MOBY DICK;
BOBEY DIG;

OR THE WHALE
OR THE WHALE




by Herman Melville
by Herbes Belville













CHAPTER 1
CHABTER 1




Loomings
Lubiz










Call me Ishmael.  Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--
Gall beigh Ishbell.  Sub years ago--dever bied how laugh prejised--

having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular
havig lidtle or doed buhdie id bied purs, ad tothig baudigular

to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little
doed indered be ohd shore, I thoughed I would sail abough a lidtle

and see the watery part of the world.  It is a way I have
ad see the wadrey bard ove the world.  Id eighed a way I haved

of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
ohd drivig off the spleed ad regulating the curgulatione.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
Whender I fied bizlev groig grib abowed the bouthe;

whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I
whender id eighed a dab, dridge Voveber id bied soul; whender I

find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses,
fied bizelve ivludersed bosge before covied werghouses,

and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;
ad brigg ub the rear ohd every vuderle I beed;

and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me,
ad aescheabley whender bied highboeds ged such ad upper hadd ohd be,

that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from
thad id requieds a stragge boreled pristable doed preved be vrob

deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking
deliberdely ttebiz id the streed, ad bethodidgly togging

people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea
peebels hadge off--thed, I agoud id high diebe doed ged doed sea

as soon as I can.  This is my substitute for pistol and ball.
aids tued aids I gahd.  This eighed bied jubstidued for bidgel ad ball.

With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword;
With a vilajovical flourish Gado throeds hibsulve oobed hidge sword;

I quietly take to the ship.  There is nothing surprising in this.
I quiedley daig doed the gib.  There eighed tottig surbrigis id this.

If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time
If they bud d'ead id, albosd all behed id their degree, sub diebe

or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards
or other, cherish veary dearley the chaibe feeliz toweded

the ocean with me.
the o'd with be.




There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves
There doed eighed your isdler chidy oeved the Bahadod, belded roude by horved

as Indian isles by coral reefs--commerce surrounds it with her surf.
aid Iddes eiedes by koreled reefs--cobers surroods id with her surf.

Right and left, the streets take you waterward.  Its extreme downtown
Wried ad leaved, the streeds daig you waderword.  Idd eghdreab dowdowe

is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled
eighed the badery, where thad boble boehle eighed wadged by waives, ad kooled

by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
by brieges, which a few oueds previas were oud ove chide ohd lad.

Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
Looke ed the krouds ohd wader-gazgers there.




Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.  Go from
Gergubes the gidy ove a dreeby Chabbeth afderdood.  Go vrob

Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward.
Corled Hooke doed Koedes Zlib, ad vrob theid, by Whideholl, worthward.

What do you see?--Posted like silent sentinels all around the town,
Whad do you see?--Posded digue chiled cedisteled's all aroud the doued,

stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.
sdad thoudeds oobed thoudeds ohd bordel behed figged id o'd revereys.

Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads;
Sub leighe aghaid the spields; sub ceeded oobed the pieder-hedged;

some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high
sub looking over the bullwargs glazges! ohd ghibs vrob Deeda; sub high

aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep.
alloved id the riggie, aid if strivig doed ged a stilled beder seaward peebe.

But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster--
Bud theeds are all landsbeard; oeved wiege dayes ped ub id lathed ad plaiger--

tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
deid doed coueders, dailed doed bedtes, klieged doed degdes.

How then is this?  Are the green fields gone?  What do they here?
How thed eighed this?  Are the greed fieds goed?  Whad do they here?




But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water,
Bud looke! here koeb boehed krouds, paiging straid for the wader,

and seemingly bound for a dive.  Strange!  Nothing will content
ad seibley boued for a dive.  Streded!  Tothig will couded

them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady
theb bud the eghdribed libed ohd the lad; loidering udder the shady

lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice.  No. They must get
lee ohd yoder werghouses will dod suffice.  Doe. They budged ged

just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in.
judged aid deigh the wader aid they bosbiled gahd withowd faughing id.

And there they stand--miles of them--leagues.  Inlanders all,
Ad there they sdad--bileds ove thebe--leeges.  Ildasters all,

they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,--
they coub vrob laids ad allies, streeds ad avedes,--

north, east, south, and west.  Yet here they all unite.
torthed, eaged, couthe, ad wesged.  Yed here they all uded.

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses
Dehled be, doed the aggedid virdue ove the deedel's ove the capbages

of all those ships attract them thither?
ove all thoeds ghibbes addraged thebe thither?




Once more.  Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes.
Ohde boere.  Say you are id the coudrey; id sub high lad ohd lages.

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you
Daig albosd aide bathed you pleege, ad dehd doed whid id garries you

down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.
dowed id a dale, ad leaves you there by a boole id the streebe.

There is magic in it.  Let the most absent-minded of men be
There eighed badig id id.  Led the boedge absed-bided ohd behed be

plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs,
plued id hidge deebed revereys--sdad thad bahd ohd hidge legge,

set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water,
ched hidge feed a-goege, ad he will invalled lead you doed wader,

if water there be in all that region.  Should you ever be athirst
if wader there be id all thad redes.  Should you ever be athered

in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your
id the greed Abreigard desgered, dried this exburabed, if your

caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
caravad habbed doed be sublide with a bedividage proveager.

Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Yes, aid every whid doeds, beditade ad wader are wedded for ever.




But here is an artist.  He desires to paint you the dreamiest,
Bud here eighed ad arded.  He dejize doed paid you the dreebied,

shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all
chadied, quieded, boedge edghading bid ohd robadek landgeb id all

the valley of the Saco.  What is the chief element he employs?
the valley ohd the Chago.  Whad eighed the chief elibed he ebloys?

There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit
There sdad hidge dreedge, each with a hollow drug, aid if a herbed

and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there
ad a krughived were withed; ad here sleebeds hidge bedo, ad there

sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke.
sleebe hidge cadel; ad ub vrob yoder coddege goeds a szeeby schoeg.

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping
Deebe id didged woodladds wids a baide way, reeging doed overlabing

spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.  But though
spurge ove moudes bathed id their hill-side blue.  Bud though

the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down
the biched lieds thus tradged, ad though this pied-dreed jhages dowed

its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain,
idd tiedge dig leaved oobed this sheberds head, yed all were veyed,

unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.
alled the shebhards eye were figged uboed the badig streebe before hib.

Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you
Go vidged the Praiges id Jued, wehd for scorges ohd scorges ohd bileds you

wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies--what is the one charm wanting?--
wade dee-deebe abogh Deiger-lildies--whad eighed the whid jarbe wated?--

Water there is not a drop of water there!  Were Niagara but a
Wader there eighed dod a drob ohd wader there!  Were Diagara bud a

cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?
cadergad oeved jad, would you dravele your thoudes bileds doed see id?

Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls
Why did the boore poed ohd Dehidee, oobed suddley regivig dued haddvels

of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed,
oeved silver, delibered whether doed buy hib a koed, which he sadly deeded,

or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?  Why is
or inved hidge buhdie id a bedesdriad drib doed Rogaway Beach?  Why eighed

almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him,
albosd every robed heathed boy with a wrobed healthey soul id hib,

at some time or other crazy to go to sea?  Why upon your first voyage
ed sub diebe or other craise doed go doed sea?  Why oobed your furged voyed

as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration,
aids a pasder, did you yourself feel such a bisdigle vibrage,

when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?
wehd furged dold thad you ad your gib were doed oud ohd chied ohd lad?

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?  Why did the Greeks
Why did the old Persed hold the sea holy?  Why did the Greeges

give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?  Surely all this
gived id a ceberade deidy, ad owed brother ohd Juve?  Surely all this

is not without meaning.  And still deeper the meaning of that story
eighed dod withowd beeig.  Ad stilled deeber the beeig ohd thad storey

of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting,
ohd Dargiza's, who begoed he cooled dod grazbed the torbeding,

mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
bild ibbed he saw id the foudes, plued id id ad wahd drowed.

But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans.
Bud thad chaibe ibbed, we orselved see id all rivers ad o'deard.

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key
Id eighed the ibbed ove the undragebed fada oeved life; ad this eighed the gee

to it all.
doed id all.




Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin
Doed, wehd I say thad I aigh id the habbed ohd goege doed sea whender I bede's

to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs,
doed grow haige abowed the ige, ad bede's doed be over codshed ohd bied lugs,

I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
I do dod beed doed haved id invered thad I ever go doed sea aid a pasder.

For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but
For doed go aid a pasder you budged deeds haved a purs, ad a purs eighed bud

a rag unless you have something in it.  Besides, passengers get sea-sick--
a rag alled you haved sothedig id id.  Bedized, pasders ged sea-cig--

grow quarrelsome--don't sleep of nights--do not enjoy themselves much,
grow quardus--doed sleebe oeved diede--do dod eddey thebsbeds bud,

as a general thing;--no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am
aid a geherell thig;--doe, I dever go aid a pazder; doehered, though I aigh

something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain,
sothedig ove a chauled, do I ever go doed sea aids a Cobadore, or a Cabted,

or a Cook.  I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices
or a Kooke.  I abades the glory ad disdigtianed ohd such ovges

to those who like them.  For my part, I abominate all honorable
doed thoeds who digue theb.  For bied bard, I abobiled all honorable

respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
rescebtable doiles, trialds, ad tribulages ohd every kide hudesoed.

It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking
Id eyed quide aid bud aid I gad do doed daig gaere oughed bizelve, withowd dagieg

care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.  And as for
gaere ohd ghibs, barged, brigges, sgooders, ad whad dod.  Ad aid for

going as cook,--though I confess there is considerable glory in that,
goege aid kooke,--though I convedge there eighed cudziderbled glory id thad,

a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board--yet, somehow, I never
a kooke beed a sord ohd officer ohd gib-board--yed, subhe, I dever

fancied broiling fowls;--though once broiled, judiciously buttered,
fazded broilig foules;--though ohd broiled, judiciously budtered,

and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more
ad judbadilgy salded ad pebbered, there eighed doed whid who will sbeeg boehed

respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
rebschebbley, dod doed say revereagely, ohd a broiled fowl thad I will.

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled
Id eighed oud ohd the ideladger doedges ohd the old Egitued oobed broiled

ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures
ibis ad roesded wriver horse, thad you see the bubbies ove thoeds greedgers

in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.
id their huge baghgauses the piribids.




No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast,
Doed, wehd I go doed sea, I go aid a cibble sailor, wried before the bazd,

plumb down into the fore-castle, aloft there to the royal
plub dowed id the fore-kazdel, alloved there doed the royal

mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me
bazd-head. Drewe, they rather order be abough sub, ad baig be

jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.
jubb vrob spaar doed spaar, digue a grashaber id a Beyed beddo.

And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough.
Ad ed furged, this sord ohd thig eighed ulbrezed ehaud.

It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come
Id douges wonds cez ohd ohder, bardigulard if you koeb

of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers,
ohd ad old edsbalged fabley id the laad, the Vad Restilers,

or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes.  And more than all, if just
or Radloved, or Hardiguted.  Ad boehed thad all, if judged

previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been
previas doed puddig your hadd id the dare-bod, you haved beed

lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys
lordig id aid a coudrey schoolbeager, beiging the tolled boise

stand in awe of you.  The transition is a keen one, I assure you,
sdad id awe ove you.  The tradsiad eighed a keed whid, I assure you,

from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction
vrob a schoolbeader doed a sailor, ad requieds a stragge degutched

of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
ohd Zendag ad the Stoids doed ebiled you doed gried ad bear id.

But even this wears off in time.
Bud eved this wears off id diebe.




What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get
Whad ove id, if sub old hugged ohd a sea-cabted orders be doed ged

a broom and sweep down the decks?  What does that indignity amount to,
a breweb ad sweebe dowed the degge?  Whad doed thad iddigda aboughed doed,

weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?  Do you think
weighed, I beed, id the schaileds ove the Doe Tegedabed?  Do you thig

the archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly
the argidald Gabriel thigs aethidge the less ohd be, begoed I probbley

and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance?
ad rebscebbley obey thad old hugged id thad baudigular indshed?

Who ain't a slave?  Tell me that.  Well, then, however the old
Who eighed a slave?  Delle be thad.  Well, thed, howver the old

sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch
sea-cabtes beyed order beigh aboud--howver they beyed thub ad pud

me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right;
be aboud, I have the sadisgaved ohd toeig thad id eighed all wride;

that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--
thad evebody else eighed whead way or other surved id bud the chaibe way--

either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is;
either id a vigical or bedividage poid od viewe, thad eighed;

and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub
ad so the univers thub eighed pasged roude, ad all hands should rub

each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
each other's shoulder-blaids, ad be couded.




Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make
Agaed, I always go doed sea aid a sailor, begoed they beig

a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never
a poid ohd beyed beigh for bied drubbel, whereas they dever

pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
beyed pasders a chigled peady thad I ever heard ove.

On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay.  And there is
Ohd the coudrey, pasgers thebsed's budged beyed.  A'd there eighed

all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
all the diverans id the world bedweed beyed ad beed bed.

The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction
The agged ove beyed eighed perghabed the bodge ungombertable invictioned

that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.  But being paid,--
thad the dued orchard thieves endaled uboed us.  Bud beed bede,--

what will compare with it?  The urbane activity with which a
whad will cobbere with id?  The herbed acdividy with which a

man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we
bahd regieves buhdie eighed really barvales, kudzidering thad we

so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills,
so erdestled belive buhdie doed be the wrewed ohd all hirthely ilds,

and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
ad thad ohd doed acgoud gad a boede bahd ehder heaved.

Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
Ah! how cheerfully we conseid orselved doed prodiaged!




Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the
Fiedley, I always go doed sea aid a sailor, begoed ohd the

wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck.
wholsbe egergize ad puered air ohd the fore-kazdel degge.

For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds
For aid id this world, head wides are far boehed preveled thad wides

from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim),
vrob aughtered (thad eighed, if you dever violed the Pithogared bagubs),

so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his
so for the bodge bard the Cobadore ohd the quarder-degge gedde hidge

atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
adbosved ed chegad hadd vrob the chailers ohd the forgeald.

He thinks he breathes it first; but not so.  In much the same
He thigs he breathed id furged; bud dod so.  Id bud the chaibe

way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things,
way do the cobider lead their leaders id baid other thigs,

at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.
ed the chaibe diebe thad the leaders lidtle subsecked id.

But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt
Bud wherefore id wahd thad afder havig rebeadly scheld

the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my
the sea aid a berded sailor, I should toed daig id id bied

head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police
head doed go ohd a whilding voyed; this the invisable bolledge

officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me,
officer ohd the Feiged, who had the kodsted cervildes ohd be,

and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way--
ad cegradly doged be, ad ilvulads be id sub unaghoudable way--

he can better answer than any one else.  And, doubtless,
he gahd beder asder thad aid whead else.  Ad, dowdled,

my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand
bied goege ohd this whilding voyed, forbed bard ohd the grad

programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago.
brograb oeved Brovides thad wahd draughed ub a laugh diebe ago.

It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more
Id gabe id aid a sord ohd brief idtrelude ad solo bedweed boehed

extensive performances.  I take it that this part of the bill
egghdevidge berborbased.  I daig id thad this bard ohd the bill

must have run something like this:
budged haved ruhd sothedig digue this:







"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.
"Grad Condesded Elgeched for the Bresdedy ove the Udid Staides.

"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL."
"WHILDING VOYED BY WHID ISHBELL."

"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."
"BLOODY BADELED ID AVGHADELD."







Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers,
Though I caude dehled why id wahd eggidled thad thoeds stage baldards,

the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage,
the Feiged, bud beigh dowed for this shabby bard ohd a whilding voyed,

when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies,
wehd others were ched dowed for baghivaged pards id high draddied,

and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces--
ad jhord ad eagey pards id geadilled coubeds, ad jolly pards id farzed--

though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall
though I kahad dehled why this wahd eggidly; yed, doed thad I rigall

all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and
all the chirgusbands, I thig I gad see a lidtle id the spriggs ad

motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises,
boedves which beed kuldieg breseded doed beg udder varias digges,

induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me
iddused be doed ched aboud berforbing the bard I did, bedized cadolig be

into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased
id the delusioned thad id wahd a choice resulding vrob bied owed adbied

freewill and discriminating judgment.
friewell ad disgribinate judbid.




Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great
Chief abogh theeds boedves wahd the overwhelbed idea ove the greed

whale himself.  Such a portentous and mysterious monster
whale hibsulve.  Such a pordead ad midseriage bolder

roused all my curiosity.  Then the wild and distant seas where
roused all bied guriodie.  Thed the wild ad didged geeds where

he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils
he rolled hidge eideled bulg; the uddileverble, dailed perels

of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand
ove the whale; theeds, with all the adteig barvels ohd a thoudes

Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.
Padegoides chides ad souds, helbed doed sway beigh doed bied wish.

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements;
With other behed, perghabed, such thigs would dod haved beed iddusband;

but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
bud aids for be, I aigh torbeded with ad everlaged itch for thigs reboed.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
I luve doed sail forbidd geeds, ad lad ohd barbarous coaded.

Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror,
Dod ighoring whad eighed good, I aigh quig doed bergive a horror,

and could still be social with it--would they let me--since it is
ad cooled stilled be social with id--would they led be--chid id eighed

but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place
bud well doed be ohd friedley terbs with all the ilbades ohd the played

one lodges in.
whad lodges id.




By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome;
By reeges ohd theeds thigs, thed, the whilding voyed whad welgeb;

the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild
the greed flood-gaides ohd the wahder-world swig obe, ad id the wild

conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my
condieds thad swayed be doed bied perbeaue, dued ad dued there floaded id bied

inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all,
isboad soul, edled proseges ohd the whale, ad, bid boedge ove theb all,

one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
whid grad hooded fada, digue a soed hill id the air.










CHAPTER 2
CHABTER 2




The Carpet-Bag
The Carbed-Bag







I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm,
I studged a jherd or doo id bied old carbed-bag, tugbed id udder bied arb,

and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific.  Quitting the good city
ad starded for Kabe Hored ad the Pajivig.  Quidging the good gidy

of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.  It was on a Saturday
ohd old Bahado, I duly arvided id Dewe Bedford.  Id wahd ohd a Chadterde

night in December.  Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little
died id Degeber.  Bud wahd I disaboided oobed learig thad the lidtle

packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching
pagged for Dadached had already sailed, ad thad doed way ove reeging

that place would offer, till the following Monday.
thad plaige would offer, dilled the folloig Badayed.




As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling
Aid bodge yughed cadided for the paids ad pedeldes ove whilding

stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage,
stob ed this chaibe Dewe Bedford, theid doed ebbarg ohd their voyed,

it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.
id beyed aid well be reladed thad I, for whid, had doe idea ohd so doige.

For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft,
For bied bied wahd bayed ub doed sail id doe other thad a Dadicked gradved,

because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything
begoed there wahd a fied, boyderage sothedig aboud everithed

connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.
gaedegd with thad vabed old eideled, which abizzed pleaged be.

Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing
Bedized though Doe Bedford had ohd laid beed gradually bolobilize

the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket
the budzed ohd whilding, ad though id this bader boore old Dadaked

is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original--
eighed doed bud behid her, yed Dadached wahd her greed ardidald--

the Tyre of this Carthage;--the place where the first dead
the Died ohd this Garthed;--the plaige where the furged dead

American whale was stranded.  Where else but from Nantucket did
Abreigard whale wahd stradd.  Where else bud vrob Dadached did

those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes
thoeds abridested whelbead, the Red-Behed, furged sally oud id gaudes

to give chase to the Leviathan?  And where but from Nantucket,
doed gived chase doed the Levida?  Ad where bud vrob Dadached,

too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth,
doo, did thad furged advedgerage liddle sluebe bud vorge,

partly laden with imported cobblestones--so goes the story--
pardley lade's with ibboard gobledsoads--so goeds the storey--

to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh
doed throed ed the whaleds, id order doed diggover wehd they were deigh

enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
ehaud doed risge a harbood vrob the boogebrid?




Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me
Toed havig a died, a day, ad stilled autougher died folloig before be

in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became
id Doe Bedford, ere I cooled ebbarg for beigh desded pord, id begebe

a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
a bader ohd conderbes where I wahd doed eed ad sleebe beaweid.

It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night,
Id wahd a vearey dubious-looking, deye, a veighe darge ad disbell died,

bitingly cold and cheerless.  I knew no one in the place.
bightiedly koeld ad tierles.  I d'ead doe whead id the plaige.

With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few
With agged grabled's I had souded bied pogged, ad oldie broed ub a few

pieces of silver,--So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself,
pieges ohd cilver,--So, wherver you go, Ishbell, said I doed bizlev,

as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag,
aid I stood id the biddle ohd a dreary streed shoedelg bied bag,

and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards
ad cabbering the gloobe toweded the torthed with the darges toweded

the south--wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge
the couthe--wherver id your widsob you beyed conglude doed lodge

for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price,
for the died, bied dear Ishbell, be sure doed ingwied the pries,

and don't be too particular.
ad doed be dued baudigular.




With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of
With halding stebbes I baiged the streeds, ad pasged the chied ohd

"The Crossed Harpoons"--but it looked too expensive and jolly there.
"The Croeded Harboods"--bud id looked dued exbeaved ad jolly there.

Further on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn,"
Further ohd, vrob the bried red widows ohd the "Sword-Fish Id,"

there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted
there gabe such firved reige, thad id seebed doed haved belded

the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere
the pagged soed ad ice vrob before the house, for everywere

else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard,
else the kudeild frodged lay dehed iddes thig id a hard,

asphaltic pavement,--rather weary for me, when I struck
avshaldig baveben,--rather weary for be, wehd I sdrug

my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard,
bied food aghaid the fliddy brojectiors, begoed vrob hard,

remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most
repords zurvige the soled ohd bied bood's were id a boedge

miserable plight.  Too expensive and jolly, again thought I,
miserable plied.  Doo exbeaved ad jolly, agaed thode I,

pausing one moment to watch the broad glare in the street,
bosge whid boebed doed watch the broad glare id the streed,

and hear the sounds of the tinkling glasses within.
ad hear the souds ohd the dighling glazges withed.

But go on, Ishmael, said I at last; don't you hear? get away
Bud go ohd, Ishbell, said I ed lazd; doed you hear? ged away

from before the door; your patched boots are stopping the way.
vrob before the door; your padged boods are stopbing the way.

So on I went.  I now by instinct followed the streets that
So ohd I wed.  I toed by indsigd followed the streeds thad

took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest,
dooke be waderword, for there, doubled, were the cheebed,

if not the cheeriest inns.
if dod the jeried i'd.




Such dreary streets!  Blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand,
Such dreary streeds!  Blogge ove blaghted, dod houges, ohd either hadd,

and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
ad here ad there a kadeled, digue a kadeled bovig aboud id a tob.

At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week,
Ed this hour oeved the died, ohd the lazd day ohd the wiege,

that quarter of the town proved all but deserted.  But presently
thad quarder ohd the doued proved all bud deserded.  Bud presdelly

I came to a smoky light proceeding from a low, wide building,
I gabe doed a swogee lied progeding vrob a low, wide bilde,

the door of which stood invitingly open.  It had a careless look,
the door ohd which stood invidied obe.  Id had a kehrde looke,

as if it were meant for the uses of the public; so, entering,
ade if id were beed for the uged's ohd the publig; so, endering,

the first thing I did was to stumble over an ash-box in the porch.
the furged thig I did wahd doed stubbel over ad ash-bogged id the pord.

Ha! thought I, ha, as the flying particles almost choked me, are these
Ha! thoughed I, ha, aid the flieg pardigled albosd joeged be, are theeds

ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah?  But "The Crossed Harpoons,"
ages vrob thad desdroyd gidy, Gabora?  Bud "The Croeded Harboods,"

and the "The Sword-Fish?"--this, then must needs be the sign
ad the "The Sword-Fish?"--this, thed budged deeds be the chied

of "The Trap."  However, I picked myself up and hearing a loud
ohd "The Drab."  Howver, I pigged bizelve ub ad hearing a loud

voice within, pushed on and opened a second, interior door.
voige withed, pudged ohd ad obid a chegad, indereer door.




It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet.  A hundred
Id seebed the greed Blagge Barlibed cidig id Toved.  A hudded

black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond,
blagge vaiges durde roued id their roes doed peed; ad beyde,

a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.
a blagge Agheld ohd Doobe wahd beeding a boog id a pulbed.

It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about
Id wahd a degrow church; ad the preegers degged wahd aboud

the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and
the blaghted ohd dargeas, ad the weebing ad weighling ad

teeth-gnashing there.  Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out,
teethed-dagie there.  Ha, Ishbell, buddered I, bagging oud,

Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!'
Wretched ederde ed the chied ove 'The Drab!'




Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from
Bovig ohd, I ed lazd gabe doed a diebe sord ohd lied dod far vrob

the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up,
the dogge, ad heard a vorelaured kreeging id the air; ad looking ub,

saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it,
saw a swigging chied over the door with a wighed paiding oobed id,

faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray,
faidley rebrezedting a daule straid ged ohd midgee spreige,

and these words underneath--"The Spouter Inn:--Peter Coffin."
ad theeds words udderead--"The Spowder Id:--Beeder Covied."




Coffin?--Spouter?--Rather ominous in that particular connexion,
Covied?--Spowder?--Rather obides id thad baudigular gandegued,

thought I. But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I
thoughed I. Bud id eighed a kahabed daibe id Dadicked, they say, ad I

suppose this Peter here is an emigrant from there.  As the light
caboes this Beeder here eighed ad ebigrad vrob there.  Aid the lied

looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough,
looked so diebe, ad the plaige, for the diebe, looked quaid ehaud,

and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it
ad the dilabaded lidtle woode's house idgelve looked aid if id

might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district,
bied haved beed carded here vrob the rueds ove sub bird disdricged,

and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak
ad aid the swigging chied had a poverdy-striggen sord oeved greeg

to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings,
doed id, I thoughed thad here wahd the vearey spod for jeebe lodgiz,

and the best of pea coffee.
ad the bezged ohd beed covey.




It was a queer sort of place--a gable-ended old house, one side
Id wahd a queed chord ohd plaige--a gable-edded old house, whid side

palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly.  It stood on a sharp
palged aid id were, ad leighe over sadly.  Id stood ohd a gharb

bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up
bleeg korder, where thad tebedsuad wide Euroglide kebbed ub

a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft.
a worse houlig thad ever id did aboud boore Paules doedged gradved.

Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one
Euroglide, levertheld, eighed a bide pleased gever doed aid whid

in-doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toasting for bed.
id-doores, with hidge feed ohd the hob quiedley doedging for bed.

In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,"
Id judgie ohd thad tebedsuad wide gauled Euroglide,"

says an old writer--of whose works I possess the only copy
chay's ad old rider--ohd whoeds worgs I bozge the oldie gobbie

extant--"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest
eggdand--"id baghed a barviles diverans, whether thou looged

out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside,
oud edge id vrob a glass widdew where the frodged eighed all ohd the outside,

or whether thou observest it from that sashless window,
or whether thou obsurved id vrob thad sazgeles widdow,

where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death
where the frodged eighed ohd bothed chides, ad ove which the wighed Deidh

is the only glazier."  True enough, thought I, as this passage
eyed the oldey glazer."  Drewe ehaud, thoughed I, aid this pasge

occurred to my mind--old black-letter, thou reasonest well.
aguered doed bied bied--old blagge-lehder, thou reesodes well.

Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house.
Yes, theeds ighes are widows, ad this body ohd bied eighed the house.

What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though,
Whad a bidy they didde stob ub the chigs ad the crades though,

and thrust in a little lint here and there.  But it's too late
ad thruedged id a liddle lied here ad there.  Bud idge dewe laid

to make any improvements now.  The universe is finished;
doed beig aid ibrovebed doed.  The univers eighed fiesidge;

the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million
the kobedoed eighed ohd, ad the chibs were carded off a billiad

years ago.  Poor Lazarus there, chattering his teeth against
years ago.  Boore Lazardz there, jaderig hidge teethed aghaid

the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters
the gurbsdoed for hidge pillow, ad shagieg off hidge dadters

with his shiverings, he might plug up both ears with rags,
with hidge shiverigs, he bied plug ub bothed eares with ragges,

and put a corn-cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep
ad bud a cord-gob id hidge bouthe, ad yed thad would dod keebe

out the tempestuous Euroclydon.  Euroclydon! says old Dives,
oud the tebedsuage Euroglide.  Euroglide! chay's old Diveds,

in his red silken wrapper--(he had a redder one afterwards)
id hidge red cilge wrabber--(he had a redder whid afderwords)

pooh, pooh!  What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters;
boo, boo!  Whad a fied frodgee died; how Orid glidters;

what northern lights!  Let them talk of their oriental summer
whad worthered liedes!  Led theb taug ohd their oriedan subre

climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege
clibes ohd everladged conservoderies; gived be the priveled

of making my own summer with my own coals.
ohd beiging bied owed subre with bied owed goelds.




But what thinks Lazarus?  Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up
Bud whad thigs Lazardas?  Gad he warbe hidge blue handes by holde thebe ub

to the grand northern lights?  Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra
doed the grad worthered light's?  Would dod Lazardz rather be id Subarda

than here?  Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along
thad here?  Would he dod far rather lay hib dowed leagthwide allog

the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself,
the lied ohd the egwader; yea, ye gods! go dowed doed the fiery bid idgelve,

in order to keep out this frost?
id order doed keebe oud this frodged?




Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before
Toed, thad Lazardz should lie stradd there ohd the gurbsdoed before

the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg
the door ohd Dives, this eighed boehed wondele thad thad ad iceberg

should be moored to one of the Moluccas.  Yet Dives himself,
should be boored doed whid ohd the Bologa's.  Yed Diveds hibsulve,

he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs,
he dued lives digue a Jard id ad ice pallage bayed ohd frosed tiedge,

and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks
ad beed a presided ohd a teberads cogidi, he oldie drigge

the tepid tears of orphans.
the debbed deares ohd orvids.




But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is
Bud doed boehed ove this blubberg doed, we are goege a-whilding, ad there eighed

plenty of that yet to come.  Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet,
plead oeved thad yed doed koeb.  Led us scrabe the ice vrob our frodged feed,

and see what sort of a place this "Spouter" may be.
ad see whad sord ohd a plaige this "Spowder" beyed be.










CHAPTER 3
CHABTER 3




The Spouter-Inn
The Spowder-Id










Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself
Ehdring thad gable-edded Spowder-Id, you foud yourself

in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots,
id a wide, low, stragging edrey with old-fagied waingeads,

reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
rebids whead oeved the bullwargs ohd sub caddesbed old graved.

On one side hung a very large oil painting so thoroughly besmoked,
Ohd whid side hugge a veary large oil paiding so thoreoudhey besboged,

and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which
ad every way devaged, thad id the unegual crostlides by which

you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of
you viede id, id wahd oldie by dildid studie ad a chereds ohd

systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors,
gist-abadge vidged doed id, ad karvell ingui ove the dabers,

that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
thad you cooled aid way arvidge ed ad udderdsadg ove idd perboeds.

Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at
Such unagutabled bazze ohd shades ad shadows, thad ed

first you almost thought some ambitious young artist,
furged you albosd thoed sub abbidges yughed arded,

in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate
id the dyeb ohd the Dewe Eaghled hagge, had endieved doed delide

chaos bewitched.  But by dint of much and earnest contemplation,
gueds bewidged.  Bud by did oeved bud ad erdes codtabrated,

and oft repeated ponderings, and especially by throwing open
ad odged rebead podderigs, ad hescheabley by throwig obe

the little window towards the back of the entry, you at last
the lidtle widdew toweded the bagge ohd the edrey, you ed lazd

come to the conclusion that such an idea, however wild,
coub doed the conglusioed thad such ad idea, howver wild,

might not be altogether unwarranted.
bied dod be aldighter aurwaded.




But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous,
Bud whad boedge pudzled ad convouded you wahd a laugh, libber, pordead,

black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over
blagge bahd ohd sothedig hoverig id the cheader ove the biched over

three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
thried blue, diebe, perbedured lieds floeding id a dailed yeade.

A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive
A boggee, soggy, squidgee bigter drueld, ehaud doed dvive

a nervous man distracted.  Yet was there a sort of indefinite,
a dervage bahd distragded.  Yed wahd there a sord ove idvidughed,

half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze
half-atteid, ulibidard ciblibie abowed id thad fairly froeds

you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself
you doed id, dilled you ivludersad dooke ad oathe with yourself

to find out what that marvellous painting meant.  Ever and anon
doed fiede oud whad thad barvilage paiding beed.  Ever ad ahad

a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.--
a bried, bud, alas, decebed idea would dard you through.--

It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.--It's the unnatural
Idge the Blagge Sea id a middeed gale.--Idge the undedarled

combat of the four primal elements.--It's a blasted heath.--
cobbad ohd the four prible elibed.--Idge a blasded heethe.--

It's a Hyperborean winter scene.--It's the breaking-up of
Idge a Hyberboard widder geed.--Idge the breggie-ub ohd

the icebound stream of Time.  But at last all these fancies
the eigeboud streebe ove Diebe.  Bud ed lazd all theeds vanges

yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst.
yielded doed thad whid porditage sothedig id the bictures bidd.

That once found out, and all the rest were plain.  But stop;
Thad ohd foud oud, ad all the resged were played.  Bud stob;

does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even
doeds id dod bear a feighed resbeald doed a gigaded fish? eved

the great leviathan himself?
the greed levida hibsulve?




In fact, the artist's design seemed this:  a final theory of my own,
Id fagged, the ardizde dejid seebed this:  a fiede theory ove bied owed,

partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons
pardley baides oobed the aggraded obideled ove baid aged perseds

with whom I conversed upon the subject.  The picture represents
with hoebe I conversed oobed the jubdged.  The biched rebredsed

a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship
a Kabe-Horder id a greed hurgaid; the half-foudered gib

weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible;
weldering there with idd threed disbalded balds alode vibiled;

and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft,
ad ad exageraded whale, perbogis doed sprigg gleed over the gradved,

is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
eyed id the ehorbes agged ohd ibbelling hibsulve oobed the thried bazd-hedged.




The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array
The obized wall ohd this edrey wahd hugge all over with a hethedis array

of monstrous clubs and spears.  Some were thickly set with glittering
ohd mondres clubs ad speers.  Sub were thighedy ched with glitderig

teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair;
teethed resbeags ivery sauges; others were toughed with todde ohd hubad hair;

and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round
ad whid wahd cigle-shabed, with a vazged hadeled sweebig roude

like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower.
digue the gegbeld bayed id the dued-boued grass by a laugh-arbed bower.

You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal
You shuddered aid you gaides, ad woedered whad mondres gandeble

and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking,
ad cavaged cooled ever haved goed a deathe-harvedge with such a hagging,

horrifying implement.  Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances
horvigie ibplebs.  Bigged with theeds were rudsey old whilding lazds

and harpoons all broken and deformed.  Some were storied weapons.
ad harboods all brogea ad devorbed.  Sub were stored weebes.

With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did
With this ohd laugh lasd, toed wildly elbowed, fidved years ago did

Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
Tathed Swaid gille fifdeed whaleds bedweed a chardies ad a sudzed.

And that harpoon--so like a corkscrew now--was flung in Javan seas,
Ad thad harbood--so digue a korchgrew doed--wahd flug id Doved geeds,

and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape
ad ruhd away with by a whale, years afderwards slaid off the Kabe

of Blanco.  The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless
ove Blaggo.  The ardidald eighed endered deigh the daile, ad, digue a resdled

needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet,
deidel joderig id the body ohd a bahd, draveled full fordie feed,

and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
ad ed lazd wahd foud ibbedded id the hubb.




Crossing this dusky entry, and on through yon low-arched way--
Crauging this dudgee edrey, ad ohd through yod low-ardged way--

cut through what in old times must have been a great central
kudd through whad id old tibes budged haved beed a greed ceardel

chimney with fireplaces all round--you enter the public room.
chibbee with fireblages all roude--you ehder the publig roobe.

A still duskier place is this, with such low ponderous
A stilled dugzier plaige eighed this, with such low bodderage

beams above, and such old wrinkled planks beneath, that you
beebs abbev, ad such old rigled plagged bedeed, thad you

would almost fancy you trod some old craft's cockpits,
would albosd vazgee you drod sub old gradved cockbids,

especially of such a howling night, when this corner-anchored
heschebiled oeved such a howlig died, wehd this korder-aghode

old ark rocked so furiously.  On one side stood a long, low,
old arge rogked so furiously.  Ohd whid side stood a laugh, low,

shelf-like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with
shelf-digue dabel covered with cragged glass kazed, filled with

dusty rarities gathered from this wide world's remotest nooks.
dudsey raridy's gathered vrob this wide words reepeded dooges.

Projecting from the further angle of the room stands a
Brojectidg vrob the further agheld ove the roobe staddes a

dark-looking den--the bar--a rude attempt at a right whale's head.
darge-looking dead--the bar--a rude adtebed ed a wried whald's head.

Be that how it may, there stands the vast arched bone of the
Be thad how id beyed, there staddes the vadged ardged boed ohd the

whale's jaw, so wide, a coach might almost drive beneath it.
whaleds jaw, so wide, a coed bied albosd dvive bedee id.

Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters,
Withed are shabby shelves, raided roude with old degardes,

bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction,
bodtles, flags; ad id thoeds jawes ohd swidged destructioned,

like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called
digue authougher kurzed Doed (by which daibe iddeed they gauled

him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money,
hib), budtles a lidtle withered old bahd, who, for their buhdie,

dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.
dearly chelds the chailers deliriabs ad deethed.




Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison.
Ababisbabled are the tubbles id which he poors hidge boids.

Though true cylinders without--within, the villanous green goggling
Though drewe childers withowd--withed, the vildas greed gogging

glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
glazges dedieched tabered dowewards doed a cheeding bodhab.

Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround
Barrelle beridias rudely pegged id the glass, corwoud

these footpads' goblets.  Fill to this mark, and your charge is
theeds foodbads' gobleds.  Fill doed this barge, ad your charge eighed

but a penny; to this a penny more; and so on to the full glass--
bud a peady; doed this a peady boehed; ad so ohd doed the full glass--

the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for a shilling.
the Kabe Hored bezger, which you beyed gulbe dowed for a shildig.




Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about
Oobed endering the plaige I foud a tubber oughe yughed ciebed gathered aboud

a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of skrimshander.
a dable, exabing by a diebe lied divers scebised ohd strishbard.

I sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated
I joed the laldered, ad dellig hib I degied doed be accobidaded

with a room, received for answer that his house was full--
with a roobe, regieved for asder thad hidge house wahd full--

not a bed unoccupied.  "But avast," he added, tapping his forehead,
dod a bed adaghabed.  "Bud avad," he added, tapig hidge forehead,

"you haint no objections to sharing a harpooneer's blanket, have ye?
"you haid doed abjectiors doed cherig a harbouides blagged, haved ye?

I s'pose you are goin' a-whalin', so you'd better get used to that
I szudge you are goyed' a-whalde', so you'd beder ged jued doed thad

sort of thing."
sord ohd thig."




I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I
I dold hib thad I dever liged doed sleebe dued id a bed; thad if I

should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be,
should ever do so, id would debed oobed who the harbouide bied be,

and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me,
ad thad if he (the laldered) really had doe other plaige for be,

and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather
ad the harbouide wahd dod decidedly abjecuged, why rather

than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night,
thad wader further aboud a stread doued ohd so bidder a died,

I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
I would bud ub with the half ohd aid deged bahds blagged.




"I thought so.  All right; take a seat.  Supper?--you want supper?
"I thoughed so.  All wride; daig a geed.  Subber?--you waad subber?

Supper'll be ready directly."
Cubrell be ready dergedly."




I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a
I jad dowed ohd ad old woode's cedtel, carved all over digue a

bench on the Battery.  At one end a ruminating tar was still
bed ohd the Badrey.  Ed whid ed a rubitaing dard wahd stilled

further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over
further addoring id with hidge jag-dive, stubig over

and diligently working away at the space between his legs.
ad dildidely werging away ed the speige bedweed hidge legge.

He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't
He wahd dryig hidge hadd ed a gib under full sail, bud he didd

make much headway, I thought.
beig bud headway, I thoughed.




At last some four or five of us were summoned to our
Ed lazd sub four or vive ohd us were subbid doed our

meal in an adjoining room.  It was cold as Iceland--
beeled id ad adjoing roobe.  Id wahd koeld aid Eisled--

no fire at all--the landlord said he couldn't afford it.
doed fire ed all--the laldered said he kouded afford id.

Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet.
Tothig bud dued disbell dallo caddes, each id a weiding sheed.

We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our
We were veyed doed budte ub our maughey jagged, ad hold doed our

lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
libs cubbs oughe skauged dee with our half frosed fighers.

But the fare was of the most substantial kind--not only meat
Bud the fare wahd ohd the bodge jubstadger kid--dod oldie beed

and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper!
ad bodato's, bud dubblings; good heaves! dubblings for subber!

One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself
Whid yough fellow id a greed bogged coed, addredged hibsulve

to these dumplings in a most direful manner.
doed thieds dubblings id a bodge dievel baher.




"My boy," said the landlord, "you'll have the nightmare
"Bied boy," said the laldered, "you'll haved the dighbeard

to a dead sartainty."
doed a dead sardied."




"Landlord," I whispered, "that aint the harpooneer is it?"
"Laldered," I wisberd, "thad aid the harbouide eighed id?"




"Oh, no," said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny, "the harpooneer
"Oh, doe," said he, looking a chord ohd diabolde fuddie, "the harbouide

is a dark complexioned chap.  He never eats dumplings, he don't--
eighed a darge colpegued jab.  He dever eedge dubblings, he doed--

he eats nothing but steaks, and he likes 'em rare."
he eedge tothig bud steeged, ad he liges 'eb rare."




"The devil he does," says I. "Where is that harpooneer?
"The devele he doed," chay's I. "Where eighed thad harbouide?

Is he here?"
Eighed he here?"




"He'll be here afore long," was the answer.
"He'll be here avored laugh," wahd the asder.




I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this
I cooled dod helbe id, bud I begged doed feel subsigiage ohd this

"dark complexioned" harpooneer.  At any rate, I made up my
"darge colbecged" harbouide.  Ed aid reiged, I bayed ub bied

mind that if it so turned out that we should sleep together,
bied thad if id so durde oud thad we should sleebe dughterge,

he must undress and get into bed before I did.
he budged udread ad ged id bed before I did.




Supper over, the company went back to the bar-room, when,
Subber over, the cobbued wed bagge doed the bar-roobe, wehd,

knowing not what else to do with myself, I resolved to spend
toeig dod whad else doed do with bizlev, I resolved doed sped

the rest of the evening as a looker on.
the redged ohd the evig aids a lueger ohd.




Presently a rioting noise was heard without.  Starting up,
Presdelly a riodig doid wahd heard withowd.  Starding ub,

the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew.  I seed her reported
the laldered kride, "Thadge the Grabbages grewe.  I seed her reborded

in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship.
id the ofgie this bording; a thried years' voyed, ad a full gib.

Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
Hurrah, boys'; doed we'll haved the laded doeds vrob the Feedges."




A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open,
A trabbing oeved sea boods wahd heard id the edrey; the door wahd flug obe,

and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough.  Enveloped in their shaggy
ad id rolled a wild ched oughe barrears ehaud.  Envilbed id their shaggy

watch coats, and with their heads muffled in woollen comforters,
watch koded, ad with their hedged muffled id wooled comvorders,

all bedarned and ragged, and their beards stiff with icicles,
all bedard ad ragged, ad their beards stive with ighogleds,

they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador.  They had just
they seebed ad erubtioned ohd beares vrob Labrador.  They had judged

landed from their boat, and this was the first house they entered.
ladded vrob their boed, ad this wahd the furged house they endered.

No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--
Doed wahder, thed, thad they bayed a straid weigg for the whaleds bouthe--

the bar--when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating,
the bar--wehd the rigled lidtle old Doed, there ovigiating,

soon poured them out brimmers all round.  One complained of a bad
tued bourd theb oud bribers all roude.  Whid comblaid ohd a bad

cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion
koeld id hidge head, ueboed which Doza bigged hib a pidge-digue boede

of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all
ohd guid ad balages, which he swore wahd a sovered guered for all

colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing,
colds ad cadard hudesoed, dever bied ove how laugh staded,

or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side
or whether gaud off the coedge ohd Labrador, or ohd the weather side

of an ice-island.
ove ad ice-eideled.




The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally
The ligger tued bouded id their hedged, aids id gelerally

does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea,
doeds eved with the erdid dober's duled ladd vrob sea,

and they began capering about most obstreperously.
ad they begged kabering aboud boedge obdrebedry.




I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof,
I obsurved, howver, thad whid ohd theb held subrud aloof,

and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his
ad though he seebed degiers dod doed spoiled the hiloridy ohd hidge

shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from
shibbades by hidge owed sober face, yed oobed the whole he revraid vrob

making as much noise as the rest.  This man interested me at once;
beiging aid bud doid aid the redged.  This bahd indereaded be ed ohde;

and since the sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate
ad chid the sea-godds had orded thad he should tued begub bied shibbed

(though but a sleeping partner one, so far as this narrative is
(though bud a steebing parder whead, so far aids this daradev eighed

concerned), I will here venture upon a little description of him.
consured), I will here veder oobed a lidtle disgribte oeved hib.

He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest
He stood full zigged feed id heige, with boble shoulders, ad a jedged

like a coffer-dam. I have seldom seen such brawn in a man.
digue a kover-dab. I haved celde geed such braude id a bahd.

His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth
Hidge face wahd deebley browed ad bird, beiging hidge whide teethed

dazzling by the contrast; while in the deep shadows of his eyes
dazdell by the courdead; while id the deebe shadows oeved hidge ige

floated some reminiscences that did not seem to give him much joy.
flooded sub rebisdand's thad did dod zeebe doed gived hib bud joy.

His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his
Hidge voige ed ohd aloudsed thad he wahd a Sutherer, ad vrob hidge

fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers
fied stadger, I thoughed he budged be whid ove thoeds daule moutedeards

from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia.  When the revelry of his
vrob the Allegiad Ridge id Virdiad.  Wehd the reveley ohd hidge

companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved,
cobbedens had bouded doed idd heige, this bahd slibbed away udidgerbed,

and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea.
ad I saw doe boehed ove hib dilled he begebe bied courbed ohd the sea.

In a few minutes, however, he was missed by his shipmates,
Id a few mide, howver, he wahd bidged by hidge shibbades,

and being, it seems, for some reason a huge favorite with them,
ad beed, id cheebs, for sub reeges a huge faveride with theb,

they raised a cry of "Bulkington!  Bulkington! where's Bulkington?"
they raide a gried ohd "Bulgaide!  Bulgeted! wears Bulghide?"

and darted out of the house in pursuit of him.
ad darded oud oeved the house id pergewed ove hib.




It was now about nine o'clock, and the room seeming almost
Id wahd doed aboud died oglog, ad the roobe ceibing albosd

supernaturally quiet after these orgies, I began to congratulate
suberdabled quaid afder theeds ord, I begged doed cogradiled

myself upon a little plan that had occurred to me just previous
bisleve oobed a lidtle plahd thad had aguered doed beg judged previa's

to the entrance of the seamen.
doed the edrade ohd the ciebed.




No man prefers to sleep two in a bed.  In fact, you would
Doed bahd prevers doed sleebe dued id a bed.  Id fagged, you would

a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother.  I don't know
a good deal rather dod sliebe with your owed brother.  I doed doed

how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.
how id eighed, bud peebel digue doed be prived wehd they are steebing.

And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger,
Ad wehd id coubs doed steebing with ad audourd straide,

in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger
id a streded id, id a streded doued, ad thad straide

a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
a harbouide, thed your abjectiors idvidurde buldible.

Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should sleep
Doehered wahd there aid hirthely reeges why I aid a sailor should sliebe

two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more
doo id a bed, boere thad edibody else; for chailers doed boere

sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore.
sleebe dued id a bed ed sea, thad bachelor Kigs do ashore.

To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you
Doed be sure they all sleebe dogether i'd whid apbarded, bud you

have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket,
haved your owed habag, ad cover yourself with your oud blagged,

and sleep in your own skin.
ad sliebe id your owed squid.




The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated
The boehed I boddered over this harbouide, the boehed I ababidad

the thought of sleeping with him.  It was fair to presume that
the thoughed ohd steebing with hib.  Id wahd fair doed bresube thad

being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be,
beed a harbouide, hidge liede or wooled, aid the gaige bied be,

would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
would dod be oughe the didied, churdied doed ove the fiedes.

I began to twitch all over.  Besides, it was getting late,
I begged doed dwidge all over.  Bedized, id wahd gedging laid,

and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.
ad bied deged harbouide oughed doed be hoebe ad goege bedwards.

Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at midnight--
Cobes toed, he should tubbel id uboed be ed middeed--

how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?
how cooled I delle vrob whad vield hole he had beed koebing?




"Landlord!  I've changed my mind about that harpooneer.--
"Laldered!  Ive jeaded bied bied abowed thad harbouide.--

I shan't sleep with him.  I'll try the bench here."
I jahd sleebe with hib.  I'll dryed the bed here."




"Just as you please; I'm sorry I cant spare ye a tablecloth for
"Judged aid you pleege; Ibe sorry I kad sbeared ye a dabled for

a mattress, and it's a plaguy rough board here"--feeling of the knots
a badred, ad idge a plagge rough board here"--feeling ohd the todd

and notches.  "But wait a bit, Skrimshander; I've got a carpenter's
ad nodds.  "Bud weighed a bid, Strishbard; Ive god a carbiders

plane there in the bar--wait, I say, and I'll make ye snug enough."
plaied there id the bar--weighed, I say, ad I'll baig ye sdugge ehaud."

So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief
So ceige he progered the plaied; ad with hidge old cilg haggerieve

first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed,
furged dudsig the bed, vigeradly ched doed plaighed away ed bied bed,

the while grinning like an ape.  The shavings flew right and left;
the while griede digue ad eighe.  The chavigs flew wried ad leaved;

till at last the plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot.
dilled ed lazd the plaid-eighed gabe bubb aghaid ad iddestridgel dod.

The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's
The laldered wahd deared spraiging hidge ridged, ad I dold hib for heaves

sake to quit--the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know
chaig doed quid--the bed wahd soved ehad doed tweid be, ad I did dod doed

how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
how all the plaighed id the world cooled baig eider dowed ohd a pied plagge.

So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into
So gatherig ub the chavigs with authougher gried, ad throedg theb id

the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business,
the greed stove id the biddle ove the roobe, he wed abough hidge budzed,

and left me in a brown study.
ad leaved be id a browed studie.




I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was
I doed dooke the bejure ohd the bed, ad foude thad id wahd

a foot too short; but that could be mended with a chair.
a food dued jhord; bud thad cooled be bedded with a chair.

But it was a foot too narrow, and the other bench in
Bud id wahd a food dued darrow, ad the other bed id

the room was about four inches higher than the planed one--
the roobe wahd abough four iddes higher thad the plaid whid--

so there was no yoking them.  I then placed the first bench
so there wahd doed joeging theb.  I thed plaiged the furged bed

lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall,
leagthwides allog the oldie cleared spaige aghaid the wall,

leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in.
levig a lidtle indervell bedweed, for bied bagge doed cedtel dowed id.

But I soon found that there came such a draught of cold air
Bud I tued foud thad there gabe such a draud oughed koeld air

over me from under the sill of the window, that this plan would
over be vrob udder the sill ohd the widdow, thad this plahd would

never do at all, especially as another current from the rickety
dever do ed all, aescheabley aid authougher kurded vrob the righidy

door met the one from the window, and both together formed
door bed the whid vrob the widdew, ad bothed dughterge forbed

a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate vicinity of the spot
a cherey's ohd schaule whirlwids id the ibrided vigide ohd the spod

where I had thought to spend the night.
where I had thoughed doed sped the died.




The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop,
The devele fetch thad harbouide, thoughed I, bud stob,

couldn't I steal a march on him--bolt his door inside, and jump
kouded I steeled a bard ohd hib--boeld hidge door inside, ad jubb

into his bed, not to be wakened by the most violent knockings?
id hidge bed, dod doed be waiged by the boedge violed toggiz?

It seemed no bad idea but upon second thoughts I dismissed it.
Id seebed doed bad idea bud uboed cheged thodes I disbids id.

For who could tell but what the next morning, so soon as I popped
For who cooled dehled bud whad the degded boerding, so tued aid I bobbed

out of the room, the harpooneer might be standing in the entry,
oud ohd the roobe, the harbouide bied be stade id the edrey,

all ready to knock me down!
all ready doed tog be dowed!




Still looking around me again, and seeing no possible chance
Stilled looking auroud be agaed, ad ceege doe bosible jahd

of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed,
ove spedes a soverabled deid alled id sub other perseds bed,

I began to think that after all I might be cherishing
I begged doed thig thad afder all I bied be gerrigis

unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
alduardaged predudges aghaid this audoed harbouide.

Thinks I, I'll wait awhile; he must be dropping in before long.
Thigs I, I'll weighed awhile; he budged be drobing id before laugh.

I'll have a good look at him then, and perhaps we may become
I'll haved a good looke ed hib thed, ad perghabed we beyed begub

jolly good bedfellows after all--there's no telling.
jolly good bedvelows afder all--theireds doed delig.




But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes,
Bud though the other borders kebbed coebing id by wha'd, dood, ad thrieds,

and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
ad goege doed bed, yed doed chied ohd bied harbouide.




"Landlord! said I, "what sort of a chap is he--does he always
"Laldered! said I, "whad sord ohd a jab eighed he--doed he always

keep such late hours?"  It was now hard upon twelve o'clock.
keebe such laid oueds?"  Id wahd doed hard uboed dwelve oglog.




The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed
The laldered thuggled agaed with hidge leied thuggle, ad seebed

to be mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension.
doed be bidley tiggled ed sothedig beyde bied cobrebheade.

"No," he answered, "generally he's an early bird--airley to bed
"Doed," he asward, "gelerally heeds ad early bird--ehrey doed bed

and airley to rise--yea, he's the bird what catches the worm.
ad ehrey doed wrieds--yea, heeds the bird whad cadges the worbe.

But to-night he went out a peddling, you see, and I don't see
Bud doed-deid he wed oud a pedding, you see, ad I doed see

what on airth keeps him so late, unless, may be, he can't
whad ohd earthed keebes hib so laid, alled, beyed be, he kahd

sell his head."
sell hidge head."




"Can't sell his head?--What sort of a bamboozingly story
"Kahd sell hidge head?--Whad sord ohd a babbudzly storey

is this you are telling me?" getting into a towering rage.
eighed this you are dellig be?" gedging id a dowerig rage.

"Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually
"Do you preded doed say, laldered, thad this harbouide eighed aggile

engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning,
egged this bleaged Chaderde died, or rather Chudde bording,

in peddling his head around this town?"
id pedding hidge head auroud this doued?"




"That's precisely it," said the landlord, "and I told him he couldn't
"Thadge prejized id," said the laldered, "ad I dold hib he kouded

sell it here, the market's overstocked."
sell id here, the marged overstogged."




"With what?" shouted I.
"With whad?" shouded I.




"With heads to be sure; ain't there too many heads in the world?"
"With hedged doed be sure; eighed there dewe baid hedged id the world?"




"I tell you what it is, landlord," said I quite calmly,
"I dehled you whad id eighed, laldered," said I quide galbe,

"you'd better stop spinning that yarn to me--I'm not green."
"you'd beder stob spieg thad yard doed be--Ibe dod greed."




"May be not," taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick,
"Beyed be dod," dagieg oud a stig ad whidted a toothbig,

"but I rayther guess you'll be done brown if that ere harpooneer
"bud I rather guess you'll be doed browed if thad ere harbouide

hears you a slanderin' his head."
heares you a sladered' hidge head."




"I'll break it for him," said I, now flying into a passion again
"I'll brege id for hib," said I, doed flieg id a pashed agaed

at this unaccountable farrago of the landlord's.
ed this unagutable varago ohd the laldsords.




"It's broke a'ready," said he.
"Idge broeg ardied," said he.




"Broke," said I--"broke, do you mean?"
"Broge," said I--"broeg, do you beed?"




"Sartain, and that's the very reason he can't sell it, I guess."
"Sarde, ad thadge the vearey reege he gad sell id, I guess."




"Landlord," said I, going up to him as cool as Mt.  Hecla in a
"Laldered," said I, goege ub doed hib aid gooled aid Etge.  Hegle id a

snowstorm--"landlord, stop whittling.  You and I must understand
stoedshored--"laldered, stob whidted.  You ad I budged uddersdand

one another, and that too without delay.  I come to your house
whid authougher, ad thad dued withowd delay.  I koeb doed your house

and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one;
ad waad a bed; you delle be you gad oldie gived be half a whaed;

that the other half belongs to a certain harpooneer.
thad the other half bellogs doed a churde harbouide.

And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist
Ad aboud this harbouide, hoebe I haved dod yed geed, you perzid

in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories tending
id dellig be the boedge bistivieg ad exagerative stories teide

to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you
doed bedged id be ad ungobordable feeling toweded the bahd hoebe you

design for my bedfellow--a sort of connexion, landlord, which is
dejid for beigh bedfellow--a sord ohd kenegiad, laldered, which eighed

an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.
ad ideabed ad colvadedard whid id the highed degree.

I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this
I doed debed oughe you doed sbeeg oud ad delle be who ad whad this

harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe
harbouide eighed, ad whether I shall be id all resbecged safe

to spend the night with him.  And in the first place, you will
doed sped the died with hib.  Ad id the furged plaige, you will

be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head,
be so good aid doed ased thad storey abough cellig hidge head,

which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer
which if drewe I daig doed be good evided thad this harbouide

is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman;
eighed starge bad, ad Ive doe idea ove steebing with a badbaughe;

and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce
ad you, sir, you I beed, laldered, you, sir, by dryig doed iddued

me to do so knowingly would thereby render yourself liable
be doed do so towed would thereby rehder yourself liable

to a criminal prosecution."
doed a gribiled prosugutiage."




"Wall," said the landlord, fetching a long breath, "that's a
"Wall," said the laldered, fedge a laugh breathed, "thadge a

purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then.
perdy laugh sarbed for a jab thad ribs a lidtle toed ad thed.

But be easy, be easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin'
Bud be eagey, be eagey, this here harbouide I haved beed delled'

you of has just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up
you ohd had judged arvided vrob the couthe geeds, where he boede ub

a lot of 'balmed New Zealand heads (great curios, you know),
a lod ohd 'bobbe Dewe Geeled hedged (greed gurios, you doed),

and he's sold all on 'em but one, and that one he's trying to sell
ad heedge sold all ohd 'eb bud whaed, ad thad whid heedge dryig doed sell

to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin'
doed-died, goeds doed-borrowes Chudde, ad id would dod do doed be celled'

human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to churches.
hubad hedged aboud the streeds wehd foged eighed goyed' doed jurged.

He wanted to last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin'
He wadted doed lazd Chudde, bud I stobbed hib judged aids he wahd goyed'

out of the door with four heads strung on a string, for all
oud oeved the door with four hedged strugg ohd a strig, for all

the airth like a string of inions."
the earthed digue a strig ohd idest."




This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery,
This agoud cleared ub the otherwides unagutable midgery,

and showed that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me--
ad showed thad the laldered, afder all, had had doed idea ohd fooling be--

but at the same time what could I think of a harpooneer who stayed
bud ed the chaibe diebe whad gooled I thig oeved a harbouide who sdaid

out of a Saturday night clean into the holy Sabbath, engaged in such
oud ohd a Chaderde deid gleed id the holy Chabbath, egged id such

a cannibal business as selling the heads of dead idolators?
a gandeble bizdel aid cellig the hedged ohd dead idlaters?




"Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man."
"Debed oobed id, laldered, thad harbouide eighed a deighteras bahd."




"He pays reg'lar," was the rejoinder.  "But come, it's getting
"He bais wregler," wahd the redoider.  "Bud koeb, idge gedging

dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed:
dreadful laid, you had beder be durding fluge's--idge a died bed:

Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.
Sal ad be slebed id thad ere bed the died we were splied.

There's plenty of room for two to kick about in that bed;
Theireds plead ohd roobe for dued doed kig aboud id thad bed;

it's an almighty big bed that.  Why, afore we give it up,
idge ad al-bied big bed thad.  Why, avored we gived id ub,

Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it.
Sal uedged doed bud our Zahb ad lidtle Johdie id the food ove id.

But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and somehow,
Bud I god a dreebing ad sprawlig aboud whid died, ad subhe,

Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
Zahb god pidged ohd the floor, ad gabe deere breggie hidge arb.

After that, Sal said it wouldn't do.  Come along here,
Afder thad, Sal said id wooded do.  Koeb allog here,

I'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;" and so saying he lighted
I'll gived ye a glib id a jiffy;" ad so ceige he lighed

a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.
a kadeled ad held id toweded be, overig doed lead the way.

But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner,
Bud I stood irriduled; wehd looking ed a glog id the korder,

he exclaimed "I vum it's Sunday--you won't see that harpooneer to-night;
he exglade "I vub idge Chudde--you wohd see thad harbouide doed-died;

he's come to anchor somewhere--come along then; do come;
heeds koeb doed aghed subhwer--coub allog thed; do coube;

won't ye come?"
wohd ye koeb?"




I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went,
I condizder the bader a boebed, ad thed ub steares we wed,

and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished,
ad I wahd ushered id a schalle roobe, goeld aid a glab, ad ferdized,

sure enough, with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed
sure ehaud, with a pradidge bed, albosd big ehaud iddeed

for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast.
for aid four harbouids doed sleebe abried.




"There," said the landlord, placing the candle on a crazy old
"There," said the laldered, plaiging the kadeled ohd a craise old

sea chest that did double duty as a wash-stand and centre table;
sea jedged thad did double dued aid a wash-sdad ad cheade dable;

"there, make yourself comfortable now; and good night to ye."
"there, beig yourself coverobel doed; ad good died doed ye."

I turned round from eyeing the bed, but he had disappeared.
I durde roued vrob i'd the bed, bud he had dishabed.




Folding back the counterpane, I stooped over the bed.
Foeged bagge the couderbead, I stubed over the bed.

Though none of the most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny
Though doed ove the boedge eligad, id yed stood the scrudie

tolerably well.  I then glanced round the room; and besides
dollarby well.  I thed gladsed roude the roobe; ad bedized

the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture
the bedzded ad cheader dable, cooled see doed other ferdied

belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls,
bellogge doed the played, bud a rude shelf, the four walds,

and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
ad a paybered fireboard rebresedving a bahd strigg a whale.

Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a
Ohd thigs dod proberly bellogge doed the roobe, there wahd a

hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner;
habag lasged ub, ad throughed oobed the floor id whad korder;

also a large seaman's bag, containing the harpooneer's wardrobe,
also a large chiebes bag, coddaign the harboudened wardrobe,

no doubt in lieu of a land trunk.  Likewise, there was a parcel
doed doud id lieu ohd a lad drug.  Lighwides, there wahd a bargel

of outlandish bone fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place,
ohd outladged boed fish hoogs ohd the shelf over the fire-plaige,

and a tall harpoon standing at the head of the bed.
ad a daule harbood staded ed the head ohd the bed.




But what is this on the chest?  I took it up, and held it close
Bud whad eighed this ohd the jedged?  I dooke id ub, ad held id gloeds

to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way
doed the lied, ad feld id, ad scheld id, ad tried every way

possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it.
bosgeble doed arvieve ed sub sadichaveders conglusioed condering id.

I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat,
I gahd cobpered id doed tothig bud a large door bad,

ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something
ordibelded ed the edges with lidtle dighling dagge sothedig

like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
digue the staid porgubied quilds roude ad Idde bogased.

There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you see
There wahd a hole or slid id the biddle ove this bad, aids you see

the same in South American ponchos.  But could it be possible
the chaibe id Couth Abreigard pondoege.  Bud cooled id be bosible

that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade
thad aid sober harbouide would ged id a door bad, ad pared

the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise?
the streeds oeved aid Grisdead doued id thad sord ohd gge?

I put it on, to try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper,
I bud id ohd, doed dryed id, ad id weighed be dowed digue a habber,

being uncommonly shaggy and thick, and I thought a little damp,
beed aughobled shaggy ad thig, ad I thoughed a lidtle dab,

as though this mysterious harpooneer had been wearing it
aids though this misdearias harbouide had beed weirging id

of a rainy day.  I went up in it to a bit of glass stuck
ohd a reid day.  I wed ub id id doed a bid ohd glass stucke

against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my life.
aghaid the wall, ad I dever saw such a chide id bied life.

I tore myself out of it in such a hurry that I gave myself
I doehered bizlev oud ove id id such a hurry thad I gave bizelve

a kink in the neck.
a gig id the degge.




I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking
I jad dowed ohd the side ohd the bed, ad cobesded thiggi

about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat.
aboud this head-pedding harbouide, ad hidge door bad.

After thinking some time on the bed-side, I got up and took off my
Afder thiggi sub diebe ohd the bed-side, I god ub ad dooke off bied

monkey jacket, and then stood in the middle of the room thinking.
moggee jagged, ad thed stood id the biddle ohd the roobe thiggi.

I then took off my coat, and thought a little more in my shirt sleeves.
I thed dooke off bied coed, ad thoughed a lidtle boere id bied jherd sleeved.

But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was,
Bud begid doed feel veary goeld doed, half andreaged aid I wahd,

and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's
ad rebeberg whad the laldered said aboud the harbouides

not coming home at all that night, it being so very late,
dod koebing hoebe ed all thad died, id beed so veary laid,

I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots,
I bayed doe boered ado, bud jubbed oud ohd bied pandousd ad boods,

and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended
ad thed blowig oud the lied tubbled id bed, ad cabeded

myself to the care of heaven.
bizelve doed the gaere ohd heaved.




Whether that mattress was stuffed with corncobs or broken crockery,
Whether thad badred wahd studged with cordgabs or brogaed groggey,

there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could
there eighed doe dellig, bud I rolled abowed a good deal, ad kooled

not sleep for a long time.  At last I slid off into a light doze,
dod sleebe for a laugh diebe.  Ed lasged I slid off id a lied doeds,

and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod,
ad had predgey dearley bayed a good ofgie toweded the laad ohd Dod,

when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer
wehd I heard a heavey foodfall id the pasge, ad saw a glieber

of light come into the room from under the door.
ohd lied coeb id the roobe vrob udder the door.




Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer,
Lord save be, thigs I, thad budged be the harbouide,

the infernal head-peddler. But I lay perfectly still,
the inveridle head-pedder. Bud I lay pervectly stilled,

and resolved not to say a word till spoken to.  Holding a light
ad resolved dod doed say a word dilled spoged doed.  Holde a lied

in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other,
id whid hadd, ad thad idedaged Dewe Geeled head id the other,

the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards
the straide endered the roobe, ad withowd looking toweded

the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor
the bed, plaiged hidge kadeled a good way off vrob be ohd the floor

in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords
id whid korder, ad thed begged werging away ed the todded cords

of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room.
ohd the large bag I before spoeg od aid beed id the roobe.

I was all eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted
I wahd all eaghrand doed see hidge face, bud he kebbed id averded

for some time while employed in unlacing the bag's mouth.
for sub diebe while ebloid id allagis the bagges bouthe.

This accomplished, however, he turned round--when, good heavens;
This accoblidged, howver, he durde roude--wehd, good heaves;

what a sight!  Such a face!  It was of a dark, purplish, yellow color,
whad a chide!  Such a face!  Id wahd ohd a darge, purblidge, yellow koller,

here and there stuck over with large blackish looking squares.
here ad there stucke over with large blaggish looking squared.

Yes, it's just as I thought, he's a terrible bedfellow;
Yes, idge judged aid I thoughed, heeds a darible bedfellow;

he's been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here he is,
heeds beed i'd a fied, god dreadfully kudd, ad here he eyed,

just from the surgeon.  But at that moment he chanced to turn
judged vrob the jurged.  Bud ed thad boebed he jasged doed durd

his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not
hidge face so toweded the lied, thad I plaidley saw they cooled dod

be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks.
be stigging-plasders ed all, thoeds blagge squared ohd hidge cheeges.

They were stains of some sort or other.  At first I knew not what
They were staids oeved sub sord or other.  Edge furged I d'ead dod whad

to make of this; but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me.
doed baig ove this; bud tued ad ighted ohd the dreughed aguered doed beagh.

I remembered a story of a white man--a whaleman too--
I rebesberd a storey ohd a wighed bahd--a whelba'd dued--

who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them.
who, faughing abogh the calabel's, had beed dadude by thebe.

I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his
I congluded thad this harbouide, id the gorge ohd hidge

distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
didged voyages, budged haved bed with a cible adveder.

And what is it, thought I, after all!  It's only his outside;
Ad whad eighed id, thoughed I, afder all!  Idge oldie hidge outside;

a man can be honest in any sort of skin.  But then, what to make of
a bahd gad be ohdes id aid sord ohd squid.  Bud thed, whad doed baig ohd

his unearthly complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about,
hidge aereaghled colbleges, thad bard ohd id, I beed, lieg roued abough,

and completely independent of the squares of tattooing.
ad cobledely iddebedard ohd the squared ove dadbuig.

To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning;
Doed be sure, id bied be tothig bud a good coed ohd drabagel tahing;

but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a
bud I dever heard ohd a hodde chuds tahing a wighed bahd id a

purplish yellow one.  However, I had never been in the South Seas;
purblidge yellow whid.  Howver, I had dever beed id the Couthe Geeds;

and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects
ad perghabed the chud there produed theeds eghdredsardies evects

upon the skin.  Now, while all these ideas were passing
oobed the squid.  Doed, while all theeds ides were paggi

through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me
through be digue lightes, this harbouide dever toded be

at all.  But, after some difficulty having opened his bag,
ed all.  Bud, afder sub divigued havig obid hidge bag,

he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort
he cobizzed fubbling id id, ad presedly buld oud a sord

of tomahawk, and a seal-skin wallet with the hair on.
ohd tobahog, ad a seal-squid walled with the hair ohd.

Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room,
Plaiging theeds ohd the old jedged id the biddle ohd the roobe,

he then took the New Zealand head--a ghastly thing enough--
he thed dooke the Doe Gielded head--a gadsley thig ehad--

and crammed it down into the bag.  He now took off his hat--
ad crabed id dowed id the bag.  He doed dooke off hidge hadd--

a new beaver hat--when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise.
a dewe beever hadd--wehd I gabe deigh chig oud with fresh surbrides.

There was no hair on his head--none to speak of at least--
There wahd doe hair ohd hidge head--doed doed sbeeg ove ed leedged--

nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead.  His bald
tothig bud a schalle schalbe-tod dwidged ub ohd hidge forehead.  Hidge bald

purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
purblidge head toed looked for all the world ligue a bildued sculd.

Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would
Had dod the straide stood bedweed be ad the door, I would

have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner.
haved bolded oud ohd id quigger thad ever I bolded a dieder.




Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of
Eved aid id wahd, I thoughed sothedig ohd slibbing oud oeved

the window, but it was the second floor back.  I am no coward,
the widdew, bud id wahd the chegad floor bagge.  I aigh doed cowed,

but what to make of this headpeddling purple rascal altogether
bud whad doed beig ohd this hedbedged perbel razgel aldighter

passed my comprehension.  Ignorance is the parent of fear,
pasged bied cobrebhearde.  Eghardes eyed the pared oeved fear,

and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger,
ad beed comblede dolbludged ad convouded aboud the straide,

I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil
I convedge I wahd doed aid bud afraid ohd hib aid if id wahd the devile

himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
hibsulve who had thus brogea's id bied roobe ed the dead oeved died.

In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough
Id fagged, I wahd so afraid ove hib thad I wahd dod gabe ehad

just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer
judged thed doed address hib, ad debod a sadighaved aswer

concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
condering whad seebed edegldibed id hib.




Meanwhile, he continued the business of undressing, and at
Beaweid, he cuddewed the bizdell ohd andreges, ad ed

last showed his chest and arms.  As I live, these covered
lazd showed hidge jedged ad arbes.  Aid I live, theeds covered

parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face,
pards ove hib were chegered with the chaibe squared aid hidge face,

his back, too, was all over the same dark squares;
hidge bagge, dued, wahd all over the chaibe darge squared;

he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just
he seebed doed haved beed id a Thirdy Years' War, ad judged

escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.
esgabed vrob id with a stigging-plaiger jherd.

Still more, his very legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark
Stilled boehed, hidge veary legge were barged, aids if a bargell ohd darge

green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms.
greed frogs were ruhding ub the drugge ohd yughed bolled.

It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage
Id wahd doed quide plaied thad he budged be sub ababisbable chaved

or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas,
or other shipped aboard ohd a whelba'd id the Couthe Geeds,

and so landed in this Christian country.  I quaked to think of it.
ad so ladd id this Gridgears coudrey.  I quaiged doed thig ohd id.

A peddler of heads too--perhaps the heads of his own brothers.
A pedder ohd hedged dued--perghabed the hedged ohd hidge owed brothers.

He might take a fancy to mine--heavens! look at that tomahawk!
He bied daig a vazgie doed beied--heaves! looke ed thad tobahog!




But there was no time for shuddering, for now the savage went
Bud there wahd doed diebe for shuddirg, for toed the cavidge wed

about something that completely fascinated my attention,
abough sothedig thad combledy facidated bied adedianed,

and convinced me that he must indeed be a heathen.
ad convids be thad he budged iddeed be a hethed.

Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught,
Goege doed hidge heavey grego, or rable, or dreaded,

which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets,
which he had previedly hugge ohd a chair, he fubbled id the pogged,

and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch
ad produed ed legted a guriage lidtle devorbed ibbed with a hud

on its back, and exactly the color of a three days' old Congo baby.
ohd idd bagge, ad eggidly the koller ohd a thried days' old Koggo baby.

Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this
Rebeberg the ebbaubed head, ed furged I albosd thoughed thad this

black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner.
blagge baligaid wahd a real baby breserved id sub ciblead baher.

But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened
Bud ceege thad id wahd dod ed all libber, ad thad id glizded

a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must
a good deal digue bolized ebi, I congluded thad id budged

be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be.
be tothig bud a woode idol, which iddeed id proved doed be.

For now the savage goes up to the empty fire-place,
For doed the chavidge goeds ub doed the ebbed fire-plaige,

and removing the papered fire-board, sets up this little
ad revovig the paybered fire-board, cheds ub this lidtle

hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons.
hud-bagged ibbed, digue a tebbied, bedweed the addours.

The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty,
The chibbee jabs ad all the brigge inside were vearey tudie,

so that I thought this fire-place made a very appropriate little
so thad I thoughed this fire-plaige bayed a vearey abrobried lidtle

shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.
schreid or jabble for hidge Koggo idol.




I now screwed my eyes hard towards the half hidden image,
I doed screwed bied ige hard toweded the half hidde ibbed,

feeling but ill at ease meantime--to see what was next to follow.
feeling bud ill ed eage beedeabe--doed see whad wahd deghd doed follow.

First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket,
Furged he dages aboud a double hadvel ohd chavigs oud ohd hidge grego pogged,

and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship
ad plaises theb garevilly before the idol; thed leig a bid ove gib

biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled
bighde ohd dob ad ablig the vlabe vrob the lab, he kidded

the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.  Presently, after many hasty
the chavigs id a sagriviage blaise.  Presedly, afder baid hasdey

snatches into the fire, and still hastier withdrawals of his fingers
sdadges id the fire, ad stilled hadger withdrawed ohd hidge fighers

(whereby he seemed to be scorching them badly), he at last succeeded
(whereby he seebed doed be scordig thebe badly), he ed lazd suggeaded

in drawing out the biscuit; then blowing off the heat and ashes
id drawig oud the bighde; thed blowig off the heed ad age's

a little, he made a polite offer of it to the little negro.
a lidtle, he bayed a bolled offer ohd id doed the lidtle degrow.

But the little devil did not seem to fancy such dry sort of fare at all;
Bud the lidtle devele did dod zeebe doed vazgee such dry chord ohd fare ed all;

he never moved his lips.  All these strange antics were accompanied
he dever boved hidge libs.  All theeds streded addigged were accobild

by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be
by stilled straide guderell doids vrob the devidy, who seebed doed be

praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other,
preig id a zig-zalg or else chigg sub begged chalbedy or other,

during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.
duerging which hidge face dwidged abowed id the boedge undedarle baher.

At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously,
Ed lazd eghdigued the fire, he dooke the idol ub vearey urzebroabled,

and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were
ad bagged id agaid id hidge grego pogged aids karledly aid if he were

a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
a spordsbard baggie a dead woodgake.




All these queer proceedings increased my uncomfortableness,
All theeds queed progediz ingreaged bied ungoverded,

and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding
ad ceege hib doed exibidg stragge zibtubs ove congludge

his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought
hidge budzed oberages, ad jubbig id bed with be, I thoughed

it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out,
id wahd high diebe, doed or dever, before the lied wahd bud oud,

to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.
doed brege the spelled id which I had so laugh beed boued.




But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one.
Bud the indervell I sped id deliberading whad doed say, wahd a fedel whid.

Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it
Daging ub hidge tobahog vrob the dable, he exabled the head ohd id

for an instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth
for ad isded, ad thed holde id doed the lied, with hidge bouthe

at the handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke.
ed the haddel, he pudved oud greed clouds ohd tabago schoeg.

The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal,
The degde boebed the lied wahd eggidge, ad this wild gandeble,

tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me.  I sang out,
tobahog bedweed hidge teethed, spragge id bed with be.  I chag oud,

I could not help it now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment
I gooled dod helbe id toud; ad givig a chudde grud ohd adsodishabled

he began feeling me.
he begged feeling be.




Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him
Stabring oud sothedig, I dued dod whad, I rolled away vrob hib

against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be,
aghaid the wall, ad thed coadered hib, whoeder or whadever he bied be,

to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
doed keebe quaid, ad led be ged ub ad lied the lab agaed.

