inhaled the salt breath of the new found sea;
towards the Japanese cruising-ground, the old man's purpose
the White Whale spouts thick blood!"
toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of
family's heart. the stout ringing of her young-armed old husband's hammer; whose
Oh, woe on woe! Hadst thou taken this old blacksmith to thyself ere his full ruin
the worse than useless old man standing, till the hideous rot of life
twice followed her thither; and the houseless, familyless old man
Come hither! than death. Come hither!
"Because I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab," answered Perth,
can'st thou scorch a scar."
Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why
dost thou not go mad? thou making there?"
Can'st thou smoothe this seam?"
"Oh! "Look ye,
Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then,
Ahab exclaimed, "Good! thy wretched laugh, thy
life,--in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning
life immortal on them. calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. pondering repose of If. Where lies
foundling's father hidden? that same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:--
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look
golden light:--
"I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths
sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground,
captain's and officers' state-rooms. ship's elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was
"Come aboard, come aboard!" cried the gay Bachelor's commander,
"Come aboard!"
"Thou art too damned jolly. Hast lost any men?"
homeward-bound."
an empty ship, and outward-bound. vial was filled with Nantucket soundings.
Ahab.
sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness
wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper
hymns.
all sperm whales dying--the turning sunwards of the head, and so
upon the Niger's unknown source; here, too, life dies sunwards full
unverdured seas; thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly
vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening
thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. All
foster-brothers!"
waves, which gently chafed the whale's broad flank, like soft surf
flooded world. "Of the hearses? America."
"Aye, aye! a strange sight that, Parsee:--a hearse and its plumes
"Believe it or not, thou canst not die till it be seen, old man."
"Take another pledge, old man," said the Parsee, as his eyes lighted
cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;--"Immortal on land and on sea!"
slumbering crew arose from the boat's bottom, and ere noon the dead
ship's deck, and with face thrown up like Ahab's, was eyeing the same
instant. towards the sun and murmured to himself: "Thou sea-mark! thou high
thou tellest me truly where I AM--but canst thou
This instant thou must be eyeing him. thither side of thee, thou sun!"
thy impotence thou insultest the sun! Curse thee, thou
Old man of oceans!
thy peace."
"Look aloft!" cried Starbuck. "Aye, aye, men!" cried Ahab. Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest
Through thee,
Oh, thou
foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy
Leap! the boat!" cried Starbuck, "look at thy boat, old man!"
cry.
Shall I strike it, sir?"
"Strike nothing; lash it. "Sir!--in God's name!--sir?"
"Well."
"The anchors are working, sir. The wind
Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho,
brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud. medicine, take medicine!"
THE ANCHORS THERE HANGING.
Here are hydrants, Flask. Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's
Never mind;
Thank ye. Midnight Aloft.--Thunder and Lightning.
"Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Um, um, um. Um, um, um!"
astern; aye, the foul breeze became fair!
THE FAIR
WIND! Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck's
Loaded? Sleeping? withstand thee, then, old man. Aye,
hope to wrest this old man's
boy!
"Ha, ha, my ship! of the sun. sea!"
"Heading East at
compasses--that's all. mate, gloomily.
than an old wife's knitting needle. Ahab's.
needles. Quick!"
Ahab's needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his
log and line. thee? sea parts the log-line. Ha, Pip? "Pip? Pip's
Captain Ahab! sir, sir! Pip! Pip!
wild cry remained within hearing. men.
old Manxman said nay.
"A life-buoy of a coffin!" cried Starbuck, starting.
caulking-iron.
Make a life-buoy of the coffin,
It's the old
Some superstitious old carpenters, now,
coffin! coffins and hearses.
"Life-buoy, sir. Oh, look, sir! hatchway!"
"Thank ye, man. "Sir? coffin? Dost thou never?"
"Sing, sir? "Faith, sir, I've--"
sir."
Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?"
all sail--stunsail on stunsail--after the missing boat; kindling a
two pious whale-ships cruising after one missing whale-boat in the
conjure"--here exclaimed the stranger Captain to Ahab, who thus far
coat and watch--what says Ahab? one of the Captain's sons among the number of the missing boat's
mate's instinctively adopting the ordinary procedure of a whale-ship
a boy, Captain Ahab--though but a child, and nestling safely at home
God bless ye, man, and
stepped into his boat, and returned to his ship.
Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. thee by him. shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain. Aye, lad, thou shalt
Sir, I
"Oh good master, master, master!
Pip! Pip! epaulets!
master!
mortar of Ahab's iron soul. the deck, ever conscious that the old man's despot eye was on them.
times affected it. Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his
rib and keel was solid Ahab.
heard from aft,--"Man the mast-heads!"Ahab must have the doubloon! So Ahab's
Ahab's hat was never restored; the wild hawk
the sea.
life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most
"Hast seen the White Whale?"
Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning
"Then God keep thee, old man--see'st thou that"--pointing to the
hammock with uplifted hands--"may the resurrection and the life--"
"Brace forward! Up helm!" cried Ahab like lightning to his men.
"Ha! yonder! "In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us
Ahab turned.
"Starbuck!"
sea! very old, Starbuck? God! God! old? Close! Is Ahab, Ahab? Sleeping? swaths--Starbuck!"
"Man the mast-heads! the White Whale first. whale's visible jets. top-gallant-sails! Boats, boats!"
leeward; and Ahab heading the onset. jaw. From the boat's
Man, man!
air.
mast-head cry.
Ahab's boat was central; and cheering his men, he
whale's sidelong vision. "Aye! boat's crews."
"Sir?"
Muster the men. Ahab is for ever Ahab,
man. D'ye feel brave men, brave?"
Aye,
Ahab's head! Aye, aye,
thou
ship! hated whale. sea. grinning whale! whale! Ahab
Job.
astern. I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and
great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin life-buoy shot
lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side. Buoyed
with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with
sheathed beaks. orphan.
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