1.  Title




may, there stands the

of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door

bulwarks of ships from China; some

you?’ – he at last said – ‘you no speak-e,
do to take care of myself

interior door

charm wanting? – Water –

knots of human hair; and one was
open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough.

rise – yes, he’s the bird
turning flukes – it’s a nice

halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign

either in a physical or metaphysical
with fresh surprise. There was no hair on his head – none to

Harpoons’ – but it looked too expensive and

about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is

leviathan himself?

ever heard of. On the contrary



2.  Author




He wears a

ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company

remember that – and

meanings

a child, I well remember a somewhat similar

No one having previously heard
marble tablets, and

England traveller

lie buried beneath the green grass;

vain; the indignant gale howls

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers

lies my

lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and

empty stomach, in the Negro heart of Africa, which was the



3.  Ishmael




clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth

as seen in the

‘look you,’ roared the Captain, ‘I’ll kill-e you, you cannibal

lasso, caught it
matters were, dived down and disappeared. A few minutes

eyes; for
I now complained

surprise and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to

he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had

more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and

affectionate arm

eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness of

long living arc of a leap



4.  Queequeg




Humiliation, was

eluded him.

Another. This world pays dividends

deal less than seven hundred and seventy-seven

poising his harpoon, cried out in some

egress to Bildad, who, I make no doubt, was

dost not

down for the three hundredth,’

last, and knew nothing

into an

Gayhead, said that the name would somehow
Peleg, to his partner, who, aghast at

upon this ragged old sailor; and

rig jury-masts – how to get into the

papers. We must have Hedgehog there, I mean

looking over the bedside, there

eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of
rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck. A confluent

a broad shad-bellied

soul’s a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon

content if the world is ready to

a ship-owner; Bildad, as I hinted before

look; limped towards me where I lay; pressed his



5.  Pequod




about his
talk of securing the top-sail halyards to them. In his

harpooner, say; and if in emulation

invite to that town some score or two families

not a tame

graze the keel, would make her shudder
ocean to kill whales for my living, and not

fornication
the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and

ruddy, young fellow, very pugnacious

own father’s? Where in the bottomless deeps, could he find

permitting stars. But this august dignity I treat of, is not

honouring us whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our

island of Nantucket? Why did Britain

encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw;

since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman,



6.  Ahab




or inexpressive, I shall say so, and suggest another. I

lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a

devilish broad insult. But this insult is whittled
than the whale-fleet

hands among the unspeakable

upon fixed wages, but upon their common

never

down to a point only.” But now comes the greatest joke of

Ere

request among jewellers and watchmakers.



7.  Starbuck




soul is more than matched; she’s overmanned; and by

this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge, – as wild

against Tashego

identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for

distracted decks upon which they gaze; however,
sting, that sanity should ground

things are forced to feed – Oh, life! ’tis now that

everything

at every

descry what shoals and

from the inclement weather of the frozen seas. In the fireside

as when an African elephant goes passenger

such a field! I think I see his impious end; but

the latent horror in thee! But ’tis not me! that



8.  The Whale




A row! a row! a row!
comparatively, had knowingly seen him;

of their aspect. So that

lurking in him then, how soon would their

of the albatross: whence come those clouds

round our

life, – all this to

even at the present day has the original

strongly on the imagination of an untravelled American

storied structures, its neighbours – the
a row a’low, and a row aloft – Gods and men – both

leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound

Lords of the White Elephants
circumference, many

of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that

Latin

of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness

rising in a milk-white fog – Yea, while
only arises from the circumstances, that the irresponsible

few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to
A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row!

These two statements may perhaps

Hue, nor yet his deformed lower jaw, that so much invested

enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale

in his frantic

sublimer

more obvious considerations touching