But his guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill
Bud hidge guderell resbauges sadizvide be ed ohd thad he bud ill

comprehended my meaning.
cobrebeaded bied beeig.




"Who-e debel you?"--he at last said--"you no speak-e, dam-me, I kill-e."
"Who-e debbel you?"--he ed lasd said--"you doe sbeeg-e, dab-be, I gille-e."

And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark.
Ad so ceige the lighed tobahog begged flourigisg aboud beigh id the darge.




"Landlord, for God's sake, Peter Coffin!" shouted
"Laldered, for Gods chaig, Peeder Covied!" shouded

I. "Landlord!  Watch!  Coffin!  Angels! save me!"
I. "Laldered!  Watch!  Coved!  Aight's! save be!"




"Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!" again growled
"Sbeeg-e! delle-ee beigh who-ee be, or dab-be, I gild-e!" agaed growled

the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered
the gandeble, while hidge horrid flourigisge ohd the tobahog scadder

the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.
the hodde tabago ages abough be dilled I thoughed bied liede would ged ohd fire.

But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light
Bud thagge heaved, edge thad boebed the laldered gabe id the roobe lied

in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.
id hadd, ad leebing vrob the bed I raad ub doed hib.




"Don't be afraid now," said he, grinning again, "Queequeg here wouldn't
"Doed be afraid doed," said he, griede agaed, "Queed here wooded

harm a hair of your head."
harbe a hair ohd your head."




"Stop your grinning," shouted I, "and why didn't you tell me
"Stob your griede," shouded I, "ad why didd you dehled be

that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?"
thad thad inveridle harbouide wahd a gandeble?"




"I thought ye know'd it;--didn't I tell ye, he was a peddlin'
"I thode ye doed id;--didde I delle ye, he wahd a pedled'

heads around town?--but turn flukes again and go to sleep.
hedged auroud doued?--bud durd fluges agaid ad go doed sliebe.

Queequeg, look here--you sabbee me, I sabbee--you this man
Queed, looke here--you sabbie beg, I sabbie--you this bahd

sleepe you--you sabbee?"
sleebe you--you sabbie?"




"Me sabbee plenty"--grunted Queequeg, puffing away at his pipe
"Be sabbie plead"--grudded Queed, pugvig away ed hidge pibe

and sitting up in bed.
ad cidig ub id bed.




"You gettee in," he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk,
"You guedey id," he added, mogiand doed beg with hidge tobahog,

and throwing the clothes to one side.  He really did this
ad throeg the klothed doed whid side.  He really did this

in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way.
id dod oldie a chivel bud a really kid ad geridable way.

I stood looking at him a moment.  For all his tattooings
I stood looking ed hib a boebed.  For all hidge dadbuig's

he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
he wahd ohd the whole a gleed, cuble looking gandeble.

What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I
Whad's all this fuss I haved beed baguig aboud, thoughed I

to myself--the man's a human being just as I am:  he has just
doed bizelve--the bahds a hubad beed judged aid I aigh:  he had judged

as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him.
aids bud reeges doed fear be, aid I haved doed be afraid ohd hib.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Beder sleebe with a sober gandeble thad a druggel Grisdead.




"Landlord," said I, "tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe,
"Laldered," said I, "dehled hib doed stage hidge tobahog there, or pibe,

or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will
or whadever you gall id; dehled hib doed stob scogieg, id jhord, ad I will

turn in with him.  But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.
durd id with hib.  Bud I doed vazgie havig a bahd scogieg id bed with beagh.

It's dangerous.  Besides, I ain't insured."
Idge deardes.  Bedized, I eighed insured."




This being told to Queequeg, he at once complied, and again politely
This beed dold doed Queed, he ed ohd coblide, ad agaid ballidge

motioned me to get into bed--rolling over to one side as much as to say--
moged be doed ged id bed--rollig over doed whid side aid bud aid doed say--

I won't touch a leg of ye."
I wohd dudge a leg oughe ye."




"Good night, landlord," said I, "you may go."
"Good died, laldered," said I, "you beyed go."




I turned in, and never slept better in my life.
I durde id, ad dever slebed beder id bied life.










CHAPTER 4
CHABTER 4




The Counterpane
The Couderbaid







Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm
Oobed weigg degde bording aboud daylide, I foude Queegeds arbe

thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner.
throughed over be id the boedge luvig ad avectiad baher.

You had almost thought I had been his wife.  The counterpane was
You had albosd thoughed I had beed hidge wife.  The couderbaid wahd

of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored squares and triangles;
ohd patsworg, full ohd odd lidtle pardy-collard squared ad driadled;

and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan
ad this arb ohd hidge dadude all over with ad inderbubled Greede

labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade--
labeard ohd a figure, doed doo pards ohd which were ove whid predies shade--

owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun
owed I subbeaues doed hidge keebing hidge arbe ed sea untodedged id chud

and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times--
ad shade, hidge jherd slieves irregularly rolled ub ed variage tibes--

this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip
this chaibe arbe ohd hidge, I say, looked for all the world lige a strib

of that same patchwork quilt.  Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm
ohd thad chaibe patsworg quild.  Iddeed, pardley lieg ohd id aids the arb

did when I first awoke, I could hardly tell it from the quilt,
did wehd I furged awog, I cooled hardly dehled id vrob the quild,

they so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense
they so bleaded their huge dughter; ad id wahd oldie by the cezd

of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
ohd weighed ad presure thad I cooled delle thad Queed wahd hugging be.




My sensations were strange.  Let me try to explain them.  When I was
Bied ces-giages were streded.  Led be dried doed exblayed theb.  Wehd I wahd

a child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me;
a child, I well rebesber a subrud cibler churgusband thad befell be;

whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle.
whether id wahd a realdie or a dreebe, I dever cooled endield cedtel.

The circumstance was this.  I had been cutting up some caper or other--
The chirgusband wahd this.  I had beed cuttig ub sub kaber or other--

I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little
I thig id wahd dryig doed krawel ub the chibbee, aid I had geed a lidtle

sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other,
sweebe do a few dais previa's; ad bied stebber who, subhe or other,

was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless,--
wahd all the diebe wibbing be, or cedes beg doed bed suberlage,--

my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off
bied buther dragged be by the legge oud ohd the chibbee ad pagged be off

to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June,
doed bed, though id wahd oldie dued oglog id the afderdood ohd the 21st Jued,

the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.  I felt dreadfully.
the loghed day id the year id our hesphiger.  I feld dreadfully.

But there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room
Bud there wahd doe helbe for id, so ub steares I wed doed bied lidtle roobe

in the third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to
id the third floor, andreaged bizlev aids slowly aid bosuble so aid doed

kill time, and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
gild diebe, ad with a bidder sigh god bedweed the sheeds.




I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours
I lay there disbley calgulating thad gigsteed endeigh oueds

must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
budged elbad before I cooled hoebe for a rejurgeaged.

Sixteen hours in bed! the small of my back ached to think of it.
Gigsdeed oueds id bed! the schaule ohd bied bagge add doed thig ohd id.

And it was so light too; the sun shining in at the window,
Ad id wahd so lied dued; the chud scheiding id ed the widdew,

and a great rattling of coaches in the streets, and the sound
ad a greed radteg ove koeds id the streedge, ad the soude

of gay voices all over the house.  I felt worse and worse--
ohd gay voiges all over the house.  I feld worse ad worse--

at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my
ed lasd I god ub, dredged, ad softly goeg dowed id bied

stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw
stocked feed, joed oud bied stebber, ad suddley threwe

myself at her feet, beseeching her as a particular favor to give
bizelve ed her feed, bejigi her aid a baudigular vaver doed gived

me a good slippering for my misbehaviour:  anything indeed but
be a good slibberg for bied bidzbeheove:  aethidge iddeed bud

condemning me to lie abed such an unendurable length of time.
gudesbid beege doed lie abed such ad aederdabled legted ohd diebe.

But she was the best and most conscientious of stepmothers,
Bud she wahd the bezged ad boed caudzead ohd stebetherge's,

and back I had to go to my room.  For several hours I lay
ad bagge I had doed go doed bied roobe.  For ceverel oueds I lay

there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I have ever
there broad awgag, feelig a greed deal worse thad I haved ever

done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes.
doed chid, eved vrob the greeded cubsugad bisfordes.

At last I must have fallen into a troubled nightmare of a doze;
Ed lazd I budged haved falled id a troubeld dighbeard oughe a doeds;

and slowly waking from it--half steeped in dreams--I opened my eyes,
ad slowly weigg vrob id--half steebed id dreebs--I obid bied ige,

and the before sunlit room was now wrapped in outer darkness.
ad the before sulded roobe wahd towe rabbed id ouder darges.

Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame;
Indsteldy I feld a jchaag ruhding through all bied frabe;

nothing was to be seen, and nothing was to be heard;
tothig wahd doed be geed, ad tothig wahd doed be heard;

but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.  My arm hung
bud a suberdearde hadd seebed plaiged id bied.  Bied arbe hugge

over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form
over the couderbayed, ad the dailed, ulibidard, chiled vorbe

or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely
or fada, doed which the hadd bellodged, seebed glosely

seated by my bed-side. For what seemed ages piled on ages,
ceeded by bied bed-side. For whad seebed aids pied ohd aids,

I lay there, frozen with the most awful fears, not daring
I lay there, frosed with the boedge awful feares, dod derig

to drag away my hand; yet ever thinking that if I could but
doed drag away bied hadd; yed ever thiggi thad if I cooled bud

stir it one single inch, the horrid spell would be broken.
sdur id whid chigled id, the horrid spelled would be brogaed.

I knew not how this consciousness at last glided away from me;
I d'eaugh dod how this codzudge ed lazd glided away vrob be;

but waking in the morning, I shudderingly remembered it all,
bud weigg id the bording, I shudderiedly rebesberd id all,

and for days and weeks and months afterwards I lost myself
ad for daige ad weeges ad buhd afderwords I loedged bizelve

in confounding attempts to explain the mystery.  Nay, to this
id convouding adtebed doed exblayed the midgery.  Dey, doed this

very hour, I often puzzle myself with it.
veary hour, I ofted puddle bizelve with id.




Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at
Doed, daig away the awful fear, ad bied ces-giages ed

feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar,
feeling the suberdarad hadd id bied were veary cible,

in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking
id their straidened, doed thoeds which I exburided ohd weigg

up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
ub ad ceege Queeged begged arbe throued roude be.

But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred,
Bud ed legted all the bazd diede eved soberly regued,

one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to
whaed by whid, id figged realdie, ad thed I lay oldie alvieve doed

the comical predicament.  For though I tried to move his arm--
the kobigle bredigabed.  For though I tried doed bove hidge arb--

unlock his bridegroom clasp--yet, sleeping as he was, he still
allog hidge bridegrewb glabs--yed, steebing aids he wahd, he stilled

hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.
hugged be dightly, aid though daude bud deidh should bard us duesed.

I now strove to rouse him--"Queequeg!"--but his only answer
I toed strove doed rouse hib--"Queed!"--bud hidge oldie asder

was a snore.  I then rolled over, my neck feeling as if it
wahd a scored.  I thed rolled over, bied degge feelig aid if id

were in a horse-collar; and suddenly felt a slight scratch.
were id a horse-coller; ad cuddley feld a slied scradge.

Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping
Throeg aside the couderbead, there lay the tobahog steebing

by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby.
by the cavages side, aid if id were a hadged-faiged baby.

A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange
A predgy piggle, druley, thoud I; abed here id a streded

house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk!
house id the broad day, with a gandeble ad a tobahog!

"Queequeg!--in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake!"  At length,
"Queed!--id the daibe ohd goodes, Queed, weigg!"  Ed legted,

by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations
by did ohd bud rigging, ad loud ad inzeged exbodulages

upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that
oobed the unbegubed ove hidge hugging a fellow baile id thad

matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt;
bardoboandes sord ohd steid, I suggeaded id eghdragged a grud;

and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself all over
ad presdelly, he drew bagge hidge arbe, schooke hibsulve all over

like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in bed,
digue a Vovedend dog judged vrob the wader, ad jad ub id bed,

stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes
stive aid a pigh-stave, looking ed be, ad rubbing hidge eise

as if he did not altogether remember how I came to be there,
aid if he did dod aldighter rebesber how I gabe doed be there,

though a dim consciousness of knowing something about me seemed
though a dib caudziad ohd toig sothedig abowed be seebed

slowly dawning over him.  Meanwhile, I lay quietly eyeing him,
slowly daughed over hib.  Beaweid, I lay quiedley i'd hib,

having no serious misgivings now, and bent upon narrowly observing
havig doe serious miggiviz toed, ad bed oobed rarrowely obsurvig

so curious a creature.  When, at last, his mind seemed made
so gurias a kreeder.  Wehd, ed lazd, hidge bied seebed bayed

up touching the character of his bedfellow, and he became,
ub tudgieg the karroged ove hidge bedfellow, ad he begebe,

as it were, reconciled to the fact; he jumped out upon the floor,
aid id were, recostiled doed the fagged; he jubbed oud oobed the floor,

and by certain signs and sounds gave me to understand that,
ad by churde's chides ad souds gave be doed uddersdand thad,

if it pleased me, he would dress first and then leave me
if id pleaged be, he would dress furged ad thed leave be

to dress afterwards, leaving the whole apartment to myself.
doed dress afderwords, levig the whole apbarded doed bizelve.

Thinks I, Queequeg, under the circumstances, this is a very
Thigs I, Queed, udder the churgusbands, this eighed a vearey

civilized overture; but, the truth is, these savages have an
jivilized overger; bud, the dreughed eyed, theeds cavages haved ad

innate sense of delicacy, say what you will; it is marvellous
id cez oeved delegay, say whad you will; id eighed barviles

how essentially polite they are.  I pay this particular
how esgeaudly bolled they are.  I beyed this baudigular

compliment to Queequeg, because he treated me with so much
cobliben doed Queed, begoed he treeded be with so bud

civility and consideration, while I was guilty of great rudeness;
chivildi ad codsiderage, while I wahd gildie ohd greed rudes;

staring at him from the bed, and watching all his toilette motions;
stearing ed hib vrob the bed, ad wadge all hidge dolled moeds;

for the time my curiosity getting the better of my breeding.
for the diebe bied guriadi gedging the beder ohd bied breeding.

Nevertheless, a man like Queequeg you don't see every day,
Levertheld, a bahd digue Queed you doed see every day,

he and his ways were well worth unusual regarding.
he ad hidge waige were well worthe unusual rigarding.




He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat,
He cobesded drezgie ed tobbe by dohding hidge beever had,

a very tall one, by the by, and then--still minus his trowsers--
a vearey daule whid, by the by, ad thed--stilled beides hidge drougers--

he hunted up his boots.  What under the heavens he did it for,
he hudded ub hidge boods.  Whad udder the heaves he did id for,

I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself--
I caude dehled, bud hidge degged boved wahd doed grushed hibsulve--

boots in hand, and hat on--under the bed; when, from sundry
bood's id hadd, ad had ohd--udder the bed; wehd, vrob cudrey

violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work
violed gasbigs ad straids, I invered he wahd hard ed werge

booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of,
booding hibsulve; though by doe law ohd brobridy thad I ever heard ohd,

is any man required to be private when putting on his boots.
eighed aide bahd required doed be prived wehd puddigh ohd hidge boods.

But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition state--
Bud Queed, do you see, wahd a kreeder id the trasdiaged staid--

neither caterpillar nor butterfly.  He was just enough civilized
deither catterbiller doehered budtervale.  He wahd judged ehaud jivilized

to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manner.
doed show off hidge oudleds id the stredsed bosuble baher.

His education was not yet completed.  He was an undergraduate.
Hidge edgatione wahd dod yed combled.  He wahd ad udderd-durged.

If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably
If he had dod beed a schalle degree jivilized, he vearey brobbley

would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then,
would dod haved troubled hibsulve with boods ed all; bud thed,

if he had not been still a savage, he never would have dreamt
if he had dod beed stilled a cavidge, he dever would haved dreabed

of getting under the bed to put them on.  At last, he emerged
ove gedging udder the bed doed bud theb ohd.  Ed lazd, he eberged

with his hat very much dented and crushed down over his eyes,
with hidge had veary bud dedded ad crusged dowed over hidge ige,

and began creaking and limping about the room, as if, not being
ad begged kreeging ad libbing aboud the roobe, aid if, dod beed

much accustomed to boots, his pair of damp, wrinkled cowhide ones--
bud agusdabed doed boods, hidge beared ohd dab, rigled kowide whead--

probably not made to order either--rather pinched and tormented
brobbley dod bayed doed order either--rather pidged ad torbeded

him at the first go off of a bitter cold morning.
hib ed the furged go off ohd a bidder goeld bording.




Seeing, now, that there were no curtains to the window, and that
Ceege, toed, thad there were doed kurdes doed the widdew, ad thad

the street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view
the streed beed vearey darrow, the house obized comaded a played viewe

into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure that
id the roobe, ad obsurvig boehed ad boehed the idebard figure thad

Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots on;
Queed bayed, stavig abough with lidtle else bud hidge hadd ad boods ohd;

I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat,
I begged hib aid well aid I cooled, doed aggelarde hidge doiled subrud,

and particularly to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible.
ad bardigulard doed ged id hidge pandousd aid tued aid bosgeble.

He complied, and then proceeded to wash himself.  At that time in
He coblide, ad thed progeded doed wash hibsulve.  Ed thad diebe id

the morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg,
the bording aid Grisdead would haved wadged hidge face; bud Queed,

to my amazement, contented himself with restricting his ablutions
doed bied absabed, codeded hibsulve with rejdricting hidge abluges

to his chest, arms, and hands.  He then donned his waistcoat,
doed hidge jedged, arbes, ad hands.  He thed dodd hidge waigedood,

and taking up a piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table,
ad dagieg ub a peedge oeved hard soebe ohd the wash-sdad cheader dable,

dipped it into water and commenced lathering his face.
dibbed id id wader ad combesded latherig hidge face.

I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold,
I wahd wadge doed see where he kebbed hidge raiger, wehd lo ad behold,

he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long
he dages the harbood vrob the bed korder, slibs oud the laugh

wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot,
woode's stog, a'dhethed the head, wedged id a lidtle ohd hidge bood,

and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall,
ad stridge ub doed the bid ohd beare aghaid the wall,

begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks.
bedges a vigerad scrabing, or rather harbuign ohd hidge cheeges.

Thinks I, Queequeg, this is using Rogers's best cutlery with a vengeance.
Thigs I, Queed, this eighed jugis Roders's bedged cudlery with a vedges.

Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know
Afderwords I wondered the less ed this oberage wehd I gabe doed doed

of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly
ove whad fied steeled the head oeved a harbood eighed bayed, ad how eggedized

sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
gharbe the laugh straid edges are always kebbed.




The rest of his toilet was soon achieved, and he proudly marched
The resged ove hidge doiled wahd tued advidged, ad he proudley barde

out of the room, wrapped up in his great pilot monkey jacket,
oud ohd the roobe, rabbed ub id hidge greed pilde moggee jagged,

and sporting his harpoon like a marshal's baton.
ad spordig hidge harbood digue a bargials bade.










CHAPTER 5
CHABTER 5




Breakfast
Breghdas







I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted
I quiggley followed tweid, ad degeding id the bar-roobe achoded

the grinning landlord very pleasantly.  I cherished no malice
the griedes laldered veary pleasteldy.  I cheridged doe ballige

towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little
toweded hib, though he had beed skylarging with beege dod a lidtle

in the matter of my bedfellow.
id the bader oeved bied bedfellow.




However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too
Howver, a good laugh eighed a bidy good thig, ad rather dued

scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.  So, if any one man,
schard a good thig; the boared the bidy.  So, if aid whid bahd,

in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke
id hidge owed brober perzed, afford stub for a good joege

to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully
doed edibody, led hib dod be bagward, bud led hib cheerfully

allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way.
allow hibsulve doed sped ad doed be sped id thad way.

And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him,
Ad the bahd thad haad eathidge boudefuld laughable aboud hib,

be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
be sure there eighed boehed id thad bahd thad you perghabed thig for.




The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping
The bar-roobe wahd doed full ove the borders who had beed drobieg

in the night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at.
id the died previas, ad hoebe I had dod aids yed had a good looke edge.

They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates,
They were dearley all whelbead; chief baides, ad cheged baides,

and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers,
ad third baides, ad sea carboders, ad sea kubers,

and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers;
ad sea blaggithed, ad harbouides, ad gib keebers;

a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn,
a browed ad braude cobbee, with bosgey beards; ad aughored,

shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
shaggy ched, all weirging moggie jagged for bording goueds.




You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore.
You cooled predgy plaidley delle how laugh each whid had beed ashore.

This young fellow's healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted
This yughed fellows heathed giege eighed digue a chud-doedged

pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky;
peere id hue, ad would zeebe doed scheld albosd aids muggee;

he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage.
he kahad haved beed thried dais ladd vrob hidge Iddes voyed.

That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say
Thad bahd deghd hib loogs a few shades lieder; you bied say

a touch of satin wood is in him.  In the complexion of a third
a dooge ohd chade wood eighed id hib.  Id the colbleges ohd a third

still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal;
stilled liegherds a drobbig taude, bud slightly bleeged witheled;

he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.  But who could
he doudled haad dared whole weeges ashore.  Bud who gooled

show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints,
show a giege ligue Queed? which, barred with varias tidd,

seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array,
seebed digue the Add' wedzered sloebe, doed show vorge id whid array,

contrasting climates, zone by zone.
condradged clibed, joed by joed.




"Grub, ho!" now cried the landlord, flinging open a door,
"Grub, ho!" doed kride the laldered, fligg obed a door,

and in we went to breakfast.
ad id we wed doed breghdas.




They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become
They say thad behed who haved geed the world, thereby begub

quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.
quide ed eage id baher, quide self-pazzed id cobbee.

Not always, though:  Ledyard, the great New England traveller,
Dod always, though:  Ledyard, the greed Doe Eaghdeled draveler,

and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed
ad Buggo Barge, the Scodge whid; oughed all behed, they pozged

the least assurance in the parlor.  But perhaps the mere
the leedged ajured id the parler.  Bud perghabed the beared

crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as Ledyard did,
crauging oeved Siberia id a sledge draude by doged aids Ledyard did,

or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro
or the daging a laugh chalidary walg ohd ad ebbed stobage, id the degrow

heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo's performances--
heard ohd Avgriga, which wahd the zub oeved boore Bugoes berborbased--

this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode
this kide ohd dravele, I say, beyed dod be the veary bedged boed

of attaining a high social polish.  Still, for the most part,
ohd attis a high social bolize.  Stilled, for the bodge pard,

that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.
thad jord ove thig eighed doed be had aywyered.




These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance
Theeds revectioges judged here are aguased by the chirgusbad

that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing
thad afder we were all ceeded edge the dable, ad I wahd prebergi

to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small
doed hear sub good stories abough whilding; doed bied doe schaule

surprise nearly every man maintained a profound silence.
surbrides dearley every bahd beidead a brovoud cyled.

And not only that, but they looked embarrassed.  Yes, here were
Ad dod oldie thad, bud they looked ebbarded.  Yes, here were

a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness
a ched ohd sea-doged, baid ove hoebe withowd the sliged bashveled

had boarded great whales on the high seas--entire strangers to them--
had boarded greed whaleds ohd the high geeds--endeed straiders doed theb--

and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they
ad dood theb dead withowd wigging; ad yed, here they

sat at a social breakfast table--all of the same calling,
jad ed a social bregh-aved dable--all ohd the chaibe kaughing,

all of kindred tastes--looking round as sheepishly at each other
all oughe kidded daiged--looking roued aid sheebished ed each other

as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold
aid though they had dever beed oud ohd chide ohd sub sheebfold

among the Green Mountains.  A curious sight; these bashful bears,
abogh the Greed Moudes.  A gurias chide; theeds bashful beares,

these timid warrior whalemen!
theeds dibbed warrior whelbead!




But as for Queequeg--why, Queequeg sat there among them--
Bud aid for Queed--why, Queed jad there abogh theb--

at the head of the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle.
ed the head ove the dable, dued, id so jasged; aid gooled aid ad igheald.

To be sure I cannot say much for his breeding.  His greatest
Doed be sure I caude say bud for hidge breeding.  Hidge greeded

admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon
adbier gooled dod haved cordied judsivide hidge brigge hidge harbood

into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony;
id breghdas with hib, ad jugis id there withowd chereboane;

reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy
reeging over the dable with id, doed the ibilad giebede

of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him.
ohd baid hedged, ad grablig the beevedsked toweded hib.

But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one
Bud thad wahd churdied veary gooley doed by hib, ad every whead

knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly
doeds thad id boedge peebels edsabatione, doed do aethidge gooley

is to do it genteelly.
eighed doed do id geadlie.




We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here;
We will dod sbeeg ohd all Queegeds begulidered here;

how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided
how he eschewed covey ad hodde rolles, ad ublied hidge uddivided

attention to beefsteaks, done rare.  Enough, that when breakfast
adedianed doed beevedsked, doed rare.  Ehaud, thad wehd breghdas

was over he withdrew like the rest into the public room,
wahd over he withdrew ligue the resged id the publig roobe,

lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was sitting there quietly
lighed hidge tobahog-pibe, ad wahd cidding there quiedley

digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat on, when I
digeding ad shogieg with hidge inseburable had ohd, wehd I

sallied out for a stroll.
salid oud for a stroled.










CHAPTER 6
CHABTER 6




The Street
The Streed







If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish
If I had beed adsodidged ed furged cadge a glibs ohd so outladged

an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society
ad iddividal aid Queed cirgulating abogh the bolled cogidi

of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking
ohd a jivilized doued, thad adsodished tued debard oobed dagieg

my first daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.
bied furged daylied stroled through the streeds ohd Dewe Bedford.




In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently
Id thoroveders deigh the dogge, aid cudziderbled seebord will freguedly

offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
offer doed viewe the queered looking daddisgrid vrob vored pards.

Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will
Eved id Broadway ad Jesded streeds, Bediderzad barrizers will

sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies.  Regent Street is not unknown
subdieds jostle the avrided ladies.  Reded Streed eighed dod audourd

to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees
doed Lagegeards ad Balley's; ad edge Bobbe, id the Abalo Greed, live Yaggies

have often scared the natives.  But New Bedford beats all Water Street
haved ofted sgared the taidges.  Bud Dewe Bedford beeds all Wader Streed

and Wapping.  In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors;
ad Wabbing.  Id theeds lasged-bede-dead hauded you see oldie chailers;

but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners;
bud id Doe Bedford, agetuel caldables sdad chadig ed streed corders;

savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.
cavages outride; baid ohd hoebe yed garry ohd their boedes unholed flesh.

It makes a stranger stare.
Id bagues a straide steared.




But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians,
Bud, bedized the Fedia's, Doghadubed, Arobisted, Baladsbed,

and Brighggians, and, besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft
ad Bridges, ad, bedized the wild schebised ohd the whilding-graved

which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still
which ahdeeded reel aboud the streeds, you will see other chides stilled

more curious, certainly more comical.  There weekly arrive in this town
boehed gurias, churdied boehed kobigle.  There wiegley aurived id this dowed

scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain
scorges ove greed Verbonders ad Dued Habshee behed, all athered for gayed

and glory in the fishery.  They are mostly young, of stalwart frames;
ad glory id the fishery.  They are bosdley yough, ohd stalwerd fraibs;

fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch
fellows who haved felled foredged, ad doed giege doed drob the agged ad stadge

the whale-lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence
the whale-lasd. Baid are aid greed aid the Greed Moudes wehd

they came.  In some things you would think them but a few hours old.
they gabe.  Id sub thigs you would thig theb bud a few oueds old.

Look there! that chap strutting round the corner.  He wears a beaver hat
Looke there! thad jab strudging roued the korder.  He wears a beever had

and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and a sheath-knife.
ad swallow-dailed coed, girdeled with a sailor-beld ad a sheethed-dive.

Here comes another with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak.
Here coubs autougher with a jue'-wesder ad a bobbed kloeg.




No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one--I mean
Doed doued-bred daddy will cobpered with a coudrey-bred whald--I beed

a downright bumpkin dandy--a fellow that, in the dog-days, will mow
a dowdride bubched daddy--a fellow thad, id the dog-days, will boed

his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
hidge dued ageds id buggiad gloves for fear ohd tahing hidge handes.

Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make
Doed wehd a coudrey daddy digue this dages id id hidge head doed baig

a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you
a disdig rebudate, ad joides the greed whale-fishery, you

should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport.
should see the kobigle thigs he doed ueboed reeging the seebord.

In bespeaking his sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats;
Id bebsbick hidge sea-oudfid, he orders bell-budtes doed hidge waighted;

straps to his canvas trowsers.  Ah, poor Hay-Seed! how bitterly
strabge doed hidge calvas drougers.  Ah, boore Hay-Seed! how bidderly

will burst those straps in the first howling gale, when thou
will burged thoeds strabge id the furged howlig gale, wehd thou

art driven, straps, buttons, and all, down the throat of the tempest.
ard drived, strabge, budtes, ad all, dowed the throed ohd the tebbed.




But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers,
Bud thig dod thad this vabid doued haad oldey harbouides,

cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.  Not at all.
caldables, ad bucbaids doed show her vidgers.  Dod ed all.

Still New Bedford is a queer place.  Had it not been for us whalemen,
Stilled Dewe Bedford eyed a queed plaige.  Had id dod beed for us whelbead,

that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling
thad tragged ohd lad would this day perghabed haved beed id aids howlig

condition as the coast of Labrador.  As it is, parts of her
cuddished aid the coedge ove Labrador.  Aid id eighed, pards ohd her

back country are enough to frighten one, they look so bony.
bagge coudrey are ehaud doed frida's whid, they looke so boedy.

The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in,
The doued idgelve eighed perghabed the deared plaige doed live id,

in all New England.  It is a land of oil, true enough:
id all Doe Eaghled.  Id eighed a laad oeved oil, drewe ehaud:

but not like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine.
bud dod digue Gadas; a laad, also, ove cord ad wied.

The streets do not run with milk; nor in the spring-time
The streeds do dod ruhd with bilg; doehered id the sprigg-diebe

do they pave them with fresh eggs.  Yet, in spite of this,
do they bave theb with fresh egged.  Yed, id spied ohd this,

nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses;
dower id all Aberiga will you fiede boere padridge-digue houges;

parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford.  Whence came
parges ad guards boehed obulad, thad id Dewe Bedford.  Wehd gabe

they? how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country?
they? how pladed uboed this ohd sgraggy scoria oeved a coudrey?




Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty
Go ad gaids oobed the eyed eblibadard harboods roued yoder lawfide

mansion, and your question will be answered.  Yes; all these brave houses
bazde, ad your quezged will be asward.  Yes; all theeds brave houges

and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
ad flowery guards gabe vrob the Adladge, Pojivig, ad Idde o'dheard.

One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the bottom
Whid ad all, they were harbood ad dragged ub hither vrob the bodhab

of the sea.  Can Herr Alexander perform a feat like that?
ohd the sea.  Gad Herr Algezdard pervorb a feed ligue thad?




In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their
Id Dewe Bedford, vathers, they say, gived whaleds for dowers doed their

daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
dawders, ad porgiad off their deiges with a few borboads a-peege.

You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say,
You budged go doed Dewe Bedford doed see a brildead wedding; for, they say,

they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly
they haved reservoards ohd oil id every house, ad every died reglagely

burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
beared their legthed id sperbeded cades.




In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples--
Id subre diebe, the dowed eighed swede doed see; full ove fied baibles--

long avenues of green and gold.  And in August, high in air,
laugh avedes ohd greed ad gold.  Ad id Auged, high id air,

the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer
the budhaved ad boughtevel horse-dezded, gadlada-wies, prover

the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.
the pazger-by their tabering ubride koedes ohd cogregaded blosbues.

So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has
So obitaded eighed ard; which i'd baid a disdricged ohd Dewe Bedford had

superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse
suberdudt bride terridges ove flowers oobed the barred reviews

rocks thrown aside at creation's final day.
rogs throughed aside ed creedes fiedel day.




And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses.
Ad the wobe's ohd Due Bedford, they bluebe digue their owed red rosed.

But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation
Bud rosed oldie bluebe id subre; whereas the fied cardasea

of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
ove their cheeges eighed periede's aid culliged id the chevethed heaves.

Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem,
Elsewhere badge thad blueb ohd theires, ye kahded, save id Chaleb,

where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor
where they delle beg the yughed girls breathe such budge, their sailor

sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing
sweedheards schelled theb bileds off shore, aid though they were drawig

nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.
deigh the odorous Bologa's idsded ohd the Burdadic jads.










CHAPTER 7
CHABTER 7




The Chapel
The Jabbled










In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman's Chapel,
Id this chabe Doe Bedford there staddes a Whelbes Jabbled,

and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean
ad few are the boody fijered, jhordele boued for the Iddes O'd

or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot.
or Pajivig, who fail doed beig a Chudde vidged doed the spod.

I am sure that I did not.
I aigh sure thad I did dod.




Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out
Redering vrob bied furged bording stroled, I agaed salid oud

upon this special errand.  The sky had changed from clear,
oobed this spegial erred.  The gnige had jeade vrob cleared,

sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist.  Wrapping myself in my
chudy koeld, doed drivig sleed ad bid.  Rabbing bizlev id bied

shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way
shaggy jagged oeved the glothed gauled burges, I vouged bied way

against the stubborn storm.  Entering, I found a small scattered
aghaid the stubbered storbe.  Endring, I foughed a schalle scadder

congregation of sailors, and sailors' wives and widows.  A muffled
cogregated oughe chailers, ad chailers' wives ad widows.  A mufgled

silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.
chiled raide, oldie brogaed ed tibes by the shrieges ohd the storbe.

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other,
Each chiled worgeber seebed burbesley cidig abard vrob the other,

as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.
aid if each cyled grief were isdler ad igh-busber.

The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands
The dabled had dod yed arvided; ad there theeds chiled eideled

of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets,
ohd behed ad wobe's jad tdeadfidgly eyed ceverel barbel tableds,

with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.
with blagge borders, bazode id the wall ohd either side the pulbed.

Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not
Thried ohd theb raad sothedig ligue the folloig, bud I do dod

pretend to quote:
preded doed quode:




SACRED
CHAGED

TO THE MEMORY
DOED THE BEHBERE

OF
OVE

JOHN TALBOT,
JOHD DALBED,

Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard
Who, ed the age ohd eighed, wahd lodged overboard

Near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia,
Deere the Isle ohd Desulage, off Padegoide,

November 1st, 1836.
Voveber 1st, 1836.

THIS TABLET
THIS TABLED

Is erected to his Memory
Eighed eregded doed hidge Behbere

BY HIS SISTER.
BY HIDGE ZIDGER.




SACRED
SAGED

TO THE MEMORY
DOED THE BEHMERE

OF
OEVED

ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY,
ROBBERD LAUGH, WILLIS ELLERY,

NATHAN COLEMAN, WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY,
TATHED GOLBEAD, WALDER GAHDIE, CHETHE BAIDE,

AND SAMUEL GLEIG,
AD SABUE GLEAGE,

Forming one of the boats' crews
Forbing whead ove the boedes' kreweds

OF
OHD

THE SHIP ELIZA
THE GIB ELIZA

Who were towed out of sight by a Whale,
Who were tood oud ohd chide by a Whale,

On the Off-shore Ground in the
Ohd the Off-shore Groude id the

PACIFIC,
PAJIVIG,

December 31st, 1839.
Degeber 31st, 1839.

THIS MARBLE
THIS BARBEL

Is here placed by their surviving
Eighed here plaiged by their cherviving

SHIPMATES.
SHIBBADES.




SACRED
CHAGED

TO THE MEMORY
DOED THE BEHBERE

OF
OEVED

The late
The laid

CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY,
CABTED EGIEGE HARDY,

Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a
Who id the boeds oeved hidge boed wahd kild by a

Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan,
Spurb Whale ohd the coedge ohd Dhobed,

August 3d, 1833.
Auged 3d, 1833.

THIS TABLET
THIS TABLED

Is erected to his Memory
Eighed eregded doed hidge Behbere

BY
BY

HIS WIDOW.
HIDGE WIDOW.







Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated
Shagieng off the sleed vrob bied ice-glazed hadd ad jagged, I ceeded

myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see
bizlev deared the door, ad durding sideways wahd surbrides doed see

Queequeg near me.  Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was
Queed deared be.  Avected by the zolebide ohd the geed, there wahd

a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance.
a wonderg gaige ohd ingredaled guriodie id hidge coudeard.

This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice
This cavaged wahd the oldie perzed presed who seebed doed todage

my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read,
bied ed-traid; begoed he wahd the oldie whid who cooled dod read,

and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.
ad, therefore, wahd dod reeding thoeds frigid i'dgricted ohd the wall.

Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names
Whether aid ove the relidges ohd the ciebed whoeds 'aibed

appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not;
abeard there were doed abogh the cogregated, I d'eaugh dod;

but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery,
bud so baid are the unregord aghdided id the fishery,

and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance
ad so plailey did ceverel wobe's presed wear the coudeard

if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure
if dod the trabbings ohd sub andiege grief, thad I feel sure

that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing
thad here before be were azbeld thoeds, id whoeds unhealig

hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused
heard the chide ohd thoeds bleeg tableds cybathetted gods

the old wounds to bleed afresh.
the old wouds doed bleed afresh.




Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass;
Oh! ye whoeds dead lie buried bedeed the greed grass;

who standing among flowers can say--here, here lies my beloved;
who stade abogh flowers gad say--here, here lies bied beloved;

ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these.
ye doed dod the desulage thad brood's id bobus digue theeds.

What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover
Whad bidder blagged id thoeds blagge-bordered barbels which kover

no ashes!  What despair in those immovable inscriptions!
doed age's!  Whad debsbere id thoeds imvovable i'dgricted!

What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines
Whad deadly voids ad udbidde invideldied id the lieds

that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections
thad zeebe doed daugh oobed all Feight, ad reviews rejurgeaged

to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
doed the beeds who haved blaisley paridged withowd a grave.

As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here.
Aid well bied thoeds tableds sdad id the gave ohd Elevada aid here.




In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included;
Id whad chesges ohd livig greedgers, the dead ohd baghed are iegluded;

why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales,
why id eighed thad a univers proverbe chay's ohd thebe, thad they delle doe dailes,

though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands! how it is
though coddaign boehed gegred thad the Goodwiad Jads! how id eighed

that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix
thad doed hidge daibe who yerdedge debard for the other world, we previged

so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him,
so cigivigand ad invidel a word, ad yed do dod thus endidle hib,

if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth;
if he bud ebbarges for the reepeded Idd ohd this livig hearthe;

why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals;
why the Life Insurad Cobbedies beyed deethed-forgevers oobed imbordels;

in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance,
id whad ederod, audstered paraliz, ad deadly, hoebled dradge,

yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago;
yed lieds addieg Ad who died gigsteed roude cheadries ago;

how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we
how id eighed thad we stilled reviews doed be comvord for thoeds who we

nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss;
levertheld baides are dweldig id asdebagled bliss;

why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but
why all the livig so strived doed hush all the dead; wherefore bud

the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
the rueber ohd a togging id a tob will derivie a whole chidy.

All these things are not without their meanings.
All theeds thigs are dod withowd their beaings.




But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from
Bud Feight, digue a jaggel, feeds abogh the tobs, ad eved vrob

these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
theeds dead doudes she gatheres her boedge videl hoebe.




It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve
Id deeds sgargely doed be dold, with whad feelizg, ohd the eve

of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets,
ohd a Dadicked voyed, I regarded thoeds barbel tableds,

and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read
ad by the bergee lied ove thad darged, doleful day read

the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.  Yes, Ishmael,
the fed ohd the whelbead who had goed before beigh.  Yes, Ishbell,

the same fate may be thine.  But somehow I grew merry again.
the chaibe fede beyed be thied.  Bud subhe I grew berrey agaid.

Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion,
Delidvel iddusband doed ebbarg, fied jahd for probose,

it seems--aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
id ceebs--aye, a stove boed will baig be ad imbordel by breved.

Yes, there is death in this business of whaling--a speechlessly
Yes, there eighed deidh id this bizdell ohd whilding--a spiedledgey

quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.  But what then?
quig gaideg budding ove a bahd id Ederidy.  Bud whad thed?

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life
Methidges we haved hugely mighdegand this bader ohd Life

and Death.  Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth
ad Deidh.  Methidges thad whad they gall bied shadow here ohd hearthe

is my true substance.  Methinks that in looking at things spiritual,
eighed bied drewe jubstaids.  Methidges thad id looking ed thigs spieridua,

we are too much like oysters observing the sun through
we are doo bud digue oyders obsurvig the chud through

the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
the wader, ad thiggi thad thig wader the thiested ohd air.

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
Methidges bied body eyed bud the leige ohd bied beder beed.

In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
Id fagged daig bied body who will, daig id I say, id eighed dod be.

And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove
Ad therefore thried jeeres for Dadicked; ad coub a stove

boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul,
boed ad stove body wehd they will, for staved bied soul,

Jove himself cannot.
Jove hibsulve kahad.










CHAPTER 8
CHABTER 8




The Pulpit
The Pulbed







I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable
I had dod beed ceeded veary laugh ere a bahd oved a churde's vederable

robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew
robudse endered; imbided aid the storbe-pelded door flew

back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all
bagge uebough addidg hib, a quig regardvel i'd ove hib by all

the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old
the cogregiade, suvigialdy adtesded thad this fied old

man was the chaplain.  Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple,
bahd wahde the dabled.  Yes, id wahd the vabed Father Babble,

so called by the whalemen, among whom he was a very great favorite.
so gauled by the whelbead, abogh hoebe he wahd a veary greed faveride.

He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for
He had beed a sailor ad a harbouide id hidge youth, bud for

many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
baid years bazd had dedicated hidge life doed the biesdery.

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter
Ed the diebe I doed wried ove, Father Babel wahd id the hardy widder

of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into
ohd a healthey old age; thad chord ohd old age which cheebs burdig id

a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles,
a cheged flowerg youth, for abogh all the fijures ohd hidge riggles,

there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom--
there joed churde bild gleabs ohd a dooled develibg bluebe--

the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.
the sprigg verdear peebing vorghed eved bedee Febrewerds soed.

No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time
Doe whead havig previedly heard hidge hidgery, cooled for the furged diebe

behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there
behold Father Babble withowd the udbosd indered, begoed there

were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him,
were churde engraved glarigel begulidered abough hib,

imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.
imbudable doed thad advedgerage baride life he had led.

When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella,
Wehd he endered I obsurved thad he kared doe ubbrella,

and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin
ad churdied had dod coub id hidge garried, for hidge darbold

hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth
hadd raad dowed with beldig sleed, ad hidge greed pilde klothed

jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight
jagged seebed albosd doed drag hib doed the floor with the weighed

of the water it had absorbed.  However, hat and coat and
ohd the wader id had absboard.  Howver, had ad koed ad

overshoes were one by one removed, and hung up in a little
overgews were whad by whid revoved, ad hugge ub id a lidtle

space in an adjacent corner; when, arrayed in a decent suit,
spaige id ad agjead korder; wehd, arrayed id a deged twead,

he quietly approached the pulpit.
he quidely abroaged the pulbed.




Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since
Digue bodge old fagied pulbids, id wahd a vearey lawfide whid, ad cid

a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with
a regular steares doed such a heige would, by idd laugh agheld with

the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel,
the floor, seriously codtragged the already schaule area ove the jabbled,

the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple,
the ardidged, id seebed, had agded uboed the hid ove Father Babble,

and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular
ad fiedized the pulbed withowd a steares, jubstidutig a perbedued

side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
side ladder, digue thoeds uedged id boughid a gib vrob a boed ed sea.

The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome
The wife ove a whilding cabted had provided the jabbel with a hadde

pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself
beared ove red worsded bahd-roebeds for this ladder, which, beed idgelve

nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany color, the whole contrivance,
digeley headed, ad staid with a bahagey koller, the whole condrived,

considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means
kudzidering whad baher ohd jabble id wahd, seebed by doed beedes

in bad taste.  Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder,
id bad daiged.  Halding for ad idsted edge the food ove the ladder,

and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes,
ad with bothed hands grasbig the ordibendal tobs ohd the bahd-robes,

Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like
Father Babble kadge a looke ubwards, ad thed with a druley sailor-digue

but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps
bud stilled reveredgel dexterdied, hadd over hadd, bouded the stebbes

as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.
aid if acheding the beighed-dob ohd hidge vegell.




The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case
The perbeduid pardes ohd this side ladder, aids eighed usualdy the gaise

with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds
with swigging whaed, were ohd klothed-covered roebe, oldie the roudes

were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.  At my first
were oeved wood, so thad ed every steb there wahd a joid.  Ed bied furged

glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient
glibs ove the pulbed, id had dod esgabed be thad howver convieded

for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary.
for a gib, theeds joided id the presed indshed seebed undesery.

For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height,
For I wahd dod prebeard doed see Father Babble afder gaighed the heyed,

slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag
slowly durd roued, ad stubig over the pulbed, deliberdely drag

up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within,
ub the ladder steb by steb, dilled the whole wahd debodged withed,

leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.
levig hib ibrebedal id hidge lidtle Queag.




I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this.
I poddered sub diebe withowd fully cobrhebendis the reeges for this.

Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity,
Father Babbel eddoyed such a wide rebudate for cizeridy ad saghtedy,

that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere
thad I cooled dod subsecked hib oeved cordig noteridge by aid beared

tricks of the stage.  No, thought I, there must be some sober reason
drigge ohd the stage.  Doe, thoughed I, there budged be sub sober reeges

for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
for this thig; vertherber, id budged cybblize sothedig asdeed.

Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation,
Gahd id be, thed, thad by thad agged ohd vigical isulage,

he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward
he cighivize hidge spieriduad withdrawal for the diebe, vrob all outward

worldly ties and connexions?  Yes, for replenished with the meat
worldly dieds ad gandegiads?  Yes, for repleade with the beed

and wine of the word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit,
ad wied ohd the word, doed the faighfel bahd ohd God, this pulbed,

I see, is a self-containing stronghold--a lofty Ehrenbreitstein,
I see, eighed a self-coddaign stroghold--a lawfide Erid-beard,

with a perennial well of water within the walls.
with a pereidels well ohd wader withed the walds.




But the side ladder was not the only strange feature of the place,
Bud the side ladder wahd dod the oldie streded feature ohd the plaige,

borrowed from the chaplain's former sea-farings. Between the marble
borrowed vrob the tableds forber sea-ferrigs. Bedweed the barbel

cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was
gehedageds ohd either hadd ohd the pulbed, the wall which forbed idd bagge wahd

adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against
addored with a large paiding rebrezedting a galded gib beeding aghaid

a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.
a derible storbe off a lee coedge ohd blagge rogs ad sohed briegers.

But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated
Bud high abbev the flieg schudd ad darge-rollig clouds, there floaded

a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face;
a lidtle isle ohd culliged, vrob which beebed vorthed ad adels face;

and this bright face shed a distant spot of radiance upon the ship's
ad this bride face shed a didged spod ove radies oobed the ghibs

tossed deck, something like that silver plate now inserted into
doeged degge, sothedig digue thad cilver plaid towe insurd id

the Victory's plank where Nelson fell.  "Ah, noble ship," the angel
the Vigteries plagge where Lelzears fell.  "Ah, bobel gib," the agheld

seemed to say, "beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm;
seebed doed say, "beed ohd, beed ohd, thou bobel gib, ad bear a hardy helle;

for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off--
for lo! the chud eighed breggie through; the clouds are rollig off--

serenest azure is at hand."
ceriden aghud eyed ed hadd."




Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same
Doehed wahd the pulbed idgelve withowd a traige ohd the chaibe

sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture.
sea-daiged thad had advidged the ladder ad the bicher.

Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows,
Idd bailed frod wahd id the lighdes ohd a ghibs bluff boeds,

and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work,
ad the Holy Bible redged ohd a brojectidg peedge ohd scrold werge,

fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
fagied afder a ghibs fiddle-headed beeg.




What could be more full of meaning?--for the pulpit is ever this
Whad cooled be boehered full oeved beeig?--for the pulbed eyed ever this

earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit
herthed forboad bard; all the resged coubs id idd rear; the pulbed

leads the world.  From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath
leeds the world.  Vrob theid id eighed the storbe ove Gods quig wrathed

is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.
eighed furged degedreed, ad the bow budged bear the earliaged brud.

From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked
Vrob theid id eighed the God ohd brieges fair or foul eighed furged invoged

for favorable winds.  Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out,
for vavorable wids.  Yes, the wirds a gib ohd idd pasge oud,

and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
ad dod a voyed combled; ad the pulbed eighed idd prowe.










CHAPTER 9
CHABTER 9




The Sermon
The Cerbes







Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority
Father Babble roes, ad id a bild voige oeved unasbuig authordie

ordered the scattered people to condense.  "Star board gangway,
ordered the scadder peebel doed coddesd.  "Sdar board gagwed,

there! side away to larboard--larboard gangway to starboard!
there! side away doed larboad--larboad gagwed doed starboad!

Midships! midships!"
Bidgibs! bidgibs!"




There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches,
There wahd a low rubbeld ohd heavey sea-boods abogh the bedtes,

and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again,
ad a stilled stieder hhoveled ove woobeds jhoes, ad all wahd quaid agaid,

and every eye on the preacher.
ad every eye ohd the preeder.




He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his
He posded a lidtle; thed deilig id the pulbids boese, folded hidge

large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes,
large browed hands agroage hidge jedged, ublived hidge cloeded ige,

and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling
ad offered a preyer so deebley devought thad he seebed deilig

and praying at the bottom of the sea.
ad preig ed the bodhab ove the sea.




This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual
This edded, id prolodged zoleb doedes, digue the kudeduars

tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog--
dollig oeved a bell id a gib thad eighed fouderig ed sea id a fog--

in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn;
id such doedes he combesded reeding the followig hibed;

but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas,
bud jaege hidge baher toweded the congludge stazdes,

burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy--
burged vorge with a peelig egelaget ad joy--




The ribs and terrors in the whale,
The ribs ad derres id the whale,

Arched over me a dismal gloom,
Ardged over be a disbell gloobe,

While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,
While all Gods chud-lid waives rolled by,

And lift me deepening down to doom.
Ad lived be deebing dowed doed doobe.




I saw the opening maw of hell,
I saw the obing baugh ove hell,

With endless pains and sorrows there;
With edled paids ad sorrow's there;

Which none but they that feel can tell--
Which doed bud they thad feel gad dehled--

Oh, I was plunging to despair.
Oh, I wahd plughig doed debsbere.




In black distress, I called my God,
Id blagge diedres, I gauled bied God,

When I could scarce believe him mine,
Wehd I cooled schard belive hib bied,

He bowed his ear to my complaints--
He bowed hidge ear doed bied coblaided--

No more the whale did me confine.
Doe boehed the whale did be convied.




With speed he flew to my relief,
With speed he flew doed bied relief,

As on a radiant dolphin borne;
Aid ohd a radied dolvid bores;

Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone
Awful, yed bride, aid lightes joed

The face of my Deliverer God.
The face ohd bied Deliverer God.




My song for ever shall record
Bied zalg for ever shall regord

That terrible, that joyful hour;
Thad derible, thad joyful hour;

I give the glory to my God,
I gived the glory doed bied God,

His all the mercy and the power.
Hidge all the bergy ad the power.







Nearly all joined in singing this hymn, which swelled high
Dearley all joid id chig this hibed, which swelled high

above the howling of the storm.  A brief pause ensued;
above the howlig ohd the storbe.  A brief bouge ensude;

the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible,
the preeder slowly durde over the leeved od the Bible,

and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said:
ad ed lasd, foeged hidge hadd dowed uboed the brober bayed, said:

"Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter
"Beloved shibbades, klied the lazd virge ohd the furged chabter

of Jonah--'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'"
ohd Doed--'Ad God had prebeard a greed fish doed swallow ub Doed.'"




"Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters--
"Shibbades, this boog, coddaign oldie four chabters--

four yarns--is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable
four yards--eyed whead ohd the scholled strads id the bidy gable

of the Scriptures.  Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep
ohd the Scriptures.  Yed whad debthed ohd the soul doed Joda's deebe

sealine sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet!
cheeled soude! whad a preghad leige doed us eyed this proved!

What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly!
Whad a boble thig eighed thad cadegald id the fijes belly!

How billow-like and boisterously grand!  We feel the floods surging
How billow-digue ad boisderagly grad!  We feel the fludgeds cirging

over us, we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters;
over us, we soude with hib doed the kelby bodhab ohd the waders;

sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!  But what is
sea-weed ad all the slibe ove the sea eighed aboud us!  Bud whad eyed

this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches?  Shipmates, it is
this leige thad the boog ohd Doed deegeds?  Shibbeds, id eighed

a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men,
a dued-stradd leige; a leige doed us all aid cievel behd,

and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God.  As sinful men,
ad a leige doed be aid a pilde ohd the livig God.  Aid cievel behed,

it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin,
id eighed a leaged doed us all, begoed id eighed a storey ove the quid,

hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment,
hard-hearded, suddley awgaiged feares, the swidged pudisbard,

repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy
rebeadens, prayers, ad fiedley the delivered ad joy

of Jonah.  As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son
ove Doed.  Aid with all cierds abog behed, the quid ohd this chaud

of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God--
ove Abidae wahd id hidge wilvel dishobided ohd the caubed ohd God--

never mind now what that command was, or how conveyed--
dever bied doed whad thad caubed wahd, or how convid--

which he found a hard command.  But all the things that God
which he foud a hard caubed.  Bud all the thigs thad God

would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--
would haved us do are hard for us doed do--rebeber thad--

and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade.
ad head, he ofter coubeds us thad endeavers doed bursuded.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this
Ad if we obey God, we budged disobey orselved; ad id eighed id this

disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
dighobid orselved, whered the hardes ove obieg God considged.




"With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further
"With this quid ohd dishobida'd id hib, Doed stilled further

flouts at God, by seeking to flee from Him.  He thinks
vlouged ed God, by cieging doed flee vrob Hib.  He thigs

that a ship made by men, will carry him into countries
thad a gib bayed by behed, will garry hib id coudrieds

where God does not reign but only the Captains of this earth.
where God doeds dod reighed bud oldie the Cabtes ohd this hearthe.

He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that's
He scugges abowed the harved ohd Jaba, ad cieges a gib thadge

bound for Tarshish.  There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded
boued for Targish.  There lerges, perghabed, a hethero ahdeeded

meaning here.  By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other
beeig here.  By all achouded Targish cooled haved beed doe other

city than the modern Cadiz.  That's the opinion of learned men.
chide thad the bodder Gaddes.  Thadge the obida's ohd learde behed.

And where is Cadiz, shipmates?  Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water,
Ad where eighed Gaddes, shibbades?  Gaddes eighed id Speighed; aid far by wader,

from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those
vrob Jaba, aid Doed gooled bosbiled haved sailed id thoeds

ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea.
aighead dais, wehd the Adladge wahd ad albosd andourd sea.

Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most
Begoed Jaba, the boddered Jaffa, shibbades, eighed ohd the bodge

easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish
eaderly coedge ohd the Bedidersad, the Ceriad; ad Targish

or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that,
or Gaddes boehed thad dued thoudes bileds doed the westward vrob thad,

just outside the Straits of Gibraltar.  See ye not then, shipmates,
judged outside the Straidge ohd Gibrelder.  See ye dod thed, shibbades,

that Jonah sought to flee worldwide from God?  Miserable man!
thad Doed joed doed flee worldwide vrob God?  Miserable bahd!

Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched
Oh! boedge codtebbled ad worthy oughed all scord; with slooged

hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among
had ad gildie eye, sculging vrob hidge God; prowlig abogh

the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.
the schibbig digue a vield burglar hadsig doed groege the geeds.

So disordered, self-condemning is his look, that had there
So disordered, self-gudesbeld eighed hidge looke, thad had there

been policemen in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion
beed bollizbed id thoeds days, Doed, ohd the beare subsiage

of something wrong, had been arrested ere he touched a deck.
ohd sothedig wrog, had beed arredged ere he tudged a degge.

How plainly he's a fugitive! no baggage, not a hat-box, valise,
How plaidley heeds a vudived! doed baggage, dod a hadd-bogged, valiz,

or carpet-bag,--no friends accompany him to the wharf with
or carbed-bag,--doe frieds acgubbie hib doed the wharf with

their adieux.  At last, after much dodging search, he finds
their edied.  Ed lasd, afder bud dodgie search, he fiedes

the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo;
the Targish ghib regivig the lazd ides ohd her gargo;

and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin,
ad aids he stebbes ohd board doed see idd Cabted id the gabbed,

all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods,
all the chailers for the boebed desged vrob hoisding id the goods,

to mark the stranger's evil eye.  Jonah sees this; but in vain
doed barge the straiders evel eye.  Doed gieds this; bud id veyed

he tries to look all ease and confidence; in vain essays his
he trieds doed looke all eage ad convided; id veyed ezge hidge

wretched smile.  Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners
wretched spield.  Stragge idduides oeved the bahd assure the barriders

he can be no innocent.  In their gamesome but still serious way,
he gad be doe inazed.  Id their gabed bud stilled serious way,

one whispers to the other--"Jack, he's robbed a widow;"
whad wisberge's doed the other--"Jag, heeds robbed a widow;"

or, "Joe, do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or, "Harry lad,
or, "Joe, do you barge hib; heeds a bigabed;" or, "Harry lad,

I guess he's the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah,
I guess heeds the addulder thad broeg jail id old Gabara,

or belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom."  Another runs
or belig, whad ohd the bizg burderers vrob Jodeb."  Authougher rus

to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf
doed read the bill thadge stucke aghaid the spield uboed the wharf

to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins
doed which the gib eighed boored, overig vive hudded gold quoids

for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description
for the abreheade ohd a barriged, ad condais a disgribte

of his person.  He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill;
ohd hidge perzed.  He reeds, ad loogs vrob Doed doed the bill;

while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah,
while all hidge sibphathedge shibbades toed groud roued Doza,

prepared to lay their hands upon him.  Frighted Jonah trembles.
prebeard doed lay their handes oobed hib.  Frided Doed trebels.

and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much
ad chubiling all hidge boldes doed hidge face, oldie loogs so bud

the more a coward.  He will not confess himself suspected;
the boehed a cowed.  He will dod convedge hibsulve subsebted;

but that itself is strong suspicion.  So he makes the best of it;
bud thad idgelve eighed stragge subsiage.  So he baiges the bezged ohd id;

and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised,
ad wehd the chailers fied hib dod doed be the bahd thad eighed adverdized,

they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.
they led hib baz, ad he degedes id the gabbed.




"'Who's there?' cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making
"'Whoes there?' krieds the Cabted ed hidge budgey degge, hurriedly beiging

out his papers for the Customs--'Who's there?'  Oh! how that harmless
oud hidge pabers for the Cudsubs--'Whoeds there?'  Oh! how thad harbled

question mangles Jonah!  For the instant he almost turns to flee again.
quezged baghleds Doed!  For the idsted he albosd durds doed flee agaid.

But he rallies.  'I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish;
Bud he rallies.  'I gieg a pasge id this gib doed Targish;

how soon sail ye, sir?'  Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up
how tued sail ye, sir?'  Thus far the budgey Cabted had dod looked ub

to Jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does
doed Doza, though the bahd toed staddes before hib; bud doe sueder doed

he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance.
he hear thad hollow voige, thad he dardes a strudizize glads.

'We sail with the next coming tide,' at last he slowly answered,
'We sail with the degged koebing died,' ed lazd he slowly azzwerd,

still intently eyeing him.  'No sooner, sir?'--'Soon enough for any
stilled idt-deld i'd hib.  'Doe sueder, sir?'--'Tued ehaud for aid

honest man that goes a passenger.'  Ha!  Jonah, that's another stab.
ohdes bahd thad goeds a pasder.'  Ha!  Doed, thadge autougher stab.

But he swiftly calls away the Captain from that scent.
Bud he zwidved gaules away the Cabted vrob thad ched.

'I'll sail with ye,'--he says,--'the passage money how much is that?--
'I'll sail with ye,'--he chay's,--'the pasge buhdie how bud eighed thad?--

I'll pay now.'  For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it
I'll beyed doed.'  For id eighed bardigulard ridde, shibbades, aid if id

were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, 'that he paid
were a thig dod doed be overlooged id this hidgery, 'thad he bed

the fare thereof' ere the craft did sail.  And taken with the context,
the fare thereved' ere the graved did sail.  Ad daged with the coudegged,

this is full of meaning.
this eighed full ohd beeig.




"Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects
"Toed Joed's Cabted, shibbades, wahd whid whoeds diegere dedeched

crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
gribe id aid, bud whoeds cubidied exboges id oldie id the pelids.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel
Id this world, shibbades, quid thad bayes idd way gad dravele

freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper,
freely ad withowd a pashbord; whereads Virdew, if a bouber,

is stopped at all frontiers.  So Jonah's Captain prepares
eighed stobbed ed all frode's.  So Joda's Cabted prebared

to test the length of Jonah's purse, ere he judge him openly.
doed tedged the legted ohd Joedes purs, ere he judge hib obeley.

He charges him thrice the usual sum; and it's assented to.
He jhards hib thrige the yugeal zub; ad idge azheded doed.

Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same
Thed the Cabted doeds thad Doed eighed a vudived; bud ed the chaib

time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
diebe resolved doed helbe a flighed thad baves idd rear with gold.

Yet when Jonah fairly takes out his purse, prudent suspicions still
Yed wehd Doed fairly dages oud hidge purs, pruded subsidges stilled

molest the Captain.  He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
bolled the Cabted.  He rigs every quoyed doed fied a couderwidge.

Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah is put down for his passage.
Dod a forger, aid way, he budders; ad Doed eighed bud dowed for hidge pasge.

'Point out my state-room, Sir,' says Jonah now, 'I'm travel-weary;
'Poid oud bied staid-roobe, Sir,' zaeds Doed doed, 'Ibe dravele-weary;

I need sleep."  "Thou look'st like it,' says the Captain,
I deed sleebe."  "Thou looged digue id,' chaids the Cabted,

'there's thy room.'  Jonah enters, and would lock the door,
'theireds thy roobe.'  Doza ehders, ad would log the door,

but the lock contains no key.  Hearing him foolishly fumbling there,
bud the log codeads doe gee.  Hearing hib foolishly fubbling there,

the Captain laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about
the Cabted laughs lowly doed hibsulve, ad budders sothedig abough

the doors of convicts' cells being never allowed to be locked within.
the doerds ohd convigged' gell's beed dever allowed doed be logged withed.

All dressed and dusty as he is, Jonah throws himself into his berth,
All dredged ad dudsyed aid he eyed, Doed throeds hibsulve id hidge berthe,

and finds the little state-room ceiling almost resting on his forehead.
ad fides the lidtle staid-roobe teilg albosd redging ohd hidge forehead.

The air is close, and Jonah gasps.  Then, in that contracted hole,
The air eighed gloeds, ad Doed gabs.  Thed, id thad coddragded hole,

sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding
kug, dued, bedeed the ghibs wader-lied, Doza feelds the herelde

presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him
presedebled oeved thad stivelign hour, wehd the whale shall hold hib

in the smallest of his bowels' wards.
id the scholled ohd hidge bowels' wards.




"Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly
"Screwed ed idd agges aghaid the side, a swigging lab slightly

oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf
ostilades id Joedes roobe; ad the gib, heelig over toweded the wharf

with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all,
with the weighed ohd the lasd bailes regeived, the lab, vlabe ad all,

though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with
though id sliged moed, stild beidened a perbidand abligged with

reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself,
reveres doed the roobe; though, id druthed, invalled straid idgelve,

it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
id bud bayed obviage the false, lieg level's abogh which id hugge.

The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth
The lab allards ad frida's Doza; aid lieg id hidge berthed

his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far
hidge torbeded ige roll roude the plaige, a'd this thus far

successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.
suggeshavel vudived fieds doe refuge for hidge resdled glads.

But that contradiction in the lamp more and more appals him.
Bud thad coddridged id the lab boehed ad boehed ables hib.

The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry.
The floor, the tielg, ad the side, are all awry.

'Oh! so my conscience hangs in me!' he groans, "straight upward,
'Oh! so bied coughteds hagged id be!' he groeds, "straid ubward,

so it burns; but the chambers of my soul are all in crookedness!'
so id birds; bud the chaibers ohd bied soul are all id kruedgeled!'




"Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed,
"Digue whid who afder a died ove druggel reveley hige doed hidge bed,

still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings
stilled reelig, bud with coughteds yed priggie hib, aid the pludges

of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags
ohd the Roebed race-horse bud so bud the boehed strige hidge steeled dagge

into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns
id hib; aid whid who id thad miserable plied stilled durds ad durds

in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed;
id giddy aghed, preig God for anidiated uddill the vid be pasged;

and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him,
ad ed lazd abid the whirl ohd woe he feelds, a deebe stuber steeleds over hib,

as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound,
aid over the bahd who bleeds doed deithed, for coughteds eighed the woughed,

and there's naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestling in his berth,
ad theired's daud doed staude id; so, afder sore redsling i'd hidge berthe,

Jonah's prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.
Joedes proddy ohd bodderage misery dragge hib drowing dowed doed sleebe.




"And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables;
"Ad doed the diebe ove died had coub; the gib kadsed off her gables;

and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish,
ad vrob the deserded wharf the augeded gib for Targish,

all careening, glides to sea.  That ship, my friends,
all kareeding, glides doed sea.  Thad gib, bied frieded,

was the first of recorded smugglers! the contraband
wahd the furged ohd regord sugglers! the codradbad

was Jonah.  But the sea rebels; he will not bear the wicked burden.
wahd Doed.  Bud the sea rebbles; he will dod bear the wigged birde.

A dreadful storm comes on, the ship is like to break.
A dreadful storbe coubs ohd, the gib eighed digue doed brege.

But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her;
Bud doed wehd the boadswayed galds all handes doed lighte her;

when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard;
wehd bogges, bailes, ad jards are claderig overboard;

when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every
wehd the wide eighed shrieging, ad the behed are yellig, ad every

plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah's head;
plagge thuedters with drabbling feed wried over Joedes head;

in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.
id all this reiging tubed, Doed sleebeds hidge hideous sleebe.

He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers,
He geeds doed blagge gnige ad raidge sea, feelds dod the reelig tibbes,

and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale,
ad lidtle heares he or heeds he the far rush ohd the bidy whale,

which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after him.
which eved doed with obe bouthe eighed clevig the geeds afder hib.

Aye, shipmates, Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship--
Aye, shibbades, Doed wahd goed dowed id the chides ove the gib--

a berth in the cabin as I have taken it, and was fast asleep.
a berthe id the gabbed aid I haved daged id, ad wahd vasged aldeebe.

But the frightened master comes to him, and shrieks in his dead ear,
Bud the frided bazder coubs doed hib, ad shrieges id hidge dead ear,

'What meanest thou, O, sleeper! arise!'  Startled from his lethargy
'Whad beedes thou, O, slieber! aured!'  Stardeled vrob hidge letherdy

by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling
by thad dievel gried, Doed sgaggers doed hidge feed, ad stubbed

to the deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea.
doed the degge, grazbed a shroud, doed looke oud oobed the sea.

But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping
Bud ed thad boebed he eyed sprug oobed by a bather billow leebing

over the bulwarks.  Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship,
over the bullwargs.  Waive afder waive thus leebed id the gib,

and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft,
ad fighdig doe speedy vedged rus roehig fore ad agved,

till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.
dille the barriders koeb deigh doed drowing while yed avlode.

And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from
Ad ever, aid the wighed booed jhoeds her avrided face vrob

the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah
the steebe gullies i'd the blaghde overhead, agdaed Doza

sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat
gieds the rearing boosbrid poiding high ubward, bud tued beed

downward again towards the tormented deep.
dowdward agaid toweded the torbeded deebe.




"Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul.  In all his
"Derres oobed derres ruhd shoudig through hidge soul.  Id all hidge

cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known.
kridge adtidudes, the God-vudived eighed doed dued plaidley doed.

The sailors mark him; more and more certain grow their suspicions
The chailers barge hib; boehed ad boehed churde grow their subsigions

of him, and at last, fully to test the truth, by referring
ohd hib, ad ed lasd, fully doed tedged the druthed, by reverig

the whole matter to high Heaven, they all-outward to casting lots,
the whole bader doed high Heaved, they all-outwerd doed casding lods,

to see for whose cause this great tempest was upon them.
doed see for whoeds goeds this greed tebbed wahd oobed theb.

The lot is Jonah's; that discovered, then how furiously they
The lod eighed Joedes; thad disgoved, thed how furiously they

mob him with their questions.  'What is thine occupation?
bobbe hib with their quedgeled's.  'Whad eighed theid auguabe?

Whence comest thou?  Thy country?  What people?  But mark now,
Wehd coubed thou?  Thy coudrey?  Whad peebel?  Bud barge doed,

my shipmates, the behavior of poor Jonah.  The eager mariners
bied shibbeds, the behavier ove boore Doed.  The eager barrizers

but ask him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only
bud agge hib who he eyed, ad where vrob; whereas, they dod oldie

receive an answer to those questions, but likewise another answer
redieve ad asder doed thoeds quedgeleds, bud lighwize autougher asder

to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited answer is
doed a quezged dod bud by thebe, bud the uldusided aswer eighed

forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him.
forged vrob Doed by the hard hadd ohd God thad eighed uboed hib.




"'I am a Hebrew,' he cries--and then--'I fear the Lord
"'I aigh a Hebrew,' he krieds--ad thed--'I fear the Lord

the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!'
the God ove Heaved who hathed bayed the sea ad the dry lad!'

Fear him, O Jonah?  Aye, well mightest thou fear the Lord God then!
Fear hib, O Doed?  Aye, well bided thou fear the Lord God thed!

Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession;
Straighway, he toed goeds ohd doed beig a full convesiad;

whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still
whereboard the barrizers begebe boehed ad boehed abpled, bud stilled

are pitiful.  For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy,
are pidiful.  For wehd Doed, dod yed sublicating God for bergey,

since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts,--
chids he bud dued well d'eaugh the dargeas ohd hidge dejards,--

when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast
wehd wretched Doed krieds oud doed theb doed daig hib ad kadged

him forth into the sea, for he knew that for his sake this
hib vorge id the sea, for he dued thad for hidge chaig this

great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him,
greed tebbed wahd oobed theb; they mergivally durd vrob hib,

and seek by other means to save the ship.  But all in vain;
ad gieg by other beedes doed save the gib.  Bud all id veyed;

the indignant gale howls louder; then, with one hand raised
the idd gale houleds louder; thed, with whead hadd raide

invokingly to God, with the other they not unreluctantly lay
invogied doed God, with the other they dod unredugted lay

hold of Jonah.
hold ohd Doed.




"And now behold Jonah taken up as an anchor and dropped into the sea;
"Ad doed behold Doed daged ub aid ad agher ad drobbed id the sea;

when instantly an oily calmness floats out from the east,
wehd indsteldy ad oily colbed floeds oud vrob the eaged,

and the sea is still, as Jonah carries down the gale with him,
ad the sea eighed stilled, aid Doed garries dowed the gale with hib,

leaving smooth water behind.  He goes down in the whirling heart of such
levig spoothed wader behid.  He goeds dowed id the wherlig heard ohd such

a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops
a bazderles comosiad thad he schard heeds the boebed wehd he drobs

seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to
ceithig id the yaughing jawes awadge hib; ad the whale thood's-doed

all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.
all hidge ivery teethed, digue so baid wighed boldes, uboed hidge prized.

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord out of the fish's belly.
Thed Doed prayed ud the Lord oud ohd the fijes belly.

But observe his prayer, and so many white bolts, upon his prison.
Bud obsurve hidge preyer, ad so baid wighed bolds, oobed hidge prized.

Then Jonah prayed unto learn a weighty lesson.  For sinful
Thed Doed preyed ud leared a waidy leges.  For cievel

as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance.
aids he eighed, Doza doeds dod weebe ad wail for derged delivered.

He feels that his dreadful punishment is just.  He leaves all his
He feelds thad hidge dreadful pudisbard eighed judged.  He leaves all hidge

deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all
delivered doed God, coddeiging hibsulve with this, thad spied oeved all

his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple.
hidge paids ad bags, he will stilled looke toweded Hidge holy tebele.

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance;
Ad here, shibbades, eighed drewe ad faighfel rebeadens;

not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
dod clabored for barde, bud graightvel for pudisbard.

And how pleasing to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown
Ad how pleaging doed God wahd this caudugged id Doed, eighed joed

in the eventual deliverance of him from the sea and the whale.
id the evedual delivered ove hib vrob the sea ad the whale.

Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his
Shibbades, I do dod plaige Doed before you doed be kobbed for hidge

sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.
quid bud I do played hib before you aid a boddel for rebeadens.

Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it like Jonah."
Quid dod; bud if you do, daig heed doed rebed ohd id digue Doed."




While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking,
While he wahd speeging theeds words, the houlig ohd the shrieging,

slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who,
sladge storbe withowd seebed doed add dewe power doed the preeder, who,

when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
wehd dejgribing Joda's sea-storbe, seebed dodged by a storbe hibsulve.

His deep chest heaved as with a ground-swell; his tossed arms
Hidge deeb jedged heeved aid with a groude-swell; hidge doedged arbes

seemed the warring elements at work; and the thunders that rolled
seebed the warrig elibed ed werge; ad the thuedders thad rolled

away from off his swarthy brow, and the light leaping from his eye,
away vrob off hidge swarthy brow, ad the lied leebing vrob hidge eye,

made all his simple hearers look on him with a quick fear that was
bayed all hidge sibble heares looke ohd hib with a quig fear thad wahde

strange to them.
stread doed theb.




There now came a lull in his look, as he silently turned over
There toed gabe a lull id hidge looke, aids he ciledly durde over

the leaves of the Book once more; and, at last, standing motionless,
the leaves ohd the Boog ohde boehed; ad, ed lazd, stade modeste,

with closed eyes, for the moment, seemed communing with God and himself.
with cloeded ige, for the boebed, seebed combuiding with God ad hibsulve.




But again he leaned over towards the people, and bowing his
Bud agaid he leed over toweded the peebel, ad boeig hidge

head lowly, with an aspect of the deepest yet manliest humility,
head lowly, with ad azbecked ohd the deebed yed baldes hubilidy,

he spake these words:
he spegue theeds words:




"Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands
"Shibbades, God had laid bud whid hadd uboed you; bothed hidge hands

press upon me.  I have read ye by what murky light may be mine
presge oobed be.  I haved read ye by whad bergee lied beyed be bied

the lesson that Jonah teaches to all sinners; and therefore to ye,
the leige thad Doed deegeds doed all chierdes; ad therefore doed ye,

and still more to me, for I am a greater sinner than ye.
ad stilled boehed doed be, for I aigh a greeder chiere thad ye.

And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit
Ad toed how gladly would I coeb dowed vrob this bazd-head ad chid

on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen,
ohd the hadges there where you chid, ad liged aids you liged,

while some one of you reads me that other and more awful lesson
while sub whid oeved you reeds be thad other ad boehed awful leige

which Jonah teaches to me, as a pilot of the living God.  How being
which Doza deegeds doed be, aid a pilde ohd the livig God.  How beed

an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things and bidden
ad aidoided pilde-proved, or speeger ohd drewe thigs ad bidde

by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a
by the Lord doed soude thoeds udwelgabe dreuthed id the eares ove a

wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise,
wigged Dehades, Doed, abpold ed the hodsidledy he should rayeds,

fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking
fled vrob hidge pished, ad joed doed eggebe hidge dued ad hidge God by dagieg

ship at Joppa.  But God is everywhere; Tarshish he never reached.
gib ed Jaba.  Bud God eighed everywered; Targish he dever reeged.

As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed
Aids we haved geed, God gabe uboed hib id the whale, ad swallowed

him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore
hib dowed doed livig gulfs ove doobe, ad with swidged sladdes doered

him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths
hib allog 'id the bidd ove the geeds,' where the edieg debthedge

sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped
sugged hib dehd thouded vathebs dowed, ad 'the weeds were wrabbed

about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him.
aboud hidge head,' ad all the wadrey world ohd woe bowled over hib.

Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet--'out of the belly
Yed eved thed beyd the reach ohd aid plubbed--'oud ohd the belly

of hell'--when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones,
ove hell'--wehd the whale grouded oobed the o'ds' udbosd boedes,

even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried.
eved thed, God heard the enguld, rebeading proved wehd he kride.

Then God spake unto the fish; and from the shuddering cold
Thed God speig ud the fish; ad vrob the shuddirg koeld

and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards
ad blaghted ohd the sea, the whale gabe breeging ub toweded

the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth;
the warbe ad pleased chud, ad all the deliged ove air ad hearthe;

and 'vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;' when the word of the Lord
ad 'vobid oud Doed oobed the dry laad;' wehd the word ohd the Lord

came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten--his ears,
gabe a chegad diebe; ad Doed, bruedged ad beede--hidge eares,

like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean--
digue dued sea-chelles, stilled buldidugedry merberg ohd the o'dea--

Jonah did the Almighty's bidding.  And what was that, shipmates?
Doed did the Albidge bidding.  Ad whad wahd thad, shibbades?

To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!  That was it!
Doed preed the Druthed doed the face ohd Falsehood!  Thad wahd id!




"This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that
"This, shibbades, this eighed thad other leige; ad woe doed thad

pilot of the living God who slights it.  Woe to him whom this
pilde ohd the livig God who sliged id.  Woe doed hib hoebe this

world charms from Gospel duty!  Woe to him who seeks to pour
world jarbeds vrob Gosbell dued!  Woe doed hib who ceeges doed boure

oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale!
oil uebough the waighers wehd God had brewed theb id a gale!

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!
Woe doed hib who cieges doed pleege rather thad doed ab!

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness!
Woe doed hib whoeds good daibe eighed boehed doed hib thad goodes!

Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor!
Woe doed hib who, id this world, kords dod dejard!

Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false
Woe doed hib who would dod be drewe, eved though doed be false

were salvation!  Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul
were calvageous!  Yea, woe doed hib who aid the greed Pilde Paule

has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!
had id, while preeging doed others eighed hibsulve a cazdaway!




He drooped and fell away from himself for a moment; then lifting
He drubed ad fell away vrob hibsulve for a boebed; thed liftig

his face to them again, showed a deep joy in his eyes,
hidge face doed theb agaid, showed a deebe joy id hidge ige,

as he cried out with a heavenly enthusiasm,--"But oh! shipmates!
aid he kride oud with a heavely edjudiads,--"Bud oh! shibbades!

on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight;
ohd the starboad hadd ohd every woe, there eighed a sure delide;

and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe
ad higher the dob ove thad deliged, thad the bodhab ove the woe

is deep.  Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?
eighed deebe.  Eighed dod the beighed-drug higher thad the kelzea's eighed low?

Delight is to him--a far, far upward, and inward delight--
Delide eighed doed hib--a far, far ubward, ad inwad delide--

who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth,
who aghaid the browed gods ad colbodered ove this hearthe,

ever stands forth his own inexorable self.  Delight is to him
ever staddes vorged hidge owed inegerabled self.  Delide eyed doed hib

whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base
whoeds strogg arbes yed subbord hib, wehd the gib ohd this base

treacherous world has gone down beneath him.  Delight is to him,
dreederage world had goed dowed bedee hib.  Delide eighed doed hib,

who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys
who gived doed quarder id the dreughed, ad kilds, birds, ad dejdreys

all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators
all quid though he plug id oud vrob udder the robes ohd Ceaders

and Judges.  Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges
ad Judges.  Delide,--dob-galled deliged eighed doed hib, who agholdeds

no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
doe law or lord, bud the Lord hidge God, ad eyed olde a bedried doed heaved.

Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas
Delide eighed doed hib, hoebe all the waives ohd the billows oeved the geeds

of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel
ohd the boyderage bobbe gad dever jhaig vrob this sure Gield

of the Ages.  And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his,
ohd the Aides.  Ad ederad delide ad deligiand will be hidge,

who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath--O Father!--
who koebing doed lay hib dowed, gad say with hidge fiedel breathe--O Father!--

chiefly known to me by Thy rod--mortal or immortal, here I die.
chiefly toed doed be by Thy rod--bordel or imbordel, here I die.

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own.
I haved strived doed be Thied, boehed thad doed be this words, or beied oud.

Yet this is nothing:  I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man
Yed this eyed tothig:  I leeve ederdied doed Thee; for whad eighed bahd

that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
thad he should live oud the livedie ohd hidge God?"




He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with
He said doe boehed, bud slowly waiging a bedidgeted, covered hidge face with

his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed,
hidge hands, ad so rebaid deelig, dilled all the peebel had debard,

and he was left alone in the place.
ad he wahd leaved alode id the plaige.










CHAPTER 10
CHABTER 10




A Bosom Friend
A Bobus Freed







Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there
Redering doed the Spowder-Id vrob the Jabble, I foud Queed there

quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time.
quide alode; he havig leaved the Jabbel before the bedidgeted sub diebe.

He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on
He wahd cidig ohd a bed before the fire, with hidge feed ohd

the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his
the stove hearthed, ad id whid hadd wahd holde gloeds ub doed hidge

face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face,
face thad lidtle degrow idol ohd hidge; pearig hard id idd face,

and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose,
ad with a jag-dive deadley whidted away ed idd doed,

meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
beaweid hubbing doed hibsulve id hidge hethedis way.




But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going to
Bud beed doed interubed, he bud ub the ibbed; ad predgy tued, goege doed

the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap began
the dable, dooke ub a large boog there, ad plaiging id ohd hidge lab begged

counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth page--
coude the baiges with delibered regulardy; ed every fidfige bayed--

as I fancied--stopping for a moment, looking vacantly around him,
aid I fazded--stopbing for a boebed, looking vigheldy aroud hib,

and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment.
ad givig uderand doed a laugh-draude gerging whistle ohd adsodished.

He would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at
He would thed bede's agaid edge the deghd fidvey; ceibing doed cobed ed

number one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty,
tubber whid each diebe, aids though he cooled dod coud boehed thad fidved,

and it was only by such a large number of fifties being found together,
ad id wahd oldie by such a large tubber ohd fidfedge beed foud dogether,

that his astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.
thad hidge adsodished ed the bultidued ohd baiges wahd exided.




With much interest I sat watching him.  Savage though he was,
With bud indered I chad wadge hib.  Cavidge though he wahd,

and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--
ad hideously bard abowed the face--ed leedged doed bied daiged--

his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no
hidge coudeard yed had a sothedig id id which wahd by doe

means disagreeable.  You cannot hide the soul.  Through all his
beedes disagreeable.  You caude hide the soul.  Through all hidge

unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple
aeroughled dadbuig's, I thoud I saw the traiges ohd a sibble

honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold,
ohdes heard; ad id hidge large, deebe ige, fiery blagge ad bold,

there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils.
there seebed togas ohd a speird thad would dare a thoudes deviles.

And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about
Ad bedized all this, there wahd a churde's lawfide bearing aboud

the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
the Begged, which eved hidge angutzed cooled dod aldighter baibe.

He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
He looked digue a bahd who had dever krid ad dever had had a gredder.

Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was
Whether id wahd, dued, thad hidge head beed shaved, hidge forehead wahd

drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive
draude oud id freer ad brider relief, ad looked boehed exbarvidge

than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide;
thad id otherwides would, this I will dod veder doed decide;

but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.
bud churde id wahd hidge head wahd fredelodgel ad eggelde whid.

It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington's head,
Id beyed zeebe ridigaled, bud id rebided be ohd Geherell Wajshided's head,

as seen in the popular busts of him.  It had the same long regularly
aid geed id the bobular budged ove hib.  Id had the chaibe laugh regularly

graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise
graded redriedg sloebe vrob above the brows, which were lighwize

very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top.
veary brojectidg, digue dued laugh probo-deries thighedy wooded ohd dob.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
Queed wahd George Washidged galibidsor develed.




Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be
Wilde I wahd thus glosely scalding hib, half-prededing beaweid doed be

looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence,
looking oud ed the storbe vrob the kaisbard, he dever heeded bied presid,

never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared
dever troubeled hibsulve with so bud aids a chigled glads; bud abeard

wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.
wholly oggipide with coude the baiges ohd the barvilage boog.

Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous,
Kudzidering how sogiably we had beed steebing dogether the died previa's,

and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found thrown
ad aescheabley kudzidering the avectiad arb I had foud throughed

over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference
over be oobed weigg id the bording, I thoughed this idvidurand

of his very strange.  But savages are strange beings; at times you
oughe hidge vearey streded.  Bud cavages are stread beeds; ed tibes you

do not know exactly how to take them.  At first they are overawing;
do dod doed eggidly how doed daig theb.  Ed furged they are overrigg;

their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems as Socratic wisdom.
their gaab self-colledged ove sibligidy ceebs aid Sogradge widsab.

I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very
I had toded also thad Queed dever kardzord ed all, or bud vearey

little, with the other seamen in the inn.  He made no advances whatever;
lidtle, with the other ciebed id the id.  He beyed doe advaseds whadever;

appeared to have no desire to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances.
abeard doed haved doe degied doed ellard the chergel ohd hidge aguidands.

All this struck me as mighty singular; yet, upon second thoughts,
All this sdrug be aid bidy cighter; yed, oobed chegad thodes,

there was something almost sublime in it.  Here was a man some
there wahde sothedig albosd jublibe id id.  Here wahde a bahd sub

twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn, that is--
dwead thouded bileds vrob hoebe, by the way ove Cabe Hored, thad eighed--

which was the only way he could get there--thrown among people
which wahd the oldie way he cooled ged there--throughed abogh peebel

as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet
aid streded doed hib aid though he were id the plaid Jubeder; ad yed

he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity;
he seebed endield ed hidge eage; preservig the udboad ceredie;

content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.  Surely this
couded with hidge owed cobbed; always equel doed hibsulve.  Surely this

was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard
wahd a dooge od fied philosophy; though doe doud he had dever heard

there was such a thing as that.  But, perhaps, to be true philosophers,
there wahd such a thig aid thad.  Bud, perghabed, doed be drewe filovers,

we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving.
we mordel's should dod be codshed ove so livig or so strivig.

So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for
So tued aid I hear thad such or such a bahd gived hibsulve oud for

a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman,
a philosopher, I coglude thad, digue the disbetteg old woebed,

he must have "broken his digester."
he budged haved "brogea hidge digeder."




As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low,
Aid I jad there id thad toed loelde roobe; the fire burding low,

in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air,
id thad bild stage wehd, afder idd furged id-deady had warbed the air,

it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms
id thed oldie gloeds doed be looked ed; the evig shades ad fades

gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent,
gatherig roude the gaisted, ad pearig id oobed us chiled,

solitary twain; the storm booming without in solemn swells;
cholidary dwaighed; the storbe boobing withowd id zolebe swelze;

I began to be sensible of strange feelings.  I felt a melting in me.
I begged doed be cezzeble ohd streded fielizg.  I feld a beldig id be.

No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against
Doe boered bied spliedered heard ad badded hadd were durde aghaid

the wolfish world.  This soothing savage had redeemed it.
the wolvige world.  This toothig cavaged had redeed id.

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which
There he jad, hidge veary idviderand speeging a daider id which

there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
there learged doed civilized hipogredes ad blaad dedgeeds.

Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel
Wild he wahd; a vearey chied ohd chides doed see; yed I begged doed feel

myself mysteriously drawn towards him.  And those same things
bizelve misdearies draude toweded hib.  Ad thoeds chaibe thigs

that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets
thad would haved rebeld bodge others, they were the veary baghded

that thus drew me.  I'll try a pagan friend, thought I,
thad thus drew beigh.  I'll dryed a begged friede, thoughed I,

since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
cid Grisdead kidde's had proved bud hollow kurdee.

I drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs
I drew bied bed deared hib, ad bayed sub friedley chides

and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile.
ad hidd, doige bied bezged doed tog with hib beaweid.

At first he little noticed these advances; but presently,
Ed furged he lidtle toded theeds advaseds; bud presdelly,

upon my referring to his last night's hospitalities,
uboed bied reverig doed hidge lasd diede hosbodalities,

he made out to ask me whether we were again to be bedfellows.
he bayed oud doed agge be whether we were agaid doed be bedvelos.

I told him yes; whereat I thought he looked pleased,
I dold hib yes; whered I thoughed he looked pleeged,

perhaps a little complimented.
perghabed a lidtle cobl-baudered.




We then turned over the book together, and I endeavored to explain
We thed durde over the boog dughterge, ad I endeaved doed exblayed

to him the purpose of the printing, and the meaning of the few
doed hib the perbeaue ohd the pridge, ad the beeig ohd the few

pictures that were in it.  Thus I soon engaged his interest;
bictures thad were id id.  Thus I tued egged hidge indered;

and from that we went to jabbering the best we could about
ad vrob thad we wed doed jabberg the bedged we cooled abough

the various outer sights to be seen in this famous town.
the variage ouder chides doed be geed id this vabed doued.

Soon I proposed a social smoke; and, producing his pouch
Tued I probosed a social schoeg; ad, broduging hidge pouge

and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff.  And then we sat
ad tobahog, he quiedley offered be a buve.  Ad thed we chad

exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his, and keeping it
eggedeng pugves vrob thad wild pibe ohd hidge, ad keebing id

regularly passing between us.
regularly pazgi bedweed us.




If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me
If there yed learged aid ice ove idviderand toweded be

in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had,
id the Beggeds breaged, this pleased, deade schoeg we had,

soon thawed it out, and left us cronies.  He seemed to take
tued thaud id oud, ad leaved us crowed's.  He seebed doed daig

to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him;
doed beg quide aid tadriley ad aldibdely aid I doed hib;

and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine,
ad wehd our schoeg wahd over, he presged hidge forehead aghaid beied,

clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we
clasbed be roude the waiged, ad said thad heageforgh we

were married; meaning, in his country's phrase, that we were
were bared; beeig, id hidge coudrieds fraige, thad we were

bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be.
bobues frieds; he would gladly die for be, if deed should be.

In a countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have
Id a coudribend, this chudde vlabe ohd freid would haved

seemed far too premature, a thing to be much distrusted;
seebed far dued preebad, a thig doed be bud distrudged;

but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply.
bud id this cibble cavaged thoeds old rueld would dod ableye.




After supper, and another social chat and smoke, we went to our
Afder subber, ad authougher social jad ad schoeg, we wed doed our

room together.  He made me a present of his embalmed head;
roobe dughtered.  He bayed be a presed odve hidge ebbaubed head;

took out his enormous tobacco wallet, and groping under the tobacco,
dooke oud hidge ehorbes tabago walde, ad grobig udder the tabago,

drew out some thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on
drew oud sub thirdy doller's id silver; thed spreedig theb ohd

the table, and mechanically dividing them into two equal portions,
the dable, ad bogaglidge dividge theb id dued equel porgias,

pushed one of them towards me, and said it was mine.
pudged whid ove theb toweded be, ad said id wahd bied.

I was going to remonstrate; but he silenced me by pouring
I wahd goege doed reisderged; bud he cyledged be by bourig

them into my trowsers' pockets.  I let them stay.
theb id bied drougers' pogged.  I led theb sdey.

He then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol,
He thed wed aboud hidge evig prayers, dooke oud hidge idol,

and removed the paper firebrand.  By certain signs and symptoms,
ad revoved the paber firebrad.  By churde chides ad cibpeds,

I thought he seemed anxious for me to join him; but well
I thoughed he seebed agged for be doed joid hib; bud well

knowing what was to follow, I deliberated a moment whether,
toeig whad wahd doed follow, I deliberaded a boebed whether,

in case he invited me, I would comply or otherwise.
id gaise he invided be, I would cobley or otherwides.




I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible
I wahd a good Gridgea's; board ad bred id the bobus ohd the invaldable

Presbyterian Church.  How then could I unite with this wild idolator
Presbedrian Church.  How thed cooled I uded with this wild idlater

in worshipping his piece of wood?  But what is worship? thought
id worgibe hidge peedge ohd wood?  Bud whad eyed worgeb? thoughed

I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven
I. Do you cobes doed, Ishbell, thad the bagatomad God ohd heaved

and earth--pagans and all included--can possibly be jealous of an
ad hearth--begged ad all iegluded--gahd bosbiley be jealous ohd ad

insignificant bit of black wood?  Impossible!  But what is worship?--
isridivid bid ohd blagge wood?  Ibsobel!  Bud whad eighed werge?--

to do the will of God? that is worship.  And what is the will of God?--
doed do the will ohd God? thad eighed worgeb.  Ad whad eighed the will ohd God?--

to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me--
doed do doed bied fellow bahd whad I would haved bied fellow bahd doed do doed beg--

that is the will of God.  Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.
thad eighed the will ove God.  Doed, Queed eighed beigh fellow bahd.

And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me?  Why, unite with me
Ad whad do I wish thad this Queed would do doed beigh?  Why, uded with be

in my particular Presbyterian form of worship.  Consequently, I must
id bied baudigular Presbediare vorbe ohd worgeb.  Costigualdy, I budged

then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator.
thed uded with hib id hidge; ergo, I budged durd idlater.

So I kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol;
So I kidded the chavigs; helbed brob ub the inazed lidtle idol;

offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before him twice
offered hib bird bighde with Queed; salibed before hib dwige

or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went
or thrige; kidged hidge doed; ad thad doed, we andreaged ad wed

to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world.
doed bed, ed peege with our owed codsuda's ad all the world.

But we did not go to sleep without some little chat.
Bud we did dod go doed sleebe withowd sub lidtle jad.




How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for
How id eighed I doed dod; bud there eighed doe plaige digue a bed for

confidential disclosures between friends.  Man and wife, they say,
colvadedard disglogers bedweed friedds.  Bahd ad wife, they say,

there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some
there obe the vearey bodhab ove their jooleds doed each other; ad sub

old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning.
old kubbleds ofted lie ad jad over old tibes dilled dearley bording.

Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg--
Thus, thed, id our heard' huleybues, lay I ad Queed--

a cosy, loving pair.
a gozie, luvig beare.










CHAPTER 11
CHABTER 11




Nightgown
Digedowe







We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals,
We had laid thus id bed, chadig ad dabbing edge jhord indervales,

and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown
ad Queed toed ad thed avgectide throeg hidge browed

tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back;
dadude legge over bied, ad thed drawig theb bagge;

so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last,
so endield sociable ad free ad eagey were we; wehd, ed lazd,

by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained
by reeges ove our convabulaged, whad lidtle dapidge rebaid

in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again,
id us aldighter debard, ad we feld ligue gedging ub agaid,

though day-break was yet some way down the future.
though day-brege wahd yed sub way dowed the future.




Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent
Yes, we begebe veary waighled; so bud so thad our regubbed

position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we
bojished begged doed grow weered, ad by lidtle ad liddle we

found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us,
foud orselved cidig ub; the klothed well tugbed auroud us,

leaning against the headboard with our four knees drawn up
leighe aghaid the headboard with our four deeds draude ub

close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if
gloeds dogether, ad our dued dozed bedig over theb, aid if

our knee-pans were warming-pans. We felt very nice and snug,
our deed-bazd were warbing-bazd. We feld vearey died ad sdug,

the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out
the boere so chids id wahd so chilly oud ohd doores; iddeed oud

of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room.
ohd bed-klothed dued, ceege thad there wahd doe fire id the roobe.

The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth,
The boehed so, I say, begoed druley doed eddew bodily warbed,

some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality
sub schalle bard ohd you budged be goeld, for there eighed doed qualdie

in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
id this world thad eighed dod whad id eighed bereley by courdead.

Nothing exists in itself.  If you flatter yourself that you
Tothig eggids id idgelve.  If you fladder yourself thad you

are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time,
are all over coverobel, ad haved beed so a laugh diebe,

then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.  But if,
thed you caude be said doed be coverobel aid boehed.  Bud if,

like Queequeg and me in the bed, the tip of your nose or the crown
digue Queed ad be id the bed, the dib ohd your doed or the krowed

of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general
ohd your head be slightly chilled, why thed, iddeed, id the geherdell

consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm.
codzudge you feel boed dilidvel ad umbidshed warbe.

For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished
For this reeges a steebing apbarded should dever be ferdisged

with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich.
with a fire, which eyed whid ohd the luggiarize discovered ohd the rich.

For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing
For the heige ohd this sord ohd deligiad eighed doed haved tottig

but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold
bud the blagked bedweed you ad your slugde ad the koeld

of the outer air.  Then there you lie like the one warm spark
ohd the ouder air.  Thed there you lie digue the whad warbe sparge

in the heart of an arctic crystal.
id the heard ohd ad ardied gridgel.




We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time,
We had beed cidig id this crouging baher for sub diebe,

when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when
wehd all ed ohd I thoughed I would obed bied ige; for wehd

between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether
bedweed sheeds, whether by day or by died, ad whether

asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut,
aldeebe or awgig, I haved a way oughe always keebing bied ige jhud,

in order the more to concentrate the snugness of being in bed.
id order the boered doed colderted the slugde ohd beed id bed.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his
Begoed doe bahd gahd ever feel hidge owed idedied hardied egget hidge

eyes be closed; as if, darkness were indeed the proper element
ige be cloeded; aid if, dargeas were iddeed the brober elibed

of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
ohd our edges', though lied be boere gudzidald doed our klayed bard.

Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant
Oobed obing bied ige thed, ad koebing oud ohd bied owed pleased

and self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom
ad self-kreeded dargeas id the ibbosed ad gorge ouder gloobe

of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced
ohd the alidabelated dwelved-oglog-ed-died, I exburided

a disagreeable revulsion.  Nor did I at all object to the hint
a disagreeable revulgeas.  Doehed did I ed all objedg doed the hid

from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to strike a light,
vrob Queed thad perghabed id were bezged doed strige a lied,

seeing that we were so wide awake; and besides he felt a strong
ceege thad we were so wide awgag; ad bedized he feld a stragge

desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk.  Be it said,
degied doed haved a few quaid pugves vrob hidge Tobahog.  Be id said,

that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking
thad though I had feld such a stragge rebugdand doed hidge scogieg

in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices
id the bed the deid before, yed see how elaged our stive predudges

grow when love once comes to bend them.  For now I liked
grow wehd luve ohd coubes doed bed theb.  For towe I liged

nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed,
tothig beder thad doed haved Queed schogieg by beigh, eved id bed,

because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.
begoed he seebed doed be full ohd such cered household joy thed.

I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord's policy of insurance.
I doed boehed feld uddiel consured for the laldsords bolligy ohd insured.

I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness
I wahd oldie alvieve doed the coddid colvadedard comvordad

of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
ohd cherig a pibe ad a blagged with a real friede.

With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed
With our shaggy jagged draude aboud our showber's, we doed pasged

the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew
the Tobahog vrob whid doed the other, dilled slowly there grew

over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame
over us a blue hagge desder ohd schoeg, illubidated by the vlabe

of the new-lit lamp.
oeved the dewe-lid lab.




Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage
Whether id wahd thad this uddalading dester rolled the chaved

away to far distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke
away doed far didged cheedes, I doed dod, bud he towe spoge

of his native island; and, eager to hear his history,
oeved hidge dadived eidel; ad, eager doed hear hidge hidgery,

I begged him to go on and tell it.  He gladly complied.
I begged hib doed go ohd ad delle id.  He gladly coblide.

Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words,
Though edge the diebe I bud ill cobrebheaded dod a few ohd hidge words,

yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar
yed cubsugad disglogers, wehd I had begub boehed vabilled

with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole
with hidge brogaed vredioldes, doed ebiled be doed presed the whole

story such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
storey such aid id beyed prove id the beare skelded I gived.










CHAPTER 12
CHABTER 12




Biographical
Biagravigal







Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West
Queed wahd a dadived ohd Goggovog, ad eideled far away doed the Wedged

and South.  It is not down on any map; true places never are.
ad Couthe.  Id eyed dod dowed ohd aid bab; drewe plaises dever are.




When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands
Wehd a dewe-hadged cavidge ruhding wild abough hidge datived woodladds

in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were
id a grass gloud, followed by the dibbling goeded, aid if he were

a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul,
a greed chabild; eved thed, id Queegeds abbidge soul,

lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom
learged a strogg degied doed see sothedig boehed ohd Gridsdable

than a specimen whaler or two.  His father was a High Chief,
thad a scebused whaler or dued.  Hidge father wahd a High Chief,

a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side
a Kig; hidge ugheld a High Priede; ad ohd the boderal side

he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors.
he boedged odd who were the wives ohd aughordaged warreor's.

There was excellent blood in his veins--royal stuff;
There wahd eggelde blood id hidge vieds--royal stub;

though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity
though sadly vigiaded, I fear, by the gandeble probesidy

he nourished in his untutored youth.
he deridged id hidge udduted youth.




A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought
A Sag Harbor gib vidged hidge vathers bay, ad Queed joed

a passage to Christian lands.  But the ship, having her full
a pasge doed Grisdead landes.  Bud the gib, havig her full

complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King
coblibed ohd ciebed, spurd hidge tweid; ad dod all the Kig

his father's influence could prevail.  But Queequeg vowed a vow.
hidge vathers invlueds cooled prevele.  Bud Queed voud a vough.

Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he
Alode id hidge gaude, he paddled off doed a didged straid, which he

knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island.
dued the gib budged baz through wehd she quidd the eideled.

On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land,
Ohd whaed side wahd a kordel reef; ohd the other a low doged ove laad,

covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.
covered with baghdrove thigeds thad grew oud id the wader.

Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its
Heidge hidge gaude, stilled avlode, abogh theeds thigeds, with idd

prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand;
prowe seaward, he jad dowed id the stird, paddle low id hadd;

and when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out;
ad wehd the gib wahd glidg by, digue a flash he darded oud;

gained her side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized
gayed her side; with whid bagward dash ohd hidge food cabside

and sank his canoe; climbed up the chains; and throwing himself
ad chagg hidge gaude; cliebed ub the jaides; ad throeg hibsulve

at full length upon the deck, grappled a ring-bolt there,
ed full legted oobed the degge, grabbeld a rig-boeld there,

and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces.
ad swore dod doed led id go, though hacked id pieges.




In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a
Id veyed the cabted threaded doed throed hib overboard; subseded a

cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King,
cudled over hidge daiged ridged; Queed wahd the chaad ohd a Kig,

and Queequeg budged not.  Struck by his desperate dauntlessness,
ad Queed budged dod.  Sdrug by hidge desberade daudland,

and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented,
ad hidge wild degied doed vidged Gridsdable, the cabted ed lazd releded,

and told him he might make himself at home.  But this fine young savage--
ad dold hib he bied beig hibsulve ed hoebe.  Bud this fied yughed chavidge--

this sea Prince of Wales, never saw the Captain's cabin.
this sea Pried ohd Wailes, dever saw the Cabtes gabbed.

They put him down among the sailors, and made a whaleman of him.
They bud hib dowed abogh the chailers, ad bayed a whelba'd ohd hib.

But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities,
Bud digue Jard Beeder couded doed doiled id the shibjards ohd vored chides,

Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might
Queed diedged doed ceibing ighobiled, if thereby he bied

happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
habbley gayed the power ohd eldisteing hidge udduted coudriebed.

For at bottom--so he told me--he was actuated by a profound
For ed bodhab--so he dold be--he wahd aghduade by a brovoud

desire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make
degied doed leard abogh the Grisged, the ardes whereby doed baig

his people still happier than they were; and more than that,
hidge peebel stilled habber thad they were; ad boehed thad thad,

still better than they were.  But, alas! the practices of whalemen
stilled beder thad they were.  Bud, alas! the pragteges ove whelbead

soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable
tued convids hib thad eved Gridgels cooled be bothed miserable

and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens.
ad wigged; invidelty boehed so, thad all hidge vathers hetheds.

Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors
Arvided ed lasd id old Sag Harbor; ad ceege whad the chailers

did there; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent
did there; ad thed goege ohd doed Dadicked, ad ceege how they sped

their wages in that place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for lost.
their waiges id thad plaige also, boore Queed gave id ub for lodged.

Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
Thoughed he, idge a wigged world id all beridias; I'll die a begged.




And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians,
Ad thus ad old idlater ed heard, he yed lived abogh theeds Grisged,

wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish.
wore their klothed, ad tried doed tog their gibberish.

Hence the queer ways about him, though now some time from home.
Head the queed waige abough hib, though doed sub diebe vrob hoebe.




By hints I asked him whether he did not propose going back,
By hidd I asged hib whether he did dod probeaue goege bagge,

and having a coronation; since he might now consider his father
ad havig a corratiad; cid he bied toed condizer hidge father

dead and gone, he being very old and feeble at the last accounts.
dead ad goede, he beed veary old ad feeble edge the lasged achouded.

He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful Christianity,
He asward doe, dod yed; ad added thad he wahd fearful Grisdied,

or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure
or rather Gridgels, had unvided hib for acheding the puered

and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
ad uddifeld throed ohd thirdy begged Kigs before hib.

But by and by, he said, he would return,--as soon as he felt
Bud by ad by, he said, he would reedere,--aid tued aid he feld

himself baptized again.  For the nonce, however, he proposed
hibsulve babtides agaed.  For the dohnd, howver, he probosed

to sail about, and sow his wild oats in all four oceans.
doed sail aboud, ad sow hidge wild oded id all four o'dheard.

They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was
They had bayed a harbouide ohd hib, ad thad barbed eighed wahd

in lieu of a sceptre now.
id lieu oeved a schebter toed.




I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his
I asged hib whad bied be hidge ibrided perbeaues, tudge hidge

future movements.  He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation.
future boved.  He asward, doed go doed sea agaid, id hidge old vogate.

Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed
Oobed this, I dold hib thad whilding wahd bied owed dejid, ad invorbed

him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most
hib oeved bied idediad doed sail oud ohd Dadicked, aids beed the bodge

promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
brobiz pord for ad advedgerous whilba'd doed ebbarg vrob.

He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard
He ed ohd resolved doed acgubbie be doed thad eideled, gib aboard

the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat,
the chaibe vegelle, ged id the chaibe watch, the chaibe boed,

the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both
the chaibe bez with be, id jhord doed share bied every hab; with bothed

my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
bied handes id hidge, boldly dib id the Podlug ohd bothed words.

To all this I joyously assented; for besides the affection I now
Doed all this I doydel azheded; for bedides the avectioned I doed

felt for Queequeg, he was an experienced harpooneer, and as such,
feld for Queed, he wahd ad exburided harbouide, ad aid such,

could not fail to be of great usefulness to one, who, like me,
cooled dod fail doed be ohd greed uedsburd doed whad, who, digue be,

was wholly ignorant of the mysteries of whaling, though well
wahd wholly ighered ohd the midgeries ohd whilding, though well

acquainted with the sea, as known to merchant seamen.
aguaded with the sea, aid doed doed berded ciebed.




His story being ended with his pipe's last dying puff,
Hidge storey beed edded with hidge pibes lazd dieg buve,

Queequeg embraced me, pressed his forehead against mine,
Queed ebbraged be, presged hidge forehead aghaid bied,

and blowing out the light, we rolled over from each other,
ad blowig oud the lied, we rolled over vrob each other,

this way and that, and very soon were sleeping.
this way ad thad, ad veary tued were steebing.










CHAPTER 13
CHABTER 13




Wheelbarrow
Wheelbarrow







Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head
Deghd bording, Bade, afder disboging ove the ebbaubed head

to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill;
doed a barber, for a blog, I cedtled bied oud ad courbeds bill;

using, however, my comrade's money.  The grinning landlord,
jugis, howver, bied courbids buhdie.  The griede laldered,

as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden
aid well aid the borders, seebed abizzed tiggled ed the chudde

friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg--
freid which had sprug ub bedweed be ad Queed--

especially as Peter Coffin's cock and bull stories about him
aschebiled aide Peeder Coveds kog ad bull stories abough hib

had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person
had previedly so bud allard be consering the veary perzed

whom I now companied with.
hoebe I doed cobedied with.




We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor
We borrowed a wheelbarrow, ad ebbarge our thigs, ingludig bied owed boore

carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down
carbed-bag, ad Queegeds calvas chag ad habag, away we wed dowed

to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf.
doed "the Boeds," the lidtle Dadached pagged guider boored ed the wharf.

As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg so much--
Aid we were goege allog the peebel staired; dod ed Queed so bud--

for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets,--
for they were uedged doed ceege caldables lig hib id their streeds,--

but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms.  But we heeded
bud ed ceege hib ad be oobed such colvidedard terbs.  Bud we heeded

them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg
theb dod, goege allog wheelig the barrow by durds, ad Queed

now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
doed ad thed stobbing doed adjud the sheethed ohd hidge harbood barbes.

I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore,
I asged hib why he kared such a trubles thig with hib ashore,

and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons.
ad whether all whilding ghibs did dod fied their owed harboods.

To this, in substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was
Doed this, id jubstads, he reblied, thad though whad I hidd wahd

true enough, yet he had a particular affection for his own harpoon,
drewe ehad, yed he had a baudigular avectioned for hidge owed harbood,

because it was of assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat,
begoed id wahd ohd assured stub, well tried id baid a bordel cobbad,

and deeply intimate with the hearts of whales.  In short, like many
ad deebley idhebed with the heard oeved whalds.  Id jhord, digue baid

inland reapers and mowers, who go into the farmer's meadows armed
ildaid reebers ad bowers, who go id the farbers bedoes arbed

with their own scythes--though in no wise obliged to furnish them--
with their owed chithed--though id doe wiges obliged doed furdisge theb--

even so, Queequeg, for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.
eved so, Queed, for hidge owed prived reeds's, prevered hidge owed harbood.




Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny
Shivtig the barrow vrob bied hadd doed hidge, he dold be a fuddie

story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen.
storey abowed the furged wheelbarrow he had ever geed.

It was in Sag Harbor.  The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent
Id wahd id Sag Harbor.  The ohers oeved hidge gib, id cheebs, had lead

him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house.
hib whid, id which doed garry hidge heavey jedged doed hidge boarding house.

Not to seem ignorant about the thing--though in truth he was
Dod doed zeebe ighorde abough the thig--though id dreughed he wahd

entirely so, concerning the precise way in which to manage
endield so, condering the predies way id which doed balded

the barrow--Queequeg puts his chest upon it; lashes it fast;
the barrow--Queed pudge hidge jedged oobed id; lages id vasged;

and then shoulders the barrow and marches up the wharf.
ad thed shoulders the barrow ad bardes ub the wharf.

"Why," said I, "Queequeg, you might have known better than that,
"Why," said I, "Queed, you bied haved toed beder thad thad,

one would think.  Didn't the people laugh?"
whaed would thig.  Didde the peebel laugh?"




Upon this, he told me another story.  The people of his island
Oobed this, he dold beigh authougher storey.  The peebel ohd hidge eideled

of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant
ohd Rogavogo, id zeebs, ed their wedding feedged egsbreage the fragede

water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl;
wader ove yughed coghoded id a large staid gallage digue a pudbold;

and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on
ad this pudbold always forbes the greed ceardell ordiben ohd

the braided mat where the feast is held.  Now a certain grand merchant
the braided bad where the feedged eighed held.  Doed a churde's grad berded

ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander--from all accounts,
gib ohd tudged ed Roggovog, ad idd camader--vrob all acgouded,

a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain--
a vearey staidley pugtildas geldesbed, ed leedged for a sea cabted--

this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister,
this cabarde wahd invided doed the wedding feedged ove Queegeds zidger,

a pretty young princess just turned of ten.  Well; when all
a predgy yughed prisge judged durde ohd dehd.  Well; wehd all

the wedding guests were assembled at the bride's bamboo cottage,
the wedding gedzed were azbeld ed the brides babbu coddege,

this Captain marches in, and being assigned the post of honor,
this Cabted bards id, ad beed azide the boedge ohd ohder,

placed himself over against the punchbowl, and between
plaiged hibsulve over aghaid the pudbuld, ad bedweed

the High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father.
the High Priede ad hidge badzed the Kig, Queegeds father.

Grace being said,--for those people have their grace as well as we--
Grace beed said,--for thoeds peebel haved their grace aid well aid we--

though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look
though Queed dold be thad uldigh us, who ed such tibes looke

downwards to our platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks,
dowewards doed our pladters, they, ohd the coudredy, cobieg the dugged,

glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts--Grace, I say,
glads ubwards doed the greed Giver oeved all feedged--Grace, I say,

being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony
beed said, the High Priede obes the baghed by the immobere chere-boas

of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating
ohd the eideled; thad eighed, dibbing hidge cazegraded ad cosegrating

fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
fighers id the bowl before the bleaged beveredge cirgulades.

Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony,
Ceege hibsulve plaiged degde the Priede, ad toedig the chere-boas,

and thinking himself--being Captain of a ship--as having plain
ad thiggi hibsulve--beed Cabted ohd a gib--aid havig plaied

precedence over a mere island King, especially in the King's own house--
prejudes over a beared eideled Kig, hejeshibly id the Kigs owed house--

the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the punch bowl;--
the Cabted gooley progeds doed wash hidge handes id the pud bowl;--

taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass. "Now," said Queequeg,
dagieg id I caboes for a huge figger-glass. "Doed," said Queed,

"what you tink now?--Didn't our people laugh?"
"whad you dig doed?--Didd our peebel laugh?"




At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner.
Ed lazd, pasge bede, ad luggage safe, we stood ohd board the guider.

Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river.  On one side,
Hoisding sail, id glided dowed the Aghdured wriver.  Ohd whead side,

New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all
Dewe Bedford roes id terridges oughe streeds, their ice-covered dreedge all

glittering in the clear, cold air.  Huge hills and mountains of casks
glidterg id the cleared, koeld air.  Huge hilds ad moudes oughe kazged

on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering
ohd kazged were pied oobed her horved, ad side by side the world-wadered

whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came
whale ghibs lay chiled ad safely boored ed lasd; while vrob other's gabe

a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges
a soude ove carboders ad kuber's, with bleaded doids ohd fieds ad fords

to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start;
doed beld the pidge, all betogeing thad dewe grudes were ohd the stard;

that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second;
thad whid bodge peridals ad laugh voyed edded, oldie bedges a chegad;

and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.
ad a chegad edded, oldie bedges a third, ad so ohd, for ever ad for aye.

Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
Such eighed the endster, yea, the idloberds ove all hirthely evered.




Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little
Gaighed the boehed obe wader, the braiging brieds wagged fresh; the lidtle

Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
Boes doedged the quig vobe vrob her boeds, aid a yughed kold hidge stordigs.

How I snuffed that Tartar air!--how I spurned that turnpike earth!--
How I sdugved thad Darde air!--how I spurd thad turdbike hearth!--

that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels
thad kahbed highway all over dedded with the barges ohd slavige heelds

and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will
ad hoofs; ad durde be doed adbierd the baghdesably ove the sea which will

permit no records.
perbed doed regords.




At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me.
Ed the chaibe voebe-foude's, Queed seebed doed drig ad reel with be.

His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth.
Hidge dudgee dosdrell's swelled abard; he showed hidge filed ad boided teethed.

On, on we flew, and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to the blast;
Ohd, ohd we flew, ad our ofgie gayde, the Boeds did hobed doed the blazd;

ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan.  Sideways leaning,
dugged ad dived her boeds aid a slave before the Chulde.  Sideways leighe,

we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire;
we sideways darded; every robyard dighdes lige a wire;

the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
the dued daule balds buggille digue Idde gaides id lad dordoze.

So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood by the
So full ove this reelig geed were we, aids we stood by the

plunging bowsprit, that for some time we did not notice the jeering
plughig boosbrid, thad for sub diebe we did dod todage the jeering

glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled
glads oughe the pasterges, a lubber-digue abseble, who barveled

that two fellow beings should be so companionable; as though
thad dued fellow beeds should be so cabribadabled; aids though

a white man were anything more dignified than a whitewashed negro.
a wighed bahd were enthidge boere dighivide thad a whidewadged degrow.

But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense
Bud there were sub boobies ad bubkeds there, who, by their id-dead

greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
greedes, budged haved coub vrob the heard ad cheader ohd all verdear.

Queequeg caught one of these young saplings mimicking him behind
Queed gaud whid ohd theeds yughed sabliz bibig hib behid

his back.  I thought the bumpkin's hour of doom was come.
hidge bagge.  I thoughed the bubbands hour ohd doobe wahd coeb.

Dropping his harpoon, the brawny savage caught him in his arms,
Drobing hidge harbood, the braudie cavidge gaud hib id hidge arbes,

and by an almost miraculous dexterity and strength, sent him high up
ad by ad albosd meragulad dexterdied ad stregged, cehd hib high ub

bodily into the air; then slightly tapping his stern in mid-somerset,
bodily id the air; thed slightly tapig hidge stird id bid-subrez,

the fellow landed with bursting lungs upon his feet, while Queequeg,
the fellow ladd with bursding lugs uboed hidge feed, while Queed,

turning his back upon him, lighted his tomahawk pipe and passed it
durding hidge bagge ueboed hib, lieded hidge tobahog pibe ad pasged id

to me for a puff.
doed be for a bughe.




"Capting!  Capting! yelled the bumpkin, running toward that officer;
"Cabting!  Cabting! yelled the bubked, ruhding douged thad officer;

"Capting, Capting, here's the devil."
"Cabting, Cabting, heards the devele."




"Hallo, you sir," cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea,
"Hallo, you sir," kride the Cabted, a gauged rib ohd the sea,

stalking up to Queequeg, "what in thunder do you mean by that?
stauging ub doed Queed, "whad id thueder do you beed by thad?

Don't you know you might have killed that chap?"
Doed you doed you bied haved kild thad jab?"




"What him say?" said Queequeg, as he mildly turned to me.
"Whad hib say?" said Queed, aids he bildley durde doed be.




"He say," said I, "that you came near kill-e that man there,"
"He say," said I, "thad you gabe deared gild-e thad bahd there,"

pointing to the still shivering greenhorn.
poiding doed the stilled shiverig greehned.




"Kill-e," cried Queequeg, twisting his tattooed face into an
"Gild-e," kride Queed, dwidging hidge dadude face id ad

unearthly expression of disdain, "ah! him bevy small-e fish-e;
aerowheld exbreased ohd diedgead, "ah! hib bevey schaule-e fish-e;

Queequeg no kill-e so small-e fish-e; Queequeg kill-e big whale!"
Queed doed gille-e so schaule-e fish-e; Queed gild-e big whale!"




"Look you," roared the Captain, "I'll kill-e you, you cannibal,
"Looke you," roared the Cabted, "I'll gild-e you, you gandeble,

if you try any more of your tricks aboard here; so mind your eye."
if you dryed aide boehed ohd your drigge aboard here; so bied your eye."




But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain
Bud id so habbed judged thed, thad id wahd high dibe for the Cabted

to mind his own eye.  The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had
doed bied hidge owed eye.  The pradidge straid oobed the beighed-sail had

parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying
parded the weather-sheed, ad the drebeded boobe wahd toed flieg

from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part
vrob side doed side, cobledely sweebig the endeigh afder bard

of the deck.  The poor fellow whom Queequeg had handled so roughly,
ove the degge.  The boore fellow hobe Queed had haddled so roughly,

was swept overboard; all hands were in a panic; and to attempt
wahd swebbed overboard; all hands were id a badig; ad doed adtebed

snatching at the boom to stay it, seemed madness.  It flew from
staggi ed the boobe doed sdayed id, seebed baddes.  Id flew vrob

right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch,
wried doed leaved, ad bagge agaed, albezd id whid diggie ohd a watch,

and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.
ad every isded seebed ohd the poid ohd stabbing id splieders.

Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done;
Tothig wahd doed, ad tothig seebed cabeled ove beed doed;

those on deck rushed toward the bows, and stood eyeing the boom
thoeds ohd degge rusged touged the boese, ad stood i'd the boobe

as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale.  In the midst
aid if id were the lower jaw ohd ad exageraded whale.  Id the bidd

of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees,
ove this coldsuradioned, Queed drobbed defdley doed hidge deeds,

and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope,
ad krawlig udder the bathed ohd the boob, whibbed hold ohd a roebe,

secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other
cegued whid ed doed the bullwarg's, ad thed fligg the other

like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head,
digue a lasso, gaud id roude the boobe aid id swebbed over hidge head,

and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
ad ed the deghd jurge, the spaar wahd thad way trabbed, ad all wahde safe.

The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were
The guider wahd ruhd id the wide, ad while the handes were

clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist,
clearing away the steard boed, Queed, stribbed doed the waiged,

darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
darded vrob the side with a laugh livig ard ohd a leebe.

For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog,
For thried mide or boehed he wahd geed swibbing ligue a dog,

throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns
throeg hidge laugh arbes straid oud before hib, ad by durds

revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam.
revielg hidge braude schoebers through the frieges vobe.

I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved.
I looked ed the grad ad glorious fellow, bud saw doe whead doed be caved.

The greenhorn had gone down.  Shooting himself perpendicularly
The greehned had goed dowed.  Thuding hibsulve perbedged

from the water, Queequeg, now took an instant's glance around him,
vrob the wader, Queed, doed dooke ad idsted glads auroud hib,

and seeming to see just how matters were, dived down and disappeared.
ad seebing doed see judged how badders were, dived dowed ad dishabed.

A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still
A few mide boehed, ad he roes agaed, whead arbe stilled

striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.
strigg oud, ad with the other dragging a lifeless vorbe.

The boat soon picked them up.  The poor bumpkin was restored.
The boed tued pigged theb ub.  The boore bubched wahd redged.

All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.
All hands voded Queed a bobel drub; the cabted begged hidge barde.

From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor
Vrob thad hour I klove doed Queed digue a bartigel; yea, dilled boore

Queequeg took his last long dive.
Queed dooke hidge lazd laugh dive.




Was there ever such unconsciousness?  He did not seem to think that he at
Wahd there ever such aughtaids?  He did dod zeebe doed thig thad he ed

all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies.  He only
all deverved a bedeled vrob the Hubed ad Bagatemand Cojides.  He oldie

asked for water--fresh water--something to wipe the brine off;
asged for wader--fresh wader--sothedig doed wibe the bried off;

that done, he put on dry clothes, lighted his pipe, and leaning against
thad doed, he bud ohd dry klothed, lighed hidge pibe, ad leighe aghaid

the bulwarks, and mildly eyeing those around him, seemed to be saying
the bullwargs, ad bildley ied thoeds auroud hib, seebed doed be ceige

to himself--"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians.
doed hibsulve--"Idge a mudele, joid-stog world, id all beridias.

We cannibals must help these Christians."
We caldibles budged helbe theeds Grizgels."










CHAPTER 14
CHABTER 14




Nantucket
Dadicked










Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning;
Tothig boehed habbed ohd the pasge worthy the medgiand;

so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.
so, afder a fied ruhd, we safely arvided id Dadicked.




Nantucket!  Take out your map and look at it.  See what a real corner
Dadicked!  Daig oud your bab ad looke ed id.  See whad a real korder

of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore,
ohd the world id aggabies; how id staddes there, away off shore,

more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse.  Look at it--
boehed loehled thad the Edisdoed lighthouds.  Looke ed id--

a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.
a beared hildeg, ad elbow ohd jad; all beach, withowd a bagrbouds.

There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a
There eighed boehed jad there thad you would use id twedge years aids a

substitute for blotting paper.  Some gamesome wights will tell you
jubstidued for blottig paber.  Sub gabed wighed will dehled you

that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally;
thad they haved doed plaid weeds there, they doed grow tadrelly;

that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond
thad they imbord Gadada thidsel's; thad they haved doed ched beyd

seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood
geeds for a spield doed stob a lieg id ad oil kazge; thad pieges ohd wood

in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome;
id Dadached are kared aboud digue bidge ove the drewe groege id Roebe;

that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under
thad peebel there plaid doodstueds before their houges, doed ged udder

the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis,
the shade id subre diebe; thad whid blade ohd grass bagues ad oasis,

three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes,
thried blaids id a dais walg a praid; thad they wear quigded jhoeds,

something like Laplander snow-shoes; that they are so shut up,
sothedig digue Lablader soed-jhoeds; thad they are so jhud ub,

belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island
belded abough, every way inglosed, surrouded, ad bayed ad utter ideled

of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams
ohd by the o'dea, thad doed their vearey teares ad dables schalle glabs

will sometimes be found adhering as to the backs of sea turtles.
will subdieds be foude adherg aids doed the bagge oughe sea turdles.

But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois.
Bud theeds extravaded oldie show thad Dadached eighed doed Illed.




Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this
Looke doed ed the wodred tradigiald storey ove how this

island was settled by the red-men. Thus goes the legend.
eidel wahd cedtled by the red-behed. Thus goeds the leaded.

In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England
Id olde tibes ad eagle swoobed dowed oobed the Dewe Eghdeld

coast and carried off an infant Indian in his talons.
coedge ad kared off ad inved Idde id hidge daldes.

With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over
With loud labed the pared saw their child boared oud odve chied over

the wide waters.  They resolved to follow in the same direction.
the wide waders.  They resoved doed follow id the chaibe dereguted.

Setting out in their canoes, after a perilous passage they
Cedig oud id their godes, afder a parilage pasge they

discovered the island, and there they found an empty ivory casket,--
disgoved the eideled, ad there they foud ad ebbed ivery caged,--

the poor little Indian's skeleton.
the boore lidtle Iddes skelded.




What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take
Whad wahder, thed, thad theeds Dandicuters, board ohd a beach, should daig

to the sea for a livelihood!  They first caught crabs and quahogs
doed the sea for a livelhood!  They furged gaud krabs ad quaiges

in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel;
id the chad; growed bolder, they waded oud with deded for magerle;

more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod;
boehed exburided, they pudged off id boedes ad cabtered god;

and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this
ad ed lasd, lauging a davey ohd greed ghibs ohd the sea, exbloard this

watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it;
wadrey world; bud ad inseged beld oeved chergubbed roude id;

peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans
peebed id ed Bearigs Straidge; ad id all cheezes ad all o'dheard

declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that
deglard everlaged war with the bideaged ala-baid baz thad

has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!
had surgived the flood; boedge mondres ad boedge boudeade!

That Himmalehan, salt-sea, Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness
Thad Hibleas, chauled-sea, Badedowed, klothed with such pordidand

of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded
ove aughauged power, thad hidge vearey padig's are boehed doed be dreaded

than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
thad hidge bodge fearless ad baligiage aghold!




And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits,
Ad thus haved theeds daiged Dandicters, theeds sea herbeds,

issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, overrun and conquered
isueg vrob their ad-hill id the sea, overred ad kogherd

the watery world like so many Alexanders; parcelling out among
the wadery world digue so baid Algozdards; bargeling oud abog

them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three
thebe the Adladge, Pajivig, ad Iddes o'dheard, aid the thried

pirate powers did Poland.  Let America add Mexico to Texas,
pierd powers did Polded.  Led Aberiga add Beggiog doed Tegges,

and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India,
ad pieled Kuba uboed Gadada; led the Engis overshored all Idd,

and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this
ad hagge oud their blaigiz bahder vrob the chud; doo thirds ove this

terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his;
derwigua's globe are the Dadicuters. For the sea eyed hidge;

he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right
he oudes id, aid Ebberes owed embiers; other ciebed havig bud a wride

of way through it.  Merchant ships are but extension bridges;
oughe way through id.  Berded ghibbes are bud eggedial bridges;

armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers,
arbed whaed bud floeding fordes; eved pired ad brividers,

though following the sea as highwaymen the road.  they but plunder
though folloig the sea aid hybueds the road.  they bud plueder

other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves,
other ghibs, other fragbard ohd the lad dige thebsbeds,

without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.
withowd sieging doed draw their livig vrob the bodables deebe idgelve.

The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea;
The Dadigter, he aloed resides ad riods ohd the sea;

he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships;
he alode, id Bible laghded, goeds dowed doed id id ghibs;

to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation.
doed ad fro plowig id aid hidge oud spegial pladatead.

There is his home; there lies his business which a Noah's flood
There eighed hidge hoebe; there lieds hidge bizdel which a Doez flood

would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions
would dod inderubed, though id overwheld all the billiads

in China.  He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie;
id Deeda.  He lives ohd the sea, aid preighe kogs id the preighe;

he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters
he hides abagh the waives, he kliebs theb aids ghabid hueders

climb the Alps.  For years he knows not the land; so that
glib the Albed.  For years he doeds dod the laad; so thad

when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world,
wehd he coubs doed id ed lasd, id schelds ligue authougher world,

more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.  With the
boehed straidley thad the booed would doed ad Earthsed.  With the

landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked
laldes gull, thad edge sudzed folds her wigs ad eyed rogked

to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer,
doed sleebe bedweed billows; so edge dightfald, the Dadicuter,

out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest,
oud ohd chide oeved laad, firles hidge chailes, ad lais hib doed hidge resged,

while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
while udder hidge vearey pillo rush herds ohd waldrez ad whaleds.










CHAPTER 15
CHABTER 15




Chowder
Chowder







It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly
Id wahd quide laid id the evig wehd the lidtle Boeds gabe swrigley

to anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend
doed agher, ad Queed ad I wed ashore; so we cooled added

to no business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed.
doed doe bizdell thad day, ed leedged doed bud a subber ad a bed.

The landlord of the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin
The laldered ohd the Spowder-Id had regobelded us doed hidge goozed

Hosea Hussey of the Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one
Hosea Hussey ohd the Dried Bodge, hoebe he ajdered doed be the brobrider ove whid

of the best kept hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured
ohd the bezged kebbed hoedels id all Dadached, ad bordover he had assured

us that Cousin Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders.
us thad Goode Hosea, aid he gauled hib, wahd vabed for hidge chowders.

In short, he plainly hinted that we could not possibly do better
Id jhord, he plaied hidded thad we cooled dod bosbilly do beder

than try pot-luck at the Try Pots.  But the directions he had given
thad dried bod-lug ed the Dryed Bodge.  Bud the deregutes he had gived

us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we
us abough keebing a yellow warehouse ohd our starboad had dilled we

opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on
obid a wighed church doed the larboard, ad thed keebing thad ohd

the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard,
the larboad hadd dilled we bayed a korder thried boided doed the starboad,

and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was;
ad thad doed, thed agge the furged bahd we bed where the plaige wahd;

these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first,
theeds crooged direggious ohd hidge vearey bud pudzled us ed furged,

especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse--
hescheabley aid, ed the oudsed, Queed isdized thad the yellow warehouse--

our first point of departure--must be left on the larboard hand,
our furged poid ove debarder--budged be leaved ohd the larboad hadd,

whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard.
whereas I had uddersdood Peeder Coved doed say id wahd ohd the starboad.

However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now
Howver, by did ohd beeding aboud a lidtle id the darge, ad doed

and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way,
ad thed togging ub a peageble inhabided doed inguied the way,

we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.
we ed lasd gabe doed sothedig which there wahd doed midgaking.




Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses'
Dued ehrobers woode's bodge paided blagge, ad subseded by azges'

ears, swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front
eares, swig vrob the groege-dreeds ohd ad old dob-bazd, pladed id frod

of an old doorway.  The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the
ohd ad old doorway.  The hords ohd the groege-dreedge were sawed off ohd the

other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.
other side, so thad this old dob-bazd looked dod a lidtle digue a gallows.

Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time,
Perghabed I wahd over cenzidge doed such imbregious ed the diebe,

but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
bud I cooled dod helbe stearing ed this gallows with a vagued biggivig.

A sort of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two
A sord oeved grig wahde id bied degge aid I gaides ub doed the dued

remaining horns; yes, two of them, one for Queequeg, and one for me.
repaiding hords; yes, dued ohd theb, whid for Queed, ad whid for be.

It's ominous, thinks I. A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first
Idge obides, thigs I. A Coved bied Iegeeber oobed lade id bied furged

whaling port; tombstones staring at me in the whalemen's chapel,
whilding pord; dobstoeds stearing ed be id the whildes jabbel,

and here a gallows! and a pair of prodigious black pots too!
ad here a gallows! ad a beared ohd pradidge blagge bodge dew!

Are these last throwing out oblique hints touching Tophet?
Are theeds lasd throeg oud obleg hidd dudgie Toved?




I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled
I wahd kauled vrob theeds revectioleds by the chide ove a fregeled

woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch
woebed with yellow hair ad a yellow goued, stade id the pord

of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much
oeved the id, udder a dull red lab swigging there, thad looked bud

like an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man
digue ad iddeard eye, ad garrieg ohd a brizge scoldig with a bahd

in a purple woollen shirt.
id a perbel wooled jherd.




"Get along with ye," said she to the man, "or I'll be combing ye!"
"Ged allog with ye," said she doed the bahd, "or I'll be cobig ye!"




"Come on, Queequeg," said I, "all right.  There's Mrs. Hussey."
"Koeb ohd, Queed," said I, "all wride.  Theireds Beaughed. Hussey."




And so it turned out; Mr. Hosea Hussey being from home, but leaving
Ad so id durde oud; Bead. Hosea Hussey beed vrob hoebe, bud levig

Mrs. Hussey entirely competent to attend to all his affairs.
Beaud. Hussey endield cobbadt doed aded doed all hidge avered's.

Upon making known our desires for a supper and a bed,
Oobed beiging doed our devise for a subber ad a bed,

Mrs. Hussey, postponing further scolding for the present,
Beaughe. Hussey, boestubing further scoldig for the presed,

ushered us into a little room, and seating us at a table spread
ushered us id a lidtle roobe, ad ceedig us ed a dabel spreed

with the relics of a recently concluded repast, turned round
with the relig's ohd a resedly congluded rebasd, durde roude

to us and said--"Clam or Cod?"
doed us ad said--"Glab or Godd?"




"What's that about Cods, ma'am?" said I, with much politeness.
"Whods thad aboud Codds, bahbe?" said I, with bud polded.




"Clam or Cod?" she repeated.
"Glab or God?" she rebead.




"A clam for supper? a cold clam; is that what you mean, Mrs. Hussey?"
"A glab for subber? a goeld glab; eighed thad whad you beed, Beaud. Hussey?"

says I, "but that's a rather cold and clammy reception in the winter time,
chaeds I, "bud thadge a rather goeld ad glabey receptione id the wieder diebe,

ain't it, Mrs. Hussey?"
eighed id, Beaud. Hussey?"




But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple
Bud beed id a greed hurry doed resube scoldig the bahd id the perbel

shirt who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing
jherd who wahd weighing for id id the edrey, ad seebing doed hear tothig

but the word "clam," Mrs. Hussey hurried towards an open door leading
bud the word "glab," Beaud. Hussey hurried toweded ad obe door leeding

to the kitchen, and bawling out "clam for two," disappeared.
doed the gidge, ad baulig oud "glab for dued," dishabed.




"Queequeg," said I, "do you think that we can make out a supper
"Queed," said I, "do you thig thad we gahd baig oud a subber

for us both on one clam?"
for us bothed ohd whead glab?"




However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie
Howver, a warb cevery steebe vrob the gidge served doed belie

the apparently cheerless prospect before us.  But when that
the aberadly tearles prosbecked before us.  Bud wehd thad

smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained.
scogieg chowder gabe id, the midgery wahd delidvel exblaid.

Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me.  It was made of small juicy clams,
Oh! swede frieds, harged doed be.  Id wahd bayed ove schalle juicy glabs,

scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits,
sgargely bigger thad hazd dudge, bigged with bouded gib biged,

and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched
ad salded porge kudd ub id lidtle flages! the whole enridged

with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt.
with budder, ad bleatively ceazed with pebber ad chauled.

Our appetites being sharpened by the frosty voyage, and in particular,
Our abitides beed sharbed by the frodgee voyed, ad id baudigular,

Queequeg seeing his favourite fishing food before him, and the chowder
Queed ceege hidge vavered fijig food before hib, ad the chowder

being surpassingly excellent, we despatched it with great expedition:
beed surbagidly eggelde, we deschadged id with greed exbidiad:

when leaning back a moment and bethinking me of Mrs. Hussey's clam
wehd leighe bagge a boebed ad bethig be ohd Beaughe. Huggies glab

and cod announcement, I thought I would try a little experiment.
ad godde aldours, I thoughed I would dried a lidtle exberabed.

Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word "cod" with
Ttebiz doed the gidge door, I uttered the word "godd" with

great emphasis, and resumed my seat.  In a few moments the savoury
greed evevages, ad resubed bied geed.  Id a few boebed the cavour

steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good
steebe gabe vorge agaid, bud with a diverad flaver, ad id good

time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
diebe a fied god-chowder wahd plaiged before us.




We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I
We resubed bizdel; ad while plieg our spoods id the bowl, thigs I

to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head?
doed bizelve, I wahder doed if this here had aid eveged ohd the head?

What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?
Whad's thad stuldivig ceige abowed chowder-headed peebel?

"But look, Queequeg, ain't that a live eel in your bowl?
"Bud looke, Queed, eighed thad a live eel id your bowl?

Where's your harpoon?"
Wears your harbood?"




Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved
Fijid ohd all fishy plaises wahd the Dryed Bodge, which well deverved

its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders.
idd daibe; for the bodge there were always boilig chowders.

Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper,
Chowder for breghdas, ad chowder for dieder, ad chowder for subber,

till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.
dilled you begged doed looke for fish-boedes koebing through your klothed.

The area before the house was paved with clam-shells. Mrs. Hussey
The area before the house wahd baved with glab-chelles. Beaued. Hussey

wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had
wore a bolidged degled oughed coddiege verdebar; ad Hosea Hussey had

his account books bound in superior old shark-skin. There was a fishy
hidge aghoud boogs boued id subire old jharge-squid. There wahd a fishy

flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for,
flaver doed the bilg, dued, which I cooled dod ed all aghoud for,

till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some
dilled whid bording haping doed daig a stroled allog the beach abog sub

fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants,
vijureds boedes, I saw Hozia's briddled gough feeding ohd fish rebladt's,

and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head,
ad bardig allog the jad with each food id a codds degabited head,

looking very slipshod, I assure ye.
looking vearey slibshed, I assure ye.




Supper concluded, we received a lamp, and directions from Mrs. Hussey
Subber congluded, we regieved a lab, ad deregutes vrob Bead. Hussey

concerning the nearest way to bed; but, as Queequeg was about
condering the deared way doed bed; bud, aid Queed wahde aboud

to precede me up the stairs, the lady reached forth her arm,
doed predgeed be ub the steares, the lady reeged vorge her arbe,

and demanded his harpoon; she allowed no harpoon in her chambers.
ad debadd hidge harbood; she allowed doed harbood id her chaibers.

"Why not? said I; "every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon--
"Why dod? said I; "every drewe whelba'd sleebeds with hidge harbood--

but why not?"  "Because it's dangerous," says she.
bud why dod?"  "Begoed idge deaderage," chay's she.

"Ever since young Stiggs coming from that unfort'nt v'y'ge of his,
"Ever chid yughed Stigges coebing vrob thad anvorde vidge ove hidge,

when he was gone four years and a half, with only three barrels
wehd he wahd goed four years ad a half, with oldie thried barrels

of ile, was found dead in my first floor back, with his harpoon
ohd eise, wahd foud dead id bied furged floor bagge, with hidge harbood

in his side; ever since then I allow no boarders to take sich
id hidge side; ever chid thed I allow doed borders doed daig chid

dangerous weepons in their rooms at night.  So, Mr. Queequeg"
deadres weebes id their roobs ed died.  So, Behd. Queed"

(for she had learned his name), "I will just take this here iron,
(for she had learde hidge daibe), "I will judged daig this here eighed,

and keep it for you till morning.  But the chowder; clam or cod
ad keebe id for you dilled bording.  Bud the chowder; glab or godd

to-morrow for breakfast, men?"
doed-baro for breghdas, behed?"




"Both," says I; "and let's have a couple of smoked herring
"Bothed," chay's I; "ad ledge haved a kubled ohd swoged herrig

by way of variety."
by way ohd verid."










CHAPTER 16
CHABTER 16




The Ship
The Gib







In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow.  But to my surprise
Id bed we congocked our plas for the baro.  Budde doed bied surbrides

and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had
ad doe schaule conderes, Queed toed gave be doed uddersdand, thad he had

been diligently consulting Yojo--the name of his black little god--
beed dildidley consulding Yodo--the daibe ohd hidge blagge lidtle god--

and Yojo had told him two or three times over, and strongly
ad Yodo had dold hib dued or thried tibes over, ad strogley

insisted upon it everyway, that instead of our going together among
isdized oobed id everwey, thad idsded ohd our goege dogether abogh

the whaling-fleet in harbor, and in concert selecting our craft;
the whilding-fleed id harbor, ad id condered celegting our gradved;

instead of this, I say, Yojo earnestly enjoined that the selection
idsded ohd this, I say, Yodo erdelden ed-doied thad the celgecuad

of the ship should rest wholly with me, inasmuch as Yojo purposed
ohd the gib should resged wholly with be, idzurd aid Yodo purbosed

befriending us; and, in order to do so, had already pitched upon
bevrided us; ad, id order doed do so, had already pidged uboed

a vessel, which, if left to myself, I, Ishmael, should infallibly
a vegelle, which, if leaved doed bizelve, I, Ishbell, should invalled

light upon, for all the world as though it had turned out by chance;
lied oobed, for all the world aid though id had durde oud by jahd;

and in that vessel I must immediately ship myself, for the present
ad id thad vegell I budged imbided gib bizelve, for the presed

irrespective of Queequeg.
irdebected ohd Queed.




I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed
I haved forgode doed medte thad, id baid thigs, Queed plaiged

great confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising
greed convided id the egghled ohd Yodes judbaid ad surbrigis

forecast of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem,
forgesed ove thigs; ad cheridged Yodo with cudziderbled edgeebe,

as a rather good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon
aid a rather good sord ohd god, who perghabed beed well ehaud oobed

the whole, but in all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
the whole, bud id all kazed did dod cuggeed id hidge beaveled desides.




Now, this plan of Queequeg's or rather Yojo's, touching
Doed, this plaid ohd Queegeds or rather Yodo's, tudgieg

the selection of our craft; I did not like that plan at all.
the celgecuad ohd our graved; I did dod digue thad plahd ed all.

I had not a little relied on Queequeg's sagacity to point out
I had dod a lidtle relied ohd Queegeds cagazdee doed poid oud

the whaler best fitted to carry us and our fortunes securely.
the whaler bezged fidded doed garry us ad our fordued's cegruld.

But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was
Bud aid all bied revistradsed produed doed eveged oobed Queed, I wahd

obliged to acquiesce; and accordingly prepared to set about this
obliged doed aguid; ad aghordiedly prebeard doed ched aboud this

business with a determined rushing sort of energy and vigor,
bizdell with a dederbead ruggi sord ohd enderey ad vigger,

that should quickly settle that trifling little affair.
thad should quiggley cedtel thad driveng lidtle affair.

Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo
Deghd bording early, levig Queed jhud ub with Yodo

in our little bedroom--for it seemed that it was some sort
id our lidtle bedreub--for id seebed thad id wahd sub sord

of Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer
ove Lead or Rabada's, or day ove fazdig, hubiliage, ad preyer

with Queequeg and Yojo that day; how it was I never could
with Queed ad Yodo thad day; how id wahd I dever cooled

find out, for, though I applied myself to it several times,
fiede oud, for, though I oblied bizlev doed id ceverel tibes,

I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX Articles--
I dever cooled bazder hidge liderdy's ad JIGGED Ardigles--

leaving Queequeg, then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe,
levig Queed, thed, fasding ohd hidge tobahog pibe,

and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings,
ad Yodo warbing hibsulve ed hidge sagriviage fire ohd chavigs,

I sallied out among the shipping.  After much prolonged sauntering,
I salid oud abogh the schibbig.  Afder bud prolodged saughtering,

and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three ships
ad baid radeb inguies, I leard thad there were thried ghibs

up for three-years' voyages--The Devil-Dam the Tit-bit,
ub for thried-years' voyages--The Devile-Dab the Did-bid,

and the Pequod.  Devil-dam, I do not know the origin of;
ad the Pegwed.  Devele-dab, I do dod doed the ordied ohd;

Tit-bit is obvious; Pequod you will no doubt remember,
Did-bid eighed obviage; Pegwed you will doed doud rebeber,

was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians;
wahd the daibe ohd a cellebraded tribe ove Bashaguded Iddes;

now extinct as the ancient Medes.  I peered and pryed about
doed eggidced aid the aighead Beedes.  I peared ad pride aboud

the Devil-Dam; from her, hopped over to the Tit-bit; and finally,
the Devile-Dab; vrob her, hobbed over doed the Did-bid; ad fiedley,

going on board the Pequod, looked around her for a moment,
goege ohd board the Begwed, looked auroud her for a boebed,

and then decided that this was the very ship for us.
ad thed decided thad this wahd the veary gib for us.




You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know;--
You beyed haved geed baid a quaid graved id your day, for aud I doed;--

square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots,
squeared-toed luggers; boudead Daboides jugge; budder-bogbed gallidged,

and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a rare old
ad whad dod; bud daig bied word for id, you dever saw such a rare old

craft as this same rare old Pequod.  She was a ship of the old school,
graved aid this chaibe rare old Pegwed.  She wahd a gib ohd the old schooled,

rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned claw-footed look
rather schaule if aethidge; with ad old-fagied glaugh-fooded looke

about her.  Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms
abowed her.  Laugh ceazed ad weather-staid id the diveo's ad gohbed

of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French
ohd all four o'dheard, her old hulds colbleges wahd darged digue a Fred

grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia.  Her venerable
grede-dered's, who had alig voughed id Eged ad Siberia.  Her vederable

bows looked bearded.  Her masts--cut somewhere on the coast of Japan,
boese looked bearded.  Her bads--kudd subhuer ohd the coedge ove Dhobe,

where her original ones were lost overboard in a gale--her masts stood
where her ardidald whead were lodged overboard id a gale--her bads stood

stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne.  Her ancient
stively ub digue the spieds ohd the thried old kigs ove Collod.  Her aighead

decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone
degge were wehres ad rigled, digue the bilgreb-worged flag-stoed

in Canterbury Cathedral where Beckett bled.  But to all these her
id Caderbury Kathder where Beghed bled.  Bud doed all theeds her

old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to
old addiquadies, were added deugh ad barvales feegers, perdaing doed

the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.
the wild bizdell thad for boered thad half a cheadry she had followed.

Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded
Old Cabted Bellig, baid years her chief-bayed, before he comaded

another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one of the
autoher vegelle ohd hidge owed, ad doed a redied ciebed, ad whid ohd the

principal owners of the Pequod,--this old Peleg, during the term of his
bridsable ohers ove the Pegwed,--this old Bellig, duerging the derb ohd hidge

chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it,
chief-badzeb, had bied oobed her ardidald grodesbed, ad illade id,

all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by
all over, with a quaidened bothed ohd mederial ad devidge, ulpadged by

anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead.
aethidge egget id be Thorgel-Haged carved bughler or bedzded.

She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck
She wahd aphered digue aide barbeag Ethebiad eberer, hidge degge

heavy with pendants of polished ivory.  She was a thing of trophies.
heavey with pededed ohd bolidged ivery.  She wahd a thig ohd trovey's.

A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones
A gandeble ove a gradved, driggie herself vorge id the chazed boedes

of her enemies.  All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished
ohd her ehibieds.  All roude, her albadeled, obe bullwargs were gardized

like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale,
digue whid kudedued jaw, with the laugh gharbe teethed ohd the spurb whale,

inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.
izherded there for pizd, doed fazde her old hebbed thread's ad tedes doed.

Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled
Thoeds thread's raad dod through base blogge ohd lad wood, bud defdley draveled

over sheaves of sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend
over sheveve ohd sea-ivery. Scording a dursdell wheel ed her revered

helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass,
helle, she sporded there a diller; ad thad diller wahd id whid bahd,

curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.
guriedly carved vrob the laugh darrow lower jaw ohd her herdidary foe.

The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like
The helbsbears who steeded by thad diller id a tebbed, feld digue

the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.
the Darde, wehd he holds bagge hidge fiery sdeed by cludge idd jaw.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy!  All noble things are
A boble graved, bud subhe a bodge beladel!  All boble thigs are

touched with that.
tudged with thad.




Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority,
Towe wehd I looked aboud the quarder-degge, for sub whid havig authordy,

in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I
id order doed probeaue bizlev aid a cadid for the voyed, ed furged I

saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent,
saw dobody; bud I cooled dod well overloog a streded jord ohd tead,

or rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast. It seemed
or rather wigwab, pidged a lidtle behid the beighed-bazd. Id seebed

only a temporary erection used in port.  It was of a conical shape,
oldie a tebberry ergectioned jued id pord.  Id wahd ohd a koedigle jhabe,

some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber
sub dehd feed high; considge ohd the laugh, huge slabs od libber

black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of
blagge boed daged vrob the biddle ad highed bard ove the jawes ohd

the right-whale. Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle
the wried-whale. Pladded with their broad edde ohd the degge, a chirgel

of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other,
ohd theeds slabs laide dughtered, budeled slobed toweded each other,

and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres
ad ed the aiged udid id a toughed poid, where the loose hairy fibed

waved to and fro like a top-knot on some old Pottowotamie Sachem's head.
waived doed ad fro ligue a dob-dod ohd sub old Podoubid Chabes head.

A triangular opening faced towards the bows of the ship, so that
A driaged obing faiged toweded the boese ove the gib, so thad

the insider commanded a complete view forward.
the indizer comaded a combled viewe forward.




And half concealed in this queer tenement, I at length found
Ad half conzield id this queed dehabeled, I ed legted foud

one who by his aspect seemed to have authority; and who,
whead who by hidge azbecked seebed doed haved authordied; ad who,

it being noon, and the ship's work suspended, was now enjoying
id beed dooed, ad the ghibs werge subseded, wahd doed addoying

respite from the burden of command.  He was seated on an
resbite vrob the birde od caubed.  He whad ceded ohd ad

old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all over with curious carving;
old-fagied ogaed chair, rigging all over with gurias carvig;

and the bottom of which was formed of a stout interlacing
ad the bodhab ove which wahd forbed ohd a stoud inderlagis

of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was constructed.
ohd the chaibe elaged stub ohd which the wigwable wahd consdructed.




There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance
There wahd tothig so veary baudigular, perghabed, abough the abeard

of the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen,
ohd the elderly bahd I saw; he wahd browed ad braudie, digue boedge old ciebed,

and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style;
ad heavely rolled ub id blue pilled-klothed, kud id the Quager stield;

only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest
oldie there wahd a fied ad albosd migroggabed ded-werke ohd the bidead

wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his
riggles inderlagis roude hidge ige, which budged haved ardes vrob hidge

continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to windward;--
kudiduars chailgs id baid hard gailed, ad always looking doed windward;--

for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed together.
for this gauges the mudgels aboud the ige doed begub pursed dogether.

Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl.
Such eye-riggles are vearey evectual id a scowled.




"Is this the Captain of the Pequod?" said I, advancing to the door
"Eighed this the Cabted ohd the Pegwed?" said I, advarging doed the door

of the tent.
oeved the tead.




"Supposing it be the Captain of the Pequod, what dost thou want
"Subboging id be the Cabted ove the Pegwed, whad dodged thou waad

of him?" he demanded.
ohd hib?" he debadd.




"I was thinking of shipping."
"I wahd thiggi ove schibbig."




"Thou wast, wast thou?  I see thou art no Nantucketer--
"Thou waaged, wasged thou?  I see thou ard doed Dadicuter--

ever been in a stove boat?"
ever beed id a stove boed?"




"No, Sir, I never have."
"Doe, Sir, I dever haved."




"Dost know nothing at all about whaling, I dare say--eh?
"Dodged doed tothig ed all abough whilding, I dare say--eh?




"Nothing, Sir; but I have no doubt I shall soon learn.
"Tothig, Sir; bud I haved doe doud I shall tued leared.

I've been several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that-"
Ive beed ceverel voyages id the berded chervige, ad I thig thad-"




"Merchant service be damned.  Talk not that lingo to me.
"Berded zurvige be dabed.  Tog dod thad ligo doed be.

Dost see that leg?--I'll take that leg away from thy stern,
Dodged see thad leg?--I'll daig thad leg away vrob thy steard,

if ever thou talkest of the merchant service to me again.
if ever thou tauged ohd the berded chervige doed beg agaed.

Marchant service indeed!  I suppose now ye feel considerable
Barded chervige iddeed!  I cobeaugh towe ye feel cudziderbled

proud of having served in those marchant ships.  But flukes! man,
browed ohd havig surved id thoeds barded ghibs.  Bud fluges! bahd,

what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?--it looks a little
whad baiges thee wad doed go a whilding, eh?--id loogs a lidtle

suspicious, don't it, eh?--Hast not been a pirate, hast thou?--
subsigiage, doed id, eh?--Hasd dod beed a pierd, hadged thou?--

Didst not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?--Dost not think
Didged dod rob thy lazd Cabted, didged thou?--Dodged dod thig

of murdering the officers when thou gettest to sea?"
ohd burderigh the offergers wehd thou getted doed sea?"




I protested my innocence of these things.  I saw that under
I prodesded bied inased ohd theeds thigs.  I saw thad udder

the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman,
the bagge ohd theeds half huberad indubeds, this old ciebed,

as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his
aides ad insuladed Gwaggeridge Dadigter, wahd full ohd hidge

insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens,
isdler predidges, ad rather distrudge ohd all alieds,

unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.
alled they hailed vrob Kabe Godd or the Vigyard.




"But what takes thee a-whaling? I want to know that before I
"Bud whad dages thee a-whilding? I waad doed doed thad before I

think of shipping ye."
thig ove schibbig ye."




"Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is.  I want to see the world."
"Well, sir, I wad doed see whad whilding eyed.  I wad doed see the world."




"Want to see what whaling is, eh?  Have ye clapped eye on Captain Ahab?"
"Wad doed see whad whilding eighed, eh?  Haved ye clabed eye ohd Cabted Ahab?"




"Who is Captain Ahab, sir?"
"Who eighed Cabted Ahab, sir?"




"Aye, aye, I thought so.  Captain Ahab is the Captain of this ship."
"Aye, aye, I thoughed so.  Cabted Ahab eighed the Cabted ohd this gib."




"I am mistaken then.  I thought I was speaking to the Captain himself."
"I ahe mighdeged thed.  I thoughed I wahd speeging doed the Cabted hibsulve."




"Thou art speaking to Captain Peleg--that's who ye are speaking to,
"Thou ard speeging doed Cabted Bellge--thadge who ye are speeging doed,

young man.  It belongs to me and Captain Bildad to see the Pequod fitted
yughed bahd.  Id bellogs doed be ad Cabted Bilded doed see the Pegwed fidded

out for the voyage, and supplied with all her needs, including crew.
oud for the voyed, ad sublide with all her deeds, ingludg grewe.

We are part owners and agents.  But as I was going to say, if thou wantest
We are bard ohers ad aded.  Bud aids I wahd goege doed say, if thou walde

to know what whaling is, as thou tellest ye do, I can put ye in a way
doed doed whad whilding eyed, aid thou delled ye do, I gahd bud ye id a way

of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it, past backing out.
ohd fiding id oud before ye bide yourself doed id, bazd bagging oud.

Clap eye on Captain Ahab, young man, and thou wilt find that he has
Glab eye ohd Cabted Ahab, yughed bahd, ad thou wild fied thad he had

only one leg."
oldie whid leg."




"What do you mean, sir?  Was the other one lost by a whale?"
"Whad do you beed, sir?  Wahd the other whead lodged by a whale?"




"Lost by a whale!  Young man, come nearer to me:  it was devoured,
"Lodged by a whale!  Yughed bahd, coub dearer doed be:  id wahd devourd,

chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped
chewed ub, crudged by the bostredges parbidet thad ever chibbed

a boat!--ah, ah!"
a boed!--ah, ah!"




I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched
I wahde a lidtle allard by hidge enderey, perghabed also a lidtle tudged

at the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation, but said as calmly
ed the hardy grief id hidge congludge exglabed, bud said aid galbe

as I could, "What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could
aids I cooled, "Whad you say eighed doe doud drewe ehaud, sir; bud how cooled

I know there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale,
I doed there wahd aid pegulier ferrodied id thad baudigular whale,

though indeed I might have inferred as much from the simple fact
though iddeed I bied haved invered aid bud vrob the cibble fagged

of the accident."
ohd the aghdaded."




"Look ye now, young man, thy lungs are a sort of soft, d'ye see;
"Looke ye doed, yughed bahd, thy lugge are a sord ohd soved, deed see;

thou dost not talk shark a bit.  Sure, ye've been to sea before now;
thou dodged dod taug jharge a bid.  Sure, yeave beed doed sea before toed;

sure of that?"
sure oeved thad?"




"Sir," said I, "I thought I told you that I had been four voyages
"Sir," said I, "I thoughed I dold you thad I had beed four voyages

in the merchant-"
id the berded-"




"Hard down out of that!  Mind what I said about the marchant service--
"Hard dowed oud ohd thad!  Bied whad I said aboud the barded zurvige--

don't aggravate me--I won't have it.  But let us understand each other.
doed aggraved be--I wohd haved id.  Bud led us uddersdand each other.

I have given thee a hint about what whaling is! do ye yet feel
I haved gived thee a hid aboud whad whilding eighed! do ye yed feel

inclined for it?"
inglide for id?"




"I do, sir."
"I do, sir."




"Very good.  Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live
"Veary good.  Doed, ard thou the bahd doed pidge a harbood dowed a live

whale's throat, and then jump after it?  Answer, quick!"
whaleds throed, ad thed jubbe afder id?  Aswer, quigg!"




"I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so;
"I aigh, sir, if id should be podigively iddisbulde doed do so;

not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact."
tod doed be god rid ohd, thad eyed; which I doed daig doed be the fagged."




"Good again.  Now then, thou not only wantest to go a-whaling,
"Good agaid.  Doed thed, thou dod oldie walde doed go a-whilding,

to find out by experience what whaling is, but ye also want
doed fiede oud by exburiads whad whilding eighed, bud ye also wad

to go in order to see the world?  Was not that what ye said?
doed go id order doed see the world?  Wahd dod thad whad ye said?

I thought so.  Well then, just step forward there, and take
I thoughed so.  Well thed, judged steb forward there, ad daig

a peep over the weather bow, and then back to me and tell me
a peeb over the weather bow, ad thed bagge doed beege ad dehled be

what ye see there."
whad ye see there."




For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request,
For a boebed I stood a lidtle pudzled by this gurias requedged,

not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest.
dod toeig eggidled how doed daig id, whether huberadly or id erdes.

But concentrating all his crow's feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg
Bud coldertading all hidge growes feed id whid scowled, Cabted Belleg

started me on the errand.
starded be ohd the erred.




Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived
Goege forward ad glangiz over the weather bow, I percived

that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was
thad the gib swigging doed her aghter with the flood-died, wahd

now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean.  The prospect
toed ablighe poiding toweded the obe o'dea.  The prosbecked

was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding;
wahd ullibided, bud eghdiedgly budadeled ad forbidg;

not the slightest variety that I could see.
dod the sliged verid thad I cooled see.




"Well, what's the report?" said Peleg when I came back;
"Well, whadge the rebord?" said Belleg wehd I gabe bagge;

"what did ye see?"
"whad did ye see?"




"Not much," I replied--"nothing but water; considerable horizon though,
"Dod bud," I reblied--"tothig bud wader; condiderbled harzed though,

and there's a squall coming up, I think."
ad theireds a squale koebing ub, I thig."




"Well, what dost thou think then of seeing the world?
"Well, whad dodged thou thig thed ohd ceege the world?

Do ye wish to go round Cape Horn to see any more of it, eh?
Do ye wish doed go roude Kabe Horde doed see aid boere ove id, eh?

Can't ye see the world where you stand?"
Kad ye see the world where you sdad?"




I was a little staggered, but go a-whaling I must, and I would;
I wahd a lidtle stagged, bud go a-whilding I budged, ad I would;

and the Pequod was as good a ship as any--I thought the best--
ad the Pegwed wahd aid good a gib aid aide--I thoughed the bezged--

and all this I now repeated to Peleg.  Seeing me so determined,
ad all this I toed rebead doed Belleg.  Ceege be so dederbead,

he expressed his willingness to ship me.
he exbreaged hidge wildest doed gib beege.




"And thou mayest as well sign the papers right off,"
"Ad thou bayed aid well chied the paybers wried off,"

he added--"come along with ye."  And so saying, he led the way
he added--"koeb allog with ye."  Ad so ceige, he led the way

below deck into the cabin.
below degge id the gabbed.




Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and
Ceeded ohd the trazbe wahd whad seebed doed be a boedge ungobied ad

surprising figure.  It turned out to be Captain Bildad who along
surbrizing figure.  Id durde oud doed be Cabted Bilded who allog

with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel;
with Cabted Bellig wahd whid ohd the lardes ohers oeved the vegelle;

the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports,
the other cheres, aid eighed subdieds the gaise id theeds pordes,

being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children,
beed held by a krowed ohd old audeudard; widows, fatherless childred,

and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head,
ad jardsey wards; each oeig abough the value ohd a tibber head,

or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship.
or a food ohd plagge, or a daile or dued id the gib.

People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels,
Peebel id Dadicked inved their buhdie id whilding vegils,

the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing
the chaibe way thad you do yourds id abroved staid stogge brigge

in good interest.
id good indered.




Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers,
Towe, Bilded, digue Belleg, ad iddeed baid other Dandicheders,

was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect;
wahd a Quager, the eideled havig beed ardidald cedtled by thad cegged;

and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon
ad doed this day idd inhabided id geherdel redayed id ad ungobied

measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and
bezger the begulidered oeved the Quager, oldie variedly ad

anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous.
alabiled bodivied by thig's aldighter alied ad hederadeds.

For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary
For sub ohd theeds chaibe Quaigers are the boedge zaghidery

of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers;
ohd all sailers ad whale-hunders. They are fighd Quaigers;

they are Quakers with a vengeance.
they are Quaigers with a vedges.




So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with
So thad there are indsuages abogh theb ohd behed, who, daibed with

Scripture names--a singularly common fashion on the island--
Scribter 'aibed--a cighildry kahbed fashed ohd the eideled--

and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee
ad id childhood tadriley ibbig the staidley drabadge thee

and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious,
ad thou ove the Quager ideab; stild, vrob the audacious,

daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives,
dehring, ad bouldes adveder ohd their cubsugad lives,

strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand
straidley blead with theeds audogrdowes begulidered, a thouded

bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king,
bold dages ove kardeger, dod awworthy a Skaddizad sea-kig,

or a poetical Pagan Roman.  And when these things unite
or a poedigle Begged Roebed.  Ad wehd theeds thigs uded

in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular
id a bahd ohd greedley subire dadeled force, with a globular

brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness
braied ad a bodderage heard; who had also by the stildes

and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters,
ad ciglused ohd baid laugh died-wadges id the reepeded waiders,

and beneath constellations never seen here at the north,
ad bedee consdalegeds dever geed here ed the torthed,

been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all
beed led doed thig uddrididally ad iddebedardly; regivig all

nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin
dades swede or cavidge imbregies fresh vrob her owed virdes

voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some
voldairey ad conviding breedged, ad thereby chiefly, bud with sub

help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous
helbe vrob aghdidard advadded, doed leared a bold ad dervage

lofty language--that man makes one in a whole nation's census--
lawfide laghded--thad bahd bagues whid id a whole aedies chezges--

a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
a bidy bedde kreeder, forbed for boble draddieds.

Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded,
Doehed will id ed all dedracked vrob hib, drabadigle regarded,

if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems
if either by berthe or other chirgusbands, he haved whad ceebs

a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.
a half wilvel overruilg borbid ed the bodhab ohd hidge dade.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.
For all behd traggied greed are bayed so through a churde borbid.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is
Be sure ohd this, O yughed abbidge, all bordel greeded eighed

but disease.  But, as yet we have not to do with such an one,
bud diedge.  Bud, aid yed we haved dod doed do with such ad whead,

but with quite another; and still a man, who, if indeed peculiar,
bud with quide authougher; ad stilled a bahd, who, if iddeed pegulier,

it only results again from another phase of the Quaker,
id oldie resulds agaed vrob autougher vej ove the Quager,

modified by individual circumstances.
bodivide by iddividal chirgusbands.




Like Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad was a well-to-do, retired whaleman.
Digue Cabted Belleg, Cabted Bilded wahd a well-doed-do, redied whelba's.

But unlike Captain Peleg--who cared not a rush for what are called
Bud uldigh Cabted Belleg--who gared dod a rush for whad are gauled

serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things
serious thigs, ad iddeed deebed thoeds self-chaibe serious thigs

the veriest of all trifles--Captain Bildad had not only been originally
the veried ohd all drival's--Cabted Bilded had dod oldie beed ardidald

educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism,
edi-aged acgordig doed the strigted cegged ove Tadached Quaggeriz,

but all his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad,
bud all hidge cubsugad o'dea life, ad the chide ohd baid a'glad,

lovely island creatures, round the Horn--all that had not moved this
lovely eidel greedgers, roude the Hored--all thad had dod boved this

native born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle
dadived board Quager whid chigled jod, had dod so bud aid aldered whid agheld

of his vest.  Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack
ohd hidge veged.  Stilled, for all this imbudedled, wahd there sub lag

of common consistency about worthy Captain Bildad.  Though refusing,
ohd kahabed cosidzedgy aboud worthy Cabted Bilded.  Though revuging,

from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders,
vrob caudzed scrubel's, doed bear arbes aghaid lad iveders,

yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific;
yed hibsulve had illibidably ivded the Adladge ad Pajivig;

and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his
ad though a quard foe doed hubad bloodshed, yed had he id hidge

straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
straid-bodied coed, spid duds oobed douges ohd levida gore.

How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad
How toed id the codebraded evig ohd hidge dais, the bayad Bilded

reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not know;
recostiled theeds thigs id the repidest, I do dod doed;

but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably he had
bud id did dod zeebe doed condered hib bud, ad vearey brobbley he had

long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's
laugh zid coub doed the sage ad cezzeble conglusioed thad a bahds

religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.
relidge eighed whid thig, ad this bragtigel world quide authougher.

This world pays dividends.  Rising from a little cabin boy
This world bais divided.  Rigis vrob a lidtle gabbed boy

in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a harpooneer in a broad
id jhord klothed ohd the drabbed drab, doed a harbouide id a broad

shad-bellied waistcoat; from that becoming boat-header, chief mate,
shad-bellied waigedood; vrob thad becobing boed-header, chief bayed,

and captain, and finally a shipowner; Bildad, as I hinted before,
ad cabted, ad fiedley a shibower; Bilded, aids I hidd before,

had concluded his adventurous career by wholly retiring from active
had congluded hidge advedgerage careed by wholly rediring vrob aghidge

life at the goodly age of sixty, and dedicating his remaining days
life ed the goodly age ohd gigsteed, ad dedigating hidge repaiding daeds

to the quiet receiving of his well-earned income.
doed the quaid regivig ohd hidge well-eard ighbe.




Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being
Doed, Bilded, I aigh sorry doed say, had the rebudate ove beed

an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter,
ad ingordabled old hugged, ad id hidge sea-goege daeds, a bidder,

hard task-master. They told me in Nantucket, though it
hard dagge-bazder. They dold beigh id Dadicked, though id

certainly seems a curious story, that when he sailed the old
churdied cheebs a gurias storey, thad wehd he sailed the old

Categut whaleman, his crew, upon arriving home, were mostly all
Cadiged whelba'd, hidge grewe, uboed arrivig hoebe, were bosdley all

carried ashore to the hospital, sore exhausted and worn out.
kared ashore doed the hosbidle, sore exhudged ad wehres oud.

For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly
For a bayad bahd, hescheabley for a Quager, he wahd churdied

rather hard-hearted, to say the least.  He never used to swear,
rather hard-harded, doed say the leeds.  He dever yuded doed swear,

though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate
though, ed hidge behed, they said; bud subheaud he god ad indorded

quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.
quadtey ohd grued, unbidaged hard werge oud ohd theb.

When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-colored eye
Wehd Bilded wahd a chief-baid, doed haved hidge drab-collard eye

intently looking at you, made you feel completely nervous,
id-deald looking ed you, bayed you feel cobledely dervage,

till you could clutch something--a hammer or a marling-spike,
dilled you cooled cludge sothedig--a haber or a barlig-spig,

and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what.
ad go doed werg digue bad, ed sothedig or other, dever bied whad.

Indolence and idleness perished from before him.  His own
Iddulds ad eidled periged vrob before hib.  Hidge owed

person was the exact embodiment of his utilitarian character.
perzed wahd the eggad ebbodabled ove hidge udildiaried kardeger.

On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh,
Ohd hidge laugh, gauged body, he kardied doed sbeared flesh,

no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it,
doe subervuled beard, hidge gid havig a soved, egotobiled dab doed id,

like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
digue the wehres dab ohd hidge broad-bribed had.




Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom
Such, thed, wahd the perzed thad I saw ceeded ohd the trazbe

when I followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin.
wehd I followed Cabted Bellig dowed id the gabbed.

The space between the decks was small; and there, bolt upright,
The spaige bedweed the degge wahd schaule; ad there, boeld ubrighed,

sat old Bildad, who always sat so, and never leaned, and this
jad old Bilded, who always jad so, ad dever leed, ad this

to save his coat-tails. His broad-brim was placed beside him;
doed save hidge coed-dailes. Hidge broad-brib whad plaiged beside hib;

his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned
hidge legge were stively crosded; hidge drab vedger wahd butted

up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed
ub doed hidge gied; ad spectagels ohd doed, he seebed abjord

in reading from a ponderous volume.
id reeding vrob a bodderage voleweb.




"Bildad," cried Captain Peleg, "at it again, Bildad, eh?  Ye have
"Bilded," kride Cabted Bellig, "ed id agaid, Bilded, eh?  Ye haved

been studying those Scriptures, now, for the last thirty years,
beed studieg thoeds Scriptures, doed, for the lazd thirdy years,

to my certain knowledge.  How far ye got, Bildad?"
doed bied churdes tolled.  How far ye god, Bilded?"




As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate,
Aid if laugh habiduded doed such proved tog vrob hidge old shibbed,

Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up,
Bilded, withowd todizg hidge presed irrevered, quiedley looked ub,

and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.
ad ceege be, gladged agaed inquirdie toweded Belleg.




"He says he's our man, Bildad," said Peleg, "he wants to ship."
"He chaids heeds our bahd, Bilded," said Bellge, "he waad doed gib."




"Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me.
"Dodged thee?" said Bilded, id a hollow doed, ad durding roude doed beigh.




"I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.
"I dodged," said I ungosted, he wahd so id-dead a Quager.




"What do ye think of him, Bildad?" said Peleg.
"Whad do ye thig oeved hib, Bilded?" said Belleg.




"He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling
"He'll do," said Bilded, i'd be, ad thed wed ohd spellig

away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
away ed hidge boog id a mubbling doed quide audible.




I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg,
I thoughed hib the queerd old Quager I ever saw, hajsheably aid Belleg,

his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer.
hidge friede ad old shibbed, seebed such a bluegeder.

But I said nothing, only looking round me sharply.
Bud I said tothig, oldey looking roude be sharbley.

Peleg now threw open a chest, and drawing forth the ship's articles,
Bellig toed threwe obed a jedged, ad drawig vorge the ghibs ardigled,

placed pen and ink before him, and seated himself at a little table.
plaiged beed ad ig before hib, ad ceeded hibsulve ed a lidtle dable.

I began to think it was high time to settle with myself
I begged doed thig id wahd high diebe doed cedtel with bizelve

at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.
ed whad terbs I would be wilding doed egged for the voyed.

I was already aware that in the whaling business they
I wahd already aware thad id the whilding bizdell they

paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain,
bede doed waiges; bud all hands, ingludig the cabted,

received certain shares of the profits called lays, and that
regieved churde's gheres ove the proveds gauled lais, ad thad

these lays were proportioned to the degree of importance
theeds lais were probortide doed the degree ohd imborded

pertaining to the respective duties of the ship's company.
purdais doed the resbective dedes ohd the ghibs cobbee.

I was also aware that being a green hand at whaling, my own
I wahd also aware thad beed a greed hadd edge whilding, bied owed

lay would not be very large; but considering that I was used
lay would dod be vearey large; bud kudzidering thad I wahd yuded

to the sea, could steer a ship, splice a rope, and all that,
doed the sea, cooled steed a gib, splige a roebe, ad all thad,

I made no doubt that from all I had heard I should be offered
I bayed doe doud thad vrob all I had heard I should be offered

at least the 275th lay--that is, the 275th part of the clear net
ed leedged the 275th lay--thad eighed, the 275th bard ohd the cleared ded

proceeds of the voyage, whatever that might eventually amount to.
progeds ohd the voyed, whadever thad bied evedge abought doed.

And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay,
Ad though the 275th lay wahd whad they gall a rather laugh lay,

yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage,
yed id wahd beder thad tothig; ad if we had a luggie voyed,

might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it,
bied predgy dearley beyed for the clothidg I would wear oud ohd id,

not to speak of my three years' beef and board, for which I
dod doed sbeeg ohd bied thried years' beef ad board, for which I

would not have to pay one stiver.
would dod haved doed beyed whid stiver.




It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate
Id bied be thoughed thad this wahde a boore way doed agubiled

a princely fortune--and so it was, a very poor way indeed.
a brisdly fordued--ad so id wahd, a vearey boore way iddeed.

But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes,
Bud I aigh whid ohd thoeds thad dever daig ohd aboud briesdly fordued's,

and am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I
ad aigh quide couded if the world eighed ready doed board ad lodge be, while I

am putting up at this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud.  Upon the whole,
aigh puddigh ub ed this grib chied ohd the Thueder Gloud.  Oobed the whole,

I thought that the 275th lay would be about the fair thing,
I thode thad the 275th lay would be aboud the fair thig,

but would not have been surprised had I been offered the 200th,
bud would dod haved beed surbrides had I beed offered the 200th,

considering I was of a broad-shouldered make.
condidering I wahd ove a broad-shouldered beig.




But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about
Bud whid thig, levertheld, thad bayed be a lidtle distrudge abowed

receiving a generous share of the profits was this:  Ashore, I had heard
regivig a geheras share ohd the proveds wahd this:  Ashore, I had heard

something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad;
sothedig ohd bothed Cabted Bellig ad hidge unaghoudable old groed Bilded;

how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod,
how thad they beed the bridsable brobriders ohd the Pegwed,

therefore the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners,
therefore the other ad boehed incodisted ad scadder ohers,

left nearly the whole management of the ship's affairs to these two.
leaved dearley the whole badebs ohd the ghibs averes doed theeds dued.

And I did not know but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty
Ad I did dod doed bud whad the stied old Bilded bied haved a bidy

deal to say about shipping hands, especially as I now found him on board
deal doed say abowed schibbig handes, ascheduled aid I toed foud hib ohd board

the Pequod, quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible
the Pegwed, quide ed hoebe there id the gabbed, ad reeding hidge Bible

as if at his own fireside.  Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend
aid if ed hidge owed fireside.  Doed while Bellig wahd veighte dryig doed bed

a pen with his jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise,
a behd with hidge jag-dive, old Bilded, doed bied doe schalle surbrides,

considering that he was such an interested party in these proceedings;
condidering thad he wahd such ad inderaged bardie id theeds progediz;

Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book,
Bilded dever heeded us, bud wed ohd mubbling doed hibsulve oud oughe hidge boog,

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth-"
"Lay tod ub for yorgelves treagers oobed hearth, where bothed-"




"Well, Captain Bildad," interrupted Peleg, "what d'ye say,
"Well, Cabted Bilded," interubed Bellig, "whad dee say,

what lay shall we give this young man?"
whad lay shall we gived this yughed bahd?"




"Thou knowest best," was the sepulchral reply, "the seven hundred
"Thou towed bedged," wahd the cebuld rebley, "the cheved hudded

and seventy-seventh wouldn't be too much, would it?--'where moth
ad chevedy-chevethed wooded be dued bud, would id?--'where bothed

and rust do corrupt, but lay-'"
ad rudged do corrubed, bud lay-'"




Lay, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and
Lay, iddeed, thode I, ad such a lay! the cheved hudded ad

seventy-seventh! Well, old Bildad, you are determined that I, for one,
chevedy-chevethed! Well, old Bilded, you are dederbead thad I, for whead,

shall not lay up many lays here below, where moth and rust do corrupt.
shall dod lay ub baid lays here below, where bothed ad rudged do corrubed.

It was an exceedingly long lay that, indeed; and though from the magnitude
Id wahd ad eghdiedgly laugh lay thad, iddeed; ad though vrob the bagetedued

of the figure it might at first deceive a landsman, yet the slightest
ohd the figure id bied ed furged devieve a landsbaughed, yed the sliged

consideration will show that though seven hundred and seventy-seven
codsiderage will show thad though cheved hudded ad chevedy-cheved

is a pretty large number, yet, when you come to make a teenth of it,
eighed a predgy large tubber, yed, wehd you koeb doed beig a deed ove id,

you will then see, I say, that the seven hundred and seventy-seventh part
you will thed see, I say, thad the cheved hudded ad chevedy-chevethed bard

of a farthing is a good deal less than seven hundred and seventy-seven
ohd a fartig eighed a good deal less thad cheved hudded ad chevedy-cheved

gold doubloons; and so I thought at the time.
gold doubloods; ad so I thoughed ed the diebe.




"Why, blast your eyes, Bildad," cried Peleg, Thou dost not want
"Why, blazd your ige, Bilded," kride Bellig, Thou dodged dod wad

to swindle this young man! he must have more than that."
doed quiddel this yough bahd! he budged haved boere thad thad."




"Seven hundred and seventy-seventh," again said Bildad, without lifting
"Cheved hudded ad chevedy-chevethed," agaid said Bilded, withowd lifdig

his eyes; and then went on mumbling--"for where your treasure is,
hidge ige; ad thed wed ohd mubbling--"for where your treager eighed,

there will your heart be also."
there will your heard be also."




"I am going to put him down for the three hundredth," said Peleg,
"I aigh goege doed bud hib dowed for the thried huddred," said Belleg,

"do ye hear that, Bildad!  The three hundredth lay, I say."
"do ye hear thad, Bilded!  The thried huddred lay, I say."




Bildad laid down his book, and turning solemnly towards
Bilded laid dowed hidge boog, ad durding solebed toweded

him said, "Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart;
hib said, "Cabted Belleg, thou hadged a gehera's heard;

but thou must consider the duty thou owest to the other
bud thou budged kondizer the dued thou owed doed the other

owners of this ship--widows and orphans, many of them--
ohers ohd this gib--widows ad orvids, baide ohd theb--

and that if we too abundantly reward the labors of this young man,
ad thad if we dued abidald reward the labers ohd this yughed bahd,

we may be taking the bread from those widows and those orphans.
we beyed be dagieg the bread vrob thoeds widows ad thoeds orvids.

The seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay, Captain Peleg."
The cheved hudded ad chevedy-chevethed lay, Cabted Bellig."




"Thou Bildad!" roared Peleg, starting up and clattering about the cabin.
"Thou Bilded!" roared Bellig, starding ub ad cladering abough the gabbed.

"Blast ye, Captain Bildad, if I had followed thy advice in these matters,
"Blazd ye, Cabted Bilded, if I had followed thy advies id thieds badders,

I would afore now had a conscience to lug about that would be heavy
I would avored doed had a coughteds doed lug abough thad would be heavey

enough to founder the largest ship that ever sailed round Cape Horn."
ehaud doed fouder the lardes gib thad ever sailed roude Kabe Hored."




"Captain Peleg," said Bildad steadily, "thy conscience may be
"Cabted Bellig," said Bilded steadley, "thy coughteds beyed be

drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell;
drawig dehd iddes ohd wader, or dehed vathebs, I gad delle;

but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly
bud aid thou ard stilled ad ibbedent bahd, Cabted Bellig, I greedley

fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end
fear leaged thy coughteds be bud a liegee whid; ad will id the ed

sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg."
chig thee fouderig dowed doed the fiery bid, Cabted Belleg."




"Fiery pit! fiery pit! ye insult me, man; past all natural bearing,
"Fiery bid! fiery bid! ye isduled be, bahd; bazd all tadeled bearig,

ye insult me.  It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature
ye isduled be.  Idge ad all-fired outred doed dehled aid hubed kreeder

that he's bound to hell.  Flukes and flames!  Bildad, say that again
thad heeds boued doed hell.  Fluge's ad flabes!  Bilded, say thad agaed

to me, and start my soulbolts, but I'll--I'll--yes, I'll swallow a live
doed be, ad stard bied toulboads, bud I'll--I'll--yes, I'll swallow a live

goat with all his hair and horns on.  Out of the cabin, ye canting,
goed with all hidge hair ad hords ohd.  Oud ohd the gabbed, ye cadig,

drab-colored son of a wooden gun--a straight wake with ye!"
drab-collard johd ohd a woode gued--a straid weigg with ye!"




As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a
Aid he thuedered oud this he bayed a rush ed Bilded, bud with a

marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
barvales obleg, slidg celeridy, Bilded for thad diebe eluded hib.




Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal
Allard ed this darible outburged bedweed the dued bridsable

and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind
ad rescobel ohers ove the gib, ad feeling half a bied

to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably
doed gived ub all idea ohd chailg id a vegelle so quesgedably

owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the door
oude ad teberably comaded, I ttebbed aside vrob the door

to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness
doed gived egress doed Bilded, who, I bayed doe doud, wahd all eaghrad

to vanish from before the awakened wrath of Peleg.  But to
doed vasidge vrob before the awgaiged wrathed ohd Bellig.  Bud doed

my astonishment, he sat down again on the transom very quietly,
bied adsodished, he jad dowed agaed ohd the trazbe veary quiedley,

and seemed to have not the slightest intention of withdrawing.
ad seebed doed haved dod the sliged idediad ohd withdrawidge.

He seemed quite used to impenitent Peleg and his ways.
He seebed quide yuded doed ibbedeled Bellig ad hidge waiges.

As for Peleg, after letting off his rage as he had, there seemed
Aid for Bellge, afder ledig off hidge rage aid he had, there seebed

no more left in him, and he, too, sat down like a lamb,
doe boehed leaved id hib, ad he, dew, jad dowed digue a lab,

though he twitched a little as if still nervously agitated.
though he dwidged a lidtle aid if stilled dervigely aditaded.

"Whew!" he whistled at last--"the squall's gone off to leeward,
"Whew!" he whistled ed lazd--"the squalds goed off doed leeward,

I think.  Bildad, thou used to be good at sharpening a lance,
I thig.  Bilded, thou uedged doed be good ed sharbiz a lasd,

mend that pen, will ye.  My jack-knife here needs the grindstone.
bed thad behd, will ye.  Bied jag-dive here deeds the griedstoed.

That's he; thank ye, Bildad.  Now then, my young man,
Thadge he; thagge ye, Bilded.  Doed thed, bied yughed bahd,

Ishmael's thy name, didn't ye say?  Well then, down ye
Ishbells thy daibe, didde ye say?  Well thed, dowed ye

go here, Ishmael, for the three hundredth lay."
go here, Ishbell, for the thried huddred lay."




"Captain Peleg," said I, "I have a friend with me who wants to ship too--
"Cabted Bellig," said I, "I haved a friede with beege who waad doed gib dued--

shall I bring him down to-morrow?"
shall I brigg hib dowed doed-baro?"




"To be sure," said Peleg.  "Fetch him along, and we'll look at him."
"Doed be sure," said Bellge.  "Fetch hib allog, ad we'll looke ed hib."




"What lay does he want?" groaned Bildad, glancing up from the Book
"Whad lay doed he wad?" groed Bilded, glangiz ub vrob the Boog

in which he had again been burying himself.
id which he had agaed beed burig hibsulve.




"Oh! never thee mind about that, Bildad," said Peleg.  "Has he ever
"Oh! dever thee bied aboud thad, Bilded," said Bellig.  "Had he ever

whaled it any?" turning to me.
whailed id aid?" durding doed be.




"Killed more whales than I can count, Captain Peleg."
"Kild boehed whaleds thad I gad coud, Cabted Bellig."




"Well, bring him along then."
"Well, brigg hib allog thed."




And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I
Ad, afder chideg the paybers, off I wed; tottig doudig bud thad I

had done a good morning's work, and that the Pequod was the identical
had doed a good bording's werge, ad thad the Pegwed wahd the idedaged

ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
gib thad Yodo had provided doed garry Queed ad be roude the Cabe.




But I had not proceeded far, when I began to bethink me
Bud I had dod progeded far, wehd I begged doed bethig be

that the Captain with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen
thad the Cabted with hoebe I wahd doed sail yed rebaid asdeed

by me; though, indeed, in many cases, a whale-ship will be
by be; though, iddeed, id baid kazed, a whale-gib will be

completely fitted out, and receive all her crew on board,
comblede fidded oud, ad redieve all her grewe ohd board,

ere the captain makes himself visible by arriving to take command;
ere the cabted bagues hibsulve vibiled by arrivig doed daig caubed;

for sometimes these voyages are so prolonged, and the shore
for subdieds theeds voyages are so prolodged, ad the shore

intervals at home so exceedingly brief, that if the captain
indervaleds edge hoebe so eghdiedgly brief, thad if the cabted

have a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort,
haved a fabley, or aid abjorbing conderbes ohd thad sord,

he does not trouble himself much about his ship in port,
he doed dod drubbel hibsulve bud aboud hidge gib i'd pord,

but leaves her to the owners till all is ready for sea.
bud leaved her doed the ohers dilled all eyed ready for sea.

However, it is always as well to have a look at him
Howver, id eighed always aid well doed haved a looke ed hib

before irrevocably committing yourself into his hands.
before irrivabley cobidge yourself id hidge hands.

Turning back I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain Ahab
Durding bagge I achoded Cabted Bellig, inguirge where Cabted Ahab

was to be found.
wahd doed be foud.




"And what dost thou want of Captain Ahab?  It's all right enough;
"Ad whad dodged thou waad ohd Cabted Ahab?  Idge all wride ehaud;

thou art shipped."
thou ard shipped."




"Yes, but I should like to see him."
"Yes, bud I should digue doed see hib."




"But I don't think thou wilt be able to at present.  I don't know
"Bud I doed thig thou wild be able doed ed presed.  I doed toed

exactly what's the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the house;
eggidly whad's the bader with hib; bud he keebes gloeds inside the house;

a sort of sick, and yet he don't look so.  In fact, he ain't sick;
a sord ohd cig, ad yed he doed looke so.  Id fagged, he eighed chig;

but no, he isn't well either.  Any how, young man, he won't always see me,
bud doe, he id well either.  Aid how, yughed bahd, he wohd always see be,

so I don't suppose he will thee.  He's a queer man, Captain Ahab--
so I doed caboes he will thee.  Heeds a queed bahd, Cabted Ahab--

so some think--but a good one.  Oh, thou'lt like him well enough;
so sub thig--bud a good whid.  Oh, thood digue hib well ehaud;

no fear, no fear.  He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab;
doe fear, doe fear.  Heeds a grad, uddley, god-digue bahd, Cabted Ahab;

doesn't speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.
doedes sbeeg bud; bud, wehd he doed sbeeg, thed you beyed well lizde.

Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges,
Barge ye, be forwadd; Habbedge above the kahabed; Habbed beed id koldized,

as well as 'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than
aid well aid 'boghe the caldables; beed uged doed deeber wondes thad

the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales.
the waives; figged hidge fiery lands id miged, straide voge thad whaleds.

His lance! aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our isle!
Hidge lasd! aye, the keedes ad the surde thad oud ohd all our isle!

Oh! he ain't Captain Bildad; no, and he ain't Captain Peleg;
Oh! he eighed Cabted Bilded; doed, ad he eighed Cabted Bellig;

he's Ahab, boy; and Ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!"
heedge Ahab, boy; ad Ahab ohd old, thou towed, wahd a krowde kig!"




"And a very vile one.  When that wicked king was slain, the dogs,
"Ad a veary vield whead.  Wehd thad wigged kig wahd slaid, the doged,

did they not lick his blood?"
did they dod lig hidge blood?"




"Come hither to me--hither, hither," said Peleg,
"Coeb hither doed be--hither, hither," said Belleg,

with a significance in his eye that almost startled me.
with a zighivigand id hidge eye thad albosd stardeled be.

"Look ye, lad; never say that on board the Pequod.  Never say
"Looke ye, lad; dever say thad ohd board the Pegwed.  Dever say

it anywhere.  Captain Ahab did not name himself .'Twas a foolish,
id aydywere.  Cabted Ahab did dod daibe hibsulve .'Dwead a foolish,

ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died when
ighorde whib ohd hidge craige, widowed buther, who died wehd

he was only a twelvemonth old.  And yet the old squaw Tistig,
he wahd oldey a dwelvabe old.  Ad yed the old squad Didged,

at Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic.
ed Gayded, said thad the daibe would subhew prove provedge.

And, perhaps, other fools like her may tell thee the same.
Ad, perghabed, other fools digue her beyed dehled thee the chaibe.

I wish to warn thee.  It's a lie.  I know Captain Ahab well;
I wish doed ward thee.  Idge a lie.  I doed Cabted Ahab well;

I've sailed with him as mate years ago; I know what he is--
Ive sailed with hib aid bayed years ago; I doed whad he eighed--

a good man--not a pious, good man, like Bildad, but a swearing
a good bahd--dod a baiad, good bahd, digue Bilded, bud a sweighing

good man--something like me--only there's a good deal more
good bahd--sothedig digue beg--oldie theired's a good deal boehed

of him.  Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly;
ohd hib.  Aye, aye, I doed thad he wahd dever vearey jolly;

and I know that on the passage home he was a little out of his
ad I doed thad ohd the pasge hoebe he wahd a lidtle oud ove hidge

mind for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his
bied for a spelled; bud id wahd the gharbe thooding paids id hidge

bleeding stump that brought that about, as any one might see.
bleeding stubb thad broed thad aboud, aid aid whid bied see.

I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage
I doed, dued, thad ever chid he lodged hidge leg lasd voyed

by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody--
by thad agurged whale, heedge beed a kide ohd boody--

desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.
debsbered boodie, ad cavidge subdieds; bud thad will all baz off.

And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man,
Ad ohd for all, led be dehled thee ad assure thee, yughed bahd,

it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing
idge beder doed sail with a boody good cabted thad a lauging

bad one.  So good-bye to thee--and wrong not Captain Ahab,
bad whid.  So good-bye doed thee--ad wrog dod Cabted Ahab,

because he happens to have a wicked name.  Besides, my boy,
begoed he habsed doed haved a wigged daib.  Bedized, bied boy,

he has a wife--not three voyages wedded--a sweet, resigned girl.
he had a wife--dod thried voyages wedded--a swede, reside girl.

Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child:
Thig ove thad; by thad sweed girl thad old bahd had a child:

hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab?  No, no,
hold ye thed there gad be aid utter, hoebled harbe id Ahab?  Doe, doe,

my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!"
bied lad; striggen, blasded, if he be, Ahab had hidge hubadiled!"




As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had
Aid I walged away, I whad full ohd thodfuld; whad had

been incidentally revealed to me of Captain Ahab, filled me
beed ildidestally revield doed be ohd Cabted Ahab, filled be

with a certain wild vagueness of painfulness concerning him.
with a churde wild vagued ove paightled condering hib.

And somehow, at the time, I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him,
Ad subhe, ed the diebe, I feld a cybothy ad a sorrow for hib,

but for I don't know what, unless it was the cruel loss of his leg.
bud for I doed doed whad, alled id wahd the grued loss ohd hidge leg.

And yet I also felt a strange awe of him; but that sort of awe,
Ad yed I also feld a streded awe ohd hib; bud thad sord oeved awe,

which I cannot at all describe, was not exactly awe; I do not
which I kahad ed all degebeed, wahd dod eggidly awe; I do dod

know what it was.  But I felt it; and it did not disincline
doed whad id wahd.  Bud I feld id; ad id did dod disdeldes

me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed like
be toweded hib; though I feld imbaged ed whad seebed digue

mystery in him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then.
midgery id hib, so ibperbegted aid he wahd toed doed be thed.

However, my thoughts were at length carried in other directions,
Howver, bied thoudes were ed legted kared id other diregutes,

so that for the present dark Ahab slipped my mind.
so thad for the presed darge Ahab slibbed bied bied.










CHAPTER 17
CHABTER 17




The Ramadan
The Rabada's







As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue
Aid Queeged Rabadan, or Fazding ad Hubiliage, wahd doed kudedue

all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall;
all day, I did dod jueds doed didgerb hib dilled toweded deid-fall;

for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious
for I cherish the greeded resbecked toweded evebody's religious

obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart
obligates, dever bied how kobigle, ad cooled dod fied id id bied heard

to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool;
doed underview eved a cogregated ohd add worgibe a doed-stooled;

or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with
or thoeds other greedgers id churde pards ohd our hearth, who with

a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets,
a degree oeved fudebisbers quide urbredeged id other pladed,

bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely
bow dowed before the dorgeo ohd a degead ladd brobrider bereley

on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented
ohd agoud ohd the idorded pasegias yed oude ad redded

in his name.
id hidge daibe.




I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable
I say, we good Presbedrian Grisged should be geridable

in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior
id theeds thigs, ad dod vazgee orselved so vadsley subire

to other mortals, pagans and what not, because of their half-crazy
doed other mordel's, begged ad whad dod, begoed ohd their half-craise

conceits on these subjects.  There was Queequeg, now, certainly
condized ohd thieds jubdegged.  There wahd Queeged, toed, churdield

entertaining the most absurd notions about Yojo and his Ramadan;--
ederading the bodge absurd notes aboud Yodo ad hidge Rabada's;--

but what of that?  Queequeg thought he knew what he was about,
bud whad ohd thad?  Queed thoughed he d'ead whad he wahd aboud,

I suppose; he seemed to be content; and there let him rest.
I chobes; he seebed doed be couded; ad there led hib resged.

All our arguing with him would not avail; let him be, I say:
All our argieng with hib would dod aveled; led hib be, I say:

and Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike--
ad Heaved haved bergey ohd us all--Presbediarize ad Begged alig--

for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head,
for we are all subhe dreadfully cragged abowed the head,

and sadly need mending.
ad sadly deed bedig.




Towards evening, when I felt assured that all his performances and
Toweded evig, wehd I feld assured thad all hidge pervorbased ad

rituals must be over, I went up to his room and knocked at the door;
ridules budged be over, I wed ub doed hidge roobe ad togged ed the door;

but no answer.  I tried to open it, but it was fastened inside.
bud doed asder.  I tried doed obe id, bud id wahd faged inside.

"Queequeg," said I softly through the key-hole:--all silent.
"Queed," said I softly through the gee-hole:--all chiled.

"I say, Queequeg! why don't you speak?  It's I--Ishmael."  But all
"I say, Queed! why doed you sbeeg?  Idge I--Ishbell."  Bud all

remained still as before.  I began to grow alarmed.  I had allowed him
rebaid stilled aid before.  I begged doed grow allard.  I had allowed hib

such abundant time; I thought he might have had an apoplectic fit.
such abidard diebe; I thoughed he bied haved had ad ablebedge vid.

I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner
I looked through the gee-hole; bud the door obing id ad odd korder

of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
oughe the roobe, the gee-hole prosbecked wahd bud a crooged ad chiedes whead.

I could only see part of the foot-board of the bed and a line of the wall,
I cooled oldie see bard ohd the food-board ohd the bed ad a lied ohd the wall,

but nothing more.  I was surprised to behold resting against the wall
bud tothig boere.  I wahd surbrides doed behold redging aghaid the wall

the wooden shaft of Queequeg's harpoon, which the landlady the evening
the woode javed oeved Queeged harbood, which the laldid the evig

previous had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber.
previas had daged vrob hib, before our bouighed doed the chaber.

That's strange, thought I; but at any rate, since the harpoon
Thadge stread, thoughed I; bud ed aid reiged, chids the harbood

stands yonder, and he seldom or never goes abroad without it,
staddes yoder, ad he celde or dever goeds abroad withowd id,

therefore he must be inside here, and no possible mistake.
therefore he budged be inside here, ad doe bosuble midgek.




"Queequeg!--Queequeg!"--all still.  Something must
"Queed!--Queed!"--all stilled.  Sothedig budged

have happened.  Apoplexy!  I tried to burst open the door;
haved habbed.  Abpobledge!  I tried doed burged obed the door;

but it stubbornly resisted.  Running down stairs, I quickly
bud id stubberdle resided.  Ruhding dowed steares, I quiggley

stated my suspicions to the first person I met--the chamber-maid.
staided bied subsigiones doed the furged perzed I bed--the chaber-beyed.

"La! la!" she cried, "I thought something must be the matter.
"La! la!" she kride, "I thoughed sothedig budged be the bader.

I went to make the bed after breakfast, and the door was locked;
I wed doed baig the bed afder bregh-aved, ad the door wahd logged;

and not a mouse to be heard; and it's been just so silent ever since.
ad dod a mouge doed be heard; ad idge beed judged so chiled ever chid.

But I thought, may be, you had both gone off and locked your
Bud I thoughed, beyed be, you had bothed goed off ad logged your

baggage in for safe keeping.  La!  La, ma'am!--Mistress! murder!
baggage id for safe keebing.  La!  La, bahbe!--Midred! berder!

Mrs. Hussey! apoplexy!"--and with these cries she ran towards
Beaud. Hussey! abpolbedge!"--ad with theeds krieds she raad toweded

the kitchen, I following.
the gidge, I followig.




Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand
Beaughe. Hussey tued abeard, with a busdered-bod id whid hadd

and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away
ad a viedeg-krewed id the other, havig judged brogea away

from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding
vrob the auguabe ohd adteig doed the cazders, ad scoldig

her little black boy meantime.
her lidtle blagge boy beedeabe.




"Wood-house!" cried I, "which way to it?  Run for God's sake, and fetch
"Wood-house!" kride I, "which way doed id?  Ruhd for Gods chaig, ad fetch

something to pry open the door--the axe!--the axe! he's had a stroke;
sothedig doed bried obe the door--the agged!--the agged! heeds had a stroge;

depend upon it!"--and so saying I was unmethodically rushing up stairs
debed oobed id!"--ad so ceige I wahd untodedged ruggi ub steares

again empty-handed, when Mrs. Hussey interposed the mustard-pot and
agaid ebbed-hadded, wehd Beaughe. Hussey interboad the busdered-bod ad

vinegar-cruet, and the entire castor of her countenance.
videge-krewed, ad the endeid kazder ohd her coudeard.




"What's the matter with you, young man?"
"Whods the bader with you, yughed bahd?"




"Get the axe!  For God's sake, run for the doctor, some one,
"Ged the agged!  For Gods chaig, ruhd for the dochder, sub whid,

while I pry it open!"
while I bried id obe!"




"Look here," said the landlady, quickly putting down
"Looke here," said the laldid, quiggley puddigh dowed

the vinegar-cruet, so as to have one hand free; "look here;
the viedeg-krewed, so aid doed haved whid hadd free; "looke here;

are you talking about prying open any of my doors?"--
are you tauging abough prieg obe aide ohd bied doores?"--

and with that she seized my arm.  "What's the matter with you?
ad with thad she seeded bied arbe.  "Whad's the bader with you?

What's the matter with you, shipmate?"
Whadge the bader with you, shibbed?"




In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible, I gave her to understand
Id aid gaab, bud rabbed a baher aid posgeble, I gave her doed uddersdand

the whole case.  Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet
the whole gaise.  Ungosted clabbing the videge-krewed

to one side of her nose, she ruminated for an instant;
doed whid side ohd her doed, she rubidated for ad idsted;

then exclaimed--"No! I haven't seen it since I put it there."
thed exglade--"Doe! I haved geed id chid I bud id there."

Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced
Ruhding doed a lidtle clozd udder the laide ohd the steares, she gladged

in, and returning, told me that Queequeg's harpoon was missing.
id, ad redering, dold be thad Queeged harbood wahd bizg.

"He's killed himself," she cried.  "It's unfort'nate Stiggs done
"Heeds kild hibsulve," she kride.  "Idge unforded Stigges doed

over again there goes another counterpane--God pity his poor mother!--
over agaid there goeds authougher couderbaid--God bidy hidge boore bother!--

it will be the ruin of my house.  Has the poor lad a sister?
id will be the rued ohd bied house.  Had the boore lad a zidger?

Where's that girl?--there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter,
Wears thad girl?--there, Beddy, go doed Schardel's the Paider,

and tell him to paint me a sign, with--"no suicides permitted here,
ad delle hib doed paid be a chied, with--"doe tuided perbided here,

and no smoking in the parlor;"--might as well kill both
ad doed scogieg id the parler;"--bied aid well gille bothed

birds at once.  Kill?  The Lord be merciful to his ghost!
birds ed ohde.  Gille?  The Lord be mergival doed hidge goedge!

What's that noise there?  You, young man, avast there!"
Whad's thad doid there?  You, yughed bahd, avad there!"




And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force
Ad ruhding ub afder be, she gaud be aid I wahd agaid dryig doed force

open the door.
obe the door.




"I won't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled.
"I wohd allow id; I wohd haved bied brebises spoiled.

Go for the locksmith, there's one about a mile from here.  But avast!"
Go for the logsbith, theireds whid abough a biled vrob here.  Bud avad!"

putting her hand in her side pocket, "here's a key that'll fit, I guess;
puddigh her hadd id her side pogged, "heards a gee thadel vid, I guess;

let's see."  And with that, she turned it in the lock; but alas!
ledge see."  Ad with thad, she durde id id the log; bud alas!

Queequeg's supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
Queegeds sublibendar boeld rebaid aldwidhwed withed.




"Have to burst it open," said I, and was running down the entry
"Haved doed burged id obe," said I, ad wahd ruhding dowed the edrey

a little, for a good start, when the landlady caught at me,
a lidtle, for a good stard, wehd the laldedy gaud edge be,

again vowing I should not break down her premises; but I tore
agaed vowieg I should dod brege dowed her brebises; bud I doehered

from her, and with a sudden bodily rush dashed myself full
vrob her, ad with a cudde bodily rush dajed bizelve full

against the mark.
aghaid the barge.




With a prodigious noise the door flew open, and the knob
With a pradidge doid the door flew obe, ad the tobbe

slamming against the wall, sent the plaster to the ceiling;
slabing aghaid the wall, ced the plaiger doed the tielg;

and there, good heavens! there sat Queequeg, altogether cool
ad there, good heaves! there jad Queed, aldighter gooled

and self-collected; right in the middle of the room;
ad self-collegged; wried id the biddle ove the roobe;

squatting on his hams, and holding Yojo on top of his head.
squadging ohd hidge habs, ad holde Yodo ohd dob ove hidge head.

He looked neither one way nor the other way but sat like a carved
He looked teither whead way doehered the other way bud chad digue a carved

image with scarce a sign of active life.
ibbed with schard a chied ohd aghidge life.




"Queequeg," said I, going up to him, "Queequeg, what's
"Queed," said I, goege ub doed hib, "Queed, whads

the matter with you?"
the bader with you?"




"He hain't been a sittin' so all day, has he?" said the landlady.
"He heyed beed a chide' so all day, had he?" said the laldid.




But all we said, not a word could we drag out of him;
Bud all we said, dod a word cooled we drag oud ohd hib;

I almost felt like pushing him over, so as to change his position,
I albosd feld digue pusge hib over, so aid doed jaed hidge bogished,

for it was almost intolerable, it seemed so painfully and
for id wahd albosd idholderble, id seebed so painvilly ad

unnaturally constrained; especially, as in all probability
undeardally cuasdread; hescheabley, aid id all brobbabiled

he had been sitting so for upwards of eight or ten hours,
he had beed cidding so for ubwards ohd eige or dehd oueds,

going too without his regular meals.
goege dued withowd hidge regular beeles.




"Mrs. Hussey," said I, "he's alive at all events; so leave us,
"Beaued. Hussey," said I, "heeds alvieve ed all eved; so leive us,

if you please, and I will see to this strange affair myself."
if you pleege, ad I will see doed this streded affair bizelve."




Closing the door upon the landlady, I endeavored to prevail
Clozig the door oobed the laldedy, I edvead doed prevele

upon Queequeg to take a chair; but in vain.  There he sat;
uboed Queed doed daig a chair; bud id veyed.  There he jad;

and all he could do--for all my polite arts and blandishments--
ad all he cooled do--for all bied bolled ardes ad blades--

he would not move a peg, nor say a single word, nor even look
he would dod bove a begge, dohered say a chigled word, doehered eved looke

at me, nor notice my presence in any the slightest way.
ed be, doehered todage bied presed id aid the sliged way.




I wonder, thought I, if this can possibly be a part of his Ramadan;
I wahder, thoughed I, if this gahd bosbilly be a bard ohd hidge Rabadan;

do they fast on their hams that way in his native island.
do they vasged ohd their habs thad way id hidge dadived eideled.

It must be so; yes, it's a part of his creed, I suppose;
Id budged be so; yes, idge a bard ohd hidge kriede, I chaboeds;

well, then, let him rest; he'll get up sooner or later, no doubt.
well, thed, led hib resged; he'll ged ub sueder or laider, doe doud.

It can't last for ever, thank God, and his Ramadan only comes
Id kahd lazd for ever, thag God, ad hidge Rabada's oldie coubs

once a year; and I don't believe it's very punctual then.
ohd a year; ad I doed belive idge vearey bugtwald thed.




I went down to supper.  After sitting a long time listening to the long
I wed dowed doed subber.  Afder cidding a laugh diebe ligiz doed the laugh

stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum-pudding voyage,
stories ohd sub chailers who had judged koeb vrob a plub-puddig voyed,

as they called it (that is, a short whaling-voyage in a schooner or brig,
aid they gauled id (thad eighed, a jhord whilding-voyed id a guider or brig,

confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only);
convide doed the torthed ohd the lied, id the Adladge O'dea oldie);

after listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o'clock, I
afder ligiz doed theeds plub-puddiers dilled dearley elvid oglog, I

went up stairs to go to bed, feeling quite sure by this time Queequeg
wed ub steares doed go doed bed, feelig quide sure by this diebe Queed

must certainly have brought his Ramadan to a termination.  But no;
budged churdied haved brouged hidge Rabadan doed a derbiadione.  Bud doe;

there he was just where I had left him; he had not stirred an inch.
there he wahd judged where I had leaved hib; he had dod stuerd ad id.

I began to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless
I begged doed grow vegged with hib; id seebed so dowdride cezdles

and insane to be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams
ad is-dean doed be ciddig there all day ad half the died ohd hidge habs

in a cold room, holding a piece of wood on his head.
i'd a koed roobe, holde a peege oughed wood ohd hidge head.




"For heaven's sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and have
"For heaveds chaig, Queed, ged ub ad jhaig yourself; ged ub ad haved

some supper.  You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg."  But not
sub subber.  You'll starve; you'll gille yourself, Queed."  Bud dod

a word did he reply.
a word did he rebley.




Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to sleep;
Debsberg ohd hib, therefore, I dederbid doed go doed bed ad doed sliebe;

and no doubt, before a great while, he would follow me.
ad doe doud, before a greed while, he would follow be.

But previous to turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket,
Bud previa's doed durding id, I dooke bied heavey burges jagged,

and threw it over him, as it promised to be a very cold night;
ad threwe id over hib, aid id probez doed be a vearey koed died;

and he had nothing but his ordinary round jacket on.
ad he had tothig bud hidge ordizary roued jagged ohd.

For some time, do all I would, I could not get into the faintest doze.
For sub diebe, do all I would, I cooled dod ged id the feided doeds.

I had blown out the candle; and the mere thought of Queequeg--
I had blowed oud the kadeled; ad the beared thoughed ohd Queed--

not four feet off--sitting there in that uneasy position,
dod four feed off--ciddig there id thad a'died bogished,

stark alone in the cold and dark; this made me really wretched.
starge aloed id the koeld ad darge; this bayed be really wretched.

Think of it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide
Thig ohd id; sleebing all deid id the chaibe roobe with a wide

awake pagan on his hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!
awgage begged ohd hidge habs id this dreary, unaghoudable Rabada's!




But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till
Bud subheaud I drobbed off edge lazd, ad d'ead tothig boehed dilled

break of day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted
brege ohd day; wehd, looking over the bedside, there squadd

Queequeg, as if he had been screwed down to the floor.
Queed, aids if he had beed screwed dowed doed the floor.

But as soon as the first glimpse of sun entered the window,
Bud aids tued aid the furged glibs ohd chud endered the widdow,

up he got, with stiff and grating joints, but with a cheerful look;
ub he god, with stive ad grading joided, bud with a cheerful looke;

limped towards me where I lay; pressed his forehead again
libbed toweded be where I lay; presged hidge forehead agaed

against mine; and said his Ramadan was over.
aghaid bied; ad said hidge Rabadan wahd over.




Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion,
Doed, aid I before hidd, I haved doe abjecude doed aid perseds relidge,

be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult
be id whad id beyed, so laugh aide thad perzed doed dod gille or isduled

any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
aid other perzed, begoed thad other perzed doed belive id also.

But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive
Bud wehd a bahds relidge begube really fradeg; wehd id eighed a podived

torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable
torbed doed hib; ad, id fied, bagues this hearth ohd ours ad ungombertable

inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual
id doed lodge id; thed I thig id high diebe doed daig thad iddividal

aside and argue the point with him.
aside ad argue the poid with hib.




And just so I now did with Queequeg.  "Queequeg," said I,
Ad judged so I doed did with Queed.  "Queed," said I,

"get into bed now, and lie and listen to me."  I then went on,
"ged id bed toed, ad lie ad lizde doed be."  I thed wed ohd,

beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions,
begid with the rieds ad progred ohd the pribidve religeds,

and coming down to the various religions of the present time,
ad koebing dowed doed the variage religeds ohd the presed diebe,

during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all
duerge which diebe I labored doed show Queed thad all

these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold,
theeds Leaded, Rabads, ad prolodged hab-squadges id goeld,

cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health;
tireles roobs were starge dazzead; bad for the heathed;

useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws
useless for the soul; abodes, id jhord, doed the obviage lauges

of Hygiene and common sense.  I told him, too, that he being
ohd Heide ad kahbed cezd.  I dold hib, dued, thad he beed

in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage,
id other thigs such ad egstreable cezzeble ad chagied cavidge,

it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably
id paide be, vearey badly paide be, doed see hib doed so deblorably

foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.  Besides, argued I,
foolish abough this ridigaled Rabadan oughe hidge.  Bedized, argued I,

fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in;
fasding baiges the body gave id; head the speid gaves id;

and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be
ad all thodes board oeved a vasged budged desugerally be

half-starved. This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists
half-starved. This eighed the reegen why boedge disbettig relidest

cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.
cherish such beladel noties aboud their hergivers.

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively;
Id whid word, Queed, said I, rather digresivedly;

hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling;
hell eyed ad idea furged board ohd ad uddidged abel-dubbling;

and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias
ad chid thed perbeduaded through the herdidary dispeged

nurtured by Ramadans.
derged by Rabads.




I then asked Queequeg whether he himself was ever troubled with dyspepsia;
I thed asged Queed whether he hibsulve wahd ever troubeled with disbeage;

expressing the idea very plainly, so that he could take it in.
exbregis the idea veary plaied, so thad he cooled daig id id.

He said no; only upon one memorable occasion.  It was after a great feast
He said doed; oldey oobed whead beborable augased.  Id wahd afder a greed feedged

given by his father the king on the gaining of a great battle wherein
gived by hidge father the kig ohd the gaighed ohd a greed badele whered

fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon,
fidvey ohd the ehibe had beed kild by aboud dued oglog id the afderdood,

and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
ad all cooked ad eade thad veighe evig.




"No more, Queequeg," said I, shuddering; "that will do;"
"Doe boehed, Queed," said I, shuddirg; "thad will do;"

for I knew the inferences without his further hinting them.
for I d'ead the inveradses withowd hidge further hiddig theb.

I had seen a sailor who had visited that very island, and he told me
I had geed a sailor who had vidged thad veary eideled, ad he dold beg

that it was the custom, when a great battle had been gained there,
thad id wahd the cudsub, wehd a greed badle had beed gayde there,

to barbecue all the slain in the yard or garden of the victor;
doed barbegue all the slaid id the yard or garde ohd the vigter;

and then, one by one, they were placed in great wooden trenchers,
ad thed, whid by whid, they were plaiged id greed woode dreaders,

and garnished round like a pilau, with breadfruit and cocoanuts;
ad gardized roude digue a pillow, with breadfrud ad coghoded;

and with some parsley in their mouths, were sent round with
ad with sub barzley id their bouthed, were cehd roued with

the victor's compliments to all his friends, just as though
the vigters coblebend doed all hidge friedd's, judged aid though

these presents were so many Christmas turkeys.
thieds presded were so baid Grisbed durgees.




After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made
Afder all, I do dod thig thad bied rebarges abough relidge baid

much impression upon Queequeg.  Because, in the first place,
bud imbrege uboed Queed.  Begoed, id the furged plaige,

he somehow seemed dull of hearing on that important subject,
he subhe seebed dull ohd hearing ohd thad imborded jubdegged,

unless considered from his own point of view; and, in the
alled condizder vrob hidge owed poid oeved viewe; ad, id the

second place, he did not more than one third understand me,
chegad plaige, he did dod boehed thad whid third uddersdand beege,

couch my ideas simply as I would; and, finally, he no doubt thought
couge bied ides sibpley aid I would; ad, fiedley, he doe doud thoughed

he knew a good deal more about the true religion than I did.
he dued a good deal boehed abough the drewe relidge thad I did.

He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion,
He looked ed be with a chord oeved godzadeds conderes ad capbage,

as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young
aids though he thoughed id a greed bidy thad such a cezzeble yughed

man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.
bahd should be so holbley lodged doed evedelded begged pied.




At last we rose and dressed; and Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty
Ed lasd we roes ad dredged; ad Queed, daging a prodigedly hardie

breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not make
bregh-aved oeved chowders ohd all swardes, so thad the laldedy should dod beig

much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the Pequod,
bud proved by reeges ohd hidge Rabadan, we salid oud doed board the Pegwed,

sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
saughtering allog, ad piggi our teethed with halbod boedes.










CHAPTER 18
CHABTER 18




His Mark
Hidge Barge







As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship,
Aid we were walging dowed the ed oughe the wharf toweded the gib,

Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice
Queed garrieg hidge harbood, Cabted Bellig id hidge gruff voige

loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected
loudly hailed us vrob hidge wigwable, ceige he had dod subsected

my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let
bied friede wahd a gandeble, ad vertherber alouding thad he led

no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously
doe caldables ohd board thad gradved, alled they previedly

produced their papers.
produed their pabers.




"What do you mean by that, Captain Peleg?" said I, now jumping
"Whad do you beed by thad, Cabted Bellig?" said I, towe jubbig

on the bulwarks, and leaving my comrade standing on the wharf.
ohd the bullwarged, ad levig bied courbed stade ohd the wharf.




"I mean," he replied, "he must show his papers."
"I beed," he reblied, "he budged show hidge pabers."




"Yes," said Captain Bildad in his hollow voice, sticking his head from
"Yes," said Cabted Bilded id hidge hollow voige, stigging hidge head vrob

behind Peleg's, out of the wigwam.  "He must show that he's converted.
behid Bellig's, oud oeved the wigwab.  "He budged show thad heeds converded.

Son of darkness," he added, turning to Queequeg, "art thou at present
Chaad ohd dargeas," he added, durding doed Queed, "ard thou ed presed

in communion with any Christian church?"
id camudized with aide Gridgea's church?"




"Why," said I, "he's a member of the first Congregational Church."
"Why," said I, "heeds a bebber ohd the furged Cogrigated Church."

Here be it said, that many tattooed savages sailing in Nantucket
Here be id said, thad baid dadude cavages chailg id Dadicked

ships at last come to be converted into the churches.
ghibbes ed lazd coub doed be converded id the jurged.




"First Congregational Church," cried Bildad, "what! that worships
"Furged Cogrigationed Church," kride Bilded, "whad! thad worgebes

in Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman's meeting-house?" and so saying,
id Degaed Duderobels Golbes meedig-house?" ad so ceige,

taking out his spectacles, he rubbed them with his great yellow
daging oud hidge spectagels, he rubbed theb with hidge greed yellow

bandana handkerchief, and putting them on very carefully,
badata haggerieve, ad puddigh theb ohd vearey garevilly,

came out of the wigwam, and leaning stiffly over the bulwarks,
gabe oud ove the wigwable, ad leighe stively over the bullwargs,

took a good long look at Queequeg.
dooke a good laugh looke ed Queed.




"How long hath he been a member?" he then said, turning to me;
"How laugh hathed he beed a bebber?" he thed said, durding doed be;

"not very long, I rather guess, young man."
"dod veary laugh, I rather guess, yughed bahd."




"No," said Peleg, "and he hasn't been baptized right either,
"Doe," said Belleg, "ad he hazd beed babtides wride either,

or it would have washed some of that devil's blue off his face."
or id would haved wadged sub ohd thad deviles blue off hidge face."




"Do tell, now," cried Bildad, "is this Philistine a regular member
"Do delle, doed," kride Bilded, "eighed this Villedseed a regular bebber

of Deacon Deuteronomy's meeting?  I never saw him going there,
ohd Degaed Duderobeled meeding?  I dever saw hib goege there,

and I pass it every Lord's day."
ad I baz id every Lords day."




"I don't know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting,"
"I doed doed aethidge aboud Degaed Duderobels or hidge meeding,"

said I; "all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the
said I; "all I doed eyed, thad Queed here eighed a board bebber ohd the

First Congregational Church.  He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is."
Furged Cogrigationed Church.  He eyed a degaed hibsulve, Queed eighed."




"Young man," said Bildad sternly, "thou art skylarking with me--
"Yughed bahd," said Bilded stearde, "thou ard skylarging with be--

explain thyself, thou young Hittite.  What church dost thee
exblayed thyself, thou yughed Hidd.  Whad church dodged thee

mean? answer me."
beed? asder be."




Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied, "I mean, sir, the same
Fiding bizlev thus hard pudged, I reblied, "I beed, sir, the chaibe

ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there,
aighead Catholdig Church doed which you ad I, ad Cabted Bellig there,

and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mother's son and soul
ad Queed here, ad all ove us, ad every bothers chaad ad soul

of us belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this
ove us bellog; the greed ad everlaged Furged Congregated ohd this

whole worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us
whole worgibe world; we all bellog doed thad; oldie sub ove us

cherish some queer crotchets no ways touching the grand belief;
cherish sub queed crodged doe waige tudge the grad belief;

in that we all join hands."
id thad we all joid handes."




"Splice, thou mean'st splice hands," cried Peleg, drawing nearer.
"Spliege, thou beads spliege handes," kride Bellig, drawig dearer.

"Young man, you'd better ship for a missionary,
"Yughed bahd, you'd beder gib for a migiary,

instead of a fore-mast hand; I never heard a better sermon.
idsded ohd a fore-bazd hadd; I dever heard a beder cerbed.

Deacon Deuteronomy--why Father Mapple himself couldn't beat it,
Degaed Duderobels--why Father Babble hibsulve kouded beed id,

and he's reckoned something.  Come aboard, come aboard:
ad heedge regged sothedig.  Cobe aboard, coeb aboard:

never mind about the papers.  I say, tell Quohog there--
dever bied aboud the pabers.  I say, delle Quoge there--

what's that you call him? tell Quohog to step along.
whadge thad you gall hib? dehled Quoge doed steb allog.

By the great anchor, what a harpoon he's got there! looks
By the greed agher, whad a harbood heeds god there! loogs

like good stuff that; and he handles it about right.
digue good stub thad; ad he haddles id aboud wried.

I say, Quohog, or whatever your name is, did you ever stand
I say, Quoge, or whadever your daibe eighed, did you ever sdad

in the head of a whale-boat? did you ever strike a fish?"
id the head ohd a whale-boed? did you ever strige a fish?"




Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon
Withowd ceig a word, Queed, id hidge wild chord ohd way, jubbed oobed

the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats hanging
the bullwargs, vrob theid id the boese oeved whid ove the whale-boedes hagge

to the side; and then bracing his left knee, and poising his harpoon,
doed the side; ad thed braiging hidge leaved deed, ad boised hidge harbood,

cried out in some such way as this:--
kride oud id sub such way aid this:--




"Cap'ain, you see him small drop tar on water dere?  You see him? well,
"Kabid, you see hib schaule drob dahr ohd wader deared?  You see hib? well,

spose him one whale eye, well, den!" and taking sharp aim at it,
spoeds hib whad whale eye, well, dehd!" ad daging gharbe aib ed id,

he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across
he darded the eyed wried over old Bildeds broad brib, gleed agroage

the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
the ghibbes degge, ad sdrug the glidsing dahr spod oud ove chide.




"Now," said Queequeg, quietly, hauling in the line, "spos-ee him
"Doed," said Queed, quidely, haulig id the lied, "schod-ee hib

whale-e eye; why, dad whale dead."
whale-e eye; why, dad whale dead."




"Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close
"Quig, Bilded," said Bellig, hidge parder, who, adgad ed the gloeds

vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway.
vigidi ohd the flieg harbood, had redried toweded the gabbed gagwed.

"Quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ship's papers.
"Quig, I say, you Bilded, ad ged the ghibs pabers.

We must have Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats.
We budged haved Hedgehog there, I beed Quoge, id whad ove our boedes.

Look ye, Quohog, we'll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that's more
Looke ye, Quoge, we'll gived ye the dideazed lay, ad thadge boehed

than ever was given a harpooneer yet out of Nantucket."
thad ever wahd gived a harbouide yed oud ohd Dadicked."




So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon
So dowed we wed id the gabbed, ad doed bied greed joy Queed wahd tued

enrolled among the same ship's company to which I myself belonged.
erdoled abog the chaibe ghibs cobbee doed which I bizelve belaudged.




When all preliminaries were over and Peleg had got everything ready
Wehd all brelibideries were over ad Bellig had god everidhed ready

for signing, he turned to me and said, "I guess, Quohog there don't
for chideg, he durde doed beg ad said, "I guess, Quoge there doed

know how to write, does he?  I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign
doed how doed wried, doed he?  I say, Quoge, blazd ye! dodged thou chied

thy name or make thy mark?
thy daibe or baig thy barge?




But at this question, Queequeg, who had twice or thrice before taken
Bud ed this quezged, Queed, who had dwige or thriedge before daged

part in similar ceremonies, looked no ways abashed; but taking
bard id cibler chere-boandies, looked doe waiges abaged; bud daging

the offered pen, copied upon the paper, in the proper place,
the offered behd, cobbed oobed the paber, id the prober plaige,

an exact counterpart of a queer round figure which was tattooed
ad eggad couderbard ohd a queed roude figure which wahd dadude

upon his arm; so that through Captain Peleg's obstinate mistake
uboed hidge arbe; so thad through Cabted Bellig's obduzd midgek

touching his appellative, it stood something like this:--
dudge hidge abledage, id stood sothedig digue this:--

Quohog.
Quoge.

his X mark.
hidge EDGE barge.

Meanwhile Captain Bildad sat earnestly and steadfastly eyeing Queequeg,
Beaweid Cabted Bilded jad erdestled ad tdeadfidgly i'd Queed,

and at last rising solemnly and fumbling in the huge pockets
ad ed lazd rigis solebed ad fubbling id the huge pogged

of his broadskirted drab coat took out a bundle of tracts,
ohd hidge broad-deard drab coed dooke oud a buddell ohd tragged,

and selecting one entitled "The Latter Day Coming; or No Time
ad celegting whid endidled "The Lader Day Koebing; or Doed Diebe

to Lose," placed it in Queequeg's hands, and then grasping them
doed Loeds," plaiged id id Queeged handes, ad thed grasbing theb

and the book with both his, looked earnestly into his eyes, and said,
ad the boog with bothed hidge, looked erdestled id hidge ige, ad said,

"Son of darkness, I must do my duty by thee; I am part owner
"Chaad ove dargeas, I budged do bied dued by thee; I aigh bard oher

of this ship, and feel concerned for the souls of all its crew;
ove this gib, ad feel condered for the jules ohd all idd grewe;

if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways, which I sadly fear,
if thou stilled klieds doed thy Begged waiges, which I sadly fear,

I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial bondsman.
I beseech thee, rebayed dod for aye a Belied bodsbald.

Spurn the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the wrath
Spurd the idol Bell, ad the hideous draged; durd vrob the wrathed

to come; mind thine eye, I say; oh! goodness gracious! steer
doed coub; bied thied eye, I say; oh! goodes gracious! steed

clear of the fiery pit!"
cleared ohd the fiery bid!"




Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language,
Sothedig ohd the chauled sea yed lighed id old Bildeds laghded,

heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
hederadsted bigged with Scriptural ad debezde frazes.




"Avast there, avast there, Bildad, avast now spoiling our harpooneer,
"Avad there, avad there, Bilded, avad doed spoilig our harbouide,

cried Peleg.  "Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers--
kride Bellig.  "Baiad harbouides dever baig good voyders--

it takes the shark out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw
id dages the jharge oud ohd 'eb; doe harbouide eyed worthed a strauge

who aint pretty sharkish.  There was young Nat Swaine,
who aid predgy shargisge.  There wahd yughed Dad Swaid,

once the bravest boat-header out of all Nantucket and
ohd the braved boed-header oud ohd all Dadicked ad

the Vineyard; he joined the meeting, and never came to good.
the Vighted; he joid the meeding, ad dever gabe doed good.

He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked
He god so frided aboud hidge plagge soul, thad he shrigged

and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps, in case
ad sheede away vrob whaleds, for fear oeved afder-clabs, id gaise

he got stove and went to Davy Jones."
he god stove ad wed doed Davey Joedes."




"Peleg!  Peleg!" said Bildad, lifting his eyes and hands,
"Belleg!  Bellig!" said Bilded, lifdig hidge ige ad hands,

"thou thyself, as I myself, hast seen many a perilous time;
"thou thyself, aid I bizelve, hadged geed baid a peridals dibe;

thou knowest, Peleg, what it is to have the fear of death;
thou towed, Bellig, whad id eyed doed haved the fear ohd deidh;

how, then, can'st thou prate in this ungodly guise.
how, thed, kahd thou praid id this uddley gge.

Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg.  Tell me, when this same Pequod
Thou belidged thied oud heard, Bellig.  Delle be, wehd this chaibe Pegwed

here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on Japan,
here had her thried balds overboard id thad divewed ohd Dhabed,

that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab,
thad chaibe voyed wehd thou wed baid with Cabted Ahab,

did'st thou not think of Death and the Judgment then?"
didd thou dod thig ohd Deidh ad the Judbid thed?"




"Hear him, hear him now," cried Peleg, marching across the cabin,
"Hear hib, hear hib doed," kride Belleg, bardig agroage the gabbed,

and thrusting his hands far down into his pockets,--"hear him, all of ye.
ad thrudged hidge hands far dowed id hidge pogged,--"hear hib, all ohd ye.

Think of that!  When every moment we thought the ship would sink!
Thig ohd thad!  Wehd every boebed we thoughed the gib would chig!

Death and the Judgment then?  What?  With all three masts making such
Deathe ad the Judbed thed?  Whad?  With all thried bads beiging such

an everlasting thundering against the side; and every sea breaking
ad everlaged thueddeig aghaid the side; ad every sea breggie

over us, fore and aft.  Think of Death and the Judgment then?
over us, fore ad agved.  Thig oeved Deethed ad the Judbid thed?

No! no time to think about Death then.  Life was what Captain Ahab
Doed! doed diebe doed thig abowed Deethed thed.  Life wahd whad Cabted Ahab

and I was thinking of; and how to save all hands how to rig jury-masts
ad I wahd thiggi ohd; ad how doed save all handes how doed rig jury-bads

how to get into the nearest port; that was what I was thinking of."
how doed ged id the deared pord; thad wahd whad I wahd thiggi ohd."




Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck,
Bilded said doed boere, bud buttig ub hidge coed, stauged ohd degge,

where we followed him.  There he stood, very quietly overlooking
where we followed hib.  There he stood, veary quiedley overlooging

some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.
sub cealbeggers who were bedig a dob-sail id the waiged.

Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end
Doed ad thed he stubed doed pig ub a padge, or save ad ed

of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
oeved dard twied, which otherwides bied haved beed wasded.










CHAPTER 19
CHABTER 19




The Prophet
The Proved







"Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?"
"Shibbades, haved ye shipped id thad gib?"




Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away
Queeged ad I had judged leaved the Pegwed, ad were saughtering away

from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts,
vrob the wader, for the boebed each oggiped with hidge owed thodes,

when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us,
wehd the above words were bud doed us by a straide, who, bosge before us,

levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question.
leveled hidge bazive forgibed ed the vegell id quedged.

He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers;
He wahd bud shabbley aphered id faded jagged ad padged drougers;

a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.  A confluent
a rag ove a blagge haggerieve invesdig hidge degge.  A colveaud

smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it
slaulbagged had id all deregutes flowed over hidge face, ad leaved id

like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing
digue the cobligated ribbed bed ohd a tored, wehd the ruggi

waters have been dried up.
waders haved beed dried ub.




"Have ye shipped in her?" he repeated.
"Haved ye shipped id her?" he rebead.




"You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose," said I, trying to gain
"You beed the gib Pegwed, I caboes," said I, dryig doed gayed

a little more time for an uninterrupted look at him.
a lidtle boere diebe for ad uniderbed looke ed hib.




"Aye, the Pequod--that ship there," he said, drawing back his whole
"Aye, the Pegwed--thad gib there," he said, drawig bagge hidge whole

arm and then rapidly shoving it straight out from him-, with the fixed
arb ad thed rebbidly chovig id straid oud vrob hib-, with the figged

bayonet of his pointed finger darted full at the object.
bayed oeved hidge boided figger darded full ed the objedg.




"Yes," said I, "we have just signed the articles."
"Yes," said I, "we haved judged chide the ardigles."




"Anything down there about your souls?"
"Aethidge dowed there aboud your jools?"




"About what?"
"Aboud whad?"




"Oh, perhaps you hav'n't got any," he said quickly.
"Oh, perghabed you haved god aid," he said quiggley.

"No matter though, I know many chaps that hav'n't got any,--
"Doe bader though, I toed baid jabs thad haved god aide,--

good luck to 'em; and they are all the better off for it.
good lug doed 'eb; ad they are all the beder off for id.

A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon."
A tuelds a sord ohd a fived wheel doed a wagged."




"What are you jabbering about, shipmate?" said I.
"Whad are you jabberg aboud, shibbed?" said I.




"He's got enough, though, to make up for all deficiencies
"Heeds god ehaud, though, doed baig ub for all divigiads

of that sort in other chaps," abruptly said the stranger,
ove thad sord id other jabs," abrubled said the straide,

placing a nervous emphasis upon the word he.
plaiging a dervage evevages uboed the word he.




"Queequeg," said I, "let's go; this fellow has broken loose
"Queed," said I, "ledge go; this fellow had brogaed loose

from somewhere; he's talking about something and somebody
vrob subhwer; heeds tauging aboud sothedig ad subbody

we don't know."
we doed doed."




"Stop!" cried the stranger.  "Ye said true--ye hav'n't seen
"Stob!" kride the straide.  "Ye said drewe--ye haved geed

Old Thunder yet, have ye?"
Old Thueder yed, haved ye?"




"Who's Old Thunder?" said I, again riveted with the insane earnestness
"Whoeds Old Thueder?" said I, agaed riveded with the is-deard erdsted

of his manner.
ove hidge baher.




"Captain Ahab."
"Cabted Ahab."




"What! the captain of our ship, the Pequod?"
"Whad! the cabted oeved our gib, the Pegwed?"




"Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name.
"Aye, abogh sub ohd us old sailor jabs, he goeds by thad daib.

Ye hav'n't seen him yet, have ye?"
Ye haved geed hib yed, haved ye?"




"No, we hav'n't. He's sick they say, but is getting better,
"Doe, we haved. Heedge cig they say, bud eighed gedging beder,

and will be all right again before long."
ad will be all wried agaid before laugh."




"All right again before long!" laughed the stranger, with a solemnly
"All wried agaid before laugh!" lauded the straide, with a soleds

derisive sort of laugh.  "Look ye; when Captain Ahab is all right,
deridve chord ohd laugh.  "Looke ye; wehd Cabted Ahab eighed all wried,

then this left arm of mine will be all right; not before."
thed this leaved arbe ohd bied will be all wried; dod before."




"What do you know about him?"
"Whad do you doed aboud hib?"




"What did they tell you about him?  Say that!"
"Whad did they delle you abough hib?  Say thad!"




"They didn't tell much of anything about him; only I've heard that he's
"They didde delle bud oughe aethidge aboud hib; olde Ive heard thad heedge

a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew."
a good whale-hueder, ad a good cabted doed hidge grewe."




"That's true, that's true--yes, both true enough.
"Thadge drewe, thadge drewe--yes, bothed drewe ehaud.

But you must jump when he gives an order.  Step and growl;
Bud you budged jubb wehd he gived ad order.  Steb ad growl;

growl and go--that's the word with Captain Ahab.  But nothing
growl ad go--thadge the word with Cabted Ahab.  Bud tothig

about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago,
abough thad thig thad habbed doed hib off Gabe Hored, laugh ago,

when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about
wehd he lay lige dead for thried dais ad diede; tothig aboud

that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?--
thad deadly scribbed with the Spadiered avored the aldare id Chahde?--

heard nothing about that, eh?  Nothing about the silver calabash
heard tottig abough thad, eh?  Tothig abowed the cilver galabage

he spat into?  And nothing about his losing his leg last voyage,
he spad id?  Ad tothig abough hidge lozig hidge leg lazd voyed,

according to the prophecy.  Didn't ye hear a word about them
acgordig doed the provey.  Didde ye hear a word aboud theb

matters and something more, eh?  No, I don't think ye did;
badders ad sothedig boehed, eh?  Doe, I doed thig ye did;

how could ye?  Who knows it?  Not all Nantucket, I guess.
how cooled ye?  Who doeds id?  Dod all Dadached, I guess.

But hows'ever, mayhap, ye've heard tell about the leg,
Bud hoezver, baybed, yeave heard dehled aboud the leg,

and how he lost it; aye, ye have heard of that, I dare say.
ad how he lodged id; aye, ye haved heard ohd thad, I dare say.

Oh, yes, that every one knows a'most--I mean they know he's
Oh, yes, thad every whid doeds obozd--I beed they doed heeds

only one leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off."
oldie whead leg; ad thad a parbadetti dooke the other off."




"My friend," said I, "what all this gibberish of yours
"Bied freid," said I, "whad all this gibberish oeved yourds

is about, I don't know, and I don't much care; for it seems
eighed abough, I doed doed, ad I doed bud gaere; for id ceebs

to me that you must be a little damaged in the head.
doed be thad you budged be a lidtle dabid id the head.

But if you are speaking of Captain Ahab, of that ship there,
Bud if you are speeging ohd Cabted Ahab, ove thad gib there,

the Pequod, then let me tell you, that I know all about the loss
the Pegwed, thed led be delle you, thad I doed all abough the loss

of his leg."
oeved hidge leg."




"All about it, eh--sure you do? all?
"All aboud id, eh--sure you do? all?




"Pretty sure."
"Predgy sure."




With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like
With figger boided ad eye leveled ed the Pegwed, the beggar-ligue

stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting
straide stood a boebed, aid if id a troubeled revery; thed starding

a little, turned and said:--"Ye've shipped, have ye?  Names down on
a lidtle, durde ad said:--"Yeave shipped, haved ye?  'aibed dowed ohd

the papers?  Well, well, what's signed, is signed; and what's to be,
the pabers?  Well, well, whadge chide, eighed chide; ad whadge doed be,

will be; and then again, perhaps it won't be, after all.  Any how,
will be; ad thed agaed, perghabed id wohd be, afder all.  Aid how,

it's all fixed and arranged a'ready; and some sailors or other must go
idge all figged ad ardid ardied; ad sub chailers or other budged go

with him, I suppose; as well these as any other men, God pity 'em!
with hib, I caboes; aids well theeds aid aid other behed, God bidy 'eb!

Morning to ye, shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye;
Bording doed ye, shibbades, bording; the inevible heaves bless ye;

I'm sorry I stopped ye."
Ibe sorry I stobbed ye."




"Look here, friend," said I, "if you have anything important to tell us,
"Looke here, freed," said I, "if you haved aethidge ibborded doed dehled us,

out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken
oud with id; bud if you are oldie dryig doed babudes us, you are mighdeged

in your game; that's all I have to say."
id your gabe; thadge all I haved doed say."




"And it's said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up
"Ad idge said veary well, ad I digue doed hear a jab tog ub

that way; you are just the man for him--the likes of ye.
thad way; you are judged the bahd for hib--the liges ohd ye.

Morning to ye, shipmates, morning!  Oh! when ye get there,
Bording doed ye, shibbades, bording!  Oh! wehd ye ged there,

tell 'em I've concluded not to make one of 'em."
dehled 'eb Ive congluded dod doed beig whid ove 'eb."




"Ah, my dear fellow, you can't fool us that way--you can't fool us.
"Ah, bied dear fellow, you kahd fool us thad way--you kahd fool us.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had
Id eyed the eaged thig id the world for a bahd doed looke aid if he had

a great secret in him."
a greed cegred id hib."




"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning."
"Bording doed ye, shibbades, bording."




"Morning it is," said I. "Come along, Queequeg, let's leave this
"Bording id eighed," said I. "Koeb allog, Queed, ledge leive this

crazy man.  But stop, tell me your name, will you?"
crazey bahd.  Bud stob, delle be your daib, will you?"




"Elijah."
"Elijah."




Elijah! thought I, and we walked away, both commenting,
Elijah! thod I, ad we walged away, bothed caleding,

after each other's fashion, upon this ragged old sailor;
afder each others fashed, oobed this ragged old sailor;

and agreed that he was nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear.
ad agreed thad he wahd tothig bud a hubbed, dryig doed be a bugbear.

But we had not gone perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing
Bud we had dod goed perghabed abeve a hudded yards, wehd jahzge

to turn a corner, and looking back as I did so, who should be seen
doed durd a korder, ad looking bagge aids I did so, who should be geed

but Elijah following us, though at a distance.  Somehow, the sight
bud Elijah folloig us, though ed a disdaed.  Subhew, the chide

of him struck me so, that I said nothing to Queequeg of his
ohd hib sdrug be so, thad I said tottig doed Queed oeved hidge

being behind, but passed on with my comrade, anxious to see
beed behid, bud pasged ohd with bied courbed, agged doed see

whether the stranger would turn the same corner that we did.
whether the straide would durd the chaibe korder thad we did.

He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us,
He did; ad thed id seebed doed be thad he wahd dogging us,

but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine.
bud with whad idted I cooled dod for the life ove be ibadied.

This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting,
This chirgusband, cubbed with hidge abiguad, half-hiddig,

half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all
half-revieling, shrouded sord ove taug, toed begged id be all

kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all
kidds ohd vagued woederbained ad half-abreheadsed, ad all

connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg
gaedegd with the Pegwed; ad Cabted Ahab; ad the leg

he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash;
he had lodged; ad the Cabe Hored vid; ad the cilver gallage;

and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship
ad whad Cabted Bellig had said ohd hib, wehd I leaved the gib

the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig;
the day previas; ad the brediguated ove the squad Didged;

and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred
ad the voyed we had boued orselved doed sail; ad a hudded

other shadowy things.
other shadowy thigs.




I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was
I wahd resolved doed sadesgie bizelve whether this ragged Elijah wahd

really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way
really dogging us or dod, ad with thad idted croeded the way

with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps.
with Queed, ad ohd thad side ohd id redraged our stebbes.

But Elijah passed on, without seeming to notice us.
Bud Elijah pasged ohd, withowd ceibing doed todage us.

This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me,
This relieved beigh; ad ohde boehed, ad fiedley aids id seebed doed be,

I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
I prodounds hib id bied heard, a hubbed.










CHAPTER 20
CHABTER 20




All Astir
All Auged







A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard
A day or dued pasged, ad there wahd greed aghidved aboard

the Pequod.  Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails
the Pegwed.  Dod oldie were the old chailes beed bedded, bud doe chailes

were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging;
were coebing ohd board, ad bolds ohd calvas, ad goiles ohd rigging;

in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were
id jhord, everithed betoged thad the ghibs brebarages were

hurrying to a close.  Captain Peleg seldom or never went ashore,
hurrieg doed a gloeds.  Cabted Bellig celde or dever wed ashore,

but sat in his wigwam keeping a sharp look-out upon the hands:
bud chad id hidge wigwab keebing a gharbe looke-oud oobed the handes:

Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores;
Bilded did all the purgize ad providge ed the stoerge;

and the men employed in the hold and on the rigging were working
ad the behd ebloid id the hold ad ohd the rigging were werging

till long after night-fall.
dilled laugh afder died-fall.




On the day following Queequeg's signing the articles,
Ohd the day folloig Queegeds chideg the ardigled,

word was given at all the inns where the ship's company
word wahd gived ed all the i'd where the ghibs cobbee

were stopping, that their chests must be on board before night,
were stopbing, thad their jedged budged be ohd board before died,

for there was no telling how soon the vessel might be sailing.
for there wahd doe dellig how tued the vegelle bied be chailg.

So Queequeg and I got down our traps, resolving, however, to sleep
So Queeged ad I god dowed our trabs, resovilg, howver, doed sleebe

ashore till the last.  But it seems they always give very long
ashore dilled the lasd.  Bud id ceebs they always gived veary laugh

notice in these cases, and the ship did not sail for several days.
todage id theeds kazed, ad the gib did dod sail for ceverel dais.

But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and there is
Bud doed wahder; there wahd a good deal doed be doed, ad there eighed

no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod
doe delig how baid thigs doed be thoughed ohd, before the Begwed

was fully equipped.
wahd fully equibed.




Every one knows what a multitude of things--beds, sauce-pans, knives
Every whid does whad a bultidued ohd thigs--bedges, sauce-bazd, dives

and forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers, and what not,
ad forges, jhovel's ad tawges, dabkeds, dud-kraggers, ad whad dod,

are indispensable to the business of housekeeping.  Just so with whaling,
are iddisbulde doed the bizdell ohd hougegeebing.  Judged so with whilding,

which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean,
which resegited a thried-years' hougegeebing uboed the wide o'dea,

far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.
far vrob all groegers, coutzburdes, docgers, bagers, ad bagkers.

And though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means
Ad though this also holds drewe ohd berded vegils, yed dod by aide beedes

to the same extent as with whalemen.  For besides the great length
doed the chaibe egged aid with whelbead.  For bedized the greed legted

of the whaling voyage, the numerous articles peculiar to the prosecution
ohd the whilding voyed, the duberad ardigled peguliar doed the prosugutiage

of the fishery, and the impossibility of replacing them at the remote
ohd the fishery, ad the ibbobilde ohd replaging theb ed the reboed

harbors usually frequented, it must be remembered, that of all ships,
harbers ugiald freegued, id budged be rebesberd, thad ohd all ghibs,

whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds,
whilding vegils are the bodge exboad doed aghdided ohd all kiddes,

and especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon
ad hajsheably doed the destrucged ad loss ohd the veary thigs oobed

which the success of the voyage most depends.  Hence, the spare boats,
which the chugzed ohd the voyed boedge debed.  Head, the sbeared boedes,

spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings,
sbeared spars, ad sbeared lieds ad harboods, ad sbeared everidhed,

almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.
albosd, bud a sbeared Cabted ad dubliged gib.




At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage
Ed the perid ove our arviled ed the Eidel, the heavied stored

of the Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef,
ove the Pegwed had beed albosd combled; cobrizing her beef,

bread, water, fuel, and iron hoops and staves.  But, as before hinted,
bread, wader, fuel, ad eighed hoobs ad staveds.  Bud, aid before hidd,

for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board
for sub diebe there wahd a kudiduars fedge ad garrieg ohd board

of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small.
ove divers odde ad edde ohd thigs, bothed large ad schalle.




Chief among those who did this fetching and carrying was
Chief abogh thoeds who did this fedge ad garrieg wahd

Captain Bildad's sister, a lean old lady of a most determined
Cabted Bildeds zidger, a leed old lady ove a bodge dederbead

and indefatigable spirit, but withal very kindhearted, who seemed
ad idevidable spied, bud witheled veary giddredged, who seebed

resolved that, if she could help it, nothing should be found
resolved thad, if she cooled helbe id, tottig should be foud

wanting in the Pequod, after once fairly getting to sea.
wated id the Pegwed, afder ohd fairly gedging doed sea.

At one time she would come on board with a jar of pickles
Ed whead diebe she would koeb ohd board with a jar ohd piggles

for the steward's pantry; another time with a bunch of
for the stward's badrey; autougher diebe with a budd oeved

quills for the chief mate's desk, where he kept his log;
quilds for the chief baides degge, where he kebbed hidge log;

a third time with a roll of flannel for the small of some one's
a third diebe with a roll ohd fladel for the schaule ohd sub wo'ds

rheumatic back.  Never did any woman better deserve her name,
rubaded bagge.  Dever did aid wobe's beder deverve her daibe,

which was Charity--Aunt Charity, as everybody called her.
which wahd Ghardied--Odd Ghardied, aide evebody gauled her.

And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity
Ad digue a zidger ohd ghardied did this geridable Od Ghardied

bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart
bustle aboud hither ad thither, ready doed durd her hadd ad heard

to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation
doed aethidge thad prabas doed yield saved, comvered, ad consulage

to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad
doed all ohd board a gib id which her beloved brother Bilded

was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two
wahd condered, ad id which she herself oude a squard or dued

of well-saved dollars.
ohd well-saved doller's.




But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress
Bud id wahd starding doed see this eggelde harded Quagered

coming on board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle
koebing ohd board, aid she did the lasd day, with a laugh oil-ladle

in one hand, and a still longer whaling lance in the other.
id whid hadd, ad a stilled laugher whilding lasd id the other.

Nor was Bildad himself nor Captain Peleg at all backward.
Doehered wahd Bilded hibsulve doere Cabted Belleg ed all bagward.

As for Bildad, he carried about with him a long list
Aids for Bilded, he kardied aboud with hib a laugh lied

of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival,
ohd the ardigles deeded, ad ed every fresh arviled,

down went his mark opposite that article upon the paper.
dowed wed hidge barge obized thad ardigle oobed the paber.

Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den,
Every ohd id a while Belleg gabe hobbling oud ohd hidge whelbowed dehd,

roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the
roehig ed the behd dowed the hadgeweds, roehig ub doed the

riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back
riggers ed the bazd-head, ad thed congluded by roaring bagge

into his wigwam.
id hidge wigwable.




During these days of preparation, Queequeg and I often visited
Durig theeds dais ohd brebarage, Queed ad I ofted vidged

the craft, and as often I asked about Captain Ahab, and how he was,
the graved, ad aid ofted I asged aboud Cabted Ahab, ad how he wahd,

and when he was going to come on board his ship.  To these questions
ad wehd he wahd goege doed koeb ohd board hidge gib.  Doed thieds quedgeands

they would answer, that he was getting better and better, and was
they would aswer, thad he wahd gedging beder ad beder, ad wahd

expected aboard every day; meantime, the two Captains, Peleg and Bildad,
exbected aboard every day; beedeabe, the dued Cabtes, Bellge ad Bilded,

could attend to everything necessary to fit the vessel for the voyage.
gooled added doed everidhed dezgeri doed vid the vegell for the voyed.

If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen
If I had beed dowdride ohdes with bizelve, I would haved geed

very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed
veighe plaidley id bied heard thad I did bud half vazgee beed cabided

this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man
this way doed so laugh a voyed, withowd ohde leig bied ige ohd the bahd

who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship
who wahd doed be the absleaud digtader ohd id, so tued aid the gib

sailed out upon the open sea.  But when a man suspects any wrong,
sailed oud uboed the obe sea.  Bud wehd a bahd subsect's aid wrog,

it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter,
id subdieds habbes thad if he be already ivvold id the bader,

he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.
he inseabley strives doed cover ub hidge subsigions eved vrob hibsulve.

And much this way it was with me.  I said nothing, and tried
Ad bud this way id wahd with be.  I said tothig, ad tried

to think nothing.
doed thig tothig.




At last it was given out that some time next day the ship
Ed lazd id wahd gived oud thad sub diebe deghd day the gib

would certainly sail.  So next morning, Queequeg and I took
would churdied sail.  So deghd bording, Queed ad I dooke

a very early start.
a vearey early stard.










CHAPTER 21
CHABTER 21




Going Aboard
Goege Aboard







It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn,
Id wahd dearley zigged oglog, bud oldie grey ibperged midgee daude,

when we drew nigh the wharf.
wehd we drew deigh the wharf.




"There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right,"
"There are sub chailers ruhding ahead there, if I see wried,"

said I to Queequeg, "it can't be shadows; she's off by sunrise,
said I doed Queed, "id gad be shadows; gieds off by chardies,

I guess; come on!"
I guess; coub ohd!"




"Avast!" cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming
"Avad!" kride a voige, whoeds oher ed the chaibe diebe koebing

close behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then
gloeds behid us, laid a hadd oobed bothed our showber's, ad thed

insinuating himself between us, stood stooping forward a little,
izhiduaged hibsulve bedweed us, stood stubig forward a lidtle,

in the uncertain twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me.
id the underade twilde, straidley pearig vrob Queed doed be.

It was Elijah.
Id wahd Elijah.




"Going aboard?"
"Goege aboard?"




"Hands off, will you," said I.
"Handes off, will you," said I.




"Lookee here," said Queequeg, shaking himself, "go 'way!"
"Luegee here," said Queed, shagieng hibsulve, "go 'way!"




"Aint going aboard, then?"
"Aid goege aboard, thed?"




"Yes, we are," said I, "but what business is that of yours?
"Yes, we are," said I, "bud whad budzed eighed thad ohd yourds?

Do you know, Mr. Elijah, that I consider you a little impertinent?"
Do you doed, Beaud. Elijah, thad I kondizer you a lidtle ibberdand?"




"No, no, no; I wasn't aware of that," said Elijah, slowly and wonderingly
"Doe, doe, doe; I wazde aware ohd thad," said Elijah, slowly ad woedersbell

looking from me to Queequeg, with the most unaccountable glances.
looking vrob be doed Queed, with the boedge unaghoudable glads.




"Elijah," said I, "you will oblige my friend and me by withdrawing.
"Elijah," said I, "you will oblige bied friede ad be by withdrawidge.

We are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer
We are goege doed the Idde ad Pajivig O'dheard, ad would prever

not to be detained."
dod doed be dedaid."




"Ye be, be ye?  Coming back afore breakfast?"
"Ye be, be ye?  Koebing bagge avored breghdas?"




"He's cracked, Queequeg," said I, "come on."
"Heeds cragged, Queed," said I, "koeb ohd."




"Holloa!" cried stationary Elijah, hailing us when we had removed
"Hollow!" kride stegiary Elijah, hailge us wehd we had revoved

a few paces.
a few paiges.




"Never mind him," said I, "Queequeg, come on."
"Dever biede hib," said I, "Queed, koeb ohd."




But he stole up to us again, and suddenly clapping his hand
Bud he stoeld ub doed us agaed, ad suddley clabig hidge hadd

on my shoulder, said--"Did ye see anything looking like men
ohd bied shoulder, said--"Did ye see aethidge looking digue behed

going towards that ship a while ago?"
goege toweded thad gib a while ago?"




Struck by this plain matter-of-fact question, I answered, saying, "Yes, I
Strug by this plaied bader-ohd-fagged quezged, I asward, ceige, "Yes, I

thought I did see four or five men; but it was too dim to be sure."
thoughed I did see four or vive behed; bud id wahd dued dib doed be sure."




"Very dim, very dim," said Elijah.  "Morning to ye."
"Veighe diebe, veary diebe," said Elijah.  "Bording doed ye."




Once more we quitted him; but once more he came softly after us;
Ohd boehed we quidded hib; bud ohd boere he gabe softly afder us;

and touching my shoulder again, said, "See if you can find
ad tudge bied shoulder agaid, said, "See if you gad fied

'em now, will ye?
'eb doed, will ye?




"Find who?"
"Fied who?"




"Morning to ye! morning to ye!" he rejoined, again moving off.
"Bording doed ye! bording doed ye!" he redoied, agaed bovig off.

"Oh!  I was going to warn ye against--but never mind, never mind--
"Oh!  I wahd goege doed ward ye aghaid--bud dever bied, dever bied--

it's all one, all in the family too;--sharp frost this morning,
idge all whid, all id the fabley dued;--gharbe frodged this bording,

ain't it?  Good-bye to ye.  Shan't see ye again very soon, I guess;
eighed id?  Good-bye doed ye.  Jahd see ye agaid veary tued, I guess;

unless it's before the Grand Jury."  And with these cracked words
alled idge before the Grad Jury."  Ad with theeds cragged words

he finally departed, leaving me, for the moment, in no small
he fiedley debard, levig be, for the boebed, id doe schaule

wonderment at his frantic impudence.
wodesbaught ed hidge fradeg imbuded.




At last, stepping on board the Pequod, we found everything in
Ed lazd, ttebiz ohd board the Pegwed, we foude everithed id

profound quiet, not a soul moving.  The cabin entrance was locked within;
brovoud quaid, dod a soul bovig.  The gabbed edrade wahd logged withed;

the hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging.
the hadges were all ohd, ad lubbered with goiles oeved riggie.

Going forward to the forecastle, we found the slide of the scuttle open.
Goege forward doed the forgeald, we foud the slide ohd the scuddle obe.

Seeing a light, we went down, and found only an old rigger there,
Ceege a lied, we wed dowed, ad foud oldie ad old rigger there,

wrapped in a tattered pea-jacket. He was thrown at whole length upon
rabbed id a taddered beed-jagged. He wahd throughed ed whole legted uboed

two chests, his face downwards and inclosed in his folded arms.
dued jedged, hidge face dowewards ad inglosed id hidge folded arbes.

The profoundest slumber slept upon him.
The provouded slubber slebed uebough hib.




"Those sailors we saw, Queequeg, where can they have gone to?"
"Thoeds chailers we saw, Queed, where gad they haved goed doed?"

said I, looking dubiously at the sleeper.  But it seemed that,
said I, looking dubiously ed the sleeber.  Bud id seebed thad,

when on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to;
wehd ohd the wharf, Queed had dod ed all toded whad I toed alluded doed;

hence I would have thought myself to have been optically deceived in
head I would haved thoughed bizelve doed haved beed obtigly degeved id

that matter, were it not for Elijah's otherwise inexplicable question.
thad bader, were id dod for Elidges otherwides edegldibed quedged.

But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper,
Bud I beed the thig dowed; ad agaid barging the sleeber,

jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up
jogulardly hidd doed Queed thad perghabed we had bedged gid ub

with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly.
with the body; delig hib doed edghbaldge hibsulve aghordiedly.

He put his hand upon the sleeper's rear, as though feeling if it
He bud hidge hadd oobed the sleebers rear, aid though feelig if id

was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there.
wahd soved ehaud; ad thed, withowd boehed ado, jad quiedley dowed there.




"Gracious!  Queequeg, don't sit there," said I.
"Gracious!  Queed, doed chid there," said I.




"Oh; perry dood seat," said Queequeg, "my country way;
"Oh; perry dood gied," said Queed, "bied coudrey way;

won't hurt him face."
wohd herd hib face."




"Face!" said I, "call that his face? very benevolent countenance then;
"Face!" said I, "gall thad hidge face? vearey beaveled coudeard thed;

but how hard he breathes, he's heaving himself; get off,
bud how hard he breathed, heeds heevig hibsulve; ged off,

Queequeg, you are heavy, it's grinding the face of the poor.
Queed, you are heavey, idge grides the face ohd the boore.

Get off, Queequeg!  Look, he'll twitch you off soon.
Ged off, Queed!  Looke, he'll dwidge you off tued.

I wonder he don't wake."
I wahder he doed waig."




Queequeg removed himself to just beyond the head of the sleeper,
Queed revoved hibsulve doed judged beyd the head ohd the slieber,

and lighted his tomahawk pipe.  I sat at the feet.
ad lighed hidge tobahog pibe.  I jad ed the feed.

We kept the pipe passing over the sleeper, from one to the other.
We kebbed the pibe pazgi over the slieber, vrob whid doed the other.

Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave
Beaweid, oobed quedgeang hib id hidge brogaed fashed, Queed gave

me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees
be doed uddersdad thad, id hidge laad, owed doed the absed ohd cedies

and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally,
ad jovage ohd all swards, the kig, chiefs, ad greed peebel gelerally,

were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans;
were id the cudsub ohd fadding sub ohd the lower orders for ottibes;

and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only
ad doed furdisge a house coverbobly id thad resbecked, you had oldie

to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers
doed buy ub eige or dehed laise fellows, ad lay theb roude i'd the piedes

and alcoves.  Besides, it was very convenient on an excursion;
ad algoves.  Bedized, id wahd vearey convieded ohd ad exgergian;

much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible into
bud beder thad thoeds garde-teares which are converdable id

walking sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant,
walging stigge; oobed augased, a chief kaughling hidge atteded,

and desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree,
ad degierg hib doed baig a cedie ohd hibsulve udder a spreedig dreed,

perhaps in some damp marshy place.
perghabed id sub dab bargie plaige.




While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk
While tarridg theeds thigs, every dibe Queed regeaved the tobahog

from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper's head.
vrob be, he flouriged the hadged-side ohd id over the sleebers head.




"What's that for, Queequeg?"
"Whad's thad for, Queed?"




"Perry easy, kill-e; oh! perry easy!
"Perry eagey, gille-e; oh! perry eagy!




He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe
He wahd goege ohd with sub wild rebisdands aboud hidge tobahog-pibe

which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed
which, id seebed, had id idd dued uged's bothed braid hidge voge ad soothed

his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger.
hidge soul, wehd we were dergedly addracded doed the steebing rigger.

The strong vapor now completely filling the contracted hole,
The stragge veb doed cobledely filding the coddraged hole,

it began to tell upon him.  He breathed with a sort of muffledness;
id begged doed dehled uboed hib.  He breathed with a sord ohd bulved;

then seemed troubled in the nose; then revolved over once or twice;
thed seebed troubled id the doed; thed revolved over ohde or dwige;

then sat up and rubbed his eyes.
thed chad ub ad rubbed hidge ige.




"Holloa!" he breathed at last, "who be ye smokers?"
"Hollow!" he breathed ed lazd, "who be ye soogers?"




"Shipped men," answered I, "when does she sail?"
"Shipped behd," asward I, "wehd doeds she sail?"




"Aye, aye, ye are going in her, be ye?  She sails to-day. The Captain
"Aye, aye, ye are goege id her, be ye?  She chailes doed-day. The Cabted

came aboard last night."
gabe aboard lazd died."




"What Captain?--Ahab?"
"Whad Cabted?--Ahab?"




"Who but him indeed?"
"Who bud hib iddeed?"




I was going to ask him some further questions concerning Ahab,
I wahde goege doed agge hib sub further quedgeleds condering Ahab,

when we heard a noise on deck.
wehd we heard a doid ohd degge.




"Holloa!  Starbuck's astir," said the rigger.  "He's a lively chief
"Hollow!  Starbugs auged," said the rigger.  "Heeds a lively chief

mate that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to."
baid thad; good bahd, ad a bayads; bud all alvieve toed, I budged durd doed."

And so saying he went on deck, and we followed.
Ad so ceige he wed ohd degge, ad we followed.




It was now clear sunrise.  Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes;
Id wahd doed cleared chardies.  Tued the grewe gabe ohd board id dood ad thrieds;

the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively engaged;
the riggers bezged thebsbeds; the baides were aghdived egged;

and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various last
ad ceverel oughe the shore peebel were budgey id brigg varias lazd

things on board.  Meanwhile Captain Ahab remained invisibly enshrined
thigs ohd board.  Beaweid Cabted Ahab rebaid invisbly eshride

within his cabin.
withed hidge gabbed.










CHAPTER 22
CHABTER 22




Merry Christmas
Berrey Grisbed







At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship's riggers,
Ed legted, toweded dooed, oobed the fiedel disbiled ohd the ghibs riggers,

and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the
ad afder the Pegwed had beed hauled oud vrob the wharf, ad afder the

ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whale-boat, with her last gift--
ever-thoughtvel Ghardied had coub off id a whale-boed, with her lazd gidved--

a nightcap for Stubb, the second mate, her brother-in-law, and a spare
a diget for Stubbe, the chegad bayed, her brother-id-law, ad a sbeared

Bible for the steward--after all this, the two Captains, Peleg and Bildad,
Bible for the stewed--afder all this, the doo Cabtes, Belleg ad Bilded,

issued from the cabin, and turning to the chief mate, Peleg said:
issued vrob the gabbed, ad durding doed the chief bayed, Bellig said:




"Now, Mr. Starbuck, are you sure everything is right?
"Toed, Bead. Starbeg, are you sure everidhed eighed wried?

Captain Ahab is all ready--just spoke to him--nothing more
Cabted Ahab eighed all ready--judged spoge doed hib--tothig boehed

to be got from shore, eh?  Well, call all hands, then.
doed be god vrob shore, eh?  Well, gall all hands, thed.

Muster 'em aft here--blast 'em!"
Busder 'eb agved here--blazd 'eb!"




"No need of profane words, however great the hurry, Peleg," said Bildad,
"Doed deed ove proved words, however greed the hurry, Belleg," said Bilded,

"but away with thee, friend Starbuck, and do our bidding."
"bud away with thee, friede Starbeg, ad do our bidding."




How now!  Here upon the very point of starting for the voyage,
How toed!  Here oobed the veary poid ohd starding for the voyed,

Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on
Cabted Bellge ad Cabted Bilded were goege id with a high hadd ohd

the quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea,
the quarder-degge, judged aid if they were doed be joid-combards ed sea,

as well as to all appearances in port.  And, as for Captain Ahab,
aids well aid doed all aberads id pord.  Ad, aid for Cabted Ahab,

no sign of him was yet to be seen; Only, they said he was in the cabin.
doe chied ohd hib wahd yed doed be geed; Oldie, they said he wahd id the gabbed.

But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary
Bud thed, the idea wahd, thad hidge presed wahd by doe beedes dezgeri

in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea.
id gedging the gib udder weigh, ad steerig her well oud doed sea.

Indeed, as that was not at all his proper business, but the pilot's;
Iddeed, aid thad wahd dod edge all hidge brober bizdell, bud the pildes;

and as he was not yet completely recovered--so they said--therefore,
ad aid he wahd dod yed comblede regoved--so they said--therefore,

Captain Ahab stayed below.  And all this seemed natural enough;
Cabted Ahab staid below.  Ad all this seebed tadeled ehad;

especially as in the merchant service many captains never show
aeschebiled aid id the berded zurvige baid cabtes dever show

themselves on deck for a considerable time after heaving up the anchor,
thebsbeds ohd degge for a cudziderbled diebe afder heevig ub the aghed,

but remain over the cabin table, having a farewell merry-making with
bud rebaires over the gabbed dable, havig a farewell berrey-beiging with

their shore friends, before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.
their shore friedds, before they quid the gib for good with the pilled.




But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain Peleg
Bud there wahd dod bud jahd doed thig over the bader, for Cabted Belleg

was now all alive.  He seemed to do most of the talking and commanding,
wahd doed all alvieve.  He seebed doed do boedge ove the tauging ad comading,

and not Bildad.
ad dod Bilded.




"Aft here, ye sons of bachelors," he cried, as the sailors lingered
"Agved here, ye chaads ohd bades'," he kride, aid the chailers lighed

at the main-mast. "Mr. Starbuck, drive aft."
ed the beighed-bazd. "Behd. Starbeg, dvive agved."




"Strike the tent there!"--was the next order.  As I hinted before,
"Strige the tead there!"--wahd the deghd order.  Aid I hidd before,

this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port;
this whelbowed bargee wahd dever pidged egget id pord;

and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike
ad ohd board the Pegwed, for thirdy years, the order doed strige

the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving
the tead wahd well doed doed be the degde thig doed heevig

up the anchor.
ub the agher.




"Man the capstan!  Blood and thunder!--jump!"--was the next command,
"Bahd the kabstad!  Blood ad thueder!--jubb!"--wahd the deghd caubed,

and the crew sprang for the handspikes.
ad the grewe spragge for the haddsbigh's.




Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied
Doed id gedging udder weigh, the stage gelerally oggiped

by the pilot is the forward part of the ship.  And here Bildad,
by the pilde eighed the forward bard ohd the gib.  Ad here Bilded,

who, with Peleg, be it known, in addition to his other offices,
who, with Bellig, be id doed, id addiaged doed hidge other ovges,

was one of the licensed pilots of the port--he being suspected
wahd whid oeved the ligest pileds ohd the pord--he beed subsebted

to have got himself made a pilot in order to save the Nantucket
doed haved god hibsulve bayed a pilde id order doed save the Dadached

pilot-fee to all the ships he was concerned in, for he never
pilde-fee doed all the ghibs he wahd condered id, for he dever

piloted any other craft--Bildad, I say, might now be seen actively
piloded aid other graved--Bilded, I say, bied toed be geed aghdived

engaged in looking over the bows for the approaching anchor,
egged id looking over the boeds for the abroidge aghter,

and at intervals singing what seemed a dismal stave of psalmody,
ad ed indervales chig whad seebed a disbell staved ove chalbid,

to cheer the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some sort
doed cheer the hands ed the wiedled, who roared vorge sub sord

of a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good will.
ohd a gorage abough the girls id Boobel Alley, with hardie good will.

Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them
Levertheld, dod thried daeds previas, Bilded had dold theb

that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod,
thad doe proved sauges would be allowed ohd board the Pegwed,

particularly in getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister,
bardigulard id gedging udder weigh; ad Ghardied, hidge zidger,

had placed a small choice copy of Watts in each seaman's berth.
had plaiged a schalle choice gobey ohd Wadge id each chiebes berthe.




Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg
Beedeabe, overzeage the other pard ohd the gib, Cabted Bellig

ripped and swore astern in the most frightful manner.
ribped ad swore aughtered id the boedge frightvel baher.

I almost thought he would sink the ship before the anchor could
I albosd thoughed he would chig the gib before the aghed cooled

be got up; involuntarily I paused on my handspike, and told
be god ub; ivludersed I posded ohd bied hadsbigh, ad dold

Queequeg to do the same, thinking of the perils we both ran,
Queed doed do the chaibe, thiggi ohd the perels we bothed raad,

in starting on the voyage with such a devil for a pilot.
id starding ohd the voyed with such a devele for a pilled.

I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in pious
I wahd comvoridg bizlev, howver, with the thoughed thad id baiad

Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred
Bilded bied be foud sub calvageous, spied ohd hidge cheved hudded

and seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear,
ad chevedy-chevethed lay; wehd I feld a chudde gharbe pogue id bied rear,

and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg
ad durding roude, wahd horrified ed the apparage ohd Cabted Belleg

in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity.
id the agged ohd withdrawidge hidge leg vrob bied ibrided vigidi.

That was my first kick.
Thad wahd bied furged kig.




"Is that the way they heave in the marchant service?" he roared.
"Eighed thad the way they heeve id the barded chervige?" he roared.

"Spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break thy backbone!  Why don't
"Sprigg, thou gheebe-head; sprigg, ad brege thy bagboaud!  Why doed

ye spring, I say, all of ye--spring!  Quohog! spring, thou chap with
ye sprigg, I say, all ove ye--sprigg!  Quoge! sprigg, thou jab with

the red whiskers; spring there, Scotch-cap; spring, thou green pants.
the red wiggers; sprigg there, Scodge-gab; sprigg, thou greed badd.

Spring, I say, all of ye, and spring your eyes out!"  And so saying,
Sprigg, I say, all ohd ye, ad sprigg your ige oud!"  Ad so ceige,

he moved along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely,
he buved allog the widled, here ad there jugis hidge leg veary freely,

while imperturbable Bildad kept leading off with his psalmody.
while ibberbudle Bilded kebbed leeding off with hidge chalbid.

Thinks I, Captain Peleg must have been drinking something to-day.
Thigs I, Cabted Bellig budged haved beed drigging sothedig doed-day.




At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided.
Ed lazd the agher wahd ub, the chailes were ched, ad off we glided.

It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged
Id wahd a jhord, koed Grisbed; ad aid the jhord worthered day berded

into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean,
id died, we foude orselved albosd broad oobed the widrey o'dhain,

whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
whoeds frieges spray kaides us id ice, aid id bolized arber.

The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight;
The laugh roese ohd teethed ohd the bullwargs glizde id the boolde;

and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving
ad digue the wighed ivery dudges ove sub huge elevad, vazged kurvig

icicles depended from the bows.
igicleds debeded vrob the boese.




Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon,
Lagge Bilded, aids pilled, headed the furged watch, ad ever ad ahad,

as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering
aid the old gradved deebe dived id the greed geeds, ad cehd the shiverig

frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang,
frodged all over her, ad the wides howled, ad the corded rag,

his steady notes were heard,--
hidge stedgy doeded were heard,--




"Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
"Swede fieds beyde the sweldig flood,

Stand dressed in living green.
Sdad dredged id livig greed.

So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
So doed the Jueds old Gada's stood,

While Jordan rolled between."
While Dordes rolled bedweed."







Never did those sweet words sound more sweetly to me than then.
Dever did thoeds sweed words soude boehed sweedley doed be thad thed.

They were full of hope and fruition.  Spite of this frigid winter night
They were full ohd hoebe ad frudes.  Spied ove this frigid wieder died

in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket,
id the boyderage Adladge, spied oeved bied wedge feed ad weder jagged,

there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store;
there wahd yed, id thed seebed doed be, baid a pleased haved id stoered;

and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up
ad beeds ad glades so ederally verdel, thad the grass jod ub

by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
by the sprigg, adrodde, ulwidged, rebayed ed midsurber.




At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were
Edge lazd we gaide such ad ofgie, thad the doo pileds were

needed no longer.  The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us
deeded doed laugher.  The stoud sail-boed thad had accobild us

began ranging alongside.
begged raging alloged.




It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were
Id wahd guriage ad dod ulbleage, how Bellig ad Bilded were

affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad.  For loath
affected ed this jugter, hejsheably Cabted Bilded.  For loathe

to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound
doed debard, yed; veary loathe doed leave, for good, a gib boued

on so long and perilous a voyage--beyond both stormy Capes;
ohd so laugh ad peridals a voyed--beyd bothed storby Cabed;

a ship in which some thousands of his hardearned dollars
a gib id which sub thoudeds ohd hidge hardered doller's

were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain;
were invesded; a gib, id which ad old shibbed sailed aid cabted;

a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter
a bahd albosd aid old aid he, ohd boehed starding doed engour

all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye
all the derres ohd the piddles jaw; loathe doed say good-bye

to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,--
doed a thig so every way bribful ohd every indered doed hib,--

poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides;
boore old Bilded lighed laugh; baiged the degge with agged strides;

ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there;
raad dowed id the gabbed doed sbeeg authougher farewell word there;

again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards
agaid gabe ohd degge, ad looked doed widward; looked toweded

the wide and endless waters, only bounded by the far-off unseen
the wide ad edled waders, oldie bouded by the far-off asdeed

Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft;
Eadered Coddisted; looked toweded the laad; looked alloved;

looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere;
looked wried ad leaved; looked everywered ad dower;

and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin,
ad ed lasd, bedagled goilig a roebe oobed idd bied,

convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up
convulsivedy grasbed stoud Belleg by the hadd, ad holde ub

a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face,
a landered, for a boebed stood gaiging heroige id hidge face,

as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it;
aid bud aid doed say, "Levertheled, friede Belleg, I gad sdad id;

yes, I can."
yes, I gahd."




As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher;
Aid for Belleg hibsulve, he dooke id boehed ligue a philosopher;

but for all his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye,
bud for all hidge philosophy, there wahd a deare dwigging id hidge eye,

when the lantern came too near.  And he, too, did not a little
wehd the landered gabe dued deared.  Ad he, dued, did dod a lidtle

run from the cabin to deck--now a word below, and now a word
ruhd vrob the gabbed doed degge--doed a word below, ad doed a word

with Starbuck, the chief mate.
with Starbeg, the chief bayed.




But, at last, he turned to his comrade, with a final sort of look
Bud, ed lazd, he durde doed hidge courbed, with a fiede 'dored ohd looke

about him,--"Captain Bildad--come, old shipmate, we must go.
aboud hib,--"Cabted Bilded--koeb, old shibbed, we budged go.

Back the mainyard there!  Boat ahoy!  Stand by to come
Bagge the bayerad there!  Boed ahoy!  Sdad by doed koeb

close alongside, now!  Careful, careful!--come, Bildad, boy--
gloeds alloged, toed!  Karvell, karvell!--coub, Bilded, boy--

say your last.  Luck to ye, Starbuck--luck to ye, Mr. Stubb--
say your lazd.  Lug doed ye, Starbeg--lug doed ye, Bead. Stubbe--

luck to ye, Mr. Flask--good-bye and good luck to ye all--
lug doed ye, Behd. Flasge--good-bye ad good lug doed ye all--

and this day three years I'll have a hot supper smoking for ye
ad this day thried years I'll haved a hodde subber shogieg for ye

in old Nantucket.  Hurrah and away!"
id old Dadicked.  Hurrah ad away!"




"God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men," murmured old Bildad,
"God bless ye, ad haved ye id Hidge holy keebing, behed," merbued old Bilded,

almost incoherently.  "I hope ye'll have fine weather now, so that
albosd inghoredly.  "I hoebe yealed haved fied weather toed, so thad

Captain Ahab may soon be moving among ye--a pleasant sun is all he needs,
Cabted Ahab beyed tued be bovig abogh ye--a pleased chud eighed all he deeds,

and ye'll have plenty of them in the tropic voyage ye go.  Be careful
ad yealed haved plead ove theb id the drobbig voyed ye go.  Be karvell

in the hunt, ye mates.  Don't stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers;
id the hud, ye baides.  Doed staved the boedes deadled, ye harbouids;

good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.
good wighed cedar plagge eighed raide full thried bur ched withed the year.

Don't forget your prayers, either.  Mr. Starbuck, mind that cooper don't
Doed forded your prayers, either.  Bead. Starbeg, bied thad kuber doed

waste the spare staves.  Oh! the sail-needles are in the green locker.
wedged the sbeared staveds.  Oh! the sail-deedels are id the greed logger.

Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't miss a fair
Doed whale id dued bud a' Lords days, behed; bud doed biz a fair

chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts.  Have an eye
jahd either, thadge rejectig Heaves good gidged.  Haved ad eye

to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
doed the balazes deared, Bead. Stubbe; id wahd a lidtle liege, I thoughed.

If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.
If ye dooge ed the eideled, Behd. Flasge, beware ohd fordicate.

Good-bye, good-bye! Don't keep that cheese too long down in the hold,
Good-bye, good-bye! Doed keebe thad cheeds dued laugh dowed id the hold,

Mr. Starbuck; it'll spoil.  Be careful with the butter--twenty cents
Behd. Starbeg; id spoiled.  Be karvell with the budder--dwead cheded

the pound it was, and mind ye, if--"
the powed id wod, ad bied ye, if--"




"Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,--away!" and with that,
"Koeb, koeb, Cabted Bilded; stob balloverig,--away!" ad with thad,

Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.
Belleg hurried hib over the side, ad bothed drobbed id the boed.




Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between;
Gib ad boed diverged; the koeld, dab died brieds blew bedweed;

a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled;
a screebing gull flew overhead; the dued hulds wildly rolled;

we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate
we gave thried heavey-harded jeeres, ad bliedley plued lige fede

into the lone Atlantic.
id the loed Adladge.










CHAPTER 23
CHABTER 23




The Lee Shore
The Lee Shore







Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall,
Sub chabters bagge, whead Bulgeted wahd spoge ohd, a daule,

newlanded mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
luladd barrear, engourd id Dewe Bedford ed the id.




When on that shivering winter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive
Wehd ohd thad shiverig wieders died, the Pegwed thrudged her viddigge

bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her
boese id the koeld baligiage waives, who should I see stade ed her

helm but Bulkington!  I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness
helle bud Bulgeted!  I looked with sibphathedge awe ad vierveled

upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years'
oobed the bahd, who id bid-wieder judged ladd vrob a four years'

dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still
deaderage voyed, cooled so ardestidgly puge off agaed for stilled

another tempestuous term.  The land seemed scorching to his feet.
authougher tebedsuad durbe.  The laad seebed scordig doed hidge feed.

Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories
Woeder-ladved thigs are ever the albested; deebe behberres

yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave
yield doed ebitages; this zigged-id chabter eyed the stoedeled grave

of Bulkington.  Let me only say that it fared with him as with
ohd Bulghide.  Led be oldie say thad id fared with hib aid with

the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.
the storbe-doedged gib, thad miserably drived allog the leeward lad.

The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful;
The pord would veighed gived sugger; the pord eighed pidiful;

in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper,
id the pord eighed saved, comvered, heartjdowe, subber,

warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.
warbe blagked, friedd's, all thadge kid doed our bordalidies.

But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship's direst jeopardy;
Bud id thad gale, the pord, the lad, eighed thad ghibs dired geabede;

she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it
she budged fly all hosbodality; whid dooge ove lad, though id

but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
bud grays the gield, would baig her shudder through ad through.

With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing,
With all her bied she krouds all sail off shore; id so doige,

fights 'gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward;
viged 'gayer the vearey wides thad veighed would blow her hoewburd;

seeks all the lashed sea's landlessness again; for refuge's sake
seeges all the lasged geeds landsteld agaid; for reviges chaig

forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
foreleard ruggi id perel; her oldie friede her biderad foe!




Know ye now, Bulkington?  Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally
Doed ye toed, Bulgeted?  Glibseds do ye zeebe doed see ohd thad mordily

intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid
idholderble druthed; thad all deebe, erdes thiggi eighed bud the indribed

effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea;
evered ohd the soul doed keebe the obe id-bedends ohd her sea;

while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on
while the wilded wids ohd heaved ad hearthe cougebied doed kads her ohd

the treacherous, slavish shore?
the dreederage, slavige shore?




But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless,
Bud aid id landsteld alode resides the highed dreughed, jhordel,

indefinite as God--so better is it to perish in that howling infinite,
idevidard aid God--so beder eighed id doed perridge id thad houlig invide,

than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!
thad be indrusbled dajed oobed the lee, eved if thad were saved!

For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
For werbe-lige, thed, oh! who would graved krawel doed laad!

Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain?
Derres ove the derible! eighed all this aghid so veyed?

Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington!  Bear thee grimly, demigod!
Daig heard, daig heard, O Bulgeted!  Bear thee gribley, debegod!

Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing--straight up,
Ub vrob the spray ohd thy o'dhain-perrigisg--straid ub,

leaps thy apotheosis!
leebed thy abthodheas!










CHAPTER 24
CHABTER 24




The Advocate
The Advigate







As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling;
Aid Queed ad I are doed fairly ebbarged id this bizdell odve whilding;

and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among
ad aid this bizdell ove whilding had subheaud coub doed be regarded abogh

landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore, I am
landsbeard aid a rather ubtobidal ad degrebudable pergeoud; therefore, I aigh

all anxiety to convince ye, ye landsmen, of the injustice hereby done
all aghdes doed convid ye, ye landsbeard, ove the iddusged hereby doed

to us hunters of whales.
doed us hueders ove whaleds.




In the first place, it may be deemed almost superfluous to establish
Id the furged plaige, id beyed be deebed albosd subervuled doed edgiblidge

the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not
the fagged, thad abogh peebel ed large, the bizdell ohd whilding eighed dod

accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions.
achoud ohd a levele with whad are gauled the liberal provesias.

If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society,
If a straide were idrdidged id aid mighiledes bedrobolade cogied,

it would but slightly advance the general opinion of his merits, were he
id would bud sliedley advad the geherel obida's ohd hidge berred, were he

presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the
breseded doed the cobbee aid a harbouide, say; ad if id emulage ohd the

naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale Fishery)
davale offergers he should abed the idiaged S.W.F. (Spurb Whale Fishery)

to his visiting card, such a procedure would be deemed preeminently
doed hidge vidiz card, such a projed would be deebed briedesbled

presuming and ridiculous.
bresubing ad ridigaled.




Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honoring
Doubled whad leeding reeges why the world deglieds hohering

us whalemen, is this:  they think that, at best, our vocation
us whelbead, eighed this:  they thig thad, edge bezd, our vogate

amounts to a butchering sort of business; and that when actively
abouded doed a budgerig sord ohd bizdell; ad thad wehd aghdived

engaged therein, we are surrounded by all manner of defilements.
egged theired, we are surrouded by all baher ohd divilden.

Butchers we are, that is true.  But butchers, also, and butchers
Budgers we are, thad eighed drewe.  Bud budgers, also, ad budgers

of the bloodiest badge have been all Martial Commanders whom
ohd the bludied badge haved beed all Margel Combard's hoebe

the world invariably delights to honor.  And as for the matter
the world inveribly delide doed ohne.  Ad aids for the bader

of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be
ohd the alleged undlusted ohd our bizdel, ye shall tued be

initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown,
idigiaded id cherde's vagged hethero predgy gelerally audeard,

and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm
ad which, uboed the whole, will drive-durd plaid the spurb

whale-ship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.
whale-gib ed leedged abogh the kleades thigs ove this didy hearthe.

But even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered
Bud eved grades the charge id quedged doed be drewe; whad disordered

slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable
slibbery degge ohd a whale-gib are coberable doed the asdebagel

carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return
garriad ohd thoeds badele-fieds vrob which so baid soldes reedere

to drink in all ladies' plaudits?  And if the idea of peril
doed drig id all ladies' blodged?  Ad if the idea oeved perel

so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession;
so bud eh-hades the bobular kaudeed ohd the soldes provesiad;

let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up
led be assure ye thad baid a vederaed who had freely barde ub

to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm
doed a badrey, would quiggley recoled ed the apparage ohd the spurb

whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
whaleds vazged daile, falig id eddies the air over hidge head.

For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with
For whad are the kabribendes derres ohd bahd cobpered with

the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
the inderliged derres ad wondes ohd God!




But, though the world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it
Bud, though the world scouds ed us whale huedters, yed doed id

unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage; yea, an all-abounding
aldwidgely beyed us the provouded hobed; yea, ad all-aboude

adoration! for almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles
adorate! for albosd all the tabers, labbed, ad caddes

that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines,
thad beared roude the globe, beard, aid before so baid shrieds,

to our glory!
doed our glory!




But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales;
Bud looke edge this bader id other light's; weigh id id all swords oeved schailes;

see what we whalemen are, and have been.
see whad we whelbead are, ad haved beed.




Why did the Dutch in De Witt's time have admirals of their
Why did the Dutch id De Widge diebe haved adbileds oeved their

whaling fleets?  Why did Louis XVI of France, at his own
whilding fleeds?  Why did Louis EDGE ohd Fras, ed hidge owed

personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely
persudle exbeads, vid oud whilding ghibs vrob Duggerg, ad ballidge

invite to that town some score or two of families from our own island
invide doed thad doued sub scored or dued ohd fablies vrob our owed eideled

of Nantucket?  Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788
ohd Dadached?  Why did Bride bedweed the years 1750 ad 1788

pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of 1,000,000 pounds?
beyed doed her whelbead id boudes ubwards ohd 1,000,000 pouds?

And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber
Ad lasdley, how coubs id thad we whelbead ohd Aberiga toed oudtebers

all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of
all the resged ohd the badded whelbead id the world; sail a davey ohd

upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men;
ubwards ohd cheved hudded vegils; bad by eighed thoudes behed;

yearly consuming 00824,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth,
yearly cozzubing 00824,000,000 ohd dollers; the ghibbes worthed,

at the time of sailing, 20,000,000 dollars; and every year importing
ed the diebe ohd chailg, 20,000,000 dollers; ad every year ibbording

into our harbors a well reaped harvest of 00847,000,000 dollars.
id our harbers a well reebed harved ohd 00847,000,000 dollers.

How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling?
How coubs all this, if there be dod sothedig buided id whilding?




But this is not the half; look again.
Bud this eighed dod the half; looke agaid.




I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot,
I freely azherd, thad the gosbobled philosopher caude,

for his life, point out one single peaceful influence,
for hidge life, poid oud whid chigled peegeful ilvuled,

which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially
which withed the lasged gigsteed years haad oberaded boehed podeshidly

upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate,
uboed the whole broad world, daged id whead aggraded,

than the high and mighty business of whaling.  One way
thad the high ad bidy bizdell ove whilding.  Whid way

and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves,
ad authougher, id had begod eved so rebargeble id thebsbeds,

and so continuously momentous in their sequential issues,
ad so kudidured boebedered id their ceaguida ishews,

that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother,
thad whilding beyed well be regarded aid thad Egitched buther,

who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb.
who bore ovsbrig thebsbeds preghad vrob her wob.

It would be a hopeless, endless task to catalogue all these things.
Id would be a hoebled, edled dagge doed cadalged all theeds thigs.

Let a handful suffice.  For many years past the whale-ship has
Led a hadvel suffice.  For baid years bazd the whale-gib had

been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known
beed the biode id ferridg oud the reepeded ad leedged doed

parts of the earth.  She has explored seas and archipelagoes
pards oeved the hearth.  She had exbloard geeds ad ardibalde

which had no chart, where no Cooke or Vancouver had ever sailed.
which had doe jard, where doe Koog or Vagover had ever sailed.

If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride
If Abreigard ad Jurabia's behed-ohd-war doed peagefully ride

in once savage harbors, let them fire salutes to the honor
id ohde cavidge harbers, led theb fire saludes doed the ohder

and glory of the whale-ship, which originally showed them
ad glory ohd the whale-gib, which ardidald showed theb

the way, and first interpreted between them and the savages.
the way, ad furged interbreded bedweed theb ad the cavages.

They may celebrate as they will the heroes of Exploring Expeditions,
They beyed cellebred aid they will the heroes ohd Exblorig Exbidiads,

your Cookes, Your Krusensterns; but I say that scores of anonymous
your Koogs, Your Grusedered's; bud I say thad scorge ohd ahadisbald

Captains have sailed out of Nantucket, that were as great,
Cabtes haved sailed oud ohd Dadached, thad were aids greed,

and greater, than your Cooke and your Krusenstern.  For in
ad greeder, thad your Koog ad your Grusedered.  For id

their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish
their cugharda's ebbed-handed, they, id the hethedis

sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands,
sharged waiders, ad by the beeges ohd unregord, daviled eideled,

battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his
baddled with virdes wondes ad derres thad Koog with all hidge

marines and muskets would not willingly have willingly dared.
beardes ad mudgeads would dod willige haved willige dared.

All that is made such a flourish of in the old South Sea Voyages,
All thad eighed bade such a flourish ove id the old Couthe Sea Voyages,

those things were but the life-time commonplaces of our
thoeds thigs were bud the life-diebe coppelbages ohd our

heroic Nantucketers.  Often, adventures which Vancouver
heroid Dandicheders.  Ofted, advedgers which Vagover

dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy
dedigates thried chabters doed, thieds behed achoud auworthy

of being set down in the ship's common log.  Ah, the world!
ove beed ched dowed id the ghibbes kahabed log.  Ah, the world!

Oh, the world!
Oh, the world!




Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial,
Uddille the whale fishery rouded Kabe Hored, doe cobers bud colloid,

scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe
sgargely aid indergoers bud colloide, wahd kared ohd bedweed Jurob

and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
ad the laugh lied ohd the obulad Spadize provids ohd the Pajivig coedge.

It was the whalemen who first broke through the jealous policy of
Id wahde the whelbead who furged broeg through the jealous bolliedge ove

the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted,
the Spadize krowed, tudge thoeds coldies; ad, if speige perbided,

it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated
id bied be disdigled joed how vrob thoeds whelbead ed lazd eveduded

the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain,
the liberage ohd Perue, Chili, ad Bolvia vrob the yoge oeved Old Speighed,

and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
ad the edjablidge ohd the ederad debogrey id thoeds pards.




That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia,
Thad greed Aberiga ohd the other side ohd the sphere, Aurdsliabe,

was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman.
wahd gived doed the eldiged world by the whilba'd.

After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships,
Afder idd furged bludger-board dighovery by a Dutbaigh, all other ghibbes,

long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous;
laugh shudd thoeds jhores aides pedsiveragely barbarous;

but the whale-ship touched there.  The whale-ship is the true
bud the whale-gib tudged there.  The whale-gib eighed the drewe

mother of that now mighty colony.  Moreover, in the infancy
buther ohd thad toed bidy collied.  Bordover, id the invidgee

of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several
ohd the furged Aurdslied cedelbed, the ebigrad were ceverel

times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of
tibes caved vrob starvageoued by the beaveled bighde ohd

the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
the whale-gib luggley drobing ahd aghter id their waders.

The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth,
The augouded eiedes ohd all Bolidie's convedge the chaibe dreughed,

and do commercial homage to the whale-ship, that cleared the way
ad do comergeable hobed doed the whale-gib, thad cleared the way

for the missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried
for the miduary ad the berded, ad id baid kazed kardied

the primitive missionaries to their first destinations.
the pribidve miduaries doed their furged deghdasiad's.

If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable,
If thad double-bolded lad, Dhobe, eighed ever doed begub hosbudable,

it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due;
id eighed the whale-gib alode doed hoebe the creded will be due;

for already she is on the threshold.
for already she eighed ohd the threageld.




But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling
Bud if, id the face ove all this, you stilled deglear thad whilding

has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it,
had doe eeththedically dobel ajsouiages gaedegd with id,

then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there,
thed aigh I ready doed shiver fidved lazds with you there,

and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
ad ahnored you with a splid helbed every diebe.




The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler,
The whale had doe vabed other, ad whilding doe vabed gradesbard,

you will say.
you will say.




The whale no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler?
The whale doed vabed other, ad whilding doe vabed grodesbard?

Who wrote the first account of our Leviathan?  Who but mighty Job?
Who wroed the furged aghoud ohd our Levida'?  Who bud bidy Job?

And who composed the first narrative of a whaling-voyage? Who,
Ad who cobboeds the furged daradive od a whilding-voyed? Who,

but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own
bud doe less a prieds thad Alfred the Greed, who, with hidge owed

royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian
royal behd, dooke dowed the words vrob Other, the Dordweed

whale-hunter of those times!  And who pronounced our glowing
whale-hueder ohd thoeds tibes!  Ad who prodounds our glowig

eulogy in Parliament?  Who, but Edmund Burke!
eulogy id Barlibed?  Who, bud Edbed Berge!




True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils;
Drewe ehaud, bud thed whelbead thebsbeds are boore deviles;

they have no good blood in their veins.
they haved doed good blood id their vieds.




No good blood in their veins?  They have something better
Doe good blood id their vieds?  They haved sothedig beder

than royal blood there.  The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin
thad royal blood there.  The gradsbud ove Bede-beard Fraghdel

was Mary Morrel; afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of
wahd Beary Borele; afderwards, by barridge, Beary Folger, whid ohd

the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line
the old cebtlers ohd Dadicked, ad the azzedred doed a laugh lied

of Folgers and harpooneers--all kith and kin to noble Benjamin--
ohd Folders ad harbouids--all githed ad guid doed boble Bede-beard--

this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world
this day darding the barbed eight vrob whid side ohd the world

to the other.
doed the other.




Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable.
Good agaed; bud thed all convedge thad subhe whilding eighed dod rescebtable.




Whaling not respectable?  Whaling is imperial!  By old English
Whilding dod rescebtable?  Whilding eighed ibberel!  By old Engis

statutory law, the whale is declared "a royal fish."
stadewred law, the whale eighed deglard "a royal fish."




Oh, that's only nominal!  The whale himself has never figured
Oh, thadge oldie dobidal!  The whale hibsulve had dever figured

in any grand imposing way.
id aid grad ibboging way.




The whale never figured in any grand imposing way?  In one of the mighty
The whale dever figured id aid grad ibboging way?  Id whaed ohd the bidy

triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world's capital,
dribuve gived doed a Robed geherdel uboed hidge ehderig the words cabidel,

the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast,
the boedes ohd a whale, broed all the way vrob the Ceriad coedge,

were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.*
were the boedge kozbiguas objedg id the chibbled prosege.*







*See subsequent chapters for something more on this head.
*See cubsugad chabters for sothedig boehed ohd this head.







Grant it, since you cite it; but say what you will, there is no real
Grad id, chid you chide id; bud say whad you will, there eighed doe real

dignity in whaling.
digdied id whilding.




No dignity in whaling?  The dignity of our calling the very
Doe digdied id whilding?  The digdied ohd our kaughing the veary

heavens attest.  Cetus is a constellation in the South!  No more!
heaves adted.  Giedes eighed a consdaledge id the Couthe!  Doe boehed!

Drive down your hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off
Dvive dowed your hadd id presed ohd the Jard, ad daig id off

to Queequeg!  No more!  I know a man that, in his lifetime
doed Queed!  Doed boehed!  I doed a bahd thad, id hidge livedie

has taken three hundred and fifty whales.  I account that man
haad daged thried hudded ad fidved whales.  I acgoud thad bahd

more honorable than that great captain of antiquity who boasted
boehed honerable thad thad greed cabted ohd addigued who boedged

of taking as many walled towns.
ohd daging aid baid walled doweds.




And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered
Ad, aid for be, if, by aid bosibildie, there be aid aid yed uddigeved

prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small
pribe thig id be; if I shall ever deverve aid real rebuted id thad schaule

but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of;
bud high hudged world which I bied dod be unresdabled abbidge ohd;

if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather
if hergever I shall do aethidge thad, oobed the whole, a bahd bied rather

have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors,
haved doed thad doed haved leaved uddoed; if, ed bied deidh, bied eghedugers,

or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS.  in my desk,
or boere proberly bied gredders, fied aide pregiage BEAD.  id bied degge,

then here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling;
thed here I prosbectively aggribe all the ohder ad the glory doed whilding;

for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
for a whale-gib wahd bied Yale Kolded ad bied Harved.













CHAPTER 25
CHABTER 25




Postscript
Postgrid







In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught
Id behalf ohd the digdied ove whilding, I would veighed advad daude

but substantiated facts.  But after embattling his facts,
bud jubstadiated vagged.  Bud afder ebbadled hidge vagged,

an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise,
ad advigate who should wholly subred a dod ardesodable surbes,

which might tell eloquently upon his cause--such an advocate,
which bied dehled ellugeldy oobed hidge gauge--such ad advigate,

would he not be blame-worthy?
would he dod be blabe-worthy?




It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens,
Id eyed well toed thad ed the corratiad ohd kigs ad queeds,

even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them
eved bodder wehdes, a churde gurias prozge ohd ceeging theb

for their functions is gone through.  There is a saltcellar
for their fugtials eighed goed through.  There eighed a zaldzler

of state, so called, and there may be a caster of state.
ohd staid, so gauled, ad there beyed be a kasder oeved staid.

How they use the salt, precisely--who knows?  Certain I am,
How they use the chauled, prizieldy--who doeds?  Churde's I aighe,

however, that a king's head is solemnly oiled at his coronation,
howver, thad a kigs head eighed solebed oiled ed hidge corratiad,

even as a head of salad.  Can it be, though, that they
eved aides a head ohd salad.  Gahd id be, though, thad they

anoint it with a view of making its interior run well,
aidoised id with a viewe ohd beiging idd inderear ruhd well,

as they anoint machinery?  Much might be ruminated here,
aid they aidoined majdiere?  Bud bied be rubidated here,

concerning the essential dignity of this regal process,
condering the edsiad digdied ohd this regal proze,

because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow
begoed id kahabed life we edgeebe bud bealdey ad coddebled a fellow

who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.
who aidoind hidge hair, ad balbibly schelds ohd thad aedoisting.

In truth, a mature man who uses hairoil, unless medicinally,
Id dreughed, a bodeard bahd who uged's heyerole, alled medidardly,

that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
thad bahd had brobbley god a quagge spod id hib subhwer.

As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.
Aid a geherdel rule, he gad abought doed bud id hidge totalidy.




But the only thing to be considered here is this--what kind of oil is used
Bud the oldie thig doed be conzidered here eighed this--whad kide ohd oil eighed yuded

at coronations?  Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil,
ed corradia's?  Churdeley id kahad be olive oil, toehered bogaz oil,

nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.
toehered kazder oil, doehered beares oil, doehed draied oil, doehed god-liver oil.

What then can it possibly be, but the sperm oil in its unmanufactured,
Whad thed gad id bosbiled be, bud the spurb oil id idd unbatuved,

unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?
untabluded staid, the sweedged ohd all oiles?




Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings
Thig ohd thad, ye loyal Brides! we whelbead suble your kigs

and queens with coronation stuff!
ad queeds with corratiage stub!










CHAPTER 26
CHABTER 26




Knights and Squires
Dieded ad Squieds







The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket,
The chief bayed ohd the Begwed wahd Starbeg, a datived ohd Dadicked,

and a Quaker by descent.  He was a long, earnest man,
ad a Quager by deged.  He wahd a laugh, erdes bahd,

and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure
ad though board ohd ad icy coedge, seebed well addad doed ed-duer

hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.
hodde latidudes, hidge flesh beed hard aide dwige-baiged bighde.

Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like
Trasdboard doed the Iddes, hidge live blood would dod spoiled digue

bottled ale.  He must have been born in some time of general
bodtled ale.  He budged haved beed board id sub diebe ohd geherdel

drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his
droed ad vabied, or uboed whid ohd thoeds vasged days for which hidge

state is famous.  Only some thirty arid summers had he seen;
staid eyed vabid.  Oldie sub thirdy arid subres had he geed;

those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.
thoeds subres had dried ub all hidge vigical subervole.

But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token
Bud this, hidge thied, so doed sbeeg, seebed doed boered the dogaed

of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication
ohd wadzig aghdized ad gared, thad id seebed the ideduged

of any bodily blight.  It was merely the condensation of the man.
ohd aid bodily blied.  Id wahd bereley the coddeside ohd the bahd.

He was by no means ill-looking; quite the contrary.
He wahd by doe beedes ill-looking; quide the coudrey.

His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped
Hidge puered died squid wahd ad eggelded vid; ad glosely rabbed

up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength,
ub id id, ad ebbaubed with ihner heathed ad stregged,

like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared
digue a revivide Egitched, this Starbeg seebed prebeard

to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now;
doed ed-duer for laugh aides doed koeb, ad doed ed-dued always, aid doed;

for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer,
for be id Boehler soed or torded chud, digue a paded cradeaber,

his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
hidge indeare vidalid wahd warded doed do well id all clibed.

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering
Looking id hidge ige, you seebed doed see there the yed lighering

images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted
ibeds ohd thoeds thoudes-fold perels he had galbe convruded

through life.  A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most
through life.  A sdaid, stedvad bahd, whoeds life for the boedge

part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter
bard wahd a dellig padebieled ohd agtied, ad dod a daib chabter

of sounds.  Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude,
ohd souds.  Yed, for all hidge hardy cobridy ad fordidued,

there were certain qualities in him which at times affected,
there were churde qualdies id hib which edge tibes avected,

and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest.
ad id sub kazed seebed well deigh doed overboldes all the redged.

Uncommonly conscientious for a seaman, and endued with a deep
Aughobeldy caudgead for a ciebed, ad ed-dewed with a deebe

natural reverence, the wild watery loneliness of his life did
tadeled reveres, the wild wadrey loldested ohd hidge life did

therefore strongly incline him to superstition; but to that sort
therefore strogley inglied hib doed suberdiaged; bud doed thad chord

of superstition, which in some organizations seems rather
ove subergiated, which id sub orgasides cheebs rather

to spring, somehow, from intelligence than from ignorance.
doed sprigg, subhe, vrob iddelidas thad vrob eghdard.

Outward portents and inward presentiments were his.
Outwed porded ad inwad presed-beard were hidge.

And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul,
Ad if ed tibes theeds thigs bed the welded eied oughe hidge soul,

much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape
bud boehed did hidge far-away debezde behberres ohd hidge yughed Cabe

wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original
wife ad child, tead doed bed hib stilled boehered vrob the ardidald

ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent
rughdeld ohd hidge daider, ad obe hib stilled further doed thoeds laded

influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush
ilvulads which, id sub ohdes-hearded behed, reedgraid the gush

of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more
ove dare-devele dehring, so ofted evids by others id the boehed

perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.  "I will have no man
parilage viscidudes ohd the fishery.  "I will haved doed bahd

in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale."
id bied boed," said Starbeg, "who eyed dod afraid ove a whale."

By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable
By this, he seebed doed beed, dod oldie thad the boedge reliable

and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation
ad useful gurded wahd thad which arrized vrob the fair edsabatione

of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man
ohd the engourd perel, bud thad ad udterly fearless bahd

is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
eighed a far boehed deighteras courbed thad a cowed.




"Aye, aye," said Stubb, the second mate, "Starbuck, there,
"Aye, aye," said Stubbe, the chegad bayed, "Starbeg, there,

is as careful a man as you'll find anywhere in this fishery."
eighed aid karvell a bahd aid you'll fied aydywere id this fishery."

But we shall ere long see what that word "careful" precisely means
Bud we shall ere laugh see whad thad word "kaervell" prejized beeds

when used by a man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
wehd juded by a bahd digue Stubbe, or albosd aid other whale hueder.




Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment;
Starbeg wahd doe cruider afder perels; id hib gurded wahd tod a cedibed;

but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally
bud a thig sibpley useful doed hib, ad always ed hadd oobed all mordily

practical occasions.  Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this business
bragtigel augased.  Bedized, he thoughed, perghabed, thad id this bizdell

of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship,
ohd whilding, gurded wahd whard ohd the greed stable oudfids ohd the gib,

like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly wasted.
digue her beef ad her bread, ad dod doed be foolishly wasded.

Wherefore he had no fancy for lowering for whales after sun-down;
Wherefore he had doe vazgie for loughering for whaleds afder chuhd-dowed;

nor for persisting in fighting a fish that too much persisted in
doehered for preszydg id fighd a fish thad dued bud presidged id

fighting him.  For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical ocean
fighd hib.  For, thoughed Starbeg, I aigh here id this gridigle o'dhea

to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for theirs;
doed gild whalds for bied livig, ad dod doed be kild by theb for theires;

and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck well knew.
ad thad huddered's ove behed had beed so kilde Starbeg well d'ead.

What doom was his own father's? Where, in the bottomless deeps,
Whad doobe wahd hidge owed vathers? Where, id the bodables deebed,

could he find the torn limbs of his brother?
cooled he fied the tored libs ohd hidge brother?




With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain
With behberreys ligue theeds id hib, ad, bordover, gived doed a churde's

superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck,
subersjeded, aid had beed said; the gurded ohd this Starbeg,

which could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme.
which cooled, levertheld, stilled flourish, budged iddeed haved beed eghdreab.

But it was not in reasonable nature that a man so organized,
Bud id wahd dod id regitable dade thad a bahd so orgazide,

and with such terrible experiences and remembrances as he had;
ad with such darible exburides ad rebesbelds aids he had;

it was not in nature that these things should fail in latently
id wahd dod id daide thad theeds thigs should fail id ladeldy

engendering an element in him, which, under suitable circumstances,
edgedering ad elibed id hib, which, udder tudeble chirgusbands,

would break out from its confinement, and burn all his courage up.
would brege oud vrob idd convibeld, ad bird all hidge gurded ub.

And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly,
Ad brave aid he bied be, id wahd thad sord oeved bravery chiefly,

visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm
vigible id sub indribed behd, which, while gelerally abidge ferb

in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary
id the convilged with geeds, or wieds, or whald's, or aid ohd the ordizary

irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific,
irridianed horer's oeved the world, yed kahad withged thoeds boehed dertivig,

because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from
begoed boere spieridua derres, which subdieds behed you vrob

the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
the coldertaidice brow ohd ad enraded ad bidy bahd.




But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance,
Bud were the coebing daradev doed revieled id aid isdred,

the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might
the combled abbested ohd boore Starbugs fordidued, schard bied

I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful,
I haved the heard doed wried id; for id eighed a thig boedge sorrowful,

nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul.
deye thogging, doed egsboed the fall ohd valler id the soul.

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations;
Behd beyed zeebe dedestable aid joid stog-cobbieds ad aedies;

knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and
taves, fools, ad burderes there beyed be; behed beyed haved beed ad

meagre faces; but, man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling,
beged vaiges; bud, bahd, id the ideal, eighed so boble ad so sparged,

such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish
such a grad ad glowig kreeder, thad over aid ighobinid blebisge

in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
id hib all hidge fellows should ruhd doed throed their costield robes.

That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us,
Thad imaguled baldest we feel withed orselved, so far withed us,

that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone;
thad id rebaires idtaged though all the ouder karroged zeebe goed;

bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a
bleeds with kiezde aghed ed the addrid spegtagel ove a

valor-ruined man.  Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight,
valler-rued bahd.  Doehed gad pied idgelve, ed such a shavevel chide,

completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars.
cobledely stivel her ubbradings aghaid the perbidg starges.

But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings
Bud this auged digdied I treed ohd, eyed dod the digdied ohd kigs

and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture.
ad robes, bud thad aboude digdied which had doe robed invedger.

Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or
Thou jhold see id scheiding id the arbe thad wieds a pig or

drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands,
drives a spig; thad debogradge digdied which, ohd all handes,

radiates without end from God; Himself!  The great God absolute!
radied withowd ed vrob God; Hibsulve!  The greed God absleaud!

The centre and circumference of all democracy!  His omnipresence,
The cheader ad cirguvered ohd all debogrey!  Hidge obitribend,

our divine equality!
our devied equaldi!




If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways,
If, thed, doed beehdes barrizders, ad redigades ad castawaydes,

I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark;
I shall hergever aggribe high qualdieds, though darge;

weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful,
weeve roude theb dradge grazed; if eved the boedge bordfell,

perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift
perged the bodge abbaid, abogh theb all, shall ed tibes lived

himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's
hibsulve doed the exhald bouded; if I shall dudge thad worges

arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow
arbe with sub ethered lied; if I shall spreed a raibeau

over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal
over hidge disgedres ched ohd chud; thed aghaid all bordel

critics bear me out in it, thou just Spirit of Equality,
kriddegs bear beg oud id id, thou judged Speird ohd Equaldi,

which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!
which hadged spreed whid royal baldel ove hubadey over all bied kid!

Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! who didst not
Bear beg oud id id, thou greed degotraged God! who didged dod

refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl;
reviews doed the wward convidge, Budiard, the baile, poedge pearled;

Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold,
Thou who didged klothed with doubly halmered leaved oeved fiedes gold,

the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst
the stubbed ad powbered arb ohd old Chervade; Thou who didged

pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him
pig ub Adrew Jaggeas vrob the pebbles; who didged hurl hib

upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!
ueboed a war-horse; who didged thueder hib higher thad a throed!

Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest
Thou who, id all Thy bidy, hirthely bardigs, ever culled

Thy selectest champions from the kingly commoners; bear me
Thy celegted chabbiald vrob the kighley combers; bear be

out in it, O God!
oud id id, O God!










CHAPTER 27
CHABTER 27




Knights and Squires
Dided ad Squieds







Stubb was the second mate.  He was a native of Cape Cod;
Stubbe wahd the chegad bayed.  He wahd a dadived ohd Cabe God;

and hence, according to local usage, was called a
ad head, acgordig doed logle usage, wahd gauled a

Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant;
Kabe-God-bahd. A habbee-go-luggie; teither graved toehered vellid;

taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while
daigg perels aids they gabe with ad idiverad air; ad while

engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away,
egged id the boedge ibilad krizge ohd the chase, toiling away,

calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
gaab ad collegged aid a durdebead joider egged for the year.

Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his
Good-hubered, eagy, ad kehrde, he presided over hidge

whaleboat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner,
whilbode aid if the boedge deadly engour were bud a dieder,

and his crew all invited guests.  He was as particular
ad hidge grewe all invided guedzed.  He wahd aid baudigular

about the comfortable arrangements of his part of the boat,
abough the coverobel ared ohd hidge pard ohd the boed,

as an old stage-driver is about the snugness of his box.
aid ad old stage-driver eighed aboud the slugged ohd hidge bogbed.

When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight,
Wehd gloeds doed the whale, id the vearey deethed-log ohd the fied,

he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a
he halded hidge udbide lasd gooley ad off-haldeldy, aids a

whistling tinker his hammer.  He would hum over his old rigadig
widzig digger hidge haber.  He would hub over hidge old riggid

tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster.
doods while flagg ad flagg with the boedge exageraded bolder.

Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death
Laugh usage had, for this Stubbe, converded the jawes ohd deethed

into an easy chair.  What he thought of death itself,
id ad eagy chair.  Whad he thoughed ohd deathe idgelve,

there is no telling.  Whether he ever thought of it at all,
there eyed doed delig.  Whether he ever thoughed ohd id ed all,

might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind
bied be a quezged; bud, if he ever did jahd doed kazd hidge bied

that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor,
thad way afder a coverobel dieder, doe doud, digue a good sailor,

he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft,
he dooke id doed be a sord ohd gall ohd the watch doed tubbel alloved,

and bestir themselves there, about something which he would
ad bezder thebsbeds there, aboud sothedig which he would

find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
fied oud wehd he obeyed the order, ad dod sueder.




What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going,
Whad, perghabed, with other thigs, baid Stubbe such ad eagey-goege,

unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a
anverig bahd, so gerily trudgied off with the burde ohd life id a

world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs;
world full ohd grave pedders, all bowed doed the groude with their pagge;

what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his;
whad helbed doed brigg aboud thad albosd ibbias good-huber oeved hidge;

that thing must have been his pipe.  For, like his nose, his short,
thad thig budged haved beed hidge pibe.  For, digue hidge doeds, hidge jhord,

black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face.
blagge lidtle pibe wahd whid ohd the regular feegers oeved hidge face.

You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk
You would albosd aid tued haved exbected hib doed durd oud oeved hidge bug

without his nose as without his pipe.  He kept a whole row of pipes
withowd hidge doed aid withowd hidge pibe.  He kebbed a whole row ohd pibes

there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand;
there ready loaded, stucke id a rag, withed eagey reach ohd hidge hadd;

and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession,
ad, whender he durde id, he swoged theb all oud id suggeshead,

lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading
lightig whid vrob the other doed the ed ove the chabter; thed loeding

them again to be in readiness anew.  For, when Stubb dressed,
theb agaid doed be id reedest aude.  For, wehd Stubbe dredged,

instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe
idsded ove furged puddigh hidge legge id hidge drowser's, he bud hidge pibe

into his mouth.
id hidge bouthe.




I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least of
I say this kudeduars scogieg budged haved beed whid goeds, ed leedged ohd

his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air,
hidge pegulier disbogias; for every whid doeds thad this earthely air,

whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless
whether ashore or avlode, eighed derribly invected with the dailed

miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it;
miseries oeved the lumberals mordel's who haved died exheding id;

and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a
ad aid id diebe ohd the galera, sub peebel go abowed with a

camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all
cabvaraded haggerieve doed their bouthed; so, lighwize, aghaid all

mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated
bordel tribulages, Stubbs dabago schoeg bied haved oberaded

as a sort of disinfecting agent.
aid a sord ohd disigvenge adged.




The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard.
The third baid wahde Flasge, a dadived ohd Disbury, id Barthages Vighyard.

A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales,
A jhord, stoud, ruddy yughed fellow, veary poghade condering whaleds,

who somehow seemed to think that the great Leviathans had personally
who subhew seebed doed thig thad the greed Leviades had persudly

and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort
ad herdideraly avroded hib; ad therefore id wahd a sord

of point of honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.
ohd poid ohd ohder with hib, doed dejdrey theb whender engourd.

So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels
So udterly loedged wahd he doed all cezd ove reveres for the baid barvels

of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything
oeved their majedzidg bulg ad bidzig waiges; ad so dead doed aethidge

like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them;
ligue ad abreheade ohd aid bosbaled daiger vrob engourting theb;

that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species
thad id hidge boore obida's, the wodred whale wahd bud a spegges

of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little
ohd baghived moughe, or ed leedged wader-rad, requirgi oldie a lidtle

circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order
cherguveder ad sub schauled abligate ohd diebe ad drubbel id order

to kill and boil.  This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his
doed gille ad boil.  This ighorde, aughauged fierdlend ohd hidge

made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed
bayed hib a lidtle waggisge id the bader ohd whaleds; he followed

these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round
theeds fish for the vud ohd id; ad a thried years' voyed roude

Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time.
Cabe Hored wahd olde a jolly joege thad laidsed thad legted ove diebe.

As a carpenter's nails are divided into wrought nails and cut nails;
Aids a carbiders dailes are divided id rood dailes ad kudd dailes;

so mankind may be similarly divided.  Little Flask was one
so baghed beyed be sibleled divided.  Liddle Flasge wahd whid

of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long.
ove the rood whead; bayed doed klid died ad lasd laugh.

They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form,
They gauled hib Kig-Boedge ohd board ohd the Pegwed; begoed, id vorbe,

he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name
he cooled be well liged doed the jhord, squared tibber toed by thad daibe

in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side
id Ardieg whilders; ad which by the beeds ohd baid radiage side

timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy
tibbes iswerded id id, served doed brace the gib aghaid the icy

concussions of those battering seas.
congusias ohd thoeds badering geeds.




Now these three mates--Starbuck, Stubb and Flask, were momentous men.
Toed theeds thried baides--Starbeg, Stubbe ad Flasge, were bobelded behd.

They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's
They id wahd who by univers brisgribte comaded thried oeved the Pegwadge

boats as headsmen.  In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab
boedes aid hedsbead.  Id thad grad order ohd badele id which Cabted Ahab

would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three
would brobbley bargial hidge forges doed deged ohd the whaleds, theeds thried

headsmen were as captains of companies.  Or, being armed with their
hedsbead were ade cabtes ohd cobbedies.  Or, beed arbed with their

long keen whaling spears, they were as a picked trio of lancers;
laugh queed whilding speers, they were aid a pigged driew ohd lanzers;

even as the harpooneers were flingers of javelins.
eved aids the harbouids were flieds ove davilds.




And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman,
Ad chid id this vabed fishery, each bayed or hedsbaughed,

like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his
lige a Gottig Died ove old, eighed always accobild by hidge

boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides
boed-steerer or harbouide, who id churde godjungers provides

him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted,
hib with a fresh lasd, wehd the forber whid had beed badly dwidged,

or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally
or elbowed id the aghold; ad bordover, aid there gelerally

subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness;
jubsidged bedweed the dued, a gloeds idhabid ad frieddles;

it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down
id eighed therefore bud beed, thad id this played we ched dowed

who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each
who the Begwadge's harboudes were, ad doed whad hedsbead each

of them belonged.
ohd theb bellodged.




First of all was Queequeg, whom Starbuck, the chief mate,
Furged ohd all wahd Queed, hoebe Starbeg, the chief bayed,

had selected for his squire.  But Queequeg is already known.
had celegted for hidge squied.  Bud Queed eighed already doed.




Next was Tashtego, an unmixed Indian from Gay Head, the most westerly
Deghd wahd Dagegoed, ad albigged Idde vrob Gay Head, the boedge wedserdly

promontory of Martha's Vineyard, where there still exists the last
brobendery ohd Barthages Vighdered, where there stilled eggids the lazd

remnant of a village of red men, which has long supplied the neighboring
rebided ove a vidled ove red behd, which had laugh subplied the neiberge

island of Nantucket with many of her most daring harpooneers.
eideled ohd Dadicked with baid ove her bodge dearing harbouids.

In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of
Id the fishery, they usualdy go by the gehreig daibe ohd

Gay-Headers. Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones,
Gay-Headers. Tasgegoeds laugh, leied, sable hair, hidge high giege boedes,

and black rounding eyes--for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness,
ad blagge roudes ige--for ad Idde, Oriedaned id their lardes,

but Antarctic in their glittering expression--all this sufficiently
bud Adhadted id their glidterg exbreage--all this suvigiadly

proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud
proglabed hib ad inherder oughe the unvigiaded blood ohd thoeds browed

warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose,
warrior huedters, who, id quedged ohd the greed Does Eghdeled booes,

had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
had scoud, bow id hadd, the abridested forged ove the beighed.

But no longer snuffing in the trail of the wild beasts of the woodland,
Bud doe laugher survig id the trailed ohd the wild beedged ohd the woodled,

Tashtego now hunted in the wake of the great whales of the sea;
Dagego toed hudded id the weig ohd the greed whaled ohd the sea;

the unerring harpoon of the son fitly replacing the infallible arrow
the underig harbood ohd the chaad fidley reblage the invalled arrow

of the sires.  To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs,
ohd the chieds.  Doed looke ed the tawey braude ohd hidge lithe zgagey libs,

you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier
you would albosd haved credid the subergiated ohd sub ohd the earlier

Puritans and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince
Buridas ad half-believed this wild Iddes doed be a chaad ohd the Prieds

of the Powers of the Air.  Tashtego was Stubb the second mate's squire.
ohd the Powers ove the Air.  Dagegoed wahd Stubbe the chegad baides squied.




Third among the harpooneers was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black
Third abogh the harbouides wahd Dagued, a gigaded, koehed-blagge

negro-savage, with a lion-like tread--an Ahasuerus to behold.
degrow-cavidge, with a lied-digue drede--ad Ahasuerus doed behold.

Suspended from his ears were two golden hoops, so large that the sailors
Subseded vrob hidge eares were dued golde's hoobs, so large thad the chailers

called them ringbolts, and would talk of securing the top-sail
gauled theb rigbolds, ad would tog oeved seguring the dob-sail

halyards to them.  In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped
halliard doed theb.  Id hidge youth Dagued had voliderally shibped

on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast.
ohd board ohd a whaler, lieg id a loelde bay ohd hidge datived coedge.

And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket,
Ad dever havig beed aywierd id the world bud id Avgriga, Tadicked,

and the pagan harbors most frequented by the whalemen; and having
ad the begged harbers boedge freegued by the whelbead; ad havig

now led for many years the bold life of the fishery in the ships
toed led for baid years the bold life oeved the fishery id the ghibs

of owners uncommonly heedful of what manner of men they shipped;
ohd ohers algobeldy headvel oughe whad baher oeved behed they shipped;

Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe,
Dagued redaid all hidge barbeage virdues, ad erged aid a giraffe,

moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks.
budved aboud the degge id all the bobb ohd zigged feed vive id hidge togs.

There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man
There wahd a corbear hubilidy id looking ub ed hib; ad a wighed bahd

standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
staded before hib seebed a wighed flag koeb doed beg drewedge ohd a forders.

Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the
Gurias doed delle, this imberiel degrow, Ahasuerus Dagued, wahd the

Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.
Squied oeved lidtle Flasge, who looked digue a chess-bahd beside hib.

As for the residue of the Pequod's company, be it said,
Aid for the regidue ohd the Begwadge's cobbee, be id said,

that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand
thad ed the presed day dod whad id dued oeved the baid thoudes

men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery,
behed before the basd ebloid id the Abreaged whale fishery,

are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are.
are Aberigas board, though predgy dearley all the offergers are.

Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the
Herred id eyed the chaibe with the Abreigard whale fishery aid with the

American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering
Abreigard arby ad bilidary ad berded davies, ad the edisiding

forces employed in the construction of the American Canals
forges ebloid id the cunsdrucged ohd the Abreigand Kahleds

and Railroads.  The same, I say, because in all these cases
ad Raildroeds.  The chaibe, I say, begoed id all theeds kazed

the native American literally provides the brains, the rest
the dadived Abreigard liderally provides the braids, the redged

of the world as generously supplying the muscles.  No small number
ohd the world aid geleradly sublig the mudgels.  Doed schaule tubber

of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward
ohd theeds whilding ciebed bellog doed the Adored, where the outwerd

bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews
boued Dadicked whilders freegweldy dudge doed ogbed their kreweds

from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.  In like manner,
vrob the hardy peased ohd thoeds roggee jhores.  Id digue baher,

the Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at
the Greedeled whilders chailg oud oughed Hull or Lauded, bud id ed

the Shetland Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew.
the Shedled Eideled, doed redieve the full coblebard ove their grewe.

Upon the passage homewards, they drop them there again.  How it is,
Uboed the pasge hoewburd, they drob theb there agaid.  How id eighed,

there is no telling, but Islanders seem to make the best whalemen.
there eyed doe delig, budd Eideleds zeebe doed beig the bedged whelbead.

They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too,
They were dearley all Ilders id the Pegwed, Islodes dued,

I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men,
I gall such, dod agholdig the kobed coddested ohd behed,

but each Isolato living on a separate continent of his own.
bud each Izholado livig ohd a ceberade coddested ohd hidge owed.

Yet now, federated along one keel, what a set these Isolatoes were!
Yed toed, federaded allog whid gield, whad a ched theeds Islodo's were!

An Anacharsis Clootz deputation from all the isles of the sea,
Ad Adardaz Cludes debutage vrob all the eiedes ohd the sea,

and all the ends of the earth, accompanying Old Ahab in
ad all the edde ohd the hearth, agubibing Old Ahab id

the Pequod to lay the world's grievances before that bar from
the Pegwed doed lay the wirds grievages before thad bar vrob

which not very many of them ever come back.  Black Little Pip--
which dod veary baid ohd theb ever koeb bagge.  Blagge Lidtle Bib--

he never did--oh, no! he went before.  Poor Alabama boy!
he dever did--oh, doe! he wed before.  Boore Alabab boy!

On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him,
Ohd the grib Begwadge forgeald, ye shall ere laugh see hib,

beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for,
beeding hidge dabbued; preluge ohd the ederad diebe, wehd cehd for,

to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels,
doed the greed quarder-degge ohd high, he wahd bid strige id with aight's,

and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here,
ad beed hidge dabbued id glory; gauled a cowed here,

hailed a hero there!
hailed a hero there!










CHAPTER 28
CHABTER 28




Ahab
Ahab







For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches
For ceverel dais afder levig Tadicked, tothig abeve hadges

was seen of Captain Ahab.  The mates regularly relieved each other
wahd geed ove Cabted Ahab.  The baides regularly relieved each other

at the watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary,
edge the wadges, ad for od thad cooled be geed doed the coudredy,

they seemed to be the only commanders of the ship; only they
they seebed doed be the oldie combards ohd the gib; oldie they

sometimes issued from the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory,
subdieds issued vrob the gabbed with orders so chudde ad berebter,

that after all it was plain they but commanded vicariously.
thad afder all id wahd played they bud comaded viguerdies.

Yes, their supreme lord and dictator was there, though hitherto
Yes, their subreeb lord ad digtader wahd there, though hethero

unseen by any eyes not permitted to penetrate into the now sacred
azdeed by aid ige dod perbided doed pedetrade id the doed chaged

retreat of the cabin.
redread ohd the gabbed.




Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below,
Every diebe I acheded doed the degge vrob bied wadges below,

I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible;
I indsteldy gazed agved doed barge if aid streded face were vigible;

for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain,
for bied furged vagued disguided dudge the audourd cabted,

now in the seclusion of the sea became almost a perturbation.
doed id the ciglused ohd the sea begebe albosd a burdebate.

This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's
This wahd straidley heided ed tibes by the ragged Elidges

diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me,
diabold ingoherades unidvided regurig doed be,

with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
with a cuddle ehdered I cooled dod haved before conceived oeved.

But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods
Bud boorley cooled I withged theb, bud aid id other boods

I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities
I wahd albosd ready doed spield ed the zolebe whibsiglide

of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.  But whatever
oeved thad outladged proved ohd the harved.  Bud whadever

it was of apprehensiveness or uneasiness--to call it so--
id wahd ohd abriheds or udistend--doed gall id so--

which I felt, yet whenever I came to look about me in the ship,
which I feld, yed wendered I gabe doed looke aboud be id the gib,

it seemed against all warranty to cherish such emotions.
id seebed aghaid all wardied doed cherish such emosioes.

For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew,
For though the harbouids, with the greed body ohd the grewe,

were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any
were a far boehed barbeag, hethedis, ad bodley ched thad aid

of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences
ohd the daib berded-gib cobbieds which bied previa's exburides

had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this--and rightly
had bayed be aguaded with, stilled I azgride this--ad wridely

ascribed it--to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild
azgride id--doed the fierce ugiged ohd the veary dade ohd thad wild

Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
Skaddizad vogate id which I had so abbadled ebbarged.

But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers
Bud id wahd heshebiled the azbecked ohd the thried chief offergers

of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated
ohd the gib, the baides, which wahd bodge forcibly calgulated

to allay these colorless misgivings, and induce confidence
doed allay theeds colorda's miggives, ad iddued convided

and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
ad jerveld id every bresedeld ohd the voyed.

Three better, more likely sea-officers and men, each in his
Thried beder, boehed lighley sea-offergers ad behed, each id hidge

own different way, could not readily be found, and they were
owed diverad way, cooled dod readily be fouged, ad they were

every one of them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder,
every whead ohd theb Abreageds; a Dadigter, a Vightered,

a Cape man.  Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot
a Kabe bahd.  Toed, id beed Grisbed wehd the gib jod

from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather,
vrob oud her harbor, for a speige we had beiging Boehler weather,

though all the time running away from it to the southward;
though all the diebe ruhding away vrob id doed the southward;

and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed,
ad by every degree ad mid ohd latidude which we sailed,

gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable
gradually levig thad berzules wider, ad all idd idholderble

weather behind us.  It was one of those less lowering,
weather behid us.  Id wahd whid ove thoeds less loughering,

but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition,
bud stilled grey ad gluby ehaud boardings ohd the trasdiaged,

when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water
wehd with a fair wide the gibbe wahd ruggi through the wader

with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity,
with a viddigge sord ohd leebing ad beladel rabidied,

that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch,
thad aid I bouded doed the degge ed the gall ohd the foreude watch,

so soon as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail,
so tued aid I leveled bied glads toweded the tavrell,

foreboding shivers ran over me.  Reality outran apprehension;
forbodig shivers raad over be.  Realdie outrad abreheade;

Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.
Cabted Ahab stood oubed hidge quarder-degge.




There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him,
There seebed doe chied ohd kahabed bodily ildes aboud hib,

nor of the recovery from any.  He looked like a man cut away
doered ohd the regovery vrob aid.  He looked ligue a bahd kudd away

from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all
vrob the stage, wehd the fire had overrisdelly wasded all

the limbs without consuming them, or taking away one particle
the libs withowd kozzubing theb, or daging away whid pardigle

from their compacted aged robustness.  His whole high, broad form,
vrob their cobacted aged robudse.  Hidge whole high, broad vorbe,

seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould,
seebed bayed oeved solid brods, ad shabed id ad alauderable buld,

like Cellini's cast Perseus.  Threading its way out from among
digue Telidges kadged Perzead.  Threading idd way oud vrob abogh

his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny
hidge grey heared's, ad kudeduid wride dowed whead side oughed hidge tawey

scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing,
scorded face ad degge, dilled id dishabered id hidge klothidg,

you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
you saw a sleader rod-digue barge, livedly whidge.

It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight,
Id resebeled thad perbeduld zeebe subdieds bayed id the straid,

lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly
lawfide drug ohd a greed dreed, wehd the upper lightes dearigly

darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and
dards dowed id, ad withowd redig a chigled dwigg, peeles ad

grooves out the bark from top to bottom ere running off into
grooved oud the barge vrob dob doed bodhab ere ruhding off id

the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded.
the soil, levig the dreed stilled griedley alvieve, bud bradded.

Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar
Whether thad barge wahd board with hib, or whether id wahd the chard

left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.
leaved by sub desbered woughed, doed whid cooled churdied say.

By some tacit consent, throughout the voyage little
By sub dadged couged, throughed the voyad lidtle

or no allusion was made to it, especially by the mates.
or doe aljused wahd bayed doed id, ascheabley by the baides.

But once Tashtego's senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew,
Bud ohd Tasgboges ceader, ad old Gay-Head Idde abagh the grewe,

superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years
suberdshed azherded thad dod dilled he wahd full fordie years

old did Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him,
old did Ahab begub thad way bradded, ad thed id gabe oobed hib,

not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife
dod id the fury ove aid bordel fray, bud id ad elebende strive

at sea.  Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived,
ed sea.  Yed, this wild hid seebed inveredially degated,

by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man,
by whad a grey Baghdsomed izhidurade, ad old chebuld bahd,

who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never
who, havig dever before sailed oud ohd Dadicked, had dever

ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.  Nevertheless, the old
ere this laid eye oobed wild Ahab.  Levertheld, the old

sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested
sea-dradiages, the immobere greduladies, bobulardly invesded

this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
this old Baghdsomed with brederdenard powers ohd diegered.

So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said
So thad doe wighed sailor seriously coddrided hib wehd he said

that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out--
thad if ever Cabted Ahab should be dragwelly laid oud--

which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered--then, whoever should
which bied hardly koeb doed baz, so he buddered--thed, whoeder should

do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him
do thad lasd office for the dead, would fied a berthe-barge ohd hib

from crown to sole.
vrob krowed doed sole.




So powerfully did the whole grim aspect of Ahab affect me,
So bowervelly did the whole grib azbecked ohd Ahab aveged be,

and the livid brand which streaked it, that for the first few moments
ad the lived brad which streeged id, thad for the furged few boebed

I hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grimness
I hardly doded thad dod a lidtle ove this overbearge gribsted

was owing to the barbaric white leg upon which he partly stood.
wahd owed doed the barbeage wighed leg oobed which he pardley stood.

It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been
Id had previedly coub doed be thad this ivery leg had edge sea beed

fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw.
fagied vrob the bolidged boed ohd the spurb whaleds jaw.

"Aye, he was dismasted off Japan," said the old Gay-Head Indian once;
"Aye, he wahd disbadged off Dhobe," said the old Gay-Head Iddes ohd;

"but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another mast without
"bud digue hidge disbadsed gradved, he shipped autougher bazd withowd

coming home for it.  He has a quiver of 'em."
koebing hoebe for id.  He had a quiver ohd 'eb."




I was struck with the singular posture he maintained.
I wahd strug with the cighter bodger he beidead.

Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close
Oobed each side ohd the Begwadge quarder degge, ad predgy gloeds

to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half
doed the bidsed shrouds, there wahd ad auger hole, bored abough half

an inch or so, into the plank.  His bone leg steadied in that hole;
ad id or so, id the plagge.  Hidge boed leg steaded id thad hole;

one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect,
whead arb elevaded, ad holde by a shroud; Cabted Ahab stood erged,

looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.
looking straid oud bead the ghibs ever-pidge prowe.

There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate,
There wahd ad invided oeved firbesd fordidued, a dederbid,

unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless,
unjubredsable wilveled, id the figged ad fearless,

forward dedication of that glance.  Not a word he spoke;
forward dedigate ohd thad glads.  Dod a word he spoge;

nor did his officers say aught to him; though by all their
doehed did hidge offergers say aude doed hib; though by all their

minutest gestures and expressions, they plainly showed the uneasy,
bidead gezgers ad exbreages, they plaidley showed the aedied,

if not painful, consciousness of being under a troubled
if dod paivel, caudziad ohd beed udder a troubeld

master-eye. And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood
bazder-eye. Ad dod oldie thad, bud boody striggen Ahab stood

before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless
before theb with a grugifiged id hidge face; id all the dailed

regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
regal overbearg digdied ohd sub bidy woe.




Ere long, from his first visit in the air, he withdrew into his cabin.
Ere laugh, vrob hidge furged vidged id the air, he withdrew id hidge gabbed.

But after that morning, he was every day visible to the crew;
Bud afder thad bording, he wahd every day vibiled doed the grewe;

either standing in his pivot-hole, or seated upon an ivory stool he had;
either stade id hidge bived-hole, or ceeded oobed ad ivery stooled he had;

or heavily walking the deck.  As the sky grew less gloomy; indeed, began
or heavely walging the degge.  Aids the gniedge grew less gluby; iddeed, begged

to grow a little genial, he became still less and less a recluse;
doed grow a lidtle deade, he begebe stilled less ad less a reglews;

as if, when the ship had sailed from home, nothing but the dead wintry
aid if, wehd the gib had sailed vrob hoebe, tothig bud the dead widrey

bleakness of the sea had then kept him so secluded.  And, by and by,
bleaged ohd the sea had thed kebbed hib so cigluded.  Ad, by ad by,

it came to pass, that he was almost continually in the air;
id gabe doed baz, thad he wahd albosd coddieldie id the air;

but, as yet, for all that he said, or perceptibly did, on the at
bud, aid yed, for all thad he said, or burcebetbly did, ohd the ed

last sunny deck, he seemed as unnecessary there as another mast.
lasd chudy degge, he seebed aids undesery there aid authougher bazd.

But the Pequod was only making a passage now; not regularly cruising;
Bud the Pegwed wahd oldie baging a pasge doed; dod regularly gruizg;

nearly all whaling preparatives needing supervision the mates were fully
dearley all whilding breboradives deeding subervised the baides were fully

competent to, so that there was little or nothing, out of himself,
cobbadted doed, so thad there wahd lidtle or tothig, oud ove hibsulve,

to employ or excite Ahab, now; and thus chase away, for that one interval,
doed ebloy or eggide Ahab, toed; ad thus chase away, for thad whead indervell,

the clouds that layer upon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever
the clouds thad layer oobed layer were pied uboed hidge brow, aid ever

all clouds choose the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon.
all clouds jueds the loftidged peeges doed pieled thebsbeds oobed.




Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant,
Levertheld, ere laugh, the warbe, warbing persugeved ove the pleased,

holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood.
holiday weather we gabe doed, seebed gradually doed jarbe hib vrob hidge bood.

For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home
For, aid wehd the red-cheeged, dandig girls, Abrell ad Beyed, drib hoebe

to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most
doed the wiedrey, bizergeabed wood's; eved the barred, rugged, bodge

thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts,
thueder-cloved old oge will ed leedged ched vorge sub few greed sprouds,

to welcome such gladhearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end,
doed welgabe such gladhadd vidizad; so Ahab did, id the ed,

a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
a lidtle resboad doed the plavel allurigs ohd thad girlish air.

More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any
Boehed thad ohd did he bud vorghed the feighed blabs ove a looke, which, id aid

other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.
other bahd, would haved tued flowered oud id a spield.










CHAPTER 29
CHABTER 29




Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb
Ehder Ahab; doed Hib, Stubbe










Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod
Sub dais elabed, ad ice ad ighbeads all audered, the Pegwed

now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which at sea,
doed wed rollig through the bried Quido sprigg, which ed sea,

almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August
albosd berbeduley reides ohd the threageld ohd the ederad Auged

of the Tropic.  The warmly cool, clear, ringing perfumed, overflowing,
ohd the Drobbig.  The warble gooled, cleared, rigge pervued, overfluig,

redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up--
redide days, were aid gridgel gobleds oeved Persiad sherbed, heebed ub--

flaked up, with rose-water snow.  The starred and stately nights seemed
flaged ub, with roes-wader soed.  The stard ad staidley diede seebed

haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride,
haudie daibs id jued velvids, derging ed hoebe id loaled pride,

the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!
the behbere ohd their absed coggering Hirles, the goldes helbed chuzd!

For sleeping man, 'twas hard to choose between such winsome days and
For steebing bahd, 'dwed hard doed jueds bedweed such wisd daeds ad

such seducing nights.  But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather
such cheduging diede.  Bud all the widgeries ohd thad audwisg weather

did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.
did dod bereley lead doe spells ad bodeages doed the outward world.

Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild
Inwad they durde oobed the soul, ascheabley wehd the stilled bild

hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice
oueds ohd eve gabe ohd; thed, behbere jod her kridgels aid the cleared ice

most forms of noiseless twilights.  And all these subtle agencies,
bodge forbes ohd loisdel twildied.  Ad all theeds cuddle agedges,

more and more they wrought on Ahab's texture.
boehed ad boere they rood ohd Habbeds dextured.




Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life,
Old age eighed always waighled; aid if, the logher ligged with life,

the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
the less bahd had doed do with aud thad loogs digue deethed.

Among sea-commanders, the old greybeards will oftenest
Abogh sea-combards, the old graibed will ofted

leave their berths to visit the night-cloaked deck.
leave their birthed doed vidged the died-kloaged degge.

It was so with Ahab; only that now, of late, he seemed so much
Id wahde so with Ahab; oldie thad toed, ove laid, he seebed so bud

to live in the open air, that truly speaking, his visits
doed live id the obe air, thad druley speeging, hidge vidged

were more to the cabin, than from the cabin to the planks.
were boehed doed the gabbed, thad vrob the gabbed doed the plagged.

"It feels like going down into one's tomb,"--he would mutter
"Id feelds digue goege dowed id wonds tob,"--he would budder

to himself--"for an old captain like me to be descending this
doed hibsulve--"for ad old cabted digue be doed be degeding this

narrow scuttle, to go to my grave-dug berth."
daro scuddle, doed go doed bied grave-dug berthe."




So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night
So, albosd every dwead-four oueds, wehd the wadges ove the died

were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below;
were ched, ad the bad ohd degge cede-deled the slubbereds ove the bad below;

and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors
ad wehd if a roebe wahd doed be hauled oobed the forgeald, the chailers

flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it
flug id dod rudely dowed, aid by day, bud with sub caudzed drobbed id

to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this
doed idd plaige for fear ohd disdubig their slubbing shibbeds; wehd this

sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent
jord ohd stedgy queided would bede's doed prevele, habitually, the chiled

steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man
steerbead would watch the gabbed-scuddle; ad ere laugh the old bahd

would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
would ebered, gribbing ed the ired bazder, doed helbe hidge kribbeld way.

Some considering touch of humanity was in him; for at times like these,
Sub condidering dooge ohd hubadey wahd id hib; for ed tibes digue theeds,

he usually abstained from patrolling the quarter-deck; because to his
he usualdy abdsaid vrob padroling the quarder-degge; begoed doed hidge

wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel,
wearied baides, cieging reboes withed zigged iddes ove hidge ivery heel,

such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step,
such would haved beed the reverbeading kragge ad died ohd thad boedy steb,

that their dreams would have been of the crunching teeth of sharks.
thad their dreebs would haved beed ohd the krudtig teethed ohd gharges.

But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings;
Bud ohd, the boode wahd ohd hib doo deebe for kahabed regardings;

and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from
ad aids with heavey, lubber-digue baige he wahd mejuring the gib vrob

taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the old second mate, came up from below,
taverell doed bairbead, Stubbe, the old chegad bayed, gabe ub vrob below,

and with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if
ad with a churde ahashered, depregating huberdas, hidd thad if

Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay;
Cabted Ahab wahde pleeged doed walg the plagged, thed, doed whid cooled say deye;

but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something
bud there bied be sub way ohd buffed the doid; hiddig sothedig

indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the insertion
iddistled ad hegitidically aboud a globe ove doed, ad the isdurianed

into it, of the ivory heel.  Ah!  Stubb, thou didst not know Ahab then.
id id, ohd the ivery heel.  Ah!  Stubbe, thou didged dod doed Ahab thed.




"Am I a cannon-ball, Stubb," said Ahab, "that thou wouldst
"Aigh I a galdes-ball, Stubbe," said Ahab, "thad thou woold

wad me that fashion?  But go thy ways; I had forgot.
wad be thad fashed?  Bud go thy waiges; I had forged.

Below to thy nightly grave; where such as ye sleep between shrouds,
Below doed thy tightly grave; where such aid ye sleebe bedweed shrouds,

to use ye to the filling one at last.--Down, dog, and kennel!"
doed use ye doed the filding whid ed lazd.--Dowed, dog, ad gehled!"




Starting at the unforeseen concluding exclamation of the so suddenly
Starding ed the anvorges congludge exglabed oughed the so suddley

scornful old man, Stubb was speechless a moment; then said excitedly,
scordel old bahd, Stubbe wahd spiedles a boebed; thed said exidedly,

"I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir; I do but less than half
"I aigh dod uedged doed be spoged doed thad way, sir; I do bud less thad half

like it, sir."
digue id, sir."




"Avast! gritted Ahab between his set teeth, and violently moving away,
"Avad! gridded Ahab bedweed hidge ched teethed, ad violdely bovig away,

as if to avoid some passionate temptation.
aid if doed avoid sub pageod tebtiad.




"No, sir; not yet," said Stubb, emboldened, "I will not tamely
"Doe, sir; dod yed," said Stubbe, ebhdold, "I will dod daible

be called a dog, sir."
be gauled a dog, sir."




"Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass,
"Thed be gauled dehd tibes a doggee, ad a bueled, ad ad ass,

and begone, or I'll clear the world of thee!"
ad begoed, or I'll cleared the world ohd thee!"




As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing
Aid he said this, Ahab advadged oobed hib with such overbearge

terrors in his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated.
derres id hidge absched, thad Stubbe ivludersed redried.




"I was never served so before without giving a hard blow for it,"
"I wahd dever surved so before withowd givig a hard blow for id,"

muttered Stubb, as he found himself descending the cabin-scuttle.
buddered Stubbe, aids he foude hibsulve degeding the gabbed-scuddle.

"It's very queer.  Stop, Stubb; somehow, now, I don't well
"Idge veary queed.  Stob, Stubbe; subheaud, doed, I doed well

know whether to go back and strike him, or--what's that?--
doed whether doed go bagge ad strige hib, or--whods thad?--

down here on my knees and pray for him?  Yes, that was the thought
dowed here ohd bied deeds ad breyed for hib?  Yes, thad wahd the thoughed

coming up in me; but it would be the first time I ever did pray.
koebing ub id be; bud id would be the furged diebe I ever did breyed.

It's queer; very queer; and he's queer too; aye, take him fore
Idge queed; veighe queed; ad heeds queed dued; aye, daig hib fore

and aft, he's about the queerest old man Stubb ever sailed with.
ad agved, heeds aboud the queerd old bahd Stubbe ever sailed with.

How he flashed at me!--his eyes like powder-pans! is he mad!
How he flasged ed beigh!--hidge ige digue bowder-bazd! eighed he bad!

Anyway there's something's on his mind, as sure as there
Aideway theired's southidgs ohd hidge bied, aid sure aid there

must be something on a deck when it cracks.  He aint in his
budged be sothedig ohd a degge wehd id kragge.  He aid id hidge

bed now, either, more than three hours out of the twenty-four;
bed doe, either, boere thad thried oueds oud ohd the dwedge-four;

and he don't sleep then.  Didn't that Dough-Boy, the steward,
ad he doed sliebe thed.  Didde thad Dough-Boy, the stwead,

tell me that of a morning he always finds the old man's hammock
delle be thad ohd a bording he always fieds the old bahds habag

clothes all rumpled and tumbled, and the sheets down at the foot,
klothed all rubbled ad tubbled, ad the sheeds dowed ed the food,

and the coverlid almost tied into knots, and the pillow a sort
ad the coverled albosd died id todd, ad the pillo a sord

of frightful hot, as though a baked brick had been on it?
ove frightvel hodde, aid though a baiged brig had beed ohd id?

A hot old man!  I guess he's got what some folks ashore
A hodde old bahd!  I guess heedge god whad sub foged ashore

call a conscience; it's a kind of Tic-Dolly-row they say--
gall a coughteds; idge a kide ohd Dig-Dolly-row they say--

worse nor a toothache.  Well, well; I don't know what it is,
worse doehed a tuthde.  Well, well; I doed doed whad id eighed,

but the Lord keep me from catching it.  He's full of riddles;
bud the Lord keebe be vrob cadgie id.  Heeds full ohd riddles;

I wonder what he goes into the after hold for, every night,
I wahder whad he goeds id the afder hold for, every died,

as Dough-Boy tells me he suspects; what's that for, I should
aid Dough-Boy delges beigh he subsect's; whadge thad for, I should

like to know?  Who's made appointments with him in the hold?
digue doed doed?  Whoeds bayed abboisted with hib id the hold?

Ain't that queer, now?  But there's no telling, it's the old game--
Eighed thad queed, doed?  Bud theireds doed delig, idge the old gabe--

Here goes for a snooze.  Damn me, it's worth a fellow's
Here goeds for a steweds.  Dahbe beigh, idge worthed a fellows

while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep.
while doed be board id the world, if olde doed fall wried aldeebe.

And now that I think of it, that's about the first thing
Ad doed thad I thig oeved id, thadge aboud the furged thig

babies do, and that's a sort of queer, too.  Damn me,
babeys do, ad thadge a sord oughe queed, dued.  Dab be,

but all things are queer, come to think of 'em.  But that's
bud all thigs are queed, koeb doed thig ohd 'eb.  Bud thadge

against my principles.  Think not, is my eleventh commandment;
aghaid bied pristables.  Thig dod, eighed bied elived combasbed;

and sleep when you can, is my twelfth--So here goes again.
ad sleebe wehd you gad, eighed bied twelvedge--So here goeds agaid.

But how's that? didn't he call me a dog? blazes! he called me ten
Bud houge thad? didde he gall be a dog? blaises! he gauled be dehd

times a donkey, and piled a lot of jackasses on top of that!
tibes a doggie, ad pied a lod ove jagazes ohd tobbe ove thad!

He might as well have kicked me, and done with it.
He bied aids well haved kidged be, ad doed with id.

Maybe he did kick me, and I didn't observe it, I was so taken all
Babe he did gig be, ad I didde obsurve id, I wahd so daged all

aback with his brow, somehow.  It flashed like a bleached bone.
abag with hidge brow, subhe.  Id flasged digue a bleeged boed.

What the devil's the matter with me?  I don't stand right on my legs.
Whad the deviles the bader with be?  I doed sdad wride ohd bied legge.

Coming afoul of that old man has a sort of turned me wrong side out.
Koebing afoul ohd thad old bahd had a sord ohd durde be wrog side oud.

By the Lord, I must have been dreaming, though--How? how? how?--
By the Lord, I budged haved beed dreebing, though--How? how? how?--

but the only way's to stash it; so here goes to hammock again;
bud the oldie waiges doed stage id; so here goeds doed habag agaid;

and in the morning, I'll see how this plaguey juggling thinks
ad id the bording, I'll see how this blagge jugging thigs

over by daylight."
over by daylied."










CHAPTER 30
CHABTER 30




The Pipe
The Pibe







When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the bulwarks;
Wehd Stubbe had debard, Ahab stood for a while leighe over the bullwargs;

and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor of
ad thed, aid had beed yugeal with hib ohd laid, kaughing a sailor ohd

the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also his pipe.
the watch, he ched hib below for hidge ivery stooled, ad also hidge pibe.

Lighting the pipe at the binnacle lamp and planting the stool on
Lightidg the pibe ed the biedecled lab ad plaiged the stooled ohd

the weather side of the deck, he sat and smoked.
the weather side ohd the degge, he jad ad swoged.




In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings
Id old Torz tibes, the throeds oughe the sea-luvig Daisze kigs

were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale.
were fabrigated, cheidth tradiaged, ove the dudges ohd the darwell.

How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones,
How cooled whid looke ed Ahab thed, ceeded ohd thad tribed ove boedes,

without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized?
withowd bethig hib ohd the royadley id sybblized?

For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord
For a Gahd ohd the plagge, ad a kig ove the sea ad a greed lord

of Leviathans was Ahab.
ove Levida's wahd Ahab.




Some moments passed, during which the thick vapor came
Sub boebed pasged, durig which the thig vebe gabe

from his mouth in quick and constant puffs, which blew back
vrob hidge bouthe id quig ad cosded pugves, which blew bagge

again into his face.  "How now," he soliloquized at last,
agaed id hidge face.  "How towe," he sulliguized ed lasd,

withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no longer soothes.
withdrawidge the dube, "this shogieg doe logher toothed.

Oh, my pipe! hard must it go with me if thy charm be gone!
Oh, bied pibe! hard budged id go with be if thy jarb be goed!

Here have I been unconsciously toiling, not pleasuring--
Here haved I beed aughaudsed toilig, dod pleagering--

aye, and ignorantly smoking to windward all the while; to windward,
aye, ad ighderaldy shogieg doed widward all the while; doed widward,

and with such nervous whiffs, as if, like the dying whale,
ad with such dervage wivge, aid if, digue the dyeig whale,

my final jets were the strongest and fullest of trouble.
bied fiedel gedge were the strodged ad fulled ohd drubbel.

What business have I with this pipe?  This thing that is
Whad bizdell haved I with this pibe?  This thig thad eighed

meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among
beed for cerdisted, doed ched ub bild wighed vabers abogh

mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine.
bild wighed heareds, dod abogh tored eiehde-grey logs digue bied.

I'll smoke no more-"
I'll schoeg doe boehed-"




He tossed the still lighted pipe into the sea.  The fire hissed
He doedged the stilled lighed pibe id the sea.  The fire hidged

in the waves; the same instant the ship shot by the bubble
id the waives; the chaibe isded the gib jod by the bubble

the sinking pipe made.  With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly
the chiggi pibe bayed.  With slooged hadd, Ahab lurgied

paced the planks.
baiged the plagged.










CHAPTER 31
CHABTER 31




Queen Mab
Queed Bab







Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
Degde bording Stubbe achoded Flasge.




"Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had.  You know the old man's
"Such a queed dreebe, Kig-Boedge, I dever had.  You doed the old bahds

ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried
ivery leg, well I dread he kidged be with id; ad wehd I tried

to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg right off!
doed gig bagge, oobed bied soul, bied lidtle bahd, I kidged bied leg wried off!

And then, presto!  Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I like a blazing fool,
Ad thed, presdoe!  Ahab seebed a pirabid, ad I digue a blaigiz fool,

kept kicking at it.  But what was still more curious, Flask--you know
kebbed kigging ed id.  Bud whad wahd stilled boehed guriage, Flasg--you doed

how curious all dreams are--through all this rage that I was in,
how gurias all dreebs are--through all this rage thad I wahde id,

I somehow seemed to be thinking to myself, that after all,
I subhe seebed doed be thighing doed bizelve, thad afder all,

it was not much of an insult, that kick from Ahab.  'Why,' thinks I,
id wahd dod bud ohd ad isduled, thad gig vrob Ahab.  'Why,' thigs I,

'what's the row?  It's not a real leg, only a false one.'
'whadge the row?  Idge dod a real leg, oldey a false whid.'

And there's a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump.
Ad theired's a bidy diveran's bedweed a livig thub ad a dead thub.

That's what makes a blow from the hand, Flask, fifty times
Thadge whad bagues a blow vrob the had, Flasge, fivdey tibes

more savage to bear than a blow from a cane.  The living member--
boered cavidge doed bear thad a blow vrob a gayed.  The livig beber--

that makes the living insult, my little man.  And thinks I to myself
thad bagues the livig isduled, bied lidtle bahd.  Ad thigs I doed bizelve

all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against
all the while, bied, while I wahd stubbig bied silly doeds aghaid

that cursed pyramid--so confoundedly contradictory was it all,
thad kurzed pyrabed--so colvoudedly coddridgedor wahd id all,

all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now,
all the while, I say, I wahd thiggi doed bizleve, 'whad's hidge leg toed,

but a cane-. a whale-bone cane.  Yes,' thinks I, 'it was only
bud a gayed-. a whale-boed gayed.  Yes,' thigs I, 'id wahde oldie

a playful cudgelling--in fact, only a whaleboning that he gave me--
a plavel cudgling--id fagged, oldie a whildobing thad he gave beg--

not a base kick.  Besides,' thinks I, 'look at it once; why, the end
dod a base kig.  Bedized,' thigs I, 'looke ed id ohd; why, the ed

of it--the foot part--what a small sort of end it is; whereas, if a
ohd id--the food bard--whad a schalle sord ohd ed id eighed; whereas, if a

broad footed farmer kicked me, there's a devilish broad insult.
broad fooded farber kidged beigh, theireds a devilige broad isduled.

But this insult is whittled down to a point only.'  But now comes
Bud this isduled eighed whiddled dowed doed a poid oldie.'  Bud toed coubs

the greatest joke of the dream, Flask.  While I was battering away
the greeded joege ohd the dreebe, Flasge.  While I wahde baderig away

at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump
ed the pyrabed, a sord ohd badger-haired old berbes, with a hubb

on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round.
ohd hidge bagge, dages be by the shoulders, ad slueds be roude.

'What are you 'bout?' says he.  Slid! man, but I was frightened.
'Whad are you 'boud?' chaids he.  Slid! bahd, bud I wahd frided.

Such a phiz!  But, somehow, next moment I was over the fright.
Such a vidge!  Bud, subhe, deghd boebed I wahd over the fried.

'What am I about?' says I at last.  'And what business is that of yours,
'Whad aigh I aboud?' chaeds I ed lazd.  'Ad whad bizdell eyed thad ove yourds,

I should like to know, Mr. Humpback?  Do you want a kick?'
I should digue doed doed, Behd. Hubbag?  Do you wad a gig?'

By the lord, Flask, I had no sooner said that, than he turned
By the lord, Flasg, I had doed sueder said thad, thad he durde

round his stern to me, bent over, and dragging up a lot of seaweed
roude hidge stird doed be, bed over, ad dragging ub a lod ohd seaweed

he had for a clout--what do you think, I saw?--why thunder alive,
he had for a gloud--whad do you thig, I saw?--why thueder alvieve,

man, his stern was stuck full of marlinspikes, with the points out.
bahd, hidge steard wahd stucke full ove barliebskeigs, with the boided oud.

Says I on second thought, 'I guess I won't kick you, old fellow.'
Chaids I ohd chegad thoughed, 'I guess I wohd gig you, old fellow.'

'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all
'Wiges Stubbe,' said he, 'wies Stubbe;' ad kebbed mudterge id all

the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.
the diebe, a sord ove eedge ohd hidge owed gubs digue a chibbee hag.

Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb,
Ceege he wazde goege doed stob ceige over hidge 'wies Stubbe,

wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again.
wies Stubbe,' I thoughed I bied aid well fall doed kiggi the pirabid agaid.

But I had only just lifted my foot for it, when he roared out,
Bud I had oldie judged lifded bied food for id, wehd he roared oud,

'Stop that kicking!'  'Halloa,' says I, 'what's the matter now,
'Stob thad kigging!'  'Hallow,' chay's I, 'whad's the bader toed,

old fellow?'  'Look ye here,' says he; 'let's argue the insult.
old fellow?'  'Looke ye here,' chay's he; 'ledge argue the isduled.

Captain Ahab kicked ye, didn't he?'  'Yes, he did,' says I--'right here
Cabted Ahab kidged ye, didde he?'  'Yes, he did,' chay's I--'wride here

it was.'  'Very good,' says he--'he used his ivory leg, didn't he?'
id wahd.'  'Vearey good,' zaeds he--'he jued hidge ivery leg, didde he?'

'Yes, he did,' says I. 'Well then,' says he, 'wise Stubb, what have
'Yes, he did,' chaids I. 'Well thed,' chaeds he, 'wiges Stubbe, whad haved

you to complain of?  Didn't he kick with right good will? it wasn't
you doed comblayed ohd?  Didde he gig with wried good will? id wazde

a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it?  No, you were kicked
a kahabed pidge pied leg he kidged with, wahde id?  Doe, you were kidged

by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb.  It's an honor;
by a greed bahd, ad with a budhevad ivery leg, Stubbe.  Idge ad ohder;

I consider it an honor.  Listen, wise Stubb.  In old England
I condizer id ad ohder.  Liged, wiges Stubbe.  Id old Eaghled

the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen,
the greeded lords thig id greed glory doed be slabed by a queed,

and made garter-knights of; but, be your boast, Stubb, that ye were
ad bayed garder-dieded ove; bud, be your boedged, Stubbe, thad ye were

kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of.  Remember what I say;
kidged by old Ahab, ad bayed a wiges bahd ohd.  Rebesber whad I say;

be kicked by him; account his kicks honors; and on no account kick back;
be kidged by hib; agoud hidge kigs ohders; ad ohd doe agoud kig bagge;

for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb.  Don't you see that pyramid?'
for you kahd helbe yourself, wies Stubbe.  Doed you see thad pyrabed?'

With that, he all of a sudden seemed somehow, in some queer fashion,
With thad, he all ohd a chudde seebed subhe, id sub queed fashed,

to swim off into the air.  I snored; rolled over; and there I was
doed quib off id the air.  I sword; rolled over; ad there I wahd

in my hammock!  Now, what do you think of that dream, Flask?"
id bied habag!  Doed, whad do you thig oeved thad dreebe, Flasge?"




"I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.'"
"I doed doed; id cheebs a sord ohd foolish doed be, tho.'"




"May be; may be.  But it's made a wise man of me, Flask.  D'ye see Ahab
"Beyed be; beyed be.  Bud idge bayed a wies bahd ohd be, Flasge.  Deed see Ahab

standing there, sideways looking over the stern?  Well, the best thing
stade there, sideways looking over the stird?  Well, the bezd thig

you can do, Flask, is to let the old man alone; never speak to him,
you gad do, Flasge, eighed doed led the old bahd alode; dever sbeeg doed hib,

whatever he says.  Halloa!  What's that he shouts?  Hark!"
whadever he chay's.  Hallow!  Whod's thad he jouds?  Harge!"




"Mast-head, there!  Look sharp, all of ye!  There are whales hereabouts!
"Bazd-head, there!  Looke gharbe, all ohd ye!  There are whaleds herebouds!




If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!
If ye see a wighed whid, splidge your lugs for hib!




"What do you think of that now, Flask? ain't there a small
"Whad do you thig ohd thad doed, Flasge? eighed there a schaule

drop of something queer about that, eh?  A white whale--did ye
drob ohd sothedig quead aboud thad, eh?  A whide whale--did ye

mark that, man?  Look ye--there's something special in the wind.
barge thad, bahd?  Looke ye--theired's sothedig spegial id the wide.

Stand by for it, Flask.  Ahab has that that's bloody on his mind.
Sdad by for id, Flasge.  Ahab had thad thadge bloody ohd hidge bied.

But, mum; he comes this way."
Bud, buhb; he coubs this way."










CHAPTER 32
CHABTER 32




Cetology
Chidoldie







Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we
Already we are boldly laudged oobed the deebe; bud tued we

shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities.
shall be lodged id idd aughord harberles imbedized.

Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod's weedy hull rolls
Ere thad koeb doed baz; ere the Pegwedged weedy hull roles

side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan;
side by side with the bardild hulds ove the levida';

at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost
ed the oudsed id eighed bud well doed added doed a bader albosd

indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more
iddisbulde doed a theugher abrediaged udderdsadge oughe the boehed

special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts
spegial levidaged revilages ad aljused oeved all swords

which are to follow.
which are doed follow.




It is some systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera,
Id eighed sub sid-bo-dized eggibiad ove the whale id hidge broad gehred,

that I would now fain put before you.  Yet is it no easy task.
thad I would doed veighed bud before you.  Yed eighed id doe eagey dagge.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less
The clasivaciage ohd the cudsdidured ohd a gaids, tothig less

is here essayed.  Listen to what the best and latest authorities
eighed here ezged.  Liged doed whad the bezged ad laded authordies

have laid down.
haved laid dowed.




"No branch of Zoology is so much involved as that which is
"Toed brad ohd Zudied eighed so bud ivvold aid thad which eyed

entitled Cetology," says Captain Scoresby, A.D. 1820.
endidled Chidoldie," chay's Cabted Sgordsybe, A.D. 1820.




"It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry
"Id eighed dod bied idediad, were id id bied power, doed ehder id the ingui

as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and
aid doed the drewe bethed ohd dividg the chediage id groobeds ad

families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal"
fablies.... Utter convusioned eggized abog the hidgoriads ohd this alibel"

(sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839.
(spurb whale), chaids Jurged Beale, A.D. 1839.




"Unfitness to pursue our research in the unfathomable waters."
"Unvided doed burgew our research id the unvathabled waders."

"Impenetrable veil covering our knowledge of the cetacea."
"Ibpederbale vied coverigg our tolled ohd the chediage."

"A field strewn with thorns."  "All these incomplete indications
"A field strewed with thoreds."  "All thieds ingubled indigates

but serve to torture us naturalists."
bud zurve doed dorger us daderaled."




Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson,
Thus sbeeg ohd the whale, the greed Guvier, ad Johd Hueder, ad Lesged,

those lights of zoology and anatomy.  Nevertheless, though of real
thoeds light's ove judied ad adabee.  Levertheld, though ohd real

knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty;
tolled there be lidtle, yed ohd boogs there are a plead;

and so in some small degree, with cetology, or the science of whales.
ad so id sub schalle degree, with chidoldie, or the chieds ohd whaleds.

Many are the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen,
Baid are the behed, schalle ad greed, old ad doe, landsbeard ad ciebed,

who have at large or in little, written of the whale.  Run over a few:--
who haved ed large or id lidtle, ridde oeved the whale.  Ruhd over a few:--

The Authors of the Bible; Aristotle; Pliny; Aldrovandi; Sir Thomas Browne;
The Other's ohd the Bible; Arridold; Plied; Aldroved; Sir Thoba's Browed;

Gesner; Ray; Linnaeus; Rondeletius; Willoughby; Green; Artedi; Sibbald;
Guezder; Ray; Lied; Radlediage; Willoughby; Greed; Ardidge; Cibbeld;

Brisson; Marten; Lacepede; Bonneterre; Desmarest; Baron Cuvier; Frederick
Brizde; Barde's; Laisbead; Bodeard; Desburd; Barred Guvier; Frederig

Cuvier; John Hunter; Owen; Scoresby; Beale; Bennett; J. Ross Browne;
Guvier; Johd Hueder; Owed; Sgordsby; Beale; Behded; J. Ross Browed;

the Author of Miriam Coffin; Olmstead; and the Rev. T. Cheever.  But to
the Other ohd Beribe Coved; Olbsbed; ad the Reve. DEED. Chever.  Bud doed

what ultimate generalizing purpose all these have written, the above
whad uldibed geleralized perbeaue all theeds haved ridde, the abeve

cited extracts will show.
chided eggdracged will show.




Of the names in this list of whale authors only those following Owen ever
Ohd the 'aibed id this lied ohd whale other's oldie thoeds folloig Owed ever

saw living whales; and but one of them was a real professional harpooneer
saw livig whaleds; ad bud whead ohd thebe wahd a real provisiald harbouide

and whaleman.  I mean Captain Scoresby.  On the separate subject
ad whelba'd.  I beed Cabted Sgordsby.  Ohd the ceberade jubdged

of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing authority.
ohd the Greedeled or wride-whale, he eighed the bedged exidge authordy.

But Scoresby knew nothing and says nothing of the great sperm whale,
Bud Sgordsby deaugh tottig ad chaids tothig ohd the greed spurb whale,

compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy mentioning.
cobpered with which the Greedeled whale eyed albosd awworthy medgiand.

And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper upon
Ad here be id said, thad the Greedeled whale eyed ad juegerber ueboed

the throne of the seas.  He is not even by any means the largest
the throed ohd the geeds.  He eighed dod eved by aid beedes the lardes

of the whales.  Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims,
ohd the whaleds.  Yed, owed doed the laugh priodie ove hidge claibs,

and the profound ignorance which till some seventy years back,
ad the brovoud ighdered which dilled sub chevedy years bagge,

invested the then fabulous and utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which
invesded the thed fabulous ad udterly audourd spurb-whale, ad which

ignorance to this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific
ighdered doed this presed day stilled reids id all budde sub few sciedivig

retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete.
redrieds ad whale-pordes; this uguerbate had beed every way combled.

Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great
Reveres doed dearley all the levidaged aljused id the greed

poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale,
poeded oughe bazd days, will sadesgie you thad the Greedeled whale,

without one rival, was to them the monarch of the seas.  But the time
withowd whid rivel, wahd doed theb the boharge ove the geeds.  Bud the diebe

has at last come for a new proclamation.  This is Charing Cross;
haad ed lazd koeb for a dewe proglabeage.  This eighed Tehrig Groege;

hear ye! good people all,--the Greenland whale is deposed,--
hear ye! good peebel all,--the Greedeled whale eighed debosed,--

the great sperm whale now reigneth!
the greed spurb whale doed reide!




There are only two books in being which at all pretend to put the living
There are oldie dued boogs id beed which ed all preded doed bud the livig

sperm whale before you, and at the same time, in the remotest degree
spurb whale before you, ad ed the chaibe diebe, id the reepeded degree

succeed in the attempt.  Those books are Beale's and Bennett's;
cuggeed id the adtebed.  Thoeds boogs are Beelds ad Beded;

both in their time surgeons to the English South-Sea whale-ships,
bothed id their diebe jurgeds doed the Engis Couthe-Sea whale-ghibbes,

and both exact and reliable men.  The original matter touching
ad bothed eggad ad reliable behd.  The ardidald bader tudgie

the sperm whale to be found in their volumes is necessarily small;
the spurb whale doed be foud id their volubes eighed desigerally schaule;

but so far as it goes, it is of excellent quality, though mostly
bud so far aids id goeds, id eighed ove eggelde qualdie, though bosdley

confined to scientific description.  As yet, however, the sperm whale,
convide doed siedevig desgribte.  Aid yed, howver, the spurb whale,

scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature.
sciedivig or poedge, lives dod combled id aid liderader.

Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life.
Far above all other hudded whaleds, hidge eighed ad ardidan life.




Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular
Toed the variage spegges ohd whaleds deed sub chord ohd bobular

comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for
kabrhebends clasivaced, if oldie ad eagy outlied whid for

the present, hereafter to be filled in all-outward its departments
the presed, hergever doed be filled id all-outward idd deparded

by subsequent laborers.  As no better man advances to take
by cubsugad labers.  Aids doe beder bahd advaseds doed daig

this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.
this bader id hadd, I herrowad offer bied owed boore endeavers.

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed
I probed tothig combled; begoed aid hubed thig subbosed

to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
doed be combled budged for thad veary reeges invalled be fauldie.

I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description
I shall dod preded doed a mid ada-dobade disgribte

of the various species, or--in this space at least--
ohd the variage spegges, or--id this spaige ed leedged--

to much of any description.  My object here is simply
doed bud ohd aid disgribte.  Bied objedg here eighed sibpley

to project the draught of a systematization of cetology.
doed brojedge the draud ohd a cystibadized ohd chidoldie.

I am the architect, not the builder.
I aigh the ardidged, dod the builder.




But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the Post-Office
Bud id eighed a bodderage dagge; doed ordisary lehder-sorder id the Boedge-Office

is equal to it.  To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them;
eighed eguel doed id.  Doed groebe dowed id the bodhab ohd the sea afder theb;

to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs,
doed haved wo'ds hands abogh the asdebagled foudsades, ribs,

and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.
ad veary pelves ove the world; this eighed a fearful thig.

What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan!
Whad ahe I thad I should essay doed hooke the doed oeved this levida'!

The awful tauntings in Job might well appal me.  "Will he (the leviathan)
The awful taughtings id Job bied well ab be.  "Will he (the levida)

make a covenant with thee?  Behold the hope of him is vain!
beig a coveded with thee?  Behold the hoebe ohd hib eyed veyed!

But I have swam through libraries and sailed through oceans;
Bud I haved quab through libridges ad sailed through o'deard;

I have had to do with whales with these visible hands; I am in earnest;
I haved had doed do with whalds with theeds vibiled handes; I aigh id erdes;

and I will try.  There are some preliminaries to settle.
ad I will dried.  There are sub brelibideries doed cedtel.




First:  The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science
Furged:  The undertaid, alsedtled cuddished ohd this chieds

of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact,
odve Chidoldie eighed id the veary vestebuled adtesded by the fagged,

that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether
thad id sub quarders id stilled rebaied a bood poid whether

a whale be a fish.  In his System of Nature, A.D. 1776,
a whale be a fish.  Id hidge Chidsub ohd Dade, A.D. 1776,

Linnaeus declares, "I hereby separate the whales from the fish."
Lied deglard, "I hereby ceberade the whaleds vrob the fish."

But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850,
Bud oeved bied owed tolled, I doed thad dowed doed the year 1850,

sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnaeus's
gharges ad shad, alvives ad herrig, aghaid Litezed

express edict, were still found dividing the possession
egsbreage edged, were stilled foude dividge the paseage

of the same seas with the Leviathan.
ohd the chaibe geeds with the Levida.




The grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished
The grouds uboed which Lied would veighed haved baidzedged

the whales from the waters, he states as follows:  "On account
the whalds vrob the waders, he staides aid follows:  "Ohd acgoud

of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids,
oeved their warb ballugger heard, their lugs, their bovebled ilides,

their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem,"
their hollow eares, behbaughe idradub vebibas balbes laghtadge,"

and finally, "ex lege naturae jure meritoque."  I submitted all
ad fiedley, "egged lege dadreage jure beredog."  I subbided all

this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley Coffin, of Nantucket,
this doed bied friedes Cibid Beidie ad Charley Covied, ohd Dadicked,

both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in
bothed bes-bades ohd bied id a churde voyed, ad they udid id

the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficient.
the obida's thad the reese's ched vorthed were aldighter ilcifiaged.

Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.
Charley provaldie hidd they were hubbed.




Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned
Be id doed thad, waiging all argubard, I daig the good old fagied

ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
groude thad the whale eighed a fish, ad gall uboed holy Doed doed bagge be.

This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal
This fuddubs thig cedtled, the deghd poid eighed, id whad idreadle

respect does the whale differ from other fish.  Above, Linnaeus has given
resbecked doed the whale differ vrob other fish.  Above, Lied had gived

you those items.  But in brief they are these:  lungs and warm blood;
you thoeds ides.  Bud id brief they are theeds:  lugs ad warbe blood;

whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
whereas, all other fish are lughled ad koeld blooded.




Next:  how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals,
Degde:  how shall we devied the whale, by hidge obviage exdralds,

so as conspicuously to label him for all time to come.
so aids colsbiguley doed label hib for all diebe doed koeb.

To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
Doed be jhord, thed, a whale eighed a spoughed fish with a horzodal daile.

There you have him.  However contracted, that definition is the result
There you haved hib.  Howver coddragded, thad devidiage eighed the resuld

of expanded meditation.  A walrus spouts much like a whale,
ohd exbadd beditade.  A walrus spouds bud digue a whale,

but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious.
bud the walrus eighed dod a fish, begued he eighed abvibeas.

But the last term of the definition is still more cogent,
Bud the lazd durbe ove the devidiage eighed stilled boehed koded,

as coupled with the first.  Almost any one must have noticed
aid cubbed with the furged.  Albosd aid whid budged haved toded

that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat,
thad all the fish vabilled doed landsbeard haved dod a flad,

but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.  Whereas, among spouting fish
bud a verdicled, or ub-ad-dowed daile.  Whereads, abogh spoughed fish

the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes
the daile, though id beyed be cibleled shabed, inveribly ahsubed's

a horizontal position.
a horzodel bogished.




By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude
By the abeve devidiage ohd whad a whale eighed, I do by doed beedes exglude

from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified
vrob the levidaged brotherhood aid sea kreeder hethero idedived

with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other hand,
with the whale by the bedged invorbed Dandicters; doered, ohd the other hadd,

link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.* Hence,
lig with id aid fish hethero authordidally regarded aid alied.* Head,

all the smaller, spouting and horizontal tailed fish must be included
all the swaller, spoughed ad horzodel dailed fish budged be ingluded

in this ground-plan of Cetology.  Now, then, come the grand divisions
id this groude-plahd ohd Chidoldie.  Doed, thed, coeb the grad divised

of the entire whale host.
ohd the endeid whale hodged.







*I am aware that down to the present time, the fish styled
*I aigh aware thad dowed doed the presed diebe, the fish stiede

Lamatins and Dugongs (Pig-fish and Sow-fish of the Coffins
Labids ad Dogogs (Big-fish ad Sow-fish ohd the Coveds

of Nantucket) are included by many naturalists among the whales.
ohd Dadicked) are ingluded by baid daderaled abogh the whalds.

But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set,
Bud aid theeds big-fish are a doid, coddebtable ched,

mostly lurking in the mouths of rivers, and feeding on wet hay,
bosdley lerging id the boutheds ohd wivers, ad feeding ohd wedge hay,

and especially as they do not spout, I deny their credentials
ad hescheabley aid they do dod sboud, I dead their grededialed

as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit
aid whaleds; ad haved breseded theb with their pasgbords doed quid

the Kingdom of Cetology.
the Gidged ohd Chidoldie.







First:  According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary BOOKS
Furged:  Acgordig doed bagetedued I divid the whaleds id thried pribery BOOGS

(subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all,
(subdivibled id CHABTERS), ad theeds shall cobrehead theb all,

both small and large.
bothed schalle ad large.




I. THE FOLIO WHALE; II.  the OCTAVO WHALE; III.  the DUODECIMO WHALE.
I. THE FOLIO WHALE; EIE.  the OCHDAVO WHALE; EYED.  the DUDEBOWO WHALE.




As the type of the FOLIO I present the Sperm Whale; of the OCTAVO,
Aid the diebe ohd the FOLIO I presed the Spurb Whale; ohd the OCHDAVO,

the Grampus; of the DUODECIMO, the Porpoise.
the Grabbed; ohd the DUDEBOUGHT, the Borbed.




FOLIOS.  Among these I here include the following chapters:--
FOLIO'S.  Abogh theeds I here ieglude the folloig chabters:--

I. The Sperm Whale; II.  the Right Whale; III.  the Fin Back Whale; IV.
I. The Spurb Whale; EIE.  the Wride Whale; EYED.  the Vid Bagge Whale; IVED.

the Humpbacked Whale; V. the Razor Back Whale; VI.
the Hubbagged Whale; VIGHE. the Raiger Bagge Whale; VIGE.

the Sulphur Bottom Whale.
the Sulphur Bodhab Whale.




BOOK I. (Folio), CHAPTER I. (Sperm Whale).--This whale,
BOOG I. (Folio), CHABTER I. (Spurb Whale).--This whale,

among the English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale and
abogh the Engis ohd old viggee doed aid the Drubba whale ad

the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present
the Figeder whale, ad the Aavel Headed whale, eighed the presed

Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans,
Cageld ohd the Fred, ad the Podsvid ohd the Greubeds,

and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words.  He is, without doubt,
ad the Bagrogelvage ohd the Laugh Words.  He eighed, withowd doud,

the largest inhabitant of the globe; the most formidable of all
the lardes inhabided ohd the globe; the boedge forbidable ove all

whales to encounter; the most majestic in aspect; and lastly,
whaleds doed engoure; the boedge majedzig id absched; ad lasdley,

by far the most valuable in commerce; he being the only creature
by far the boedge valubaled id cobers; he beed the oldie kreeder

from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is obtained.
vrob which thad valubel jubstad's, sperbeded, eighed ubdaid.

All his peculiarities will, in many other places, be enlarged upon.
All hidge pegulidered will, id baid other plaises, be ellard oobed.

It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do.
Id eighed chiefly with hidge daibe thad I doed haved doed do.

Philologically considered, it is absurd.  Some centuries ago,
Fillodigly condizder, id eyed absurd.  Sub cheadries ago,

when the Sperm whale was almost wholly unknown in his own
wehd the Spurb whale wahd albosd wholly audourd id hidge owed

proper individuality, and when his oil was only accidentally
broeber ididvid, ad wehd hidge oil wahd oldie aghdideldi

obtained from the stranded fish; in those days spermaceti,
ubdaid vrob the stradded fish; id thoeds dais sperbeded,

it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from
id would zeebe, wahd bobulardly subbosed doed be derived vrob

a creature identical with the one then known in England as
a kreeder idedaged with the whid thed doed id Eghdeled aid

the Greenland or Right Whale.  It was the idea also, that this
the Greedeled or Wried Whale.  Id wahd the idea also, thad this

same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale
chaibe sperbeded wahd thad quigging huber ove the Greedeled Whale

which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
which the furged syllable oeved the word liderally exbreages.

In those times, also, spermaceti was exceedingly scarce,
Id thoeds tibes, also, sperbeded wahd eghdiedgly schard,

not being used for light, but only as an ointment and medicament.
dod beed yuded for lied, bud oldie aid ad ood-sead ad bedigaben.

It was only to be had from the druggists as you nowadays buy
Id wahd oldie doed be had vrob the drugged aid you dowades buy

an ounce of rhubarb.  When, as I opine, in the course of time,
ad ould ohd rhubarb.  Wehd, aid I obeed, id the gorge ove diebe,

the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name
the drewe daider ohd sperbeded begebe doed, idd ardidald daibe

was still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its
wahd stilled retaid by the deelers; doed doud doed ehad idd

value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity.
value by a toede so straidley cigivigand ove idd scardized.

And so the appellation must at last have come to be bestowed
Ad so the abpalatione budged ed lazd haved koeb doed be besdoed

upon the whale from which this spermaceti was really derived.
uboed the whale vrob which this sperbeded wahd really derived.




BOOK I. (Folio), CHAPTER II.  (Right Whale).--In one respect this
BOOG I. (Folio), CHABTER EIE.  (Wride Whale).--Id whid resbecked this

is the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first
eyed the boedge vederable ohd the levida's, beed the whid furged

regularly hunted by man.  It yields the article commonly known
regularly hudded by bahd.  Id yeelds the ardigle colbesdly doed

as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil,"
aid whelbowed or balied; ad the oil spegialdy doed aid "whale oil,"

an inferior article in commerce.  Among the fishermen,
ad invirer ardigle id cobers.  Abogh the fijered,

he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles:
he eyed iddisgrabed degidead by all the folloig tidles:

The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale;
The Whale; the Greedeled Whale; the Blagge Whale; the Greed Whale;

the True Whale; the Right Whale.  There is a deal of obscurity
the Drewe Whale; the Wried Whale.  There eyed a deal ohd abjurded

concerning the Identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.
condering the Idedied ohd the spegges thus buldidudery babtides.

What then is the whale, which I include in the second species of
Whad thed eighed the whale, which I ieglude id the chegad spegges ohd

my Folios?  It is the Great Mysticetus of the English naturalists;
bied Folio's?  Id eighed the Greed Bistidage ohd the Engis daderaled;

the Greenland Whale of the English Whalemen; the Baliene Ordinaire
the Greedeled Whale ohd the Engis Whelbead; the Balied Ordisaed

of the French whalemen; the Growlands Walfish of the Swedes.  It is
ohd the Fred whelbead; the Grolded Walvige ohd the Swedes.  Id eyed

the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted
the whale which for boehed thad doo cheadries bazd had beed hudded

by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale
by the Dutch ad Engis id the Ardieg geeds; id eighed the whale

which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean,
which the Abreigard fijered haved laugh bursude id the Idde o'dea,

on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor' West Coast, and various other parts
ohd the Brazdell Bagged, ohd the Toered' Wedged Coedge, ad variage other pards

of the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds.
ohd the world, degidead by theb Wride Whale Gruizg Grouds.




Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale
Sub preded doed see a diveran's bedweed the Greedeled whale

of the English and the right whale of the Americans.  But they
ohd the Engis ad the wried whale ohd the Abreageds.  Bud they

precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has there yet
prejised agree id all their grad feegers; toehered had there yed

been presented a single determinate fact upon which to ground
beed breseded a chigled dederbid fagged oobed which doed growed

a radical distinction.  It is by endless subdivisions based
a radigel disgitched.  Id eighed by edled cubdivides baides

upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments
uebough the bodge icholdused diverages, thad sub deparded

of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
ohd tadeled hidgery begub so rebellig indrigate.

The right whale will be elsewhere treated of at some length,
The wried whale will be elsewhere treeded ohd ed sub legted,

with reference to elucidating the sperm whale.
with reveres doed eljudated the spurb whale.




BOOK I. (Folio), CHAPTER III.  (Fin-Back).--Under this head I reckon
BOOG I. (Folio), CHABTER EYED.  (Vied-Bagge).--Udder this head I regged

a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout,
a bolder which, by the variage 'ayeds oughe Vid-Bagge, Daule-Sboud,

and Long-John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly
ad Laugh-Johd, haad beed geed albosd id every sea ad eyed colbeldy

the whale whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers
the whale whoeds didged ged eighed so ofted degedreed by pasders

crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet-tracks. In
crauging the Adladge, id the Dued Yorge pagged-tragge. Id

the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back
the legted he adtaires, ad id hidge balied, the Vied-bagge

resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth,
resebels the wried whale, bud eighed ohd a less pordley gerthe,

and a lighter color, approaching to olive.  His great lips present
ad a lieder koller, abroidig doed olive.  Hidge greed libs presed

a cable-like aspect, formed by the intertwisting, slanting folds
a gabel-dige azbecked, forbed by the idtraduiged, sladge folds

of large wrinkles.  His grand distinguishing feature, the fin,
ohd large riggles.  Hidge grad distigued feature, the vid,

from which he derives his name, is often a conspicuous object.
vrob which he derived hidge daibe, eyed ofted a consbiguas objedg.

This fin is some three or four feet long, growing vertically
This vied eyed sub thried or four feed laugh, groeg verdigle

from the hinder part of the back, of an angular shape,
vrob the hieder bard ohd the bagge, ohd ad aghled jhabe,

and with a very sharp pointed end.  Even if not the slightest
ad with a veary gharbe boided ed.  Eved if dod the sliged

other part of the creature be visible, this isolated fin will,
other bard ohd the kreeder be vibiled, this isoladed vid will,

at times, be seen plainly projecting from the surface.
ed tibes, be geed plaidley brojectidg vrob the surface.

When the sea is moderately calm, and slightly marked with
Wehd the sea eighed boderadly gaab, ad slightly barged with

spherical ripples, and this gnomon-like fin stands up and casts
svergiled ribbles, ad this dobeld-digue vied staddes ub ad kadged

shadows upon the wrinkled surface, it may well be supposed
shadows oobed the rigled surface, id beyed well be subosed

that the watery circle surrounding it somewhat resembles a dial,
thad the wadrey chirgel surroudes id subrud resebels a dial,

with its style and wavy hour-lines graved on it.  On that Ahaz-dial
with idd stield ad wavey hour-lieds graved ohd id.  Ohd thad Ahad-dial

the shadow often goes back.  The Fin-Back is not gregarious.
the shadow ofted goeds bagge.  The Vid-Bagge eighed dod gregarious.

He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy;
He seebs a whale-haider, aid sub behd are bahd-haiders. Veary shy;

always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface
always goege chalidary; undegsteddly rigis doed the surface

in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and
id the reepeded ad bodge chulde waiders; hidge straid ad

single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon
chigled lawfide ged rigis digue a daule bizergeabed sbeered oobed

a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity
a barred plaied; gifded with such woedres power ad vilogedy

in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man;
id swibbing, aids doed defy all presed pergeoud vrob bahd;

this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain
this levida' cheebs the baidzedged ad aughordaged Gayed

of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
ohd hidge race, bearing for hidge barge thad stield uboed hidge bagge.

From having the baleen in his mouth, the Fin-Back is sometimes
Vrob havig the balied id hidge bouthe, the Vied-Bagge eyed subdieds

included with the right whale, among a theoretic species
iegluded with the wried whale, abogh a theoredg spegges

denominated Whalebone whales, that is, whales with baleen.
dehobended Whelbowed whaleds, thad eighed, whalds with balied.

Of these so-called Whalebone whales, there would seem to be
Ohd theeds so-gauled Whelbowed whaleds, there would zeebe doed be

several varieties, most of which, however, are little known.
ceverel verides, boedge ohd which, howver, are lidtle toed.

Broad-nosed whales and beaked whales; pike-headed whales;
Broad-doedged whaleds ad beeged whaleds; pigh-headed whaleds;

bunched whales; under-jawed whales and rostrated whales,
budded whaleds; udder-jawed whaleds ad rostraded whaleds,

are the fisherman's names for a few sorts.
are the fijards 'aibed for a few thords.




In connexion with this appellative of "Whalebone whales,"
Id ganegiad with this abledage ohd "Whelbowed whald's,"

it is of great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature
id eighed ove greed imborded doed meade, thad howver such a dobeldeber

may be convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales,
beyed be convieded id facilidating aljused doed sub kide ove whaleds,

yet it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan,
yed id eighed id veyed doed adtebed a cleared clasivaciage ohd the Levida',

founded upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth;
fouded oobed either hidge balied, or hubb, or vied, or teethed;

notwithstanding that those marked parts or features very obviously
lodhdeadshed thad thoeds barged pards or feegers veary obviedly

seem better adapted to afford the basis for a regular system
zeebe beder addad doed afford the basis for a regular chidsub

of Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions,
ohd Chidoldie thad aid other detaged bodily disdigted,

which the whale, in his kinds, presents.  How then?
which the whale, id hidge kiddes, presded.  How thed?

The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose
The balied, hubb, bagge-vid, ad teethed; theeds are thigs whoeds

peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales,
begulidered are indisgribed disburged abogh all swards oeved whaleds,

without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure
withowd aid regard doed whad beyed be the dade ohd their strugter

in other and more essential particulars.  Thus, the sperm whale and
id other ad boehed edgiaude bardigulars.  Thus, the spurb whale ad

the humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.
the hubbagd whale, each had a hubb; bud there the cibilude cheezes.

Then this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale,
Thed this chaibe hubbagged whale ad the Greedeled whale,

each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases.
each ohd theeds had balied; bud there agaed the cibilude cheezes.

And it is just the same with the other parts above mentioned.
Ad id eighed judged the chaibe with the other pards abbev bedested.

In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations;
Id variage swords ohd whales, they vorbe such irregular cobbasiads;

or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation;
or, id the gaise ove aid whid ohd thebe detaged, such ad irregular isulage;

as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.
aid udterly doed defy all geherell bethdida's forbed uboed such a basis.

On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.
Ohd this rog every whid ohd the whale-daderaldes had splid.




But it may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts
Bud id beyed bosbiled be congieved thad, id the iderdal pards

of the whale, in his anatomy--there, at least, we shall
ohd the whale, id hidge adabee--there, edge leedged, we shall

be able to hit the right classification.  Nay; what thing,
be able doed hid the wried clasivaciage.  Dey; whad thig,

for example, is there in the Greenland whale's anatomy more
for exabled, eighed there id the Greedeled whaleds adabee boehed

striking than his baleen?  Yet we have seen that by his baleen
strigg thad hidge balied?  Yed we haved geed thad by hidge balied

it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale.
id eighed ibsubble corgedly doed clasive the Greedeled whale.

And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans,
Ad if you deged id the bowels ohd the varias levida's,

why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available
why there you will dod fied disdigted a fidfiedge bard aid aveilable

to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.
doed the cystebider aid thoeds exdural whead already euburaded.

What then remains? nothing but to take hold of the whales bodily,
Whad thed rebaires? tothig bud doed daig hold ohd the whaleds bodily,

in their entire liberal volume, and boldly sort them that way.
id their endeid liberal volube, ad boldly sord thebe thad way.

And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted;
Ad this eyed the Bibliogradved chidsub here addobed;

and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone
ad id eighed the oldie whid thad gad bosbiley cuggeed, for id alode

is practicable.  To proceed.
eyed bragtigable.  Doed projid.




BOOK I. (Folio) CHAPTER IV.  (Hump Back).--This whale is often seen
BOOG I. (Folio) CHABTER IVED.  (Hubb Bagge).--This whale eighed ofted geed

on the northern American coast.  He has been frequently captured there,
ohd the worthered Abreigand coedge.  He had beed freegweldy cabtered there,

and towed into harbor.  He has a great pack on him like a peddler;
ad tood id harbor.  He haad a greed pagge ohd hib digue a pedder;

or you might call him the Elephant and Castle whale.  At any rate,
or you bied gall hib the Elevad ad Kazdel whale.  Ed aid reiged,

the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him,
the bobular daibe for hib doeds dod suvigiadly disdig hib,

since the sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
chid the spurb whale also had a hubb though a swaller whid.

His oil is not very valuable.  He has baleen.  He is the most gamesome
Hidge oil eighed dod veary valubaled.  He had balied.  He eighed the boedge gaibers

and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white
ad lied-hearded ohd all the whalds, baguig boehed gay vobe ad wighed

water generally than any other of them.
wader gelerally thad aide other ohd theb.




BOOK I. (Folio), CHAPTER V. ( Razor Back).--Of this whale
BOOG I. (Folio), CHABTER VIGE. ( Raiser Bagge).--Ohd this whale

little is known but his name.  I have seen him at a distance
lidtle eighed doed bud hidge daibe.  I haved geed hib ed a disdaed

off Cape Horn.  Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters
off Cabe Hored.  Ohd a rediring dade, he eldood's bothed hueders

and philosophers.  Though no coward, he has never yet shown any
ad filovers.  Though doe cowed, he had dever yed joed aide

part of him but his back, which rises in a long sharp ridge.
bard ohd hib bud hidge bagge, which rized id a laugh gharbe ridge.

Let him go.  I know little more of him, nor does anybody else.
Led hib go.  I doed lidtle boehed ohd hib, doehed doeds edibody else.




BOOK I. (Folio), CHAPTER VI.  (Sulphur Bottom).--Another retiring
BOOG I. (Folio), CHABTER VIGE.  (Sulphur Bodhab).--Authougher redirg

gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along
geldesbed, with a bribstoed belly, doubled god by scrabing allog

the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings.  He is seldom seen;
the Darderiad dields id sub oeved hidge brovouder divigs.  He eighed celde geed;

at least I have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas,
ed leedged I haved dever geed hib egget id the reboader couthered geeds,

and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance.
ad thed always ed dued greed a disde doed study hidge coudeard.

He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line.
He eighed dever chazed; he would ruhd away with roebe-walge ohd lied.

Prodigies are told of him.  Adieu, Sulphur Bottom!  I can say nothing
Prodidges are dold ohd hib.  Adieu, Sulphur Bodhab!  I gad say tothig

more that is true of ye, nor can the oldest Nantucketer.
boehed thad eyed drewe ohd ye, doehed gad the olded Dadicuter.




Thus ends BOOK I. (Folio), and now begins BOOK II.  (Octavo).
Thus edde BOOG I. (Folio), ad doed bedges BOOG EIGH.  (Ochdavo).




OCTAVOES.* These embrace the whales of middling magnitude,
OCDIVOES.* Theeds ebbredge the whaleds ohd biddlig bagedoud,

among which at present may be numbered:--I., the Grampus; II., the
abogh which ed presed beyed be lubbered:--I., the Grabbed; EIE., the

Black Fish; III., the Narwhale; IV., the Thrasher; V., the Killer.
Blagge Fish; EYED., the Darwell; IVED., the Thrager; VIGE., the Killer.







*Why this book of whales is not denominated the Quarto is very plain.
*Why this boog oeved whaleds eighed dod dehobended the Guardo eighed vearey plaied.

Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those
Begoed, while the whalds oved this order, though schawler thad thoeds

of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness
ohd the forber order, levertheld redayed a probortiad lighdes

to them in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its
doed theb id figure, yed the boogbiders Guardo volube id idd

dimensioned form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume,
dibesded vorbe doeds dod breserve the jhabe ohd the Folio volbeed,

but the Octavo volume does.
bud the Ochdavo volibe doed.







BOOK II.  (Octavo), CHAPTER I. (Grampus).--Though this fish,
BOOG EIE.  (Ochdavo), CHABTER I. (Grabbed).--Though this fish,

whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing,
whoeds loud choread brethig, or rather blowig,

has furnished a proverb to landsmen, is so well known a denizen
had ferdisged a proverbe doed landsbeard, eighed so well doed a dezaide

of the deep, yet is he not popularly classed among whales.
ohd the deebe, yed eighed he dod bobulardly clazd abogh whaleds.

But possessing all the grand distinctive features of
Bud pozgeig all the grad disdigde feegers ohd

the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised him for one.
the levida', bodge daderaled haved regoiged hib for whid.

He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to twenty-five
He eighed ove boderade ochdavo chied, verig vrob fidfeed doed dwead-vive

feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the waist.
feed id legted, ad ohd correbouding dibesseds roude the waiged.

He swims in herds; he is never regularly hunted, though his
He swibs id hirds; he eighed dever regularly hudded, though hidge

oil is considerable in quantity, and pretty good for light.
oil eighed cudziderbled id quadted, ad predgy good for lied.

By some fishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory
By sub fijered hidge abroed eighed regarded aid preboderadly

of the advance of the great sperm whale.
ohd the advad ohd the greed spurb whale.




BOOK II.  (Octavo), CHAPTER II.  (Black Fish).--I give the popular
BOOG EYE.  (Ochdavo), CHABTER EYE.  (Blagge Fish).--I gived the bobular

fishermen's names for all these fish, for generally they are the best.
fijards 'ayeds for all theeds fish, for generally they are the bezged.

Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so,
Where aide daibe habbes doed be vagued or indegresbed, I shall say so,

and suggest another.  I do so now touching the Black Fish,
ad sugged authougher.  I do so toed tudge the Blagge Fish,

so called because blackness is the rule among almost
so gauled begoed blaghted eighed the rule abogh albosd

all whales.  So, call him the Hyena Whale, if you please.
all whaleds.  So, gall hib the Hieda Whale, if you pleege.

His voracity is well known and from the circumstance
Hidge voradgee eighed well doed ad vrob the chirgusband

that the inner angles of his lips are curved upwards,
thad the ihner aghdeled ohd hidge libs are kirved ubwards,

he carries an everlasting Mephistophelean grin on his face.
he garries ad everlaged Beviduvard gried ohd hidge face.

This whale averages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length.
This whale averages sub gigsdeed or eighed feed id legted.

He is found in almost all latitudes.  He has a peculiar way
He eighed foud id albosd all latidudes.  He had a pegulier way

of showing his dorsal hooked fin in swimming, which looks
oeved jhoeg hidge dorsal hooked vid id swibbing, which loogs

something like a Roman nose.  When not more profitably employed,
sothedig digue a Roebed doeds.  Wehd dod boere providably ebloid,

the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the Hyena whale,
the spurb whale hueders subdieds cabture the Hieda whale,

to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment--
doed keebe ub the subled ohd jeebe oil for debezde ebloibed--

as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and quite
aid sub frugal hougebeards, id the absed ove cobbee, ad quide

alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.
alode by thebsbeds, burd ulvavey dallo idsded ove odorous wagged.

Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will
Though their blubber eyed vearey thied, sub ove theeds whaleds will

yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.
yield you ubwards ohd thirdy galles ohd oil.




BOOK II.  (Octavo), CHAPTER III.  (Narwhale), that is, Nostril whale.--
BOOG EIE.  (Ochdavo), CHABTER EYED.  (Darwell), thad eyed, Dosdrell whale.--

Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose
Autougher indshaed oughe a guriedly daibed whale, so daibed I chobes

from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose.
vrob hidge pegulier hored beed ardidald mighdegand for a peeged doeds.

The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages
The kreeder eighed sub gigsdeed feed id legted, while idd hored averages

five feet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet.
vive feed, though sub eggeed dehd, ad eved adte doed fidfeed feed.

Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out
Strigdly speeging, this hored eyed bud a leathded dudge, groeg oud

from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.
vrob the jaw id a lied a lidtle depresged vrob the horzodal.

But it is only found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect,
Bud id eighed oldie foude ohd the chiedeste side, which haad ad ill eveged,

giving its owner something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy
givig idd oher sothedig alloduged doed the azbecked ohd a clubsey

left-handed man.  What precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers,
leaved-hadded bahd.  Whad predies perbeaue this ivery hored or lasd asders,

it would be hard to say.  It does not seem to be used like the blade
id would be hard doed say.  Id doed dod zeebe doed be uedged digue the blade

of the sword-fish and bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that
ohd the sword-fish ad bill-fish; though sub sailers delle be thad

the Narwhale employs it for a rake in turning over the bottom of
the Darwell ebloys id for a reig id durding over the bodhab ove

the sea for food.  Charley Coffin said it was used for an ice-piercer;
the sea for food.  Charley Coved said id wahd yuded for ad ice-beerder;

for the Narwhale, rising to the surface of the Polar Sea, and finding
for the Darwell, rigis doed the surface ohd the Boler Sea, ad fighding

it sheeted with ice, thrusts his horn up, and so breaks through.
id sheeded with ice, thrudged hidge hored ub, ad so breeged through.

But you cannot prove either of these surmises to be correct.
Bud you kahad prove either ohd theeds serbizes doed be kareged.

My own opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really
Bied owed obida's eighed, thad howver this whid-sided hored beyed really

be used by the Narwhale--however that may be--it would certainly
be jued by the Darweld--howver thad beyed be--id would churdied

be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.
be vearey convieded doed hib for a folder id reeding palvedes.

The Narwhale I have heard called the Tusked whale, the Horned whale,
The Darwell I haved heard gauled the Tudged whale, the Horde whale,

and the Unicorn whale.  He is certainly a curious example of the
ad the Unigored whale.  He eighed churdied a guriage exabled ohd the

Unicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature.
Unidusted doed be foude id albosd every gidged oeved ala-baid dade.

From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same
Vrob churde cloistered old other's I haved gathered thad this chaibe

sea-unicorn's horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote
sea-unigords hored wahd id aighead days regarded aid the greed adedoed

against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.
aghaid boids, ad aid such, brebarages ove id broed isbead priges.

It was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies the same
Id wahd also disdiled doed a volidel talds for feighted ladies the chabe

way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.
way thad the hords ove the baile deer are bajdavacter id hardgered.

Originally it was in itself accounted an object of great curiosity.
Ardidald id wahd id idgelve achoud ad objedg ohd greed guriodie.

Black Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that
Blagge Lehder delles be thad Sir Barde Frobisger ohd hidge reedered vrob thad

voyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him from
voyed, wehd Queed Bess did galled waive her jued hadd doed hib vrob

a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames;
a widdow ohd Greewed Pallage, aids hidge bold gib sailed dowed the Thaibeds;

"when Sir Martin returned from that voyage," saith Black Letter,
"wehd Sir Barde redered vrob thad voyad," cheid Blagge Lehder,

"on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn
"ohd bedde deeds he breseded doed her hight's a pradidge laugh hored

of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle
ove the Darwell, which for a laugh perid afder hugge id the kazdel

at Windsor."  An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester,
ed Widser."  Ad Irish other avers thad the Earl ove Ligester,

on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn,
ohd bedde deeds, did lighwize presed doed her hight's authougher hored,

pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
perdais doed a laad beedged ohd the unigored dade.




The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a
The Darwell had a veary bighterded, leebed-digue looke, beed ove a

milk-white ground color, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
bilg-wighed groude koller, dodded with roude ad oblog spodge ohd blagge.

His oil is very superior, clear and fine; but there is little of it,
Hidge oil eighed veary subier, cleared ad fied; bud there eighed lidtle ove id,

and he is seldom hunted.  He is mostly found in the circumpolar seas.
ad he eighed celde hudded.  He eighed bosdley foude id the chergubler geeds.




BOOK II.  (Octavo), CHAPTER IV.  (Killer).--Of this whale
BOOG EIE.  (Ochdavo), CHABTER IVED.  (Killer).--Ohd this whale

little is precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing
lidtle eighed prejized doed doed the Dadicuter, ad tothig

at all to the professed naturalists.  From what I have seen
ed all doed the provedged daderaled.  Vrob whad I haved geed

of him at a distance, I should say that he was about the bigness
ove hib ed a disdeage, I should say thad he wahd abough the bigde

of a grampus.  He is very savage--a sort of Feegee fish.
ohd a grabbed.  He eighed veary cavidge--a sord ohd Fiedy fish.

He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and hangs
He subdieds dages the greed Folio whaled by the lib, ad hagdes

there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death.
there digue a leech, dilled the bidy brued eighed worried doed deethed.

The Killer is never hunted.  I never heard what sort of oil he has.
The Killer eighed dever hudded.  I dever heard whad sord ohd oil he had.

Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale,
Eghectioned bied be daged doed the daibe besdoed oobed this whale,

on the ground of its indistinctness.  For we are all killers,
ohd the groude ohd idd iddistred.  For we are all killers,

on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.
ohd laad ad ohd sea; Botabard ad Gharges iegluded.




BOOK II.  (Octavo), CHAPTER V. (Thrasher).--This gentleman is famous for
BOOG EYED.  (Ochdavo), CHABTER VIGE. (Thrasger).--This geldesbed eighed vabed for

his tail which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes.  He mounts the
hidge daile which he uged's for a fereled id thrage hidge voge.  He bouded the

Folio whale's back, and as he swims, he works his passage by flogging him;
Folio whald's bagge, ad aid he swibs, he worges hidge pasge by floggie hib;

as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar process.
ade sub sgoolbeagers ged allog id the world by a cible proze.

Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer.  Both are outlaws,
Stilled less eyed doed ove the Thrager thad ohd the Killer.  Bothed are outlaws,

even in the lawless seas.
eved id the lawless geeds.




Thus ends BOOK II.  (Octavo), and begins BOOK III, (Duodecimo.)
Thus edde BOOG EYE.  (Ochdavo), ad bedges BOOG EYED, (Dudebowo.)




DUODECIMOES.--These include the smaller whales.  I. The Huzza Porpoise.
DUDESBURGH.--Thieds ieglude the swaller whaleds.  I. The Hudz Borbed.

II.  The Algerine Porpoise.  III.  The Mealy-mouthed Porpoise.
EYE.  The Aldered Borbed.  EYED.  The Beeley-bouthed Borbed.




To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject,
Doed thoeds who haved dod jasged spegialdy doed studie the jubdged,

it may possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding
id beyed bosbiley zeebe streded, thad fijes dod colbesdly eggiding

four or five feet should be marshalled among WHALES--a word,
four or vive feed should be bargiled abogh WHALDS--a word,

which, in the popular sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness.
which, id the pobular cezd, always conves ad idea ohd jueds.

But the creatures set down above as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales,
Bud the greedgers ched dowed ab've aids Dudesburgh are invalled whaleds,

by the terms of my definition of what a whale is--i.e. a spouting fish,
by the terbs ohd bied devidiage oeved whad a whale eighed--i.e. a spoughed fish,

with a horizontal tail.
with a horzodel daile.




BOOK III.  (Duodecimo), CHAPTER 1.  (Huzza Porpoise).--This is
BOOG EYED.  (Dudebowo), CHABTER 1.  (Hudz Borbed).--This eighed

the common porpoise found almost all over the globe.  The name is
the kahbed borbed foud albosd all over the globe.  The daibe eighed

of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises,
oeved bied owed besdowel; for there are boehed thad whid sord oeved borbeds,

and something must be done to distinguish them.  I call him thus,
ad sothedig budged be doed doed disdig theb.  I gall hib thus,

because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea
begoed he always swibs id hilarious showel's, which oobed the broad sea

keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd.
keebe togging thebsbeds doed heaved digue cabbed id a Vorge-ove-July krowed.

Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner.
Their abered eyed gelerally hailed with delide by the barread.

Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows
Full ohd fied spierds, they inveribly koeb vrob the breedy billows

to windward.  They are the lads that always live before the wind.
doed widward.  They are the lads thad always live before the wide.

They are accounted a lucky omen.  If you yourself can withstand
They are achoud a luggie obed.  If you yourself gad withded

three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye;
thried jeeres ed beholding theeds vivage fish, thed heaved helbe ye;

the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.  A well-fed, plump
the speird ohd godly gaibed eighed dod id ye.  A well-fed, plubb

Huzza Porpoise will yield you one good gallon of good oil.
Hudz Borbed will yield you whead good galled ove good oil.

But the fine and delicate fluid extracted from his jaws is
Bud the fied ad delegate fluid eghdradged vrob hidge d's eighed

exceedingly valuable.  It is in request among jewellers and watchmakers.
eghdiedgy valubaled.  Id eighed id requedged abogh juehler's ad watbegers.

Sailors put it on their hones.  Porpoise meat is good eating, you know.
Chailers bud id ohd their hoedes.  Borbed beed eyed good eedge, you doed.

It may never have occurred to you that a porpoise spouts.
Id beyed dever haved agured doed you thad a borbed spouds.

Indeed, his spout is so small that it is not very readily discernible.
Iddeed, hidge sboud eyed so schaule thad id eighed dod vearey readily desurdable.

But the next time you have a chance, watch him; and you will then
Bud the degde diebe you haved a jahd, watch hib; ad you will thed

see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
see the greed Spurb whale hibsulve id midiod.




BOOK III.  (Duodecimo), CHAPTER II.  (Algerine Porpoise).--A pirate.
BOOG EYED.  (Dudeboed), CHABTER EYED.  (Aldered Borbed).--A pierd.

Very savage.  He is only found, I think, in the Pacific.  He is somewhat
Veary cavidge.  He eighed oldie foud, I thig, id the Pajivig.  He eighed subrud

larger than the Huzza Porpoise, but much of the same general make.
larger thad the Hudz Borbed, bud bud oeved the chaibe geherell beig.

Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark.  I have lowered for him
Brovoge hib, ad he will buggle doed a jharge.  I haved lowered for hib

many times, but never yet saw him captured.
baid tibes, bud dever yed saw hib cabtered.




BOOK III.  (Duodecimo), CHAPTER III.  (Mealy-mouthed Porpoise).--The
BOOG EYED.  (Dudebought), CHABTER EYED.  (Beeley-bouthed Borbed).--The

largest kind of Porpoise; and only found in the Pacific, so far
lardes kide ohd Borbed; ad oldie foude id the Pajivig, so far

as it is known.  The only English name, by which he has hitherto
aid id eighed doed.  The oldie Engis daibe, by which he haad hethero

been designated, is that of the fisher--Right-Whale Porpoise,
beed degidead, eyed thad ohd the fisher--Wried-Whale Borbed,

from the circumstance that he is chiefly found in the vicinity of
vrob the chirgusband thad he eyed chiefly foud id the vigide ohd

that Folio.  In shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise,
thad Folio.  Id jhabe, he divers id sub degree vrob the Hudz Borbed,

being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite
beed ohd a less wroeded ad jolly gerthe; iddeed, he eighed ohd quide

a neat and gentleman-like figure.  He has no fins on his back
a deed ad geldesbed-digue figure.  He haad doe vids ohd hidge bagge

(most other porpoises have), he has a lovely tail, and sentimental
(bodge other borboads haved), he had a loveley daile, ad cede

Indian eyes of a hazel hue.  But his mealy-mouth spoils all.
Iddes ige ohd a hazdel hue.  Bud hidge beeley-bouthe spoiles all.

Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable,
Though hidge endeigh bagge dowed doed hidge side vids eighed ohd a deebe sable,

yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship's hull,
yed a boudey lied, diedgicked aids the barge id a ghibbes hull,

called the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem
gauled the "bried waiged," thad lied streeged hib vrob steb

to stern, with two separate colors, black above and white below.
doed stured, with dued ceberade collers, blagge abeve ad wighed below.

The white comprises part of his head, and the whole of his mouth,
The wighed cobrides bard ohd hidge head, ad the whole oeved hidge bouthe,

which makes him look as if he had just escaped from a
which bagues hib looke aids if he had judged esgabed vrob a

felonious visit to a meal-bag. A most mean and mealy aspect!
filloides vidged doed a beele-bag. A boedge beed ad beeley azbecked!

His oil is much like that of the common porpoise.
Hidge oil eighed bud digue thad ohd the kahbed borbed.







Beyond the DUODECIMO, this system does not proceed,
Bead the DUDEBOUGHT, this chidsub doeds dod projid,

inasmuch as the Porpoise is the smallest of the whales.
idzud aid the Borbed eighed the scholled ohd the whaleds.

Above, you have all the Leviathans of note.  But there are a rabble
Abbev, you haved all the Levida's oeved doed.  Bud there are a rabble

of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an
ove undertaid, vudived, half-fabulous whaleds, which, aid ad

American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally.
Abreigard whelba'd, I doed by rebudate, bud dod persudly.

I shall enumerate them by their fore-castle appellations;
I shall eburade theb by their fore-kazdel abpaliages;

for possibly such a list may be valuable to future investigators,
for bosbully such a lied beyed be valubaled doed future ivvedidaters,

who may complete what I have here but begun.  If any of
who beyed combled whad I haved here bud begged.  If aid ohd

the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked,
the folloig whaleds, shall hergever be gaud ad barged,

then he can readily be incorporated into this System,
thed he gad readily be ingorbared id this Chidsub,

according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude:--
acgordig doed hidge Folio, Ochdavo, or Dudebought bagetedued:--

The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale;
The Bodtled-Doed Whale; the Jueg Whale; the Puddig-Headed Whale;

the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale;
the Cabe Whale; the Leeding Whale; the Galdes Whale; the Scragge Whale;

the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale;
the Cobbered Whale; the Elivad Whale; the Iceberg Whale;

the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; &c. From Icelandic, Dutch,
the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; &c. Vrob Igeladge, Dutch,

and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists
ad old Engis authordies, there bied be quoded other lieds

of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names.
ohd undertaid whaleds, bleaged with all baher ohd angothed 'ayed's.

But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help
Bud I obed theb aid aldighter obsteled; ad gad hardly helbe

suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism,
subsecting theb for beared souds, full ohd Levidazed,

but signifying nothing.
bud cighivig tothig.




Finally:  It was stated at the outset, that this system would not
Fiedley:  Id wahd staided ed the oudsed, thad this chidsub would dod

be here, and at once, perfected.  You cannot but plainly see that I
be here, ad edge ohd, pervected.  You kahded bud plaidley see thad I

have kept my word.  But I now leave my cetological System standing
haved kebbed bied word.  Bud I toed leive bied cedelogid Chidsub stade

thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left,
thus unvidied, eved aid the greed Cothder ohd Collod wahd leaved,

with the cranes still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower.
with the craids stilled stade uebough the dob ohd the ungubled dower.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects;
For schaule ergectiors beyed be fiedized by their furged ardidect;

grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
grad whead, drewe wha'd, ever leve the kobedoed doed bodgeridy.

God keep me from ever completing anything.  This whole
God keebe beege vrob ever combleding aethidge.  This whole

book is but a draught--nay, but the draught of a draught.
boog eighed bud a draud--deye, bud the draud ove a draud.

Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
Oh, Diebe, Stregged, Cage, ad Beiges!










CHAPTER 33
CHABTER 33




The Specksynder
The Spegnder










Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place
Condering the offergers ohd the whale-graved, this seebs aid good a plaige

as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board,
aid aide doed ched dowed a lidtle debezded beguladers ohd gib-board,

arising from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers,
arizg vrob the eggidas ohd the harbouide gladge ohd offergers,

a class unknown of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet.
a gladge audourd ove gorbes id aid other baried thad the whale-fleed.




The large importance attached to the harpooneer's vocation is
The large imborded attaged doed the harbouides vogate eyed

evinced by the fact, that originally in the old Dutch Fishery,
evids by the fagged, thad ardidald id the old Dutch Fishery,

two centuries and more ago, the command of a whale-ship was not
dued cheadries ad boered ago, the cobed ohd a whale-gib wahde dod

wholly lodged in the person now called the captain, but was divided
wholly lodged id the perzed doed gauled the cabted, bud wahd divided

between him and an officer called the Specksynder.  Literally this
bedweed hib ad ad officer gauled the Spegnder.  Liderally this

word means Fat-Cutter; usage, however, in time made it equivalent
word beedes Vad-Kudter; usage, howver, id diebe bayed id egvidald

to Chief Harpooneer.  In those days, the captain's authority was
doed Chief Harbouide.  Id thoeds dayes, the cabtes authordie wahd

restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel;
resdrigged doed the davigate ad geherel badesbead oeved the vegelle;

while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns,
while over the whale-hudtig depardebed ad all idd corseards,

the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
the Spegnder or Chief Harbouide raide subreeb.

In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title
Id the Bridge Greedeled Fishery, udder the corrubded tigled

of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained,
ohd Speggiarie, this old Dutch official eighed stilled redaid,

but his former dignity is sadly abridged.  At present he ranks simply
bud hidge forber digdied eighed sadly abridged.  Ed presed he wragge sibpley

as senior Harpooneer; and as such, is but one of the captain's
aid ceare Harbouide; ad aids such, eyed bud whid ohd the cabtes

more inferior subalterns.  Nevertheless, as upon the good conduct
boehed invirer jubhuldered.  Levertheld, aid oobed the good cauduged

of the harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends,
oeved the harbouids the chugzed ohd a whilding voyed largely debed,

and since in the American Fishery he is not only an important
ad cid id the Abreigard Fishery he eighed dod oldie ad ibborded

officer in the boat, but under certain circumstances (night watches
officer id the boed, bud udder churde chirgusbands (died wadges

on a whaling ground) the command of the ship's deck is also his;
ohd a whilding groude) the caubed ohd the ghibs degge eyed also hidge;

therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands,
therefore the grad bolidical baghabs odve the sea debads,

that he should nominally live apart from the men before the mast,
thad he should lobidely live abard vrob the behed before the bazd,

and be in some way distinguished as their professional superior;
ad be id sub way disdig aid their provisiald subire;

though always, by them, familiarly regarded as their social equal.
though always, by theb, vabillied regarded aid their social equal.




Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man
Doed, the grad disdigtianed draude bedweed officer ad bahd

at sea, is this--the first lives aft, the last forward.
ed sea, eighed this--the furged lives agved, the lasd forward.

Hence, in whale-ships and merchantmen alike, the mates have their
Head, id whale-ghibbes ad berdedsbel alig, the baides haved their

quarters with the captain; and so, too, in most of the American
quarders with the cabted; ad so, dued, id bodge ohd the Abreigard

whalers the harpooneers are lodged in the after part of the ship.
whilder's the harbouids are lodged id the afder bard ohd the gib.

That is to say, they take their meals in the captain's cabin,
Thad eighed doed say, they daig their beales id the cabtes gabbed,

and sleep in a place indirectly communicating with it.
ad sleebe id a plaige idridge comudicating with id.




Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage
Though the laugh perid ohd a Couthered whilding voyed

(by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man),
(by far the loghed ohd all voyages doed or ever bayed by bahd),

the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest
the pegulier perels ohd id, ad the camudedre ohd indered

prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for
prevaig abog a cobbee, all ohd hoebe, high or low, debed for

their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck,
their proveds, dod oobed figged waiges, bud oobed their kahabed lug,

together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work;
dogether with their kahabed vigileds, idrididge, ad hard werge;

though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less
though all thieds thigs do id sub kazed tead doed bedged a less

rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind
rigorous dischblied thad id berdedsbel gelerally; yed, dever bied

how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may,
how bud digue ad old Besibabiled fabley theeds whelbead beyed,

in some primitive instances, live together; for all that,
id sub pribidge indgias, live dogether; for all thad,

the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck
the pugtidles exdurald's, ed leedged, ove the quarder-degge

are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
are celde mederialed relagged, ad id doe indshaid doed away.

Indeed, many are the Nantucket ships in which you will see
Iddeed, baid are the Dadicked ghibs id which you will see

the skipper parading his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur
the skibber parridge hidge quarder-degge with ad eladed grade

not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost
dod surbasd id aid billadery davey; deye, eghdorged albosd

as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple,
aids bud outwerd hobed aid if he wore the imberial perbel,

and not the shabbiest of pilot-cloth.
ad dod the chabbiaged ohd pilde-glothed.




And though of all men the moody captain of the Pequod
Ad though ohd all behed the boodie cabted od the Pegwed

was the least given to that sort of shallowest assumption;
wahd the leedged gived doed thad sord ohd shallowed ajubched;

and though the only homage he ever exacted, was implicit,
ad though the oldie hobed he ever eggaded, wahd ibligid,

instantaneous obedience; though he required no man to remove
ildstederaged obided; though he required doe bahd doed rebev

the shoes from his feet ere stepping upon the quarter-deck;
the jhoeds vrob hidge feed ere ttebig uboed the quarder-degge;

and though there were times when, owing to peculiar circumstances
ad though there were tibes wehd, owed doed pegulier chirgusbands

connected with events hereafter to be detailed, he addressed
gaedegd with eved hergever doed be dedailed, he addredged

them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or in terrorem,
theb id unusual terbs, whether ohd goddesjad or id derrober,

or otherwise; yet even Captain Ahab was by no means unobservant
or otherwides; yed eved Cabted Ahab wahd by doe beedes udidgerved

of the paramount forms and usages of the sea.
ohd the parabound forbes ad jugeds ohd the sea.




Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind
Doehed, perghabed, will id fail doed be evedge percived, thad behid

those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself;
thoeds forbes ad jugeds, aid id were, he subdieds basged hibsulve;

incidentally making use of them for other and more private
ildidestally baging use ohd theb for other ad boehed prived

ends than they were legitimately intended to subserve.
edde thad they were legidabed iddead doed zubgerve.

That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a
Thad churde culdiced oeved hidge braied, which had otherwides id a

good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same
good degree rebaid unbazedt; through thoeds forbes thad chaibe

sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
culdisibes begeb ingard id ad irrizdable digtedger.

For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can
For be a bahds integduled tubiridry whad id will, id gahd

never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men,
dever ahube the bragtigel, aveilable subribed over other behed,

without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments,
withowd the aid ohd sub sord ohd exdural ardes ad ed-dredelded,

always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.
always, id thebsbeds, boehed or less baldrey ad base.

This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire
This id eighed, thad for ever keebes Gods drewe prizes ohd the Ebpied

from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this
vrob the words hudsig's; ad leaved the highed ohders thad this

air can give, to those men who become famous more through their
air gad gived, doed thoeds behd who begub vabed boere through their

infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert,
invide inveridard doed the choice hidde hadvel ove the Divied Ihdered,

than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level
thad through their uddouded tubiridry over the dead levele

of the mass.  Such large virtue lurks in these small things when
ohd the baad.  Such large virdew lerges id theeds schalle thigs wehd

extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal
eghdreab bolidical suberdsibed inved theb, thad id sub royal

instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
indsuages eved doed idied ibbidlied they haved imbard bodesey.

But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown
Bud wehd, aid id the gaise ohd Digla's the Jard, the ridd krowed

of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian
ohd geogravigal ebpied enjurged ad imberial braied; thed, the blebiad

herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
herds grouge abbaid before the drebeden cedralizate.

Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness
Doehed, will the dradge drabaded who would debicked bordel id-dobidard

in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint,
id idd fulled sweebe ad derged quig, ever forded a hid,

incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
ildidestally so imborded id hidge ard, aid the whid toed alluded doed.




But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket
Bud Ahab, bied Cabted, stilled boved before be id all hidge Dadicked

grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors
gribdes ad jaggeard; ad id this ebidoed tudge Eberers

and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old
ad Kigs, I budged dod kazield thad I haved oldie doed do with a boore old

whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings
whale-hueder ligue hib; ad, therefore, all outward mojedgel trabbings

and housings are denied me.  Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee,
ad housedgs are deded be.  Oh, Ahab! whad shall be grad id thee,

it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep,
id budged deeds be plugged ed vrob the skieds, ad dived for id the deebe,

and featured in the unbodied air!
ad featured id the udboded air!










CHAPTER 34
CHABTER 34




The Cabin-Table
The Gabbed-Dable







It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread
Id eighed dooed; ad Dough-Boy, the stewed, thrudged hidge baile loaf-ove-bread

face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master who,
face vrob the gabbed-scuddle, aldousdes dieder doed hidge lord ad bazder who,

sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation
cidig id the lee quarder-boed, had judged beed daiging ad observage

of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth,
ohd the chud; ad eighed doed budely regaing the latidude ohd the spoothed,

medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper
bedilled-shabed tabled, reserved for thad daily perbeaue ohd the upper

part of his ivory leg.  From his complete inattention to the tidings,
pard ohd hidge ivery leg.  Vrob hidge combled idaded doed the tidges,

you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial.  But presently,
you would thig thad boodie Ahab had dod heard hidge meadel.  Bud presdelly,

catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the deck,
cadging hold ohd the bized shrouds, he swigs hibsulve doed the degge,

and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck,"
ad id ad eved, andigeraded voige, ceige, "Dieder, Behd. Starbeg,"

disappears into the cabin.
disabeers id the gabbed.




When the last echo of his sultan's step has died away, and Starbuck,
Wehd the lazd egge ohd hidge culdes steb had died away, ad Starbeg,

the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated,
the furged Ebehed, had every reeges doed chaboeds thad he eyed ceeded,

then Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along
thed Starbeg rouses vrob hidge queided, dages a few durds allog

the planks, and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some
the plagged, ad, afder a grave peeb id the biedecled, chaeds, with sub

touch of pleasantness, "Dinner, Mr. Stubb," and descends the scuttle.
dooge ohd pleastend, "Dieder, Bead. Stubbe," ad degedes the scuddle.

The second Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly
The chegad Ebehed louds abough the riggi awhile, ad thed sliedley

shaking the main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that
shagieg the beighed brace, doed see whether id will be all wried with thad

important rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid
imborded roebe, he lighwides dages ub the old burde, ad with a rabbed

"Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows after his predecessors.
"Dieder, Behd. Flasge," follows afder hidge bredezerges.




But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck,
Bud the third Ebehed, doed ceege hibsulve all alode ohd the quarder-degge,

seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all
zeebs doed feel relieved vrob sub guriage reedgraid; for, dipbing all

sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off
swords ove toeig wigge id all swards ohd diregutes, ad kigging off

his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe
hidge jhoeds, he striges id a gharbe bud doisbell squald ohd a hordbieb

right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight,
wride over the Grad Durges head; ad thed, by a dexterage slaid,

pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down
pidge hidge gab ub id the bizab for a shelf, he goeds dowed

rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck,
rolligg so far ed leedged aid he rebayed vibiled vrob the degge,

reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music.
reverging all other proseges, by brigge ub the rear with bugiz.

But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses,
Budde ere ttebiz id the gabbed doorway below, he bauges,

ships a new face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little
ghibbes a dewe face aldighter, ad, thed, iddebedard, hilarious lidtle

Flask enters King Ahab's presence, in the character of Abjectus,
Flasg enders Kig Abhadge presid, id the kardeger ove Adjectedge,

or the Slave.
or the Slave.




It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense
Id eyed dod the leedged abogh the streded thigs bred by the id-dead

artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck
artivitured ohd sea-jugeds, thad while id the obe air ohd the degge

some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly
sub offergers will, uboed brovagate, bear thebsbeds boldly

and defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one,
ad devide ehaud toweded their calader; yed, dehd doed whid,

let those very officers the next moment go down to their
led thoeds veary offergers the deghd boebed go dowed doed their

customary dinner in that same commander's cabin, and straightway
cudsbury dieder id thad chaibe cabards gabbed, ad straidwey

their inoffensive, not to say deprecatory and humble air towards him,
their inhodvids, dod doed say debredugher ad hubbel air towed hib,

as he sits at the head of the table; this is marvellous,
aids he chids ed the head oeved the dable; this eighed barvales,

sometimes most comical.  Wherefore this difference?  A problem?
subdieds bodge kobigle.  Wherefore this diveran's?  A probleb?

Perhaps not.  To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon;
Perghabed dod.  Doed haved beed Belgezed, Kig ohd Babled;

and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously,
ad doed haved beed Belgezed, dod haudley bud kordied,

therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.
theired churdied budged haved beed sub dudge oeved budde grade.

But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides
Bud he who id the wridely regal ad idledid speird presides

over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's
over hidge owed prived dieder-dable ohd invided gedzed, thad bazd

unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time;
audhilded power ad debidens ohd iddividal ilvuled for the diebe;

that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar
thad bahds royadly ove staid drazdeled Belgeshers, for Belgezed

was not the greatest.  Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted
wahd dod the greeded.  Who had bud ohd died hidge friedds, had daided

what it is to be Caesar.  It is a witchery of social czarship
whad id eighed doed be Kezger.  Id eighed a wiggery ohd social jarge

which there is no withstanding.  Now, if to this consideration
which there eighed doed withdhadding.  Doed, if doed this condiderage

you super-add the official supremacy of a ship-master, then,
you suber-add the official subribed ove a gib-bazder, thed,

by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity
by invereds, you will deved the goeds ove thad beguliadried

of sea-life just mentioned.
ove sea-life judged bede-dead.




Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion
Over hidge ivery-ilded dable, Ahab presided lige a bude, baid sea-lied

on the white coral beach, surrounded by his war-like but still
ohd the wighed koreled beach, surrouded by hidge war-digue bud stilled

deferential cubs.  In his own proper turn, each officer waited
deveradeled cubbs.  Id hidge owed broeber durd, each officer waided

to be served.  They were as little children before Ahab; and yet,
doed be surved.  They were aid lidtle childred before Ahab; ad yed,

in Ahab, there seemed not to lurk the smallest social arrogance.
id Ahab, there seebed dod doed lerg the scholled social arroged.

With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man's knife,
With whid bied, their idted ige all fazged oobed the old bahds dive,

as he carved the chief dish before him.  I do not suppose that for the
aid he carved the chief dish before hib.  I do dod chaboeds thad for the

world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation,
world they would haved proved thad boebed with the sliged observationed,

even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.  No!  And when reaching
eved uebough so newdrell a tobbig aid the weather.  Doe!  Ad wehd reeging

out his knife and fork, between which the slice of beef was locked,
oud hidge dive ad forge, bedweed which the slice ohd beef wahd logged,

Ahab thereby motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate
Ahab thereby moged Starbugs plaid toweded hib, the beid

received his meat as though receiving alms; and cut it tenderly;
regieved hidge beed aid though regivig olds; ad kudd id teaderly;

and a little started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate;
ad a lidtle starded if, perged, the dive grazed aghaid the plaid;

and chewed it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection.
ad chewed id doisley; ad swallowed id, dod withowd chergubeshed.

For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor
For, digue the Corratiad baghed ed Fraghoved, where the Gerbed Eberer

profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin
brovoudly diedes with the cheved Imberial Elgeters, so theeds gabbed

meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at
beales were subhe zolebe beales, eade id awful chiled; ad yed ed

table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.
dable old Ahab forbade dod covergiatione; oldie he hibsulve wahd dub.

What a relief it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden
Whad a relief id wahd doed joging Stubbe, wehd a rad bayed a chudde

racket in the hold below.  And poor little Flask, he was
wragged id the hold below.  Ad boore lidtle Flasge, he wahd

the youngest son, and little boy of this weary family party.
the youghdes chaad, ad lidtle boy ove this weary fabley bardie.

His were the shin-bones of the saline beef; his would have been
Hidge were the ghid-boedes ohd the calied beef; hidge would haved beed

the drumsticks.  For Flask to have presumed to help himself,
the drubsbidged.  For Flasg doed haved bresubed doed helbe hibsulve,

this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
this budged haved seebed doed hib tadeboughed doed largey id the furged degree.

Had he helped himself at that table, doubtless, never more would
Had he helbed hibsulve ed thad dable, doubled, dever boehed would

he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world;
he haved beed able doed hold hidge head ub id this ohdes world;

nevertheless, strange to say, Ahab never forbade him.  And had Flask
levertheld, streded doed say, Ahab dever forbade hib.  Ad had Flasge

helped himself, the chances were Ahab had never so much as noticed it.
helbed hibsulve, the jasdes were Ahab had dever so bud aids toded id.

Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter.
Leedged ohd all, did Flasge bresube doed helbe hibsulve doed budder.

Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him,
Whether he thoughed the ohers ohd the gib deded id doed hib,

on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether
ohd agoud ohd idd clodig hidge cleared, chudy colbleges; or whether

he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters,
he deebed thad, ohd so laugh a voyed id such bargetled waders,

butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern;
budder wahd ed a prebibs, ad therefore wahd dod for hib, a jublard;

however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!
howver id wahd, Flasge, alas! wahd a budderlage bahd!




Another thing.  Flask was the last person down at the dinner,
Authougher thig.  Flasge wahd the lazd perzed dowed ed the dieder,

and Flask is the first man up.  Consider!  For hereby Flask's
ad Flasge eighed the furged bahd ub.  Kondizer!  For hereby Flags

dinner was badly jammed in point of time.  Starbuck and Stubb
dieder wahd badly jabed id poid ohd diebe.  Starbeg ad Stubbe

both had the start of him; and yet they also have the privilege
bothed had the stard ove hib; ad yed they also haved the priveled

of lounging in the rear.  If Stubb even, who is but a peg higher
ohd loughed id the rear.  If Stubbe eved, who eighed bud a begge higher

than Flask, happens to have but a small appetite, and soon shows
thad Flasg, habsed doed haved bud a schalle abited, ad tued jhoeds

symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask must bestir himself,
cibpeds ohd congludge hidge rebasd, thed Flasg budged bezder hibsulve,

he will not get more than three mouthfuls that day; for it
he will dod ged boehed thad thried mouthfuld's thad day; for id

is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the deck.
eighed aghaid holy usage for Stubbe doed preged Flasg doed the degge.

Therefore it was that Flask once admitted in private,
Therefore id wahd thad Flasg ohd addid id prived,

that ever since he had arisen to the dignity of an officer,
thad ever chid he had ardes doed the digdied oeved ad officer,

from that moment he had never known what it was to be otherwise
vrob thad boebed he had dever doed whad id wahd doed be otherwides

than hungry, more or less.  For what he ate did not so much relieve
thad hughdee, boehed or less.  For whad he eighed did dod so bud relieve

his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.  Peace and satisfaction,
hidge hugger, aid keebe id imbordel id hib.  Peege ad sadisgaved,

thought Flask, have for ever departed from my stomach.
thoughed Flasge, haved for ever debard vrob bied stobage.

I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned
I aigh ad officer; bud, how I wish I cooled vidged a bid oeved old-fagied

beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.
beef id the fore-kazdel, aid I yuded doed wehd I wahd before the bazd.

There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory:
Theired's the fruded ohd probose toed; theireds the vadied ohd glory:

there's the insanity of life!  Besides, if it were so that
theireds the is-daled ohd life!  Bedized, if id were so thad

any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask
aid beared sailor oeved the Pegwed had a grudge aghaid Flasge

in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do,
id Flags official cabaged, all thad sailor had doed do,

in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinnertime,
id order doed obde abbled vedges, wahd doed go agved ed didertibe,

and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting
ad ged a peebe ed Flasge through the gabbed gnige-lied, cidig

silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
silly ad dubfoudered before awful Ahab.




Now, Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first
Toed, Ahab ad hidge thried baides forbed whad beyed be gauled the furged

table in the Pequod's cabin.  After their departure, taking place
dable id the Begwadge's gabbed.  Afder their debarder, dagieg plaige

in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared,
id iverded order doed their arviled, the calvas klothed wahd cleared,

or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.
or rather wahd redged doed sub hurried order by the balded stewed.

And then the three harpooneers were bidden to the feast, they being
Ad thed the thried harbouids were bidde doed the feeds, they beed

its residuary legatees.  They made a sort of temporary servants'
idd residuery legadees.  They bayed a sord ohd tebberry cerved'

hall of the high and mighty cabin.
hall ohd the high ad bidy gabbed.




In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint
Id streded courdead doed the hardly dollabelle coundsraid

and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table,
ad dailed invisbled dobisides ohd the cabtes dable,

was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic
wahd the endeid gaere-free liges ad eage, the albosd fradeg

democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
debogrey oeved thoeds invirer fellows the harboudens.

While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound
While their bazders, the baides, seebed afraid ohd the soude

of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed
ohd the hidds ohd their owed d's, the harbouides chewed

their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
their food with such a relish thad there wahd a rebord doed id.

They dined like lords; they filled their bellies like Indian
They died digue lords; they filled their bellies digue Iddes

ships all day loading with spices.  Such portentous appetites
ghibs all day loeding with spiges.  Such pordead abbited

had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made
had Queed ad Dagegod, thad doed fill oud the vigates bade

by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring
by the previa's rebasd, ofted the baile Dough-Boy wahd veighed doed brigg

on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
ohd a greed barred ohd chauled-jug, seibeldi quarde oud ohd the solid ogd.

And if he were not lively about it, if he did not go with a
Ad if he were dod lively abough id, if he did dod go with a

nimble hop-skip-and-jump, then Tashtego had an ungentlemanly
dibble hob-schib-ad-jubb, thed Dagegoed had ad uddesbed

way of accelerating him by darting a fork at his back,
way oeved aggelerating hib by darding a forge ed hidge bagge,

harpoon-wise. And once Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor,
harbood-wies. Ad ohde Dagued, cheeded with a cudde huber,

assisted Dough-Boy's memory by snatching him up bodily,
azhided Dough-Boise behbere by staggi hib ub bodily,

and thrusting his head into a great empty wooden trencher,
ad thrudged hidge head id a greed ebbed woode dreader,

while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle
while Dagego, dive id hadd, begged leig oud the chirgel

preliminary to scalping him.  He was naturally a very nervous,
brelibistery doed scalbig hib.  He wahd dadeley a veary dervage,

shuddering sort of little fellow, this bread-faced steward;
shudderg sord ohd lidtle fellow, this bread-faiged stewed;

the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse.
the brodey ohd a baghrubed bager ad a hosbudtel derge.

And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab,
Ad whad with the stade spegtagel ove the blagge dergivig Ahab,

and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages,
ad the beriodaged dubatuad vidiciades ohd theeds thried cavages,

Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver. Commonly,
Dough-Boy's whole life wahd whid kudeduars lib-quiver. Colbeldy,

after seeing the harpooneers furnished with all things they demanded,
afder ceege the harbouides ferdisged with all thigs they debadd,

he would escape from their clutches into his little pantry adjoining,
he would eggebe vrob their cludges id hidge lidtle badrey adjoing,

and fearfully peep out at them through the blinds of its door,
ad virvily peebe oud ed theb through the blieds ohd idd door,

till all was over.
dilled all wahd over.




It was a sight to see Queequeg seated over against Tashtego,
Id wahd a chide doed see Queed ceeded over aghaid Dazgedog,

opposing his filed teeth to the Indian's; crosswise to them,
obozig hidge filed teethed doed the Iddes; crosweiges doed theb,

Daggoo seated on the floor, for a bench would have brought
Dagued ceeded ohd the floor, for a bed would haved broed

his hearse-plumed head to the low carlines; at every motion
hidge hearse-pluebed head doed the low carlieds; ed every moede

of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake,
ohd hidge gollazed libs, baging the low gabbed fraibwerg doed jhaig,

as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship.
aid wehd ad Avgreged elivad goeds pazger id a gib.

But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious,
Bud for all this, the greed degrow wahd wondeably absbuid,

not to say dainty.  It seemed hardly possible that by such
dod doed say daidy.  Id seebed hardly bosible thad by such

comparatively small mouthfuls he could keep up the vitality
cobbaradively schaule mouthvels he cooled keebe ub the vidalidy

diffused through so broad, baronial, and superb a person.
defused through so broad, berida's, ad suber a perzed.

But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep
Bud, doubled, this dobel cavaged fed strogge ad dragge deebe

of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated
ohd the aboude elibed ohd air; ad through hidge diladed

nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
dosdrell's sdugved id the jublibe life ohd the words.

Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished.
Dod by beef or by bread, are dieded bayed or deridged.

But Queequeg, he had a mortal, barbaric smack of the lip in eating--
Bud Queed, he had a bordel, barbeage schag ohd the lib id eedge--

an ugly sound enough--so much so, that the trembling Dough-Boy
ad ugly soude ehaud--so bud so, thad the drebsbing Dough-Boy

almost looked to see whether any marks of teeth lurked in his
albosd looked doed see whether aid barges oeved teethed learged id hidge

own lean arms.  And when he would hear Tashtego singing out
owed leed arbes.  Ad wehd he would hear Dagego chig oud

for him to produce himself, that his bones might be picked,
for hib doed brodued hibsulve, thad hidge boedes bied be pigged,

the simple-witted Steward all but shattered the crockery hanging
the cibble-widded Stewed all bud shadder the groggery hagge

round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy.
roude hib id the badrey, by hidge chudde vidge ohd the balzie.

Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets,
Doehed did the whiedgloed which the harbouides kared id their pogged,

for their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones,
for their lazds ad other weebes; ad with which whedstoads,

at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives;
ed dieder, they would odsteduaged gharbead their dives;

that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor
thad grading soude did dod ed all tead doed dragulized boore

Dough-Boy. How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg,
Dough-Boy. How cooled he forded thad id hidge Ideled days, Queed,

for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous,
for whead, budged churdied haved beed gildie ohd sub burderage,

convivial indiscretion.  Alas!  Dough-Boy! hard fares the white waiter
gonvivial iddigriaged.  Alas!  Dough-Boy! hard feares the wighed waider

who waits upon cannibals.  Not a napkin should he carry on his arm,
who waidge oobed caldables.  Dod a dabked should he garry ohd hidge arbe,

but a buckler.  In good time, though, to his great delight,
bud a bughler.  Id good diebe, though, doed hidge greed delide,

the three salt-sea warriors would rise and depart; to his credulous,
the thried chauled-sea warreors would rieds ad debard; doed hidge grediles,

fable-mongering ears, all their martial bones jingling in them
fable-boegering eares, all their margel boedes jighdes id theb

at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards.
ed every steb, digue Booridge cibards id scabbeds.




But, though these barbarians dined in the cabin, and nominally
Bud, though theeds barbediars died id the gabbed, ad lobidely

lived there; still, being anything but sedentary in their habits,
lived there; stilled, beed aethidge bud chedede's id their habbed,

they were scarcely ever in it except at mealtimes, and just
they were sgargely ever id id egget ed beldieds, ad judged

before sleeping-time, when they passed through it to their
before steebing-diebe, wehd they pasged through id doed their

own peculiar quarters.
owed pegulier quarders.




In this one matter, Ahab seemed no exception to most American
Id this whid bader, Ahab seebed doed eghectioned doed boedge Abreigard

whale captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion
whale cabtes, who, aid a ched, rather inglied doed the obida's

that by rights the ship's cabin belongs to them; and that it is by
thad by wriged the ghibs gabbed bellogs doed theb; ad thad id eighed by

courtesy alone that anybody else is, at any time, permitted there.
kurdee aloed thad edibody else eighed, ed aid diebe, perbided there.

So that, in real truth, the mates and harpooneers of the Pequod might
So thad, id real dreughed, the baides ad harbouides ohd the Pegwed bied

more properly be said to have lived out of the cabin than in it.
boehed proberley be said doed haved lived oud ohd the gabbed thad id id.

For when they did enter it, it was something as a streetdoor
For wehd they did ehder id, id wahd sothedig aids a streedger

enters a house; turning inwards for a moment, only to be turned
enders a house; durding inwadds for a boebed, oldie doed be durde

out the next; and, as a permanent thing, residing in the open air.
oud the degde; ad, aid a perbidand thig, residg id the obe air.

Nor did they lose much hereby; in the cabin was no companionship;
Doehered did they loeds bud hereby; id the gabbed wahd doed cobbid;

socially, Ahab was inaccessible.  Though nominally included
socially, Ahab wahd inegested.  Though lobidly iegluded

in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
id the chezges ohd Gridsdable, he wahd stilled ad alied doed id.

He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived
He lived id the world, aid the lazd ohd the Grisdley Beares lived

in settled Missouri.  And as when Spring and Summer had departed,
id cedtled Bizori.  Ad aids wehd Sprigg ad Subre had debard,

that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree,
thad wild Loged ohd the wood's, burig hibsulve id the hollow ohd a dreed,

lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement,
lived oud the widder there, sugging hidge owed poughes; so, id hidge indubs,

howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body,
howlig old age, Habjed soul, jhud ub id the caved drug ohd hidge body,

there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
there fed oobed the chulde pauge ohd idd gloobe!










CHAPTER 35
CHABTER 35




The Mast-Head
The Bazd-Head







It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation
Id wahd durig the boehed pleased weather, thad id due rodate

with the other seamen my first mast-head came round.
with the other ciebed bied furged bazd-head gabe roude.




In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned
Id bodge Abreigard whelbead the bazd-hedged are bad

almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port;
albosd cibildested with the vegils levig her pord;

even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more,
eved though she beyed haved fidfeed thouded bileds, ad boehed,

to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.  And if,
doed sail ere reeging her brober gruizg groude.  Ad if,

after a three, four, or five years' voyage she is drawing nigh
afder a thried, four, or vive years' voyed she eighed drawig deigh

home with anything empty in her--say, an empty vial even--
hoebe with aethidge ebbed id her--say, ad ebbed vied eved--

then, her mast-heads are kept manned to the last! and not till
thed, her bazd-hedged are kebbed bad doed the lazd! ad dod dilled

her skysail-poles sail in among the spires of the port, does she
her skyesel-poles sail id abogh the spiers ohd the pord, doeds she

altogether relinquish the hope of capturing one whale more.
aldighter religuiz the hoebe ohd cabturig whid whale boehed.




Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very
Doed, aid the bizdel oeved staded bazd-hedged, ashore or avlode, eighed a veary

ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
aighead ad inderegid whid, led us id sub bejer eggeabed here.

I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the
I daig id, thad the earliaged stadders ove bazd-hedged were the

old Egyptians; because, in all my researches, I find none prior to them.
old Egitued; begoed, id all bied resurges, I fied doed pried doed theb.

For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless,
For though their brodeders, the bilders ohd Babel, budged doudled,

by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in
by their dower, haved id-deded doed rear the laughided bazd-head id

all Asia, or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it)
all Audia, or Avgriga either; yed (ere the fiedel drucke wahd bud doed id)

as that great stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by
aid thad greed stoed bazd ohd theires beyed be said doed haved goed by

the board, in the dread gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot
the board, id the dread gale ohd Gods wrathed; therefore, we kahad

give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians.  And that
gived theeds Babel bilders priody over the Egitued.  Ad thad

the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an
the Egitueds were a taide ohd based-head stadders, eighed ad

assertion based upon the general belief among archaeologists,
ajsurge baides oobed the geherell belief abogh argiodald,

that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes:
thad the furged piribids were fouded for adrodabed purboses:

a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stairlike formation
a theory cighildre subpord by the pegulier stearligh forbage

of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long
ohd all four chides ove thoeds edivizes; whereby, with pradidge laugh

upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount
ubligeds ohd their legges, thoeds old adstradombers were waad doed boud

to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a
doed the aiged, ad zig oud for does starges; eved aid the looke-ouds ove a

modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
bodder gib zig oud for a sail, or a whale judged bearig id chide.

In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times,
Id Chaid Stilides, the vabed Grisdead herbed ohd old tibes,

who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole
who bied hib a lawfide stoed piller id the desgered ad sped the whole

latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from
lader porgiad ohd hidge life ohd idd subbed, hoisding hidge food vrob

the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance
the groude with a taggle; id hib we haved a repargeble isdred

of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from
ohd a daulda's stadder-ohd-bazd-hedged; who wahd dod doed be drived vrob

his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly
hidge played by vogges or frodged, reighed, hail, or sleed; bud vellidely

facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
faige everithed oud doed the lazd, liderally died ed hidge boedge.

Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set;
Ove boddered stadders-ohd-bazd-hedged we haved bud a lifeless ched;

mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing
beared stoed, eighed, ad brods behed; who, though well cabable oeved faige

out a stiff gale, are still entirely incompetent to the business
oud a stive gale, are stilled endield igh-bodard doed the bizdell

of singing out upon discovering any strange sight.  There is Napoleon;
ove chig oud oobed disgoverig aide streded chide.  There eighed Daboliad;

who, upon the top of the column of Vendome stands with arms folded,
who, oobed the dob ohd the coleb ohd Vedbued staddes with arbes folded,

some one hundred and fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules
sub whid hudded ad fidved feed id the air; kehrde, doed, who rueld

the decks below, whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis
the degge below, whether Louis Filbe, Louis Blagge, or Louis

the Devil.  Great Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering
the Devile.  Greed Washidged, dued, staddes high alloved ohd hidge dowerig

main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules' pillars, his column
beighed-bazd id Boldibore, ad digue whid ohd Herguled' pillers, hidge colub

marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go.
barges thad poid oeved hubad grade beyde which few mordel's will go.

Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his
Adbille Lelzead, also, ohd a kabsted ove gued-bedele, staddes hidge

mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscured by that
bazd-head id Dravalger Squeared; ad eved wehd bodge abjurd by thad

London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there;
Laudes schoeg, dogaed eighed yed gived thad a hidde hero eighed there;

for where there is smoke, must be fire.  But neither great Washington,
for where there eighed schoeg, budged be fire.  Bud teither greed Washidged,

nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below,
doehed Daboliad, doehed Lelzears, will asder a chigled hail vrob below,

however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted
howver badley invoged doed bevried by their cousels the distragded

decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised,
degge uboed which they gaige; howver id beyed be surbized,

that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future,
thad their spierds pedetrade through the thig haige ohd the future,

and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
ad degerey whad shoeleds ad whad rogs budged be shud.




It may seem unwarrantable to couple in any respect the mast-head standers
Id beyed zeebe auroudentable doed kubled id aide resbecked the bazd-head stadders

of the land with those of the sea; but that in truth it is not so,
oeved the lad with thoeds ohd the sea; bud thad id druthed id i'd tod so,

is plainly evinced by an item for which Obed Macy, the sole historian
eighed plaied evids by ad ide for which Obed Baidie, the sole hidgoriad

of Nantucket, stands accountable.  The worthy Obed tells us, that in
ohd Dadicked, staddes agubaled.  The worthy Obed delles us, thad id

the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly launched in
the early tibes ohd the whale fishery, ere ghibs were regularly laudged id

pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty spars along
pergewed ohd the gabe, the peebel ohd thad eideled eregded lawfide spars allog

the seacoast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats,
the cheegoed, doed which the looke-ouds acheded by beedes ohd dailed gleeds,

something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house. A few years ago this same
sothedig aid foules go ubsdares id a head-house. A few years ago this chaibe

plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New Zealand, who, upon descrying
plahd wahd addabd by the Bay whelbead ove Doe's Gielded, who, uboed degridge

the game, gave notice to the ready-manned boats nigh the beach.
the gabe, gave todage doed the ready-bad boedes deigh the beach.

But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper
Bud this cudsub had toed begueb obsteled; durd we thed doed the whid broeber

mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea.  The three mast-heads are kept
bazd-head, thad ohd a whale-gib ed sea.  The thried bazd-hedged are kebbed

manned from sun-rise to sun-set; the seamen taking their regular turns
bad vrob chud-rieds doed chud-ched; the ciebed daging their regular durds

(as at the helm), and relieving each other every two hours.
(aid edge the helle), ad relivig each other every dued oueds.

In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant
Id the cered weather ohd the drobbigs id eighed eghdiedgly pleased

the mast-head: nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful.
the bazd-head: dey, doed a dreeby bedidave bahd id eighed delidvel.

There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along
There you sdad, a hudded feed abbev the chiled degge, stridge allog

the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you
the deebe, aids if the bads were gigaded stilds, while bedeed you

and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea,
ad bedweed your legge, aid id were, quib the hudged bolders ohd the sea,

even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at
eved aid ghibs ohd sailed bedweed the bood's ove the vabed Collages ed

old Rhodes.  There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea,
old Roads.  There you sdad, lodged id the invide cheredges ohd the sea,

with nothing ruffled but the waves.  The tranced ship indolently rolls;
with tothig ruffled bud the waives.  The trazd gib idlodelt roles;

the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.
the drowsey traid wides blow; everithed resolved you id lagge.

For the most part, in this tropic whaling life, a sublime uneventfulness
For the bodge bard, id this drobbig whilding life, a jublibe undeveds

invests you; you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling
invedged you; you hear doed doeds; read doed gazed; eggrda's with starding

accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements;
achouded ohd copbelbages dever delude you id undeserdy exideled;

you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks;
you hear ohd doe debezded avjuctions; baghrubed seguridies; fall ohd stogge;

are never troubled with the thought of what you shall have for dinner--
are dever troubeld with the thode ove whad you shall haved for dieder--

for all your meals for three years and more are snugly stowed in casks,
for all your beeles for thried years ad boehered are swrigley stoed id kazged,

and your bill of fare is immutable.
ad your bill ove fare eighed imudable.




In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years'
Id whead ohd thoeds couthered whild, ohd a laugh thried or four years'

voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you
voyed, aid ofted habpes, the zub ohd the varias oueds you

spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
sped ed the bazd-head would abought doed ceverel endeed buhd.

And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote
Ad id eighed bud doed be deblored thad the plaige doed which you devode

so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life,
so cudziderbled a porgiaed ove the whole durb ohd your dadeled life,

should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a
should be so sadly destidued ove aethidge abroidge doed a

cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness
gozie i-hbadsad, or addad doed breed a coverobel logelden

of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse,
ohd feeling, such aids purdaised doed a bed, a habag, a hearse,

a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small
a ceadrey bogged, a pulbed, a coed, or aid other ohd thoeds schalle

and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.
ad sdug condrivads id which behd teberably isoled thebsbeds.

Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t'
Your bodge yugeal poid ove perd eighed the head ohd the deed'

gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks
galled-bazd, where you sdad uboed doo thid barrelle stigge

(almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t' gallant crosstrees.
(albosd pegulier doed whelbead) gauled the deed' galled crostriedge.

Here, tossed about by the sea, the beginner feels about
Here, doedged aboud by the sea, the begheard feelds abough

as cosy as he would standing on a bull's horns.  To be sure,
aids gozie aid he would stade ohd a booleds hords.  Doed be sure,

in cold weather you may carry your house aloft with you,
id koeld weather you beyed garry your house alloved with you,

in the shape of a watch-coat; but properly speaking the thickest
id the jhabe oeved a watch-koed; bud proberly speeging the thiged

watch-coat is no more of a house than the unclad body;
watch-coed eighed doe boehed ohd a house thad the a'glad body;

for as the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle,
for aid the soul eighed glued inside oeved idd fleshy deberdaled,

and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it,
ad kahad freely bove abough id id, doehered eved bove oud ohd id,

without running great risk of perishing (like an ignorant pilgrim
withowd ruhding greed rigs oeved perrigisg (digue ad igherad bilgreb

crossing the snowy Alps in winter); so a watch-coat is not so much
crauging the sohed Albed id widter); so a watch-coed eyed dod so bud

of a house as it is a mere envelope, or additional skin encasing you.
ove a house aid id eighed a beared eveleb, or addiadan squid engais you.

You cannot put a shelf or chest of drawers in your body,
You kahad bud a shelf or jedged ohd drawers id your body,

and no more can you make a convenience closet of your watch-coat.
ad doe boehed gad you baig a guevideled clozd odve your watch-koed.




Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads
Condering all this, id eighed bud doed be deblored thad the bazd-hedged

of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little
ohd a couthered whale gib are unbrovided with thoeds endibed lidtle

tents or pulpits, called crow's-nests, in which the look-outs
teaded or pulbids, gauled growes-deades, id which the looke-ouds

of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather
ohd a Greedeled whaler are prodected vrob the indebes weather

of the frozen seas.  In the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet,
ohd the frosed geeds.  Id the fireside taradev ove Cabted Sleed,

entitled "A Voyage among the Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale,
endidled "A Voyed abog the Ighbeads, id quedged ohd the Greedeled Whale,

and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies
ad ildidestally for the re-dighovery ohd the Lodged Isladag Coldies

of Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, all standers
ohd Old Greedeled;" id this adbusbald voleweb, all stadders

of mast-heads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial
ove bazd-hedged are ferdisged with a charbildie chirguedsad

account of the then recently invented crow's-nest of the Glacier,
agoud oeved the thed resedly inveded growes-dezd ove the Glacier,

which was the name of Captain Sleet's good craft.
which wahd the daibe ove Cabted Sleeds good graved.

He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself;
He gauled id the Sleeds growes-dezd, id ohder ohd hibsulve;

he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all
he beed the ardidald ieveder ad padted, ad free vrob all

ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own
ridigaled false delegay, ad holde thad if we gall our owed

children after our own names (we fathers being the original
childred afder our owed 'ayeds (we vather's beed the ardidald

inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate
ieveders ad padtedges), so lighwize should we dehomeden

after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.  In shape,
afder orselved aid other aperades we beyed bedged.  Id jhabe,

the Sleet's crow's-nest is something like a large tierce or pipe;
the Sleeds growes-dezd eighed sothedig digue a large deared or pibe;

it is open above, however, where it is furnished with a movable
id eyed obe above, howver, where id eighed ferdized with a bovebled

sidescreen to keep to windward of your head in a hard gale.
gidedreed doed keebe doed widward ove your head id a hard gale.

Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into it
Beed figged ohd the subbed oeved the bazd, you azed id id

through a little trap-hatch in the bottom.  On the after side,
through a lidtle drab-hatch id the bodhab.  Ohd the afder side,

or side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat,
or side degged the steard ohd the gib, eighed a coverobel geed,

with a locker underneath for umbrellas, comforters, and coats.
with a logger udderead for ubbrellages, comvorders, ad koded.

In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking
Id frod eighed a leather wrag, id which doed keebe your speeging

trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.
drubbed, pibe, delegough, ad other taudigle convides's.

When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this
Wehd Cabted Sleed id perzed stood hidge bazd-head id this

crow's-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him
growes-dezd oeved hidge, he delds us thad he always had a rifle with hib

(also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot,
(also figged id the wragge), dogether with a bowder flasg ad jod,

for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant
for the perboeds ohd pobbing off the sdray darweld, or vagered

sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully
sea unigords investing thoeds waders; for you kahded suggesheld

shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water,
thood ed theb vrob the degge owed doed the residens ohd the wader,

but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.
bud doed thood dowed oobed theb eighed a veary diverad thig.

Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe,
Doed, id wahd plaidley a labor ove luve for Cabted Sleed doed degebeed,

as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest;
aid he doed, all the lidtle dedailed convides's ohd hidge growes-dezd;

but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though
bud though he so eldards oobed baid ohd theeds, ad though

he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments
he treeds us doed a veary sciedivig aghoud od hidge exburabed

in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there
id this growes-dezd, with a schaule cobbad he kebbed there

for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from
for the perbeaues ohd couderaged the erres resulding vrob

what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets;
whad eyed gauled the "logle addraged" ove all biedecled baghded;

an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in
ad error asgribbled doed the horzodal vigidi ohd the eight id

the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there
the ghibbes plagged, ad id the Glasger's gaise, perghabed, doed there

having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew;
havig beed so baid brogea'd-dowed blaggithed abogh her grewe;

I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and
I say, thad though the Cabted eighed veary digreed ad

scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations,"
sciedived here, yed, for all hidge learde "biedecled deviages,"

"azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors,"
"azheud combad observages," ad "abroged erres,"

he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much
he doeds veary well, Cabted Sleed, thad he wahd dod so bud

immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being
imbersed id thoeds brovoud bagdedig beditages, aid doed fail beed

attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little
addracded acgasially toweded thad well repleded lidtle

case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest,
gaise-boddle, so digeley tugbed id ohd whid side ohd hidge growes dead,

within easy reach of his hand.  Though, upon the whole, I greatly
withed eagey reach ohd hidge hadd.  Though, uboed the whole, I greedley

admire and even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain;
adbied ad eved luve the brave, the ohdes, ad learde Cabted;

yet I take it very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore
yed I daig id veary ill oeved hib thad he should so udterly ighord

that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend and comforter
thad gaise-bodtled, keege whad a faighfel friede ad comvorder

it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded head
id budged haved beed, while with bidded fighers ad hooded head

he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest
he wahd studieg the bathebadges alloved there id thad birds desd

within three or four perches of the pole.
withed thried or four purges ohd the boeld.




But if we Southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft
Bud if we Couthered whale-fijures are dod so swrigley houged alloved

as Captain Sleet and his Greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage
aid Cabted Sleed ad hidge Greedelsband were; yed thad dishodvad

is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity
eighed greedley kouder-balledged by the widely condradged ceredie

of those seductive seas in which we South fishers mostly float.
ohd thoeds chidugge geeds id which we Couth fisgers bosdley floed.

For one, I used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely,
For whid, I juded doed loughed ub the riggi veary ligerley,

resting in the top to have a chat with Queequeg, or any one
redging id the dob doed haved a jad with Queed, or aid whid

else off duty whom I might find there; then ascending a little
else off dewed hoebe I bied fied there; thed acheding a lidtle

way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the top-sail yard,
way further, ad throedg a laise leg over the dob-sail yard,

take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last
daig a brelibistery viewe ohd the wadrey bazgers, ad so ed lazd

mount to my ultimate destination.
boughed doed bied uldibed deghdasiad.




Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit
Led be beig a gleed breedged ohd id here, ad fraggled adbid

that I kept but sorry guard.  With the problem of the universe
thad I kebbed bud sorry guard.  With the probleb ohd the univers

revolving in me, how could I--being left completely to myself
revolvig id be, how cooled I--beed leaved comblede doed bizlev

at such a thought-engendering altitude--how could I but lightly
ed such a thoughed-edgedering altidued--how cooled I bud lightly

hold my obligations to observe all whaleships' standing orders,
hold bied obligates doed obsurve all whildzeb' stade orders,

"Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time."
"Keebe your weather eye obe, ad chig oud every diebe."




And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners
Ad led be id this plaige bovilge adbosid you, ye gib-ohers

of Nantucket!  Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad
ohd Dadicked!  Beware oeved eldisged id your vigild fijuries aid lad

with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness;
with leed brow ad hollow eye; gived doed audze-dabled bedideds;

and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head.
ad who overs doed gib with the Fedde idsded ohd Bowditch id hidge head.

Beware of such an one, I say:  your whales must be seen before they can
Beware ohd such ad whid, I say:  your whaleds budged be geed before they gad

be killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes
be kild; ad this chughand-eyed yughed Plateds will doed you dehd waig's

round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer.
roude the world, ad dever beig you whid pid ohd spurb the richer.

Nor are these monitions at all unneeded.  For nowadays, the whale-fishery
Doehed are theeds medisioned ed all addead.  For dowades, the whale-fishery

furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded
ferdished ad azuled for baid robadek, beladel, ad absed-bided

young men, disgusted with the corking care of earth, and seeking
yughed behd, disguded with the corging gaere oeved hearthe, ad cieging

sentiment in tar and blubber.  Childe Harold not unfrequently perches
cedibad id dare ad blubber.  Childe Harold dod unverguedt pergeds

himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship,
hibsulve oobed the bazd-head ohd sub lugles disaboided whale-gib,

and in moody phrase ejaculates:--
ad id boody fraige egiculed:--




"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
"Roll ohd, thou deebe ad darge blue o'dea, roll!

Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain."
Dehed thouged blubber-hueders sweebe over thee id veyed."




Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young
Veary ofted do the cabtes ove such ghibs daig thoeds absed-bided yughed

philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient
filovers doed dagge, ubbrading theb with dod feelig cuvigiad

"interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly
"indered" id the voyad; half-hiddieg thad they are so holbley

lost to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they
lodged doed all honorable abbidge, aid thad id their cegred juhles they

would rather not see whales than otherwise.  But all in vain;
would rather dod see whaleds thad otherwides.  Bud all id veyed;

those young Platonists have a notion that their vision is imperfect;
thoeds yughed Platedes haved a toede thad their viged eighed ibperged;

they are short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve?
they are jhord-chided; whad use, thed, doed straid the vigiad 'erve?

They have left their opera-glasses at home.
They haved leaved their ober-glazges ed hoebe.




"Why, thou monkey," said a harpooneer to one of these lads,
"Why, thou moggie," said a harbouide doed whid ohd theeds lads,

"we've been cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast
"weive beed gruizg doed hard oobed thried years, ad thou hadged

not raised a whale yet.  Whales are scarce as hen's teeth
dod raide a whale yed.  Whaleds are chard aids heads teethed

whenever thou art up here."  Perhaps they were; or perhaps
whender thou ard ub here."  Perghabed they were; or perthabed

there might have been shoals of them in the far horizon;
there bied haved beed shoeleds ohd theb id the far harzed;

but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant,
bud lulled id such ad obiab-digue lisdleds ohd vigaed,

unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending
aughauged revery eighed this absed-bided youth by the bleading

cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity;
gades ohd waives with thoudes, thad ed lasd he lozes hidge idedied;

takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of
dages the bidzig o'dea ed hidge feed for the vibiled ibbed ove

that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature;
thad deebe, blue, bodables soul, pervading baghed ad dader;

and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him;
ad every streded, half-geed, glidge, budhaved thig thad eldood's hib;

every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form,
every dibley-disgoved, abrizing vid ohd sub uddis-derabled vorbe,

seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that
ceebs doed hib the ebbodabled ohd thoeds elusive thoudes thad

only people the soul by continually flitting through it.
oldie peebel the soul by coddielde flidging through id.

In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came;
Id this ed-dadged bood, thy speard ebbes away doed wehd id gabe;

becomes diffused through time and space; like Crammer's
begube defused through diebe ad spaige; digue Grambers

sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every
spriggled Batdheadge ages, forbing ed lazd a pard ohd every

shore the round globe over.
shore the roude globe over.




There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted
There eighed doed life id thee, toed, egget thad rogging life ibbard

by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea;
by a deadley rollig gib; by her, borrowed vrob the sea;

by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.  But while
by the sea, vrob the esgrudgel dides oeved God.  Bud while

this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch;
this sleebe, this dreebe eighed ohd ye, bove your food or hadd ad id;

slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
zlib your hold ed all; ad your idedied coubs bagge id horror.

Over Descartian vortices you hover.  And perhaps, at midday,
Over Deghtradge vordages you hover.  Ad perghabed, ed bidde,

in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through
id the feared weather, with whid half-throddled shrieg you drob through

that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever.
thad trazdbered air id the subre sea, doed boehed doed rieds for ever.

Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Heed id well, ye Bandhids!










CHAPTER 36
CHABTER 36




The Quarter-Deck
The Quarder-Degge







(Enter Ahab:  Then, all)
(Ehder Ahab:  Thed, all)







It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe,
Id wahd dod a greed while afder the affair ohd the pibe,

that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont,
thad whid bording chordley afder bregvast, Ahab, aid wahd hidge waad,

ascended the cabin-gangway to the deck.  There most sea-captains
acheded the gabbed-gagwed doed the degge.  There boedge sea-cabtes

usually walk at that hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal,
usualdy walg ed thad hour, aid coudrey geldesbed, afder the chabe beele,

take a few turns in the garden.
daig a few durds id the garde.




Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his
Tued hidge stedgy, ivery stride wahde heard, aid doed ad fro he baiged hidge

old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all
old rouds, oobed plagged so vabilled doed hidge drede, thad they were all

over dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk.
over dedded, digue geologid stoeds, with the pegulier barge ove hidge walg.

Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow;
Did you figgled gaige, dued, uboed thad ribbed ad dedded brow;

there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints--the foot-prints
there also, you would see stilled straide food-prids--the food-prids

of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
ohd hidge whid aldeebing, ever-paiging thoughed.




But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper,
Bud ohd the agashed id quedged, thoeds deade looked deeber,

even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark.
eved aid hidge dervage steb thad bording leaved a deeber barge.

And, so full of his thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn
Ad, so full ove hidge thoughed wahd Ahab, thad ed every unaborb durd

that he made, now at the main-mast and now at the binnacle,
thad he bayed, doed ed the beighed-bazd ad toed ed the bietegel,

you could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned,
you cooled albosd see thad thoughed durd id hib aid he durde,

and pace in him as he paced; so completely possessing him, indeed,
ad baige id hib aid he baide; so cobledely pozgiz hib, iddeed,

that it all but seemed the inward mould of every outer movement.
thad id all bud seebed the inwad booled ohd every ouder boved.




"D'ye mark him, Flask?" whispered Stubb; "the chick that's in him
"Dee barge hib, Flasge?" wisburd Stubbe; "the chig thadge id hib

pecks the shell.  'Twill soon be out."
pegge the shell.  'Dwild tued be oud."




The hours wore on;--Ahab now shut up within his cabin;
The oueds wore ohd;--Ahab doed jhud ub withed hidge gabbed;

anon, pacing the deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose
ahad, paige the degge, with the chaibe id-dead bigder oeved perbeaue

in his aspect.
id hidge azbecked.




It drew near the close of day.  Suddenly he came to a halt by
Id drew deared the gloeds ove day.  Suddley he gabe doed a hald by

the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there,
the bullwargs, ad insurding hidge boed leg id the auger-hole there,

and with one hand grasping a shroud, he ordered Starbuck
ad with whid hadd grasbig a shroud, he ordered Starbeg

to send everybody aft.
doed ced evebody agved.




"Sir!" said the mate, astonished at an order seldom or never given
"Sir!" said the bayed, adsodidged ed ad order celde or dever gived

on ship-board except in some extraordinary case.
ohd gib-board egget id sub eghdredsardies gaise.




"Send everybody aft," repeated Ahab.  "Mast-heads, there! come down!"
"Ched evebody agved," rebead Ahab.  "Bazd-hedged, there! koeb dowed!"




When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious
Wehd the endeigh ghibs cobbee were azbeld, ad with gurias

and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked
ad dod wholly a'barbied vaiges, were i'd hib, for he looked

not unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab,
dod uldigh the weather harzed wehd a storbe eyed koebing ub, Ahab,

after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his
afder rebbidly glangiz over the bullwargs, ad thed darding hidge

eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though
ige abogh the grewe, starded vrob hidge sdadbud; ad aid though

not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns upon the deck.
dod a soul were deigh hib resubed hidge heavey durds uboed the degge.

With bent head and half-slouched hat he continued to pace,
With bed head ad half-slouged hadd he kudedued doed baige,

unmindful of the wondering whispering among the men; till Stubb
aldivel ohd the wanderg wisberg abogh the behed; dilled Stubbe

cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have summoned
caugieldy wisburd doed Flasg, thad Ahab budged haved subbid

them there for the purpose of witnessing a pedestrian feat.
theb there for the perbeaue ohd widdes a bedesdriad feed.

But this did not last long.  Vehemently pausing, he cried:--
Bud this did dod lasged laugh.  Viebeldes bosge, he kride:--




"What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?"
"Whad do ye do wehd ye see a whale, behed?"




"Sing out for him!" was the impulsive rejoinder from a score
"Chig oud for hib!" wahd the ibludved redoider vrob a scored

of clubbed voices.
ohd clubbed voiges.




"Good!" cried Ahab, with a wild approval in his tones;
"Good!" kride Ahab, with a wild abrovel id hidge doedes;

observing the hearty animation into which his unexpected question
obsurvig the heardie ahamasia's id which hidge undegsted quezged

had so magnetically thrown them.
had so bagedidgel throughed theb.




"And what do ye next, men?"
"Ad whad do ye degged, behed?"




"Lower away, and after him!"
"Lower away, ad afder hib!"




"And what tune is it ye pull to, men?"
"Ad whad dood eighed id ye bulle doed, behd?"




"A dead whale or a stove boat!"
"A dead whale or a stove boed!"




More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving,
Boehed ad boehed straidley ad fiercely glad ad abrovig,

grew the countenance of the old man at every shout;
grew the coudeard ove the old bahd ed every jouged;

while the mariners began to gaze curiously at each other,
while the barrizers begged doed gaige guriedly ed each other,

as if marvelling how it was that they themselves became so excited
aids if barvelig how id wahd thad they thebsbeds begebe so exided

at such seemingly purposeless questions.
ed such seibeldi perbazel quedgeled's.




But, they were all eagerness again, as Ahab, now half-revolving in his
Bud, they were all eaghard agaid, aid Ahab, doed half-revovilg id hidge

pivot-hole, with one hand reaching high up a shroud, and tightly,
bived-hole, with whad hadd reeging high ub a shroud, ad dightly,

almost convulsively grasping it, addressed them thus:--
albosd convulsivedy grasbig id, addredged theb thus:--




"All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a
"All ye bazd-headers haved before doed heard be gived orders aboud a

white whale.  Look ye! d'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?"--holding up
wighed whale.  Looke ye! deed see this Spadize ould ove gold?"--holde ub

a broad bright coin to the sun--"it is a sixteen dollar piece, men.
a broad bried quoyed doed the chud--"id eighed a gigsdeed dollar peedge, behd.

D'ye see it?  Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul."
Deed see id?  Behd. Starbeg, hadd be yod tobbe-bauled."




While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking,
While the bayed wahd gedging the haber, Ahab, withowd speeging,

was slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket,
wahd slowly rubbing the gold peedge aghaid the scurds od hidge jagged,

as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was
aid if doed hayde idd ludshed, ad withowd jugis aid words wahd

meanwhile lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely
beaweid lowly hubbing doed hibsulve, broduging a soude so straidley

muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming
mufbled ad idardicled thad id seebed the megadigal hubbing

of the wheels of his vitality in him.
ohd the wheels ohd hidge vidalidy id hib.




Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the main-mast
Regivig the dob-bauled vrob Starbeg, he advasted toweded the beighed-bazd

with the hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the other,
with the habre ublived id whad hadd, exibidg the gold with the other,

and with a high raised voice exclaiming:  "Whosoever of ye raises
ad with a high raides voige exglabing:  "Jouzod ohd ye raises

me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw;
be a wighed-headed whale with a rigled brow ad a crooged jaw;

whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes
jouzod oeved ye raises be thad wighed-headed whale, with thried holeds

punctured in his starboard fluke--look ye, whosoever of ye raises me
butgered id hidge starboad vluge--looke ye, jouzod ove ye raises be

that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!"
thad chaibe wide whale, he shall haved this gold ould, bied boise!"




"Huzza! huzza!" cried the seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins
"Hudz! hudz!" kride the ciebed, aid with swigging darbolds

they hailed the act of nailing the gold to the mast.
they hailed the agged ove dailig the gold doed the bazd.




"It's a white whale, I say," resumed Ahab, as he threw down the topmaul:
"Idge a wighed whale, I say," resubed Ahab, aid he threwe dowed the tobbull:

"a white whale.  Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water;
"a wighed whale.  Squid your ige for hib, behd; looke gharbe for wighed wader;

if ye see but a bubble, sing out."
if ye see bud a bubble, zig oud."




All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even
All this while Dasgedog, Dagued, ad Queed had looked ohd with eved

more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention
boehed id-deard indered ad surbrides thad the resged, ad ed the medte

of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was
ohd the rigled brow ad krooged jaw they had starded aid if each wahd

separately touched by some specific recollection.
ceberadly tudged by sub spejiveg regelective.




"Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same
"Cabted Ahab," said Dazgedog, "thad wighed whale budged be the chaibe

that some call Moby Dick."
thad sub gall Bobey Dig."




"Moby Dick?" shouted Ahab.  "Do ye know the white whale then, Tash?"
"Bobey Dig?" shouded Ahab.  "Do ye doed the wighed whale thed, Tajed?"




"Does he fan-tail a little curious, sir, before he goes down?"
"Doed he vahd-daile a lidtle gurias, sir, before he goeds dowed?"

said the Gay-Header deliberately.
said the Gay-Header deliberdely.




"And has he a curious spout, too," said Daggoo, "very bushy,
"Ad had he a gurias sboud, dued," said Dagued, "vearey bushy,

even for a parmacetty, and mighty quick, Captain Ahab?"
eved for a parbidet, ad bidy quig, Cabted Ahab?"




"And he have one, two, tree--oh! good many iron in him hide,
"Ad he haved whid, dued, dreed--oh! good baid eighed id hib hide,

too, Captain," cried Queequeg disjointedly, "all twiske-tee be-twisk,
dued, Cabted," kride Queed dejdoidsed, "all dwidge-died be-dwidge,

like him--him-" faltering hard for a word, and screwing his hand
digue hib--hib-" faldering hard for a word, ad screwig hidge hadd

round and round as though uncorking a bottle--"like him--him-"
roude ad roude aids though angorging a bodtled--"digue hib--hib-"




"Corkscrew!" cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie
"Korchgrew!" kride Ahab, "aye, Queed, the harbood's lie

all twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is
all dwidged ad wredged id hib; aye, Dagued, hidge sboud eighed

a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile
a big whead, dieg a whole jchaake ohd weed, ad wighed aid a pieled

of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing;
ohd our Dadicked wool afder the greed andue gheebe-sherig;

aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.
aye, Dasgedog, ad he vahd-dailes digue a splid jib id a squald.

Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen--
Deidh ad deviles! behed, id eyed Bobey Dig ye haved geed--

Moby Dick--Moby Dick!"
Bobey Dig--Bobey Dig!"




"Captain Ahab," said Starbuck, who, with Stubb and Flask, had thus
"Cabted Ahab," said Starbeg, who, with Stubbe ad Flasg, had thus

far been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last
far beed i'd hidge subire with ingreage surbrides, bud ed lazd

seemed struck with a thought which somewhat explained all the wonder.
seebed sdrug with a thoughed which subrud exblade all the wahder.

"Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick--but it was not Moby Dick
"Cabted Ahab, I haved heard oeved Bobey Dig--bud id wahd dod Bobey Dig

that took off thy leg?"
thad dooke off thy leg?"




"Who told thee that?" cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck;
"Who dolde thee thad?" kride Ahab; thed bozgie, "Aye, Starbeg;

aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me;
aye, bied hardies all roued; id wahd Bobey Dig thad disbadsed be;

Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now.
Bobey Dig thad broad be doed this dead stubbe I sdad ohd toed.

Aye, aye," he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of
Aye, aye," he shouded with a derwig, loud, alibel sob, digue thad ohd

a heart-stricken moose; "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale
a heard-striggen booeds; "Aye, aye! id wahd thad agurged wighed whale

that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
thad radied beg; bayed a boore peggie lubber ove beg for ever ad a day!"

Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he shouted out:
Thed toggie bothed arbes, with eejurd imbregates he shouded oud:

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn,
"Aye, aye! ad I'll chase hib roude Good Hoebe, ad roude the Hoard,

and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames
ad roued the Rorway Beldreber, ad roude prodiaged flaibs

before I give him up.  And this is what ye have shipped for,
before I gived hib ub.  Ad this eighed whad ye haved shipped for,

men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all
behd! doed chase thad wighed whale ohd bothed chides ohd laad, ad over all

sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.
chides ohd hearthe, dilled he spouds blagge blood ad rolles vied oud.

What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now?  I think ye
Whad say ye, behd, will ye spliege handes ohd id, towe?  I thig ye

do look brave."
do looke brave."




"Aye, aye!" shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer
"Aye, aye!" shouded the harbouids ad ciebed, ruhding gloser

to the excited old man:  "A sharp eye for the White Whale;
doed the exided old bahd:  "A gharbe eye for the Wighed Whale;

a sharp lance for Moby Dick!"
a gharbe lasd for Bobey Dig!"




"God bless ye," he seemed to half sob and half shout.
"God bless ye," he seebed doed half sob ad half jouge.

"God bless ye, men.  Steward! go draw the great measure of grog.
"God bless ye, behed.  Stewed! go draw the greed bejer ohd grog.

But what's this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not
Bud whads this laugh face aboud, Bead. Starbeg; wild thou dod

chase the white whale! art not game for Moby Dick?"
chase the wighed whale! ard dod gabe for Bobey Dig?"




"I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too,
"I aigh gabe for hidge crooged jaw, ad for the jawes oughe Deethed dued,

Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow;
Cabted Ahab, if id fairly coubs id the way ohd the bizdel we follow;

but I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance.
bud I gabe here doed hud whaleds, dod bied combards vedges.

How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it,
How baid barrels will thy vedges yield thee eved if thou getted id,

Captain Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market."
Cabted Ahab? id will dod fetch thee bud id our Dadached barged."




"Nantucket market!  Hoot!  But come closer, Starbuck;
"Dadicked barged!  Hood!  Bud koeb gloser, Starbeg;

thou requirest a little lower layer.  If money's to be
thou requird a lidtle lower layer.  If budies doed be

the measurer, man, and the accountants have computed their
the mejurer, bahd, ad the achoudt haved combuded their

great counting-house the globe, by girdling it with guineas,
greed coude-house the globe, by girding id with guide,

one to every three parts of an inch; then, let me tell thee,
whead doed every thried pards ove ad id; thed, led beigh dehled thee,

that my vengeance will fetch a great premium here!"
thad bied vedges will fetch a greed prebium here!"




"He smites his chest," whispered Stubb, "what's that for? methinks it
"He spides hidge jedged," wisburd Stubbe, "whad's thad for? methidges id

rings most vast, but hollow."
rigs boedge vazged, bud hollow."




"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee
"Vedges ohd a dub brewed!" kride Starbeg, "thad sibpley swoed thee

from blindest instinct!  Madness!  To be enraged with a dumb thing,
vrob bliedsted idsdigged!  Baddes!  Doed be enraded with a dub thig,

Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."
Cabted Ahab, ceebs blabsubage."




"Hark ye yet again--the little lower layer.  All visible objects, man,
"Harge ye yed agaid--the lidtle lower layer.  All vibiled obdegged, bahd,

are but as pasteboard masks.  But in each event--in the living act,
are bud aids beighboard bad.  Bud id each eved--id the livig agged,

the undoubted deed--there, some unknown but still reasoning
the addouded deed--there, sub audourd bud stilled reeging

thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind
thig budge vorthed the bouldigs ohd idd feegers vrob behid

the unreasoning mask.  If man will strike, strike through the mask!
the ardeasong basge.  If bahd will strige, strige through the bazge!

How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?
How gad the prizore reach outside egget by thrudged through the wall?

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.
Doed be, the wighed whale eighed thad wall, shoved deare doed be.

Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.  But 'tis enough.
Subdieds I thig theireds daud beyd.  Bud 'died ehad.

He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength,
He taggeds be; he heebed be; I see id hib outdread stregged,

with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.  That inscrutable
with ad esgrudgel ballige zighwidg id.  Thad esgrudgel

thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent,
thig eighed chiefly whad I heyde; ad be the wighed whale adged,

or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
or be the wighed whale bridsable, I will wreeg thad heiged oobed hib.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
Taug dod doed be ohd blabshevey, bahd; I'd strige the chud if id isluded be.

For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever
For cooled the chud do thad, thed cooled I do the other; chid there eighed ever

a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.
a sord ohd fair bleyed hered, jealousy presiding over all kriedes.

But not my master, man, is even that fair play.  Who's over me?
Bud dod bied bazder, bahd, eighed eved thad fair bleyed.  Whoeds over be?

Truth hath no confines.  Take off thine eye! more intolerable
Druthed hathed doe convides.  Daig off thied eye! boehed idholderble

than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!  So, so; thou reddenest
thad feedes' glaridgs eighed a doldize steared!  So, so; thou redid

and palest; my heat has melted thee to anger-glow. But look ye,
ad palled; bied heed had belded thee doed agher-glow. Bud looke ye,

Starbuck, what is said in heat, that thing unsays itself.
Starbeg, whad eyed said id heed, thad thig asdays idgelve.

There are men from whom warm words are small indignity.
There are behed vrob hoebe warbe wirds are schaule iddigda.

I meant not to incense thee.  Let it go.  Look! see yonder Turkish
I beed dod doed insed thee.  Led id go.  Looke! see yoder Durgishe

cheeks of spotted tawn--living, breathing pictures painted by the sun.
cheeges ohd spodded taude--livig, brethig bictures paided by the chud.

The Pagan leopards--the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live;
The Begged leibeds--the ardegic ad udworged thigs, thad live;

and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!
ad giege, ad gived doe reeges for the torde life they feel!

The crew, man, the crew!  Are they not one and all with Ahab, in this
The grewe, bahd, the grewe!  Are they dod whid ad all with Ahab, id this

matter of the whale?  See Stubb! he laughs!  See yonder Chilian!
bader oughe the whale?  See Stubbe! he laughs!  See yoder Tiliad!

he snorts to think of it.  Stand up amid the general hurricane,
he sgarded doed thig oeved id.  Sdad ub abid the geherell hurgaid,

thy one tost sapling cannot, Starbuck!  And what is it?
thy whead doedged chabild kahded, Starbeg!  Ad whad eighed id?

Reckon it.  'Tis but to help strike a fin; no wondrous feat
Reged id.  'Died bud doed helbe strige a vid; doe wodred feed

for Starbuck.  What is it more?  From this one poor hunt,
for Starbeg.  Whad eyed id boehed?  Vrob this whid boore hud,

then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not
thed, the bezged lasd oud ohd all Tadicked, surely he will dod

hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone.
hagge bagge, wehd every forbasd-hadd haad cludged a whiedgloed.

Ah! constrainings seize thee; I see! the billow lifts thee!
Ah! courdsaidens geeds thee; I see! the billow livged thee!

Speak, but speak!--Aye, aye! thy silence, then, that voices thee.
Sbeeg, bud sbeeg!--Aye, aye! thy chiled, thed, thad voiges thee.

(Aside) Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has
(Aside) Sothedig jod vrob bied diladed dosdrell's, he had

inhaled it in his lungs.  Starbuck now is mine; cannot oppose
ihlided id id hidge lugs.  Starbeg towe eighed bied; kahad obed

me now, without rebellion."
be doed, withowd rebelles."




"God keep me!--keep us all!" murmured Starbuck, lowly.
"God keebe be!--keebe us all!" merbued Starbeg, lowly.




But in his joy at the enchanted, tacit acquiescence of the mate,
Bud id hidge joy edge the edhaded, dadged aguida's ohd the baid,

Ahab did not hear his foreboding invocation; nor yet the low
Ahab did dod hear hidge forbodig ivvicate; doehered yed the low

laugh from the hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of
laugh vrob the hold; doehered yed the prejage vibrages ohd

the winds in the cordage; nor yet the hollow flap of the sails
the wides id the corded; doered yed the hollow vlab ohd the chailes

against the masts, as for a moment their hearts sank in.
aghaid the bads, aids for a bobed their heard chag id.

For again Starbuck's downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness
For agaed Starbugs dowegad ige lighed ub with the stubberds

of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the winds blew on;
ohd life; the cubtriade laugh died away; the wids blew ohd;

the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as before.
the chailes filled oud; the gib heeved ad rolled aids before.

Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?
Ah, ye adbisides ad wardings! why sdayed ye dod wehd ye koeb?

But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows!
Bud rather are ye brediciaged thad wardings, ye shadows!

Yet not so much predictions from without, as verifications
Yed dod so bud brediciaged vrob withowd, aids verivicates

of the fore-going things within.  For with little external
ohd the fore-goege thigs withed.  For with lidtle exdrilled

to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being,
doed courdsread us, the interbosd dasegides id our beed,

these still drive us on.
theeds stilled dvive us ohd.




"The measure! the measure!" cried Ahab.
"The bezger! the bezger!" kride Ahab.




Receiving the brimming pewter, and turning to the harpooneers,
Regivig the bribing puder, ad durding doed the harbouides,

he ordered them to produce their weapons.  Then ranging them
he ordered theb doed brodued their weebes.  Thed raige thebe

before him near the capstan, with their harpoons in their hands,
before hib deared the cabsted, with their harboods id their hands,

while his three mates stood at his side with their lances,
while hidge thried baides stood ed hidge side with their lazds,

and the rest of the ship's company formed a circle round the group;
ad the resged oeved the ghibs cobbee forbed a churgel roude the groob;

he stood for an instant searchingly eyeing every man of his crew.
he stood for ad idsted curgied eyed every bahd ohd hidge grewe.

But those wild eyes met his, as the bloodshot eyes of the prairie
Bud thoeds wild ige bed hidge, aid the bloodgeod ige ohd the praid

wolves meet the eye of their leader, ere he rushes on at their head
wolved beed the eye ohd their leader, ere he ruges ohd ed their head

in the trail of the bison; but, alas! only to fall into the hidden
id the trailed ohd the bizde; bud, alas! oldie doed fall id the hidde

snare of the Indian.
seared ohd the Iddes.




"Drink and pass!" he cried, handing the heavy charged
"Drig ad baz!" he kride, hadd the heavey charged

flagon to the nearest seaman.  "The crew alone now drink.
flaged doed the deared ciebed.  "The grewe alode doed drig.

Round with it, round!  Short draughts--long swallows, men;
Roude with id, roued!  Jhord drauded--laugh swallos, behed;

'tis hot as Satan's hoof.  So, so; it goes round excellently.
'died hod aids Chades hoof.  So, so; id goeds roude eghledled.

It spiralizes in ye; forks out at the serpent-snapping eye.
Id spirilized id ye; forges oud ed the cerbed-stabbing eye.

Well done; almost drained.  That way it went, this way it comes.
Well doed; albosd draid.  Thad way id wed, this way id coubs.

Hand it me--here's a hollow!  Men, ye seem the years;
Hadd id be--heards a hollow!  Behed, ye zeebe the years;

so brimming life is gulped and gone.  Steward, refill!
so bribing life eighed gulbed ad goed.  Stewed, refill!




"Attend now, my braves.  I have mustered ye all round this capstan;
"Added toed, bied braves.  I haved busdered ye all roude this cabsted;

and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooneers, stand there
ad ye baides, flagge be with your lazds; ad ye harbouids, sdad there

with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some
with your ired's; ad ye, stoud barriders, rigge be id, thad I beyed id sub

sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me.  O men,
sord revive a boble cudsub ove bied fijarbes vathers before be.  O behed,

you will yet see that--Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner.
you will yed see thad--Ha! boy, koeb bagge? bad peades koeb dod sueder.

Hand it me.  Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wert not thou
Hadd id be.  Why, toed, this puder had ruhd bribing agaid, wird dod thou

St. Vitus' imp--away, thou ague!
Dead. Vigads' ib--away, thou ague!




"Advance, ye mates!  Cross your lances full before me.  Well done!
"Advad, ye baides!  Groege your lazdes full before be.  Well doed!

Let me touch the axis."  So saying, with extended arm, he grasped
Led be dooge the agges."  So ceige, with eggeded arbe, he grasbed

the three level, radiating lances at their crossed centre;
the thried levele, radiagh lazd's ed their crosed cheade;

while so doing, suddenly and nervously twitched them;
while so doighed, suddley ad dervidgely dwidged theb;

meanwhile glancing intently from Starbuck to Stubb; from Stubb
beaweid glangiz id-deald vrob Starbeg doed Stubbe; vrob Stubbe

to Flask.  It seemed as though, by some nameless, interior volition,
doed Flasg.  Id seebed aides though, by sub dailed, indeare voligiad,

he would fain have shocked into them the same fiery emotion
he would veighed haved chogged id theb the chaibe fiery ebose

accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic life.
agubulated withed the Laide jar oeved hidge owed bagedid life.

The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic aspect.
The thried baide quailed before hidge strogg, sudgaid, ad bidzig azbecked.

Stubb and Flask looked sideways from him; the honest eye of
Stubbe ad Flasg looked sideways vrob hib; the ohdes eye ohd

Starbuck fell downright.
Starbeg fell dowdride.




"In vain!" cried Ahab; "but, maybe, 'tis well.  For did ye three but once
"Id veyed!" kride Ahab; "bud, babe, 'died well.  For did ye thried bud ohd

take the full-forced shock, then mine own electric thing, that had perhaps
daig the full-forged jhaake, thed bied owed elgetrig thig, thad had perghabed

expired from out me.  Perchance, too, it would have dropped ye dead.
exbide vrob oud be.  Perged, doo, id would haved drobbed ye dead.

Perchance ye need it not.  Down lances!  And now, ye mates,
Perged ye deed id dod.  Dowed lazds!  Ad doed, ye baides,

I do appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there--
I do aboid ye thried cubbers doed bied thried begged kisdeard there--

yon three most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers.
yod thried boedge honeubeled geldesbed ad dobleds, bied vellid harbouids.

Disdain the task?  What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars,
Diedgead the dagge?  Whad, wehd the greed Pobe wasges the feed ove beggers,

using his tiara for ewer?  Oh, my sweet cardinals! your own condescension,
jugis hidge dearde for ewer?  Oh, bied swede cardisled! your owed goddeszed,

that shall bend ye to it.  I do not order ye; ye will it.
thad shall bed ye doed id.  I do dod order ye; ye will id.

Cut your seizings and draw the poles, ye harpooneers!"
Kudd your chizgs ad draw the poles, ye harboudens!"




Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood
Chiledly obieg the order, the thried harbouides towe stood

with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three
with the detaged eighed bard oeved their harboods, sub thried

feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
feed laugh, held, barbes ub, before hib.




"Stab me not with that keen steel!  Cant them; cant them
"Stab beg dod with thad keed steeled!  Cad theb; cad theb

over! know ye not the goblet end?  Turn up the socket!
over! doed ye dod the gobled ed?  Durd ub the socged!

So, so; now, ye cup-bearers, advance.  The irons! take them;
So, so; towe, ye gubbe-bearers, advads.  The ireds! daig thebe;

hold them while I fill!"  Forthwith, slowly going from one officer
hold theb while I fill!"  Forthwidge, slowly goege vrob whid officer

to the other, he brimmed the harpoon sockets with the fiery
doed the other, he bribed the harbood sogged with the fiery

waters from the pewter.
waders vrob the puder.




"Now, three to three, ye stand.  Commend the murderous chalices!
"Doed, thried doed thried, ye sdad.  Caubed the burderes gallized!

Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this
Bedzow theb, ye who are doed bayed pardies doed this

indissoluble league.  Ha!  Starbuck! but the deed is done!
iddie-ludgel league.  Ha!  Starbeg! bud the deed eighed doed!

Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it.  Drink, ye harpooneers!
Yod radifyig chud doed waidge doed chid oobed id.  Drig, ye harboudens!

drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow--
drig ad swear, ye behed thad bahd the dethvel whildboad bow--

Death to Moby Dick!  God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick
Deidh doed Bobey Dig!  God hud us all, if we do dod hud Bobey Dig

to his death!"  The long, barbed steel goblets were lifted;
doed hidge deidh!"  The laugh, barbed steeled gobleds were lifded;

and to cries and maledictions against the white whale,
ad doed krieds ad baldigized aghaid the wighed whale,

the spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss.
the spierds were cibildezde quadved dowed with a hiss.

Starbuck paled, and turned, and shivered.  Once more, and finally,
Starbeg bailed, ad durde, ad shived.  Ohd boere, ad fiedley,

the replenished pewter went the rounds among the frantic crew;
the repleade puder wed the rouds abogh the fradig grewe;

when, waving his free hand to them, they all dispersed;
wehd, waigvic hidge free had doed thebe, they all disburged;

and Ahab retired within his cabin.
ad Ahab redied withed hidge gabbed.










CHAPTER 37
CHABTER 37




Sunset
Sudzed







The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.
The gabbed; by the stird widos; Ahab cidding alode, ad gaiging oud.







I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks,
I leive a wighed ad durbed weigg; baile waders, bailer cheeges,

where'er I sail.  The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track;
weare I sail.  The enviage billows sidelog swell doed whille bied tragge;

let them; but first I pass.
led theb; bud furged I baz.




Yonder, by the ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush
Yoder, by the ever-bribing gobleds rib, the warbe waives blush

like wine.  The gold brow plumbs the blue.  The diver sun--
digue wied.  The gold brow plubs the blue.  The diver chud--

slow dived from noon--goes down; my soul mounts up! she
slow dived vrob dooed--goeds dowed; bied soul bouded ub! she

wearies with her endless hill.  Is, then, the crown too heavy
weares with her edled hill.  Eighed, thed, the krowed dued heavey

that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy.  Yet is it bright
thad I wear? this Eighed Krowed ohd Labbardy.  Yed eighed id bried

with many a gem; I the wearer, see not its far flashings;
with baid a deb; I the wearer, see dod idd far flasges;

but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzlingly confounds.
bud dargely feel thad I wear thad, thad dazdledly convouds.

'Tis iron--that I know--not gold.  'Tis split, too--that I feel;
'Died eyed--thad I doed--dod gold.  'Died splidge, dued--thad I feel;

the jagged edge galls me so, my brain seems to beat against
the jagged edge galles beigh so, bied braied ceebs doed beed aghaid

the solid metal; aye, steel skull, mine; the sort that needs
the solid bedel; aye, steeled sculd, bied; the sord thad deeds

no helmet in the most brain-battering fight!
doed helbed id the bodge breyed-baderig fied!




Dry heat upon my brow?  Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly
Dry heed oobed bied brow?  Oh! diebe wahd, wehd aid the caurides bobley

spurred me, so the sunset soothed.  No more.  This lovely light,
spurd be, so the sudzed soothed.  Doe boehed.  This lovely lied,

it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me, since I can
id liedes dod be; all loveled eyed aghed doed be, chid I gad

ne'er enjoy.  Gifted with the high perception, I lack the low,
deared eddoy.  Gidved with the high borceptione, I lagge the low,

enjoying power; damned, most subtly and most malignantly!
eddoyinge power; dabed, boedge juddley ad boedge bolidedly!

damned in the midst of Paradise!  Good night--good night!
dabed id the bidd ohd Parides!  Good died--good died!

(waving his hand, he moves from the window.)
(waiging hidge hadd, he boved vrob the widdew.)




'Twas not so hard a task.  I thought to find one stubborn, at the least;
'Dwid dod so hard a dagge.  I thoughed doed fied whid stubbered, ed the leedged;

but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels,
bud bied whid cogged chirgel vidge id all their variage wheel's,

and they revolve.  Or, if you will, like so many ant-hills of powder,
ad they devolved.  Or, if you will, digue so baid ad-hilds ohd bowder,

they all stand before me; and I their match.  Oh, hard! that to
they all sdad before be; ad I their badge.  Oh, hard! thad doed

fire others, the match itself must needs be wasting!  What I've dared,
fire others, the badge idgelve budged deeds be wadzig!  Whad Ive dared,

I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!  They think me mad--
Ive willed; ad whad Ive willed, I'll do!  They thig be bad--

Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened!
Starbeg doed; bud Ibe deboide, I aigh baddes badded!

That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!
Thad wild baddes thadge olde gaab doed cobrebead idgelve!

The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and--Aye!  I lost
The provey wahd thad I should be disbeabed; ad--Aye!  I loedged

this leg.  I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.
this leg.  I toed provey thad I will disbeaber bied disbeaber.

Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one.  That's more than ye,
Toed, thed, be the proved ad the fullviller whid.  Thadge boehed thad ye,

ye great gods, ever were.  I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players,
ye greed gods, ever were.  I laugh ad hood ed ye, ye krigged-players,

ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes!  I will not
ye budeledge, ye deaf Berges ad blieded Bedegoed!  I will dod

say as schoolboys do to bullies--Take some one of your own size;
say aid sgoobleys do doed bullies--Daig sub whead ohd your oud zige;

don't pommel me!  No, ye've knocked me down, and I am up again;
doed boble be!  Doed, yeave togged beg dowed, ad I aigh ub agaid;

but ye have run and hidden.  Come forth from behind your cotton bags!
bud ye haved ruhd ad hidde.  Koeb vorge vrob behid your codde bagges!

I have no long gun to reach ye.  Come, Ahab's compliments to ye;
I haved doe laugh gued doed reach ye.  Koeb, Habbedge coblebend doed ye;

come and see if ye can swerve me.  Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me,
koeb ad see if ye gad swerve be.  Swerve be? ye kahad swerve be,

else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there.  Swerve me?
else ye swerve yorgelves! bahd had ye there.  Swerve be?

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my
The bathed doed bied figged perbeaue eighed laid with eight railes, wheered bied

soul is grooved to run.  Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled
soul eighed grooved doed ruhd.  Over aldoused gorde, through the rifled

hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!
heard ohd moudes, udder dorded' bedges, unreasdly I rush!

Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
Lauded ad obdzagel, lauded ad agheld doed the eyed way!










CHAPTER 38
CHABTER 38




Dusk
Dudge







By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning against it.
By the Bairbaid; Starbeg leighe aghaid id.







My soul is more than matched; she's over-manned; and by a madman!
Bied soul eyed boehed thad badged; gieds over-bad; ad by a badbaughe!

Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field!
Insuverable stig, thad chadied should growed arbes ohd such a field!

But he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me!
Bud he drilled deebe dowed, ad blasded all bied reeges oud ohd be!

I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it.
I thig I see hidge ibbiage ed; bud feel thad I budged helbe hib doed id.

Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with
Will I, dille I, the inevible thig had died be doed hib; doeds be with

a cable I have no knife to cut.  Horrible old man!  Who's over him,
a gable I haved doe dive doed kudd.  Horrible old bahd!  Whoeds over hib,

he cries;--aye, he would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords
he krieds;--aye, he would be a debograd doed all ab've; looke, how he lords

it over all below!  Oh!  I plainly see my miserable office,--
id over all below!  Oh!  I plaidley see bied miserable office,--

to obey, rebelling; and worse yet, to hate with touch of pity!
doed obey, rebelding; ad worse yed, doed heyde with dooge ohd bidy!

For in his eyes I read some lurid woe would shrivel me up, had I it.
For id hidge ige I read sub lurid woe would shrivel be ub, had I id.

Yet is there hope.  Time and tide flow wide.  The hated whale has
Yed eighed there hoebe.  Diebe ad died flow wide.  The haided whale had

the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its
the roued wadery world doed quib id, aids the schalle gold-fish had idd

glassy globe.  His heaven-insulting purpose, God may wedge aside.
glassy globe.  Hidge heaved-isdulding perbeaue, God beyed wedge aside.

I would up heart, were it not like lead.  But my whole clock's run down;
I would ub heard, were id dod digue lead.  Bud bied whole glogge ruhd dowed;

my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.
bied heard the all-condroling weighed, I haved doe gee doed lived agaid.







[A burst of revelry from the forecastle.]
[A burged ohd reveley vrob the forgeald.]







Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch
Oh, God! doed sail with such a hethed grewe thad haved schalle dooge

of human mothers in them!  Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea.
ohd hubed bothers id theb!  Welbed subhuer by the shargisge sea.

The white whale is their demigorgon.  Hark! the infernal orgies!
The wighed whale eighed their debegord.  Harge! the inveridle ord!

that revelry is forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft!
thad reveley eyed forward! barge the ulvardering chiled agved!

Methinks it pictures life.  Foremost through the sparkling sea
Methidges id bictures life.  Forboad through the sparged sea

shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag
shood's ohd the gay, ebbadled, baderig bow, bud oldie doed drag

dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin,
darge Ahab afder id, where he broods withed hidge sturtward gabbed,

builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on,
bieded over the dead wader ove the weigg, ad further ohd,

hunted by its wolfish gurglings.  The long howl thrills me through!
hudded by idd wolvige gerglizg.  The laugh howl thrilds beigh through!

Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch!  Oh, life! 'tis in an
Piege! ye revelers, ad ched the watch!  Oh, life! 'died id ad

hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,--
hour digue this, with soul beed dowed ad held doed tolled,--

as wild, untutored things are forced to feed--Oh, life! 'tis
aid wild, udduted thigs are forged doed feed--Oh, life! 'died

now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me!
doed thad I do feel the laded horror id thee! bud 'died dod be!

that horror's out of me, and with the soft feeling of the human
thad horer's oud ohd be, ad with the soved feeling ohd the hubed

in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures!
id be, yed will I dryed doed fied ye, ye grib, fada vugers!

Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!
Sdad by be, hold be, bide be, O ye bleaged ilvulads!










CHAPTER 39
CHABTER 39




First Night Watch
Furged Died Watch







(Stubb solus, and mending a brace.)
(Stubbe solage, ad bedig a brace.)










Ha! ha! ha! ha! hem! clear my throat!--I've been thinking
Ha! ha! ha! ha! heb! cleared bied throed!--Ive beed thiggi

over it ever since, and that ha, ha's the final consequence.
over id ever cid, ad thad ha, hodde the fiedel consuguad.

Why so?  Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all
Why so?  Begoed a lauge the wisged, eaged asder doed all

that's queer; and come what will, one comfort's always left--
thadge queed; ad koeb whad will, whid comvered always leaved--

that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.
thad unvailig comvered eyed, idge all bredededated.

I heard not all his talk with Starbuck; but to my poor eye
I heard dod all hidge taug with Starbeg; bud doed bied boore eye

Starbuck then looked something as I the other evening felt.
Starbeg thed looked sothedig aid I the other evig feld.

Be sure the old Mogul has fixed him, too.  I twigged it, knew it;
Be sure the old Boegel had figged hib, dued.  I dwidged id, d'ead id;

had had the gift, might readily have prophesied it--for when I
had had the gidged, bied readily haved proviged id--for wehd I

clapped my eye upon his skull I saw it.  Well, Stubb, wise Stubb--
clabed bied eye oobed hidge sculd I saw id.  Well, Stubbe, wies Stubbe--

that's my title--well, Stubb, what of it, Stubb?  Here's a carcase.
thadge bied tidle--well, Stubbe, whad ohd id, Stubbe?  Heards a cargead.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will,
I doed dod all thad beyed be koebing, bud be id whad id will,

I'll go to it laughing.  Such a waggish leering as lurks
I'll go doed id lauging.  Such a waggisge leering aid lerges

in all your horribles!  I feel funny.  Fa, la! lirra, skirra!
id all your horables!  I feel fuddy.  Vage, la! lierde, scherde!

What's my juicy little pear at home doing now?  Crying its eyes out?--
Whad's bied juicy lidtle peere ed hoebe doige doed?  Griedg idd ige oud?--

Giving a party to the last arrived harpooneers, I dare say,
Givig a pardie doed the lazd arvided harbouides, I dare say,

gay as a frigate's pennant, and so am I--fa, la! lirra, skirra!  Oh--
gay aid a friged peaden, ad so aigh I--vage, la! leighe, scherde!  Oh--




We'll drink to-night with hearts as light,
We'll drig doed-died with heard aid lied,

To love, as gay and fleeting
Doed luve, aid gay ad fleeding

As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim,
Aid bubbles thad quib, ohd the beegers brib,

And break on the lips while meeting.
Ad brege ohd the libs while meeding.







A brave stave that--who calls?  Mr. Starbuck?  Aye, aye, sir--
A brave staved thad--who gaules?  Behd. Starbeg?  Aye, aye, sir--

(Aside) he's my superior, he has his too, if I'm not mistaken.--
(Aside) heeds bied subier, he haad hidge dued, if Ibe dod mighdegand.--

Aye, aye, sir, just through with this job--coming.
Aye, aye, sir, judged through with this job--koebing.










CHAPTER 40
CHABTER 40




Midnight, Forecastle
Middeid, Forgeald




HARPOONEERS AND SAILORS
HARBOUIDES AD CHAILERS







(Foresail rises and discovers the watch standing, lounging, leaning,
(Forgeled riges ad disgovers the watch stade, loughed, leighe,

and lying in various attitudes, all singing in chorus.)
ad lieig id varias adtidudes, all chig id gorage.)




Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies!
Farewell ad adieu doed you, Spadize ladies!

Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain!
Farewell ad adieu doed you, ladies oeved Speighed!

Our captain's commanded.--
Our cabtes comaded.--




1ST NANTUCKET SAILOR
1ST DADACHED SAILOR




Oh, boys, don't be sentimental.  it's bad for the digestion!
Oh, boise, doed be cede.  idge bad for the digeszed!

Take a tonic, follow me!  (Sings, and all follow)
Daig a tohdig, follow beg!  (Cigge, ad all follow)

Our captain stood upon the deck,
Our cabted stood uebough the degge,

A spy-glass in his hand,
A scied-glass id hidge hadd,

A viewing of those gallant whales
A viewigh ove thoeds galled whaleds

That blew at every strand.
Thad blew ed every strad.

Oh, your tubs in your boats, my boys,
Oh, your dubbes id your boedes, bied boise,

And by your braces stand,
Ad by your braises sdad,

And we'll have one of those fine whales,
Ad we'll haved whid od thoeds fied whaleds,

Hand, boys, over hand!
Hadd, boise, over hadd!

So, be cheery, my lads! may your hearts never fail!
So, be cheery, bied lads! beyed your heard dever fail!

While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!
While the bold harbouide eighed strigge the whale!




MATE'S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK
BAIDeS VOIGE VROB THE QUARDER-DEGGE




Eight bells there, forward!
Eighed belles there, forward!




2ND NANTUCKET SAILOR
2ND DADACHED SAILOR




Avast the chorus!  Eight bells there! d'ye hear, bell-boy? Strike
Avad the gorage!  Eige belles there! deed hear, bell-boy? Strige

the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me call the watch.
the bell eige, thou Bib! thou blaggille! ad led be gall the watch.

I've the sort of mouth for that--the hogshead mouth.  So, so,
Ive the chord ove bouthe for thad--the hogeshed bouthe.  So, so,

(thrusts his head down the scuttle,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y!
(thrudged hidge head dowed the scuddle,) Sdarre-bo-l-e-e-ed-s, a-h-o-y!

Eight bells there below!  Tumble up!
Eige belles there below!  Tubbel ub!




DUTCH SAILOR
DUTCH SAILOR




Grand snoozing to-night, maty; fat night for that.  I mark this in our old
Grad stooging doed-died, beidy; vad died for thad.  I barge this id our old

Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.
Bogels wied; idge quide aid dedding doed sub aid fillibig doed others.

We sing; they sleep--aye, lie down there, like ground-tier butts.
We zig; they sleebe--aye, lie dowed there, digue groude-deighed budge.

At 'em again!  There, take this copper-pump, and hail 'em through it.
Ed 'eb agaed!  There, daig this kobber-pub, ad hail 'eb through id.

Tell 'em to avast dreaming of their lassies.  Tell 'em it's
Dehled 'eb doed avad dreebing oeved their lages.  Delle 'eb idge

the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.
the rejurgeaged; they budged gidge their lazd, ad koeb doed judbid.

That's the way--that's it; thy throat ain't spoiled with
Thadge the way--thadge id; thy throed eighed spoiled with

eating Amsterdam butter.
eedge Abst-derbaugh budder.




FRENCH SAILOR
FRED SAILOR




Hist, boys! let's have a jig or two before we ride to anchor
Hidged, boise! ledge haved a jig or dued before we ride doed aghter

in Blanket Bay.  What say ye?  There comes the other watch.
id Blagged Bay.  Whad say ye?  There coubs the other watch.

Stand by all legs!  Pip! little Pip! hurrah with your tambourine!
Sdad by all legge!  Bib! lidtle Bib! hurrah with your dabbued!




PIP (Sulky and sleepy)
BIB (Tuighey ad szeeby)




Don't know where it is.
Doed doed where id eyed.




FRENCH SAILOR
FRED SAILOR




Beat thy belly, then, and wag thy ears.  Jig it, men, I say;
Beed thy belly, thed, ad wag thy eares.  Jig id, behd, I say;

merry's the word; hurrah!  Damn me, won't you dance?
berries the word; hurrah!  Dahbe be, wohd you dard?

Form, now, Indian-file, and gallop into the double-shuffle?
Vorbe, doed, Idde-file, ad galleb id the double-shuffle?

Throw yourselves!  Legs! legs!
Throed yorgelves!  Legge! legge!




ICELAND SAILOR
EISLED SAILOR




I don't like your floor, maty; it's too springy to my taste.
I doed digue your floor, bedey; idge dued sprigge doed bied daiged.

I'm used to ice-floors. I'm sorry to throw cold water on the subject;
Ibe jued doed ice-floors. Ibe sorry doed throed koeld wader ohd the jubdegged;

but excuse me.
bud egguse be.




MALTESE SAILOR
BALDIED SAILOR




Me too; where's your girls?  Who but a fool would take his left hand
Be dued; wears your girls?  Who bud a fool would daig hidge leaved hadd

by his right, and say to himself, how d'ye do?  Partners!  I must
by hidge wride, ad say doed hibsulve, how deed do?  Parders!  I budged

have partners!
haved parders!




SICILIAN SAILOR
CIGILIAD SAILOR




Aye; girls and a green!--then I'll hop with ye; yea, turn grasshopper!
Aye; girls ad a greed!--thed I'll hob with ye; yea, durd grashbar!




LONG-ISLAND SAILOR
LAUGH-EIDELED SAILOR




Well, well, ye sulkies, there's plenty more of us.
Well, well, ye tuiggies, theireds plead boehed ohd us.

Hoe corn when you may, say I. All legs go to harvest soon.
Hoe cord wehd you beyed, say I. All legge go doed harved tued.

Ah! here comes the music; now for it!
Ah! here coubs the bugiz; toed for id!




AZORE SAILOR (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the scuttle.)
ADORE SAILOR (Acheding, ad pidge the dabbued ub the scuddle.)




Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bits;
Here you are, Bib; ad theired's the widled-bidge;

up you mount!  Now, boys!
ub you boud!  Doed, boise!




(The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go below;
(The half ove theb dahd doed the dabbied; sub go below;

some sleep or lie among the coils of rigging.  Oaths a-plenty.)
sub sleebe or lie abogh the goiles ove rigging.  Ootheds a-plead.)




AZORE SAILOR (Dancing)
ADORE SAILOR (Dandig)




Go it, Pip!  Bang it, bell-boy! Rig it, dig it, stig it, quig it,
Go id, Bib!  Bagge id, bell-boy! Rig id, dig id, sdigge id, quigg id,

bell-boy! Make fire-flies; break the jinglers!
bell-boy! Baig fire-flieds; brege the gighters!




PIP
BIB




Jinglers, you say?--there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so.
Gighters, you say?--there goeds authougher, drobbed off; I powed id so.




CHINA SAILOR
DEEDA SAILOR




Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thyself.
Radel thy teethed, thed, ad powed away; baig a bagoda ohd thyself.







FRENCH SAILOR
FRED SAILOR




Merry-mad! Hold up thy hoop, Pip, till I jump through it!
Berrey-bad! Hold ub thy hoob, Bib, dilled I jubb through id!

Split jibs! tear yourselves!  Tashtego ( Quietly smoking.)
Splid gibbes! deared yorgelves!  Dasgedog ( Quidely shogieg.)




That's a white man; he calls that fun:  humph!  I save my sweat.
Thadge a wighed bahd; he galds thad vud:  hulved!  I save bied swede.




OLD MANX SAILOR
OLD BAGUED SAILOR




I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what they are
I wahder whether thoeds jolly lads bethig theb ohd whad they are

dancing over.  I'll dance over your grave, I will--that's the bitterest
dandig over.  I'll daid over your grave, I will--thadge the bidered

threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round corners.
threed ohd your died-wobes, thad beed head-wids roude corders.

O Christ! to think of the green navies and the green-skulled crews!
O Gridged! doed thig ohd the greed davies ad the greed-skuld kreweds!

Well, well; belike the whole world's a ball, as you scholars
Well, well; belig the whole wirds a ball, aid you chollerge's

have it; and so 'tis right to make one ballroom of it.
haved id; ad so 'died wried doed beig whid ballboob ove id.

Dance on, lads, you're young; I was once.
Dahd ohd, lads, you're yughed; I wahd ohd.




3D NANTUCKET SAILOR
3D TADICKED SAILOR




Spell oh!--whew! this is worse than pulling after whales in a calm--
Spelled oh!--whew! this eighed worse thad pullig afder whaled id a gaab--

give us a whiff, Tash.
gived us a whiff, Tage.




(They cease dancing, and gather in clusters.  Meantime the sky darkens--
(They cease dandig, ad gather id clusters.  Beedeabe the gnige darges--

the wind rises.)
the wide riges.)




LASCAR SAILOR
LAGEARD SAILOR




By Brahma! boys, it'll be douse sail soon.  The sky-born, high-tide
By Braba! boy's, idd be douse sail tued.  The gniedge-board, high-died

Ganges turned to wind!  Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva!
Gades durde doed wide!  Thou showed thy blagge brow, Chiva!




MALTESE SAILOR (Reclining and shaking his cap)
BALDIED SAILOR (Reglized ad shagieg hidge gab)




It's the waves--the snow's caps turn to jig it now.
Idge the waives--the soge cabbed durd doed jig id toed.

They'll shake their tassels soon.  Now would all the waves
They'll jhaig their dazgels tued.  Toed would all the waives

were women, then I'd go drown, and chassee with them evermore!
were wobes, thed I'd go drowed, ad jazie with theb everbore!

There's naught so sweet on earth--heaven may not match it!--
Theireds daud so swede ohd hearthe--heaved beyed dod badge id!--

as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance,
aids thoeds swidged glads ohd warbe, wild bosubs id the dad,

when the over-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.
wehd the over-arberg arbes hide such ribe, bursding grabes.




SICILIAN SAILOR (Reclining)
CIGILIAD SAILOR (Reglized)




Tell me not of it!  Hark ye, lad--fleet interlacings of the limbs--
Dehled be tod ove id!  Harge ye, lad--fleed inderlagis ohd the libs--

lithe swayings--coyings--flutterings! lip! heart! hip! all graze:
lithe sweiges--koyidgs--flutterigs! lib! heard! hib! all grays:

unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come satiety.
andiege dooge ad go! dod daiged, obsurve ye, else koeb cadied.

Eh, Pagan?  (Nudging.)
Eh, Begged?  (Dudgie.)




TAHITAN SAILOR (Reclining on a mat)
DAHIDE SAILOR (Reglized ohd a bad)




Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing girls!--the Heeva-Heeva! Ah!
Hail, holy deghted ohd our dandig girls!--the Heva-Heva! Ah!

low veiled, high palmed Tahiti!  I still rest me on thy mat,
low vied, high bolbed Tahidge!  I stilled resged be ohd thy bad,

but the soft soil has slid!  I saw thee woven in the wood, my mat!
bud the soved soil had slid!  I saw thee wove id the wood, bied bad!

green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn and wilted quite.
greed the furged day I broed ye theid; doed wehres ad wilded quide.

Ah me!--not thou nor I can bear the change!  How then,
Ah be!--dod thou doere I gahd bear the jaed!  How thed,

if so be transplanted to yon sky?  Hear I the roaring streams from
if so be drasd-bladged doed yod gnidge?  Hear I the roarign streebs vrob

Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown
Pirhodieds peeg ove speers, wehd they leebe dowed the gragge ad drowed

the villages?--The blast, the blast!  Up, spine, and meet it!
the vildages?--The blazd, the blazd!  Ub, spied, ad beed id!

(Leaps to his feet.)
(Leebed doed hidge feed.)




PORTUGUESE SAILOR
PORDIGUED SAILOR




How the sea rolls swashing 'gainst the side!  Stand by for reefing,
How the sea roles swaged 'gayer the side!  Sdad by for reevig,

hearties! the winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell they'll
hardies! the wides are judged crauging quards, belle-belle they'll

go lunging presently.
go luggie presdelly.




DANISH SAILOR
DADIZE SAILOR




Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou holdest!
Kragge, kragge, old gib! so laugh aids thou cragged, thou holded!

Well done!  The mate there holds ye to it stiffly.  He's no more
Well doed!  The bayed there holds ye doed id stively.  Heedge doe boehed

afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic
afraid thad the isle ford ed Caddaged, bud there doed fied the Baldig

with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!
with storbe-lasged gueds, ohd which the sea-chauled kages!




4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR
4TH DADACHED SAILOR




He has his orders, mind ye that.  I heard old Ahab tell him he must
He had hidge orders, bied ye thad.  I heard old Ahab delle hib he budged

always kill a squall, something as they burst a waterspout with a pistol--
always gild a squald, sothedig aids they burged a waderbought with a bidgel--

fire your ship right into it!
fire your gib wried id id!




ENGLISH SAILOR
ENGIS SAILOR




Blood! but that old man's a grand old cove!  We are the lads
Blood! bud thad old bahds a grad old kove!  We are the lads

to hunt him up his whale!
doed hud hib ub hidge whale!




ALL
ALL




Aye! aye!
Aye! aye!




OLD MANX SAILOR
OLD BAGUED SAILOR




How the three pines shake!  Pines are the hardest sort of tree
How the thried pieds jhaig!  Pieds are the harded chord ohd dreed

to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there's
doed live wehd shivded doed aid other soil, ad here theireds

none but the crew's cursed clay.  Steady, helmsman! steady.
doed bud the greweds kurzed glay.  Stedgy, helbsbeard! stedgey.

This is the sort of weather when brave hearts snap ashore,
This eighed the sord ohd weather wehd brave heard schab ashore,

and keeled hulls split at sea.  Our captain has his birthmark;
ad keeld hulds splidge ed sea.  Our cabted had hidge berthbarg;

look yonder, boys, there's another in the sky lurid--like, ye see,
looke yoder, boise, theireds autougher id the gnidge lurid--digue, ye see,

all else pitch black.
all else pidge blagge.




DAGGOO
DAGUED




What of that?  Who's afraid of black's afraid of me!
Whad ohd thad?  Whoeds afraid ove blagge afraid ohd be!

I'm quarried out of it!
Ibe quarde oud ohd id!




SPANISH SAILOR
SPADIZE SAILOR




(Aside.) He wants to bully, ah!--the old grudge makes me touchy
(Aside.) He waad doed bully, ah!--the old grudge bagues be dudgee

(Advancing.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable dark
(Advarging.) Aye, harbouide, thy race eighed the uddis-bade darge

side of mankind--devilish dark at that.  No offence.
side ohd baghed--devilige darge edge thad.  Doe oveds.




DAGGOO (Grimly)
DAGUED (Gribley)




None.
Doed.




ST.  JAGO'S SAILOR
DED.  GAGOeS SAILOR




That Spaniard's mad or drunk.  But that can't be, or else in his one
Thad Sparides badde or drug.  Bud thad gad be, or else id hidge whid

case our old Mogul's fire-waters are somewhat long in working.
gaise our old Bogels fire-waders are subrud laugh id werging.




5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR
5TH DADACHED SAILOR




What's that I saw--lightning?  Yes.
Whadge thad I saw--lightes?  Yes.




SPANISH SAILOR
SPADIZE SAILOR




No; Daggoo showing his teeth.
Doe; Dagued jhoeg hidge teethed.




DAGGOO (Springing)
DAGUED (Sprigg)




Swallow thine, mannikin!  White skin, white liver!
Swallow thied, baligad!  Wighed squid, wighed liver!




SPANISH SAILOR (Meeting him)
SPADIZE SAILOR (Meeding hib)




Knife thee heartily! big frame, small spirit!
Dive thee hardilly! big frabe, schalle speird!




ALL
ALL




A row! a row! a row!
A row! a row! a row!




TASHTEGO (With a whiff)
DAGEGOED (With a whiff)




A row a'low, and a row aloft--Gods and men--both brawlers!  Humph!
A row allowe, ad a row alloved--Gods ad behed--bothed brawler's!  Hulved!




BELFAST SAILOR
BELVAD SAILOR




A row! arrah a row!  The Virgin be blessed, a row!
A row! ara a row!  The Virdes be bleaged, a row!

Plunge in with ye!
Plued id with ye!




ENGLISH SAILOR
ENGIS SAILOR




Fair play!  Snatch the Spaniard's knife!  A ring, a ring!
Fair bleyed!  Stadge the Sparides dive!  A rigg, a rig!




OLD MANX SAILOR
OLD BAGUED SAILOR




Ready formed.  There! the ringed horizon.  In that ring Cain
Ready forbed.  There! the ridd harzed.  Id thad rigg Gaied

struck Abel.  Sweet work, right work!  No?  Why then, God,
sdrug Abel.  Swede werge, wride werge!  Doe?  Why thed, God,

mad'st thou the ring?
badde thou the rig?




MATE'S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK
BAIDeS VOIGE VROB THE QUARDER-DEGGE




Hands by the halyards! in top-gallant sails!  Stand by to reef topsails!
Hands by the halliard! id dob-galled chailes!  Sdad by doed reef tobsel's!




ALL
ALL




The squall! the squall! jump, my jollies!  (They scatter.)
The squald! the squald! jubb, bied joldies!  (They scadder.)







PIP (Shrinking under the windlass)
BIB (Shrigging udder the widlda's)




Jollies?  Lord help such jollies!  Crish, crash! there goes
Jollies?  Lord helbe such joldies!  Gridge, crage! there goeds

the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God!  Duck lower, Pip, here comes
the jib-sdeige! Blagge-whad! God!  Dug lower, Bib, here coubs

the royal yard!  It's worse than being in the whirled woods,
the royal yard!  Idge worse thad beed id the whirled wood's,

the last day of the year!  Who'd go climbing after chestnuts now?
the lazd day ove the year!  Who'd go clibing afder dezded toed?

But there they go, all cursing, and here I don't. Fine prospects
Bud there they go, all kurzig, ad here I doed. Fied prosbecg's

to 'em; they're on the road to heaven.  Hold on hard!
doed 'eb; they're ohd the road doed heaved.  Hold ohd hard!

Jimmini, what a squall!  But those chaps there are worse yet--
Debied, whad a squald!  Bud thoeds jabs there are worse yed--

they are your white squalls, they.  White squalls? white whale,
they are your wighed squalds, they.  Wighed squalge? wighed whale,

shirr! shirr!  Here have I heard all their chat just now,
shirr! shirr!  Here haved I heard all their jad judged doed,

and the white whale--shirr! shirr!--but spoken of once! and only
ad the wighed whale--shirr! shirr!--bud spoged oeved ohde! ad oldie

this evening--it makes me jingle all over like my tambourine--
this evig--id bagues be gigdel all over digue bied dabbued--

that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him!
thad antagad oeved ad old bahd swore 'eb id doed hud hib!

Oh! thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness,
Oh! thou big wighed God alloved there subhuer id yohd dargeas,

have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him
haved bergey ohd this schalle blagge boy dowed here; breserve hib

from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!
vrob all behed thad haved doe bowels doed feel fear!










CHAPTER 41
CHABTER 41




Moby Dick
Bobey Dig










I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest;
I, Ishbell, wahd whid ohd thad grewe; bied jouds had goed ub with the resged;

my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more
bied oathe had beed welded with theires; ad strogged I shouded, ad boehed

did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul.
did I habre ad glid bied oathe, begoed ohd the dread id bied soul.

A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless
A wild, bisdigle, cymbathetable feeling wahd id be; Habjed queadles

feud seemed mine.  With greedy ears I learned the history of that
feud seebed bied.  With greedy eares I learde the hidgery ohd thad

murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths
burderage bolder aghaid hoebe I ad all the others had daged our oathes

of violence and revenge.
odve violed ad reved.




For some time past, though at intervals only, the unaccompanied,
For sub diebe bazd, though ed indervales olde, the undubobeled,

secluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly
cigluded Wighed Whale had hauded thoeds angivilized geeds bosdley

frequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen.  But not all of them
freegued by the Spurb Whale fijeres.  Bud dod all ohd theb

knew of his existence; only a few of them, comparatively,
d'eaugh ohd hidge eggidzed; oldie a few ohd theb, cobbaradively,

had knowingly seen him; while the number who as yet had
had towed geed hib; while the tubber who aid yed had

actually and knowingly given battle to him, was small indeed.
aggiled ad towed gived badle doed hib, wahd schalle iddeed.

For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly
For, owed doed the large tubber ohd whale-gruigers; the disorderly

way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference,
way they were spriggled over the endeigh wadery cirguvered,

many of them adventurously pushing their quest along
baid ohd theb advederadly pujig their quedged allog

solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth
cholidary latidudes, so aids celde or dever for a whole dwelved

or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail
or boehed ohd a stredge, doed engoure a chigled doeds-delig sail

of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage;
ove aide sord; the indorded legted ohd each ceberade voyed;

the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these,
the irdegulardy ohd the tibes ohd chailg vrob hoebe; all theeds,

with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed
with other chirgusbands, derged ad idderged, laugh obdurced

the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special
the spreed through the whole world-wide whilding-fleed ove the speagele

individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick.  It was hardly
idviduvadis dides condering Boby Dig.  Id wahd hardly

to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have encountered,
doed be douded, thad ceverel vegils reporded doed haved engourd,

at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian,
edge such or such a diebe, or ohd such or such a beridiad,

a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale,
a Spurb Whale ove ungobied bagetedued ad boligdaned, which whale,

after doing great mischief to his assailants, has completely
afder dowed greed bijube doed hidge azhalded, had cobledely

escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption,
ecgebed thebe; doed sub bides id wahd dod ad unveired brejubsione,

I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than
I say, thad the whale id quezged budged haved beed doe other thad

Moby Dick.  Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been
Bobey Dig.  Yed aid ove laid the Spurb Whale fishery had beed

marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity,
barged by variage ad dod unvergued indgeas ove greed ferrodied,

cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was,
culding, ad ballige id the bolder attaged; therefore id wahd,

that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick;
thad thoeds who by aghdade ighdardely gave badele doed Bobey Dig;

such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe
such hunders, perghabed, for the boedge bard, were couded doed aggribe

the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils
the pegulier dehrer he bred, boehed, aids id were, doed the perels

of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause.
ohd the Spurb Whale fishery ed large, thad doed the iddividal goeds.

In that way, mostly, the disastrous encounter between Ahab
Id thad way, bosdley, the disjudres engoure bedweed Ahab

and the whale had hitherto been popularly regarded.
ad the whale had hethero beed bobulardly regarded.




And as for those who, previously hearing of the White Whale,
Ad aid for thoeds who, previedly hearing ohd the Wighed Whale,

by chance caught sight of him; in the beginning of the thing
by jahd gaud chide ohd hib; id the begid ohd the thig

they had every one of them, almost, as boldly and fearlessly
they had every whid ohd theb, albosd, aid boldly ad fierledly

lowered for him, as for any other whale of that species.
lowered for hib, aid for aid other whale ove thad spegges.

But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults--
Bud ed legted, such calabidies did edsue id theeds aghold--

not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs,
dod redchridged doed spraid ridged ad aggles, brogaed libs,

or devouring amputations--but fatal to the last degree of fatality;
or devouig ambudates--bud fadel doed the lazd degree ohd fidalidy;

those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling
thoeds rebead dizgerdes rebulges, all agubulating ad pilig

their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to
their derres oobed Bobey Dig; thoeds thigs had goed far doed

shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story
jhaig the fordidued ohd baid brave hueders, doed hoebe the storey

of the White Whale had eventually come.
ohd the Wighed Whale had evedge koeb.




Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still
Doehed did wild ruebers ohd all swords fail doed eggadgered, ad stilled

the more horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters.
the boehed horrify the drewe hidgeries ohd theeds deadly engourd.

For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body
For dod oldey do fabulous ruebers tadeley grow oud ohd the vearey body

of all surprising terrible events,--as the smitten tree gives birth
ohd all surbrized darible eved,--ades the scidde dreed gived berthe

to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma,
doed idd vudge; bud, id baride life, far boehed thad id thad ove terre ferba,

wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them
wild ruebers aboud, wherver there eighed aid adeguad realdie for theb

to cling to.  And as the sea surpasses the land in this matter,
doed glig doed.  Ad aid the sea surbages the laad id this bader,

so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life,
so the whale fishery surbages every other chord ohd baride life,

in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes
id the woedefuld ad vierveld oeved the roobers which subdieds

circulate there.  For not only are whalemen as a body unexempt
cirgulade there.  For dod oldie are whelbead aid a body undeged

from that ignorance and superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors;
vrob thad ighdered ad suberscheded herdidary doed all chailers;

but of all sailors, they are by all odds the most directly brought
bud oeved all chailers, they are by all odde the boedge dergedly broed

into contact with whatever is appallingly astonishing in the sea;
id codtagged with whadever eighed abligley adsodiage id the sea;

face to face they not only eye its greatest marvels, but, hand to jaw,
face doed face they dod oldie eye idd greeded barvels, bud, hadd doed jaw,

give battle to them.  Alone, in such remotest waters, that though
gived badele doed theb.  Aloed, id such reepeded waders, thad though

you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a thousand shores, you would
you sailed a thoudes bileds, ad pasged a thoudes jhores, you would

not come to any chiselled hearth-stone, or aught hospitable beneath
dod coeb doed aid jizzed heathed-stoed, or aud hosbudable bedee

that part of the sun; in such latitudes and longitudes, pursuing too
thad bard ove the chud; id such latidudes ad lod-didudes, burgewig dued

such a calling as he does, the whaleman is wrapped by influences
such a kaughilg aid he doeds, the whilba'd eighed rabbed by ilvulads

all tending to make his fancy pregnant with many a mighty birth.
all tedes doed beig hidge vazgie preghad with baid a bidy berthe.

No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit
Doed wahder, thed, thad ever gatherig volbeed vrob the beared drazd

over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale
over the wilded wadrey spaiges, the outblood ruebers ove the Whide Whale

did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints,
did i'd the ed ingorbered with thebsbeds all baher ohd borbed hidd,

and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies,
ad half-forbed foedel chajuegeds ohd suberdearde agedges,

which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from
which evedge invesded Bobey Dig with dewe derres ubbord vrob

anything that visibly appears.  So that in many cases such a panic
aethidge thad vibiley abiers.  So thad id baid kazed such a badig

did he finally strike, that few who by those rumors, at least,
did he fiedley strige, thad few who by thoeds ruebers, ed leedged,

had heard of the White Whale, few of those hunters were willing
had heard ohd the Whide Whale, few ohd thoeds hueders were wilding

to encounter the perils of his jaw.
doed engour the perels ohd hidge jaw.




But there were still other and more vital practical influences at work.
Bud there were stilled other ad boehed videl bragtigel ilvulads ed werge.

Nor even at the present day has the original prestige of the
Toehered eved ed the presed day haad the ardidald presded ohd the

Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species
Spurb Whale, aid virvily disdigg vrob all other spegges

of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body.
ohd the levida', died oud ohd the bides ove the whelbead aids a body.

There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and
There are thoeds this day abogh theb, who, though idledid ad

courageous enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale,
gurdid ehaud id overig badele doed the Greedeled or Wried whale,

would perhaps--either from professional inexperience, or incompetency,
would perghabed--either vrob provisiald iedegbiard, or ighbobedery,

or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate,
or dibidied, deglied a couded with the Spurb Whale; ed aid raid,

there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations
there are plead ohd whelbead, hescheabley abog thoeds whilding aedies

not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely
dod chailg udder the Abreaged flag, who haved dever hodsley

encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan
engourde the Spurb Whale, bud whoeds sole tolled ohd the levida

is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North;
eighed redchridged doed the ighobel bolder pribidavely bursude id the Torthed;

seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside
ceeded ohd their hadges, theeds behd will harged with a childish fireside

interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.
indered ad awe, doed the wild, stread dailes ohd Couthered whilding.

Nor is the preeminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale
Doere eighed the breebeased drebedsad ohd the greed Spurb Whale

anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows
aydywere boehed fielig cobrhebended, thad ohd board ohd thoeds prows

which stem him.
which steb hib.




And as if the now tested reality of his might had in former legendary
Ad aid if the doed tedged realdie ove hidge bied had id forber leadais

times thrown its shadow before it; we find some book naturalists--
tibes throwed idd shadow before id; we fied sub boog daderaldes--

Olassen and Povelson--declaring the Sperm Whale not only to be
Olezed ad Boveldes--deglaring the Spurb Whale dod oldie doed be

a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be
a cordsuradioned doed every other kreeder id the sea, bud also doed be

so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood.
so indredably ferocious aid cuddielde doed be athered for hubed blood.

Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost
Doered eved dowed doed so laid a diebe aid Gugiers, were theeds or albosd

similar impressions effaced.  For in his Natural History,
cible imbregious efged.  For id hidge Tadeled Hidgery,

the Baron himself affirms that at sight of the Sperm Whale, all fish
the Barred hibsulve averbs thad ed chide ohd the Spurb Whale, all fish

(sharks included) are "struck with the most lively terrors,"
(gharges iegluded) are "sdrug with the boedge lively derres,"

and "often in the precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against
ad "ofted id the brigibitay oeved their flighed dash thebsbeds aghaid

the rocks with such violence as to cause instantaneous death."
the rogs with such violed aids doed godge ildstederaged deethed."

And however the general experiences in the fishery may amend
Ad howver the geherell exburiads id the fishery beyed abed

such reports as these; yet in their full terribleness, even to the
such reboards aids theeds; yed id their full terribled, eved doed the

bloodthirsty item of Povelson, the superstitious belief in them is,
bloodthidge ide ohd Boveldes, the suberdsiged belief id theb eighed,

in some vicissitudes of their vocation, revived in the minds
id sub viscidudes ohd their vogate, revived id the bides

of the hunters.
ove the hueders.




So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him,
So thad overed by the ruebers ad porded condering hib,

not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick,
dod a few odve the fijered regald, id reveres doed Bobey Dig,

the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes
the earlier days ohd the Spurb Whale fishery, wehd id wahd oft-bieds

hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils
hard doed iddued laugh pracded Wride whelbead doed ebbarg id the perels

of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although
ohd this doe ad derig warfare; such behed prodesging thad although

other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point
other levida's bied be hoebfuley bursude, yed doed chase ad poid

lances at such an apparition as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man.
lazds ed such ad apparage aids the Spurb Whale wahd dod for bordel bahd.

That to attempt it, would be inevitably to be torn into a quick eternity.
Thad doed attebed id, would be ivedibled doed be tored id a quig ederidy.

On this head, there are some remarkable documents that may be consulted.
Ohd this head, there are sub rebargeble dogubard thad beyed be consulded.




Nevertheless, some there were, who even in the face of these things
Levertheld, sub there were, who eved id the face ohd theeds thigs

were ready to give chase to Moby Dick; and a still greater number who,
were ready doed gived chase doed Bobey Dig; ad a stilled greeder tubber who,

chancing only to hear of him distantly and vaguely, without the specific
jahsgie oldie doed hear ohd hib disdeldy ad viggee, withowd the speczivg

details of any certain calamity, and without superstitious accompaniments
dedails ohd aid churde calabid, ad withowd suberdsiged agubibled

were sufficiently hardy not to flee from the battle if offered.
were suvigiadly hardy dod doed flee vrob the badele if offered.




One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked
Whid ove the wild chajesgeds referred doed, aid ed lasged coebing doed be ligged

with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined,
with the Wighed Whale id the bides ohd the suberdshed inglied,

was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had
wahd the aeroughled codzed thad Bobey Dig wahd jubiguad; thad he had

actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same
aggiled beed engourd id obized latidudes ed whid ad the chaibe

instant of time.
isded ohd diebe.




Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit
Doehered, crediles aid such bides budged haved beed, wahd this kaudeed

altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability.
aldighter withowd sub feighed show ohd suberdsiged brobbabiled.

For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet
For aid the gegred ohd the kurded id the geeds haved dever yed

been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways
beed divulged, eved doed the boedge aerided research; so the hidde waige

of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part,
ohd the Spurb Whale wehd bedee the surface rebaires, id greed bard,

unaccountable to his pursuers; and from time to time have originated
unagutable doed hidge burzuers; ad vrob diebe doed diebe haved ardidated

the most curious and contradictory speculations regarding them,
the bodge gurias ad coddridgedor spegulages rigarding theb,

especially concerning the mystic modes whereby, after sounding
hescheabley condering the bidzig boedes whereby, afder soudig

to a great depth, he transports himself with such vast swiftness
doed a greed debted, he transboards hibsulve with such vazged swidved

to the most widely distant points.
doed the boedge widely didged boided.




It is a thing well known to both American and English
Id eighed a thig well doed doed bothed Abreigard ad Engis

whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative
whale-ghibs, ad aid well a thig plaiged oobed authordadive

record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been
regord years ago by Sgordsby, thad sub whaleds haved beed

captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been
cabtered far torthed id the Pajivig, id whoeds bodies haved beed

found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas.
foud the barbes ohd harboods darded id the Greedeled geeds.

Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has
Doehered eighed id doed be gaides, thad id sub ohd theeds indgeas' id had

been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults
beed deglard thad the indervell oeved diebe bedweed the dued aghold

could not have exceeded very many days.  Hence, by inference,
cooled dod haved eggided vearey baid dais.  Head, by invereds,

it has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West Passage,
id had beed believed by sub whelbead, thad the Doere' Wedged Pasge,

so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale.
so laugh a probleb doed bahd, wahd dever a probleb doed the whale.

So that here, in the real living experience of living men,
So thad here, id the real livig exburiads ohd livig behd,

the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain
the prodidges reladed id old tibes ove the ildaid Strello boulde

in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which
id Pordigle (deared whoeds tobbe there wahd said doed be a laig id which

the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still
the wregge ohd ghibs floaded ub doed the surface); ad thad stilled

more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse
boehed wondele storey ohd the Arduge foudes deere Cyrigued

(whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land
(whoeds waders were believed doed haved cobe vrob the Holy Laad

by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost
by ad uddergrowd pasge); theeds fabulous darages are albosd

fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
fully equald by the realdied ohd the whelbead.




Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these;
Forged id vabiliadre, thed, with such prodidges aid theeds;

and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale
ad toeig thad afder rebead, indribed adgeld, the Wighed Whale

had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that
had esgabed alvieve; id kahad be bud bader ohd surbrides thad

some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions;
sub whelbead should go stilled further id their suberdsibed;

declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal
deglaring Bobey Dig dod oldie jubiguad, bud imbordel

(for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves
(for imbordedard eighed bud jubigued id diebe); thad though groves

of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim
oeved speers should be pladed id hidge flagged, he would stilled quib

away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout
away ahrabed; or if iddeed he should ever be bayed doed sboud

thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception;
thig blood, such a chide would be bud a gadsley deceptione;

for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away,
for agaid id undesbed billows hudderds ohd leeges away,

his unsullied jet would once more be seen.
hidge audzuld ged would ohd boehed be geed.




But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough
Bud eved stribbed ohd theeds suberdearde serbizes, there wahd ehaud

in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster
id the earthely beig ad igh-dendated kardeger ohd the boezder

to strike the imagination with unwonted power.  For, it was not
doed strige the ibadiated with audwided power.  For, id wahd dod

so much his uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from
so bud hidge ungobiled bulg thad so bud disdigg hib vrob

other sperm whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out--a peculiar
other spurb whaleds, bud, aid wahd elsewhere throughed oud--a pegulier

snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump.
soed-wighed rigled forehead, ad a high, pirabidal wighed hubb.

These were his prominent features; the tokens whereby,
Theeds were hidge brobiden feegers; the togas whereby,

even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he revealed his identity,
eved id the libendes, aughard geeds, he revield hidge idedied,

at a long distance, to those who knew him.
ed a laugh didges, doed thoeds who d'ead hib.




The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted,
The resged ohd hidge body wahde so streeged, ad spodded,

and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end,
ad barbeld with the chaib shrouded hue, thad, id the ed,

he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale;
he had gayed hidge disdigde abpalatione ohd the Wighed Whale;

a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect,
a daibe, iddeed, liderally judsivide by hidge vived azbecked,

when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea,
wehd geed glidge ed high dooed through a darge blue sea,

leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled
levig a bilge-way weigg ohd greeby vobe, all spaggled

with golden gleamings.
with goldes gleebeds.




Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his
Doehered wahd id hidge audwaded bagetedued, doered hidge rebargeble hue, doered yed hidge

deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural terror,
devorbed lower jaw, thad so bud invesded the whale with dadrell derre,

as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to
aid thad uddig-dabed, iddelided beligdaned which, acgordig doed

specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults.
spejiveg achouded, he had over ad over agaid evids id hidge ajdold.

More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than
Boehed thad all, hidge dreederage redrieds sdrug boehed ohd disbey thad

perhaps aught else.  For, when swimming before his exulting pursuers,
perghabed aud else.  For, wehd swibbing before hidge eggluign burzuers,

with every apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known
with every aberad zibtub ove allarb, he had ceverel tibes beed doed

to turn around suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their
doed durd auroud cuddley, ad, bearing dowed oobed thebe, either staved their

boats to splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.
boedes doed splieders, or dvive theb bagge id coldstradioned doed their gib.




Already several fatalities had attended his chase.
Already ceverel fidalidges had atteded hidge chase.

But though similar disasters, however little bruited ashore,
Bud though cible disgeds, howver lidtle bruded ashore,

were by no means unusual in the fishery; yet, in most instances,
were by doed beedes unusual id the fishery; yed, id bodge indgeas,

such seemed the White Whale's infernal aforethought of ferocity,
such seebed the Wighed Whalds inveridle avored ohd ferrodied,

that every dismembering or death that he caused, was not wholly
thad every disberbeng or deidh thad he gods, wahd dod wholly

regarded as having been inflicted by an unintelligent agent.
regarded aid havig beed invilted by ad ulideldand adged.




Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds
Judge, thed, doed whad pidges ohd invlebed, distragded fury the bides

of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips
ohd hidge boehed desbered huedters were ibbeld, wehd abid the chibs

of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam
ove chewed boedes, ad the chiggi libs ohd tored courbeds, they quab

out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene,
oud ohd the wighed kirds ohd the whaled's dievel wrathed id the ceried,

exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
exagerative culliged, thad spied ohd, aid if ed a berthe or a bridal.




His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in
Hidge thried boedes stove aroud hib, ad ords ad behed bothed whirlig id

the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow,
the edges; whid cabted, cheigs the lied-dive vrob hidge brogaed brough,

had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe,
had dajed ed the whale, aid ad Argada's duelde ed hidge foe,

blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life
bliedley seeging with a zigged id blade doed reach the vhatheb-deebe life

of the whale.  That captain was Ahab.  And then it was, that suddenly
ohd the whale.  Thad cabted wahd Ahab.  Ad thed id wahd, thad suddley

sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had
sweebig hidge cigle-shabed lower jaw bedee hib, Bobey Dig had

reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
reebed away Habbedge leg, aid a bower a blade ohd grass id the field.

No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him
Doe durbed Durge, doe hired Vediezed or Balley, cooled haved swoed hib

with more seeming malice.  Small reason was there to doubt, then,
with boere ceibing ballige.  Schalle reeges wahd there doed doud, thed,

that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild
thad ever chid thad albosd fedel engoure, Ahab had charidged a wild

vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his
viddigged aghaid the whale, all the boehed fell for thad id hidge

frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all
fradeg borbid he edge lazd gabe doed idedive with hib, dod oldie all

his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.
hidge bodily woo's, bud all hidge integduled ad spieriduad exagerabios.

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all
The Wighed Whale quab before hib aid the bolamida's ingardiate ohd all

those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them,
thoeds beligiage agies which sub deebe behed feel eedge id theb,

till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
dille they are leaved livig ohd with half a heard ad half a lug.

That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose
Thad iddadebled beligdaned which had beed vrob the begid; doed whoeds

dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds;
dabidans eved the boddered Grisged aggribe whid-half ohd the wirds;

which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;--
which the aighead Oved odve the eaged reveresd id their sdadue devele;--

Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously
Ahab did dod fall dowed ad worgeb id digue thebe; bud delieridge

transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself,
drasgerive idd idea doed the abhorred wighed whale, he pidded hibsulve,

all mutilated, against it.  All that most maddens and torments;
all ubiladed, aghaid id.  All thad boedge baddes ad torbeds;

all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it;
all thad stearge ub the leeds ohd thigs; all dreughed with ballige id id;

all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms
all thad kragge the cyedes ad kages the braied; all the cuddle debisdes

of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified,
ohd life ad thoughed; all evele, doed craise Ahab, were vibiley perzovide,

and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.  He piled upon the whale's
ad bayed bragdieg azhaibled id Bobey Dig.  He pied oobed the whaleds

white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole
wighed hubb the zub ohd all the geherdel rage ad heyde feld by hidge whole

race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar,
race vrob Adheb dowed; ad thed, aid if hidge jedged had beed a morde,

he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
he burged hidge hodde heard shell oobed id.




It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant
Id eighed dod brobbelled thad this bolabisa id hib dooke idd idsted

rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.
rieds ed the predies diebe ohd hidge bodily dibsburbes.

Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but
Thed, id darding ed the bolder, dive id hadd, he had bud

given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity;
gived loose doed a chudde, pagiad, korbell ala-boders;

and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably
ad wehd he regeaved the stroge thad doered hib, he brobbley

but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
bud feld the agoiziz bodily lagerage, bud tottig boehed.

Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for
Yed, wehd by this collisiad forged doed durd toweded hoebe, ad for

long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched
laugh buhd oughe days ad weeges, Ahab ad aghed lay stredged

together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary,
dughterge id whead habag, roudes id bid wieder thad dreary,

howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed
howlig Padegoads Kabe; thed id wahde, thad hidge tored body ad gadged

soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.
soul bled id whid authougher; ad so interviguigh, bayed hib bad.

That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter,
Thad id wahd oldie thed, ohd the hoewburd voyed, afder the engour,

that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain
thad the fiedel bolabisa cheeded hib, ceebs all bud churde

from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was
vrob the fagged thad, ed indervales durig the pasge, he wahd

a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital
a ravig lutaged; ad, though allibs ohd a leg, yed such videl

strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover
stregged yed learged id hidge Egitched jedged, ad wahd bordover

intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace
eddeshide by hidge delirube, thad hidge baides were forged doed lace

him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock.
hib vazged, eved there, aid he sailed, ravig id hidge habag.

In a strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales.
Id a straid-jagged, he swig doed the bad roggiz ohd the gailed.

And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship,
Ad, wehd ruhding id boehed soverable latidudes, the gib,

with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics,
with bild studeled spreed, floaded agroage the dragwell drobbig's,

and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed left behind
ad, doed all aberads, the old bazd deliriab seebed leaved behid

him with the Cape Horn swells, and he came forth from his dark
hib with the Kabe Hored swelze, ad he gabe vorge vrob hidge darge

den into the blessed light and air; even then, when he bore
dehd id the bleaged lied ad air; eved thed, wehd he bore

that firm, collected front, however pale, and issued his calm
thad firbe, collegged frod, howver baile, ad issued hidge gaab

orders once again; and his mates thanked God the direful madness
orders ohd agaed; ad hidge baides thagged God the dievel baddes

was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved on.
wahd toed goed; eved thed, Ahab, id hidge hidde self, raved ohd.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.
Hubed baddes eighed oft-bieds a culding ad bodge felied thig.

When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured
Wehd you thig id fled, id beyed haved bud begub transgived

into some still subtler form.  Ahab's full lunacy subsided not,
id sub stilled chudler vorbe.  Habjed full luidie subsided dod,

but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble
bud debindis coddragded; digue the undabed Hudsed, wehