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Chapter 35: The Mast-Head.
November 26, 2025
It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the other seamen my first mast-head came round. In most American whalemen the mast-heads...
Chapter 34: The Cabin-Table.
November 26, 2025
It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting...
Chapter 33: The Specksnyder.
November 26, 2025
Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising from the...
Chapter 32: Cetology.
November 26, 2025
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod’s...
Chapter 31: Queen Mab.
November 26, 2025
Next morning Stubb accosted Flask. “Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man’s ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and...
Chapter 30: The Pipe.
November 26, 2025
When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor of the watch, he...
Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
November 26, 2025
Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on...
Chapter 28: Ahab.
November 26, 2025
For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen of Captain Ahab. The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for...
Chapter 27: Knights and Squires.
November 26, 2025
Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor...
Chapter 26: Knights and Squires.
November 26, 2025
The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast,...
Chapter 25: Postscript.
November 26, 2025
In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly...
Chapter 24: The Advocate.
November 26, 2025
As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen as a...
Chapter 23: The Lee Shore.
November 26, 2025
Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn. When on that shivering winter’s night,...
Chapter 22: Merry Christmas.
November 26, 2025
At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship’s riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the ever-...
Chapter 21: Going Aboard.
November 26, 2025
It was nearly six o’clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf. “There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right,”...
Chapter 20: All Astir.
November 26, 2025
A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod. Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts...
Chapter 19: The Prophet.
November 26, 2025
“Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?” Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied...
Chapter 18: His Mark.
November 26, 2025
As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his...
Chapter 17: The Ramadan.
November 26, 2025
As Queequeg’s Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the...
Chapter 16: The Ship.
November 26, 2025
In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow. But to my surprise and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been diligently...
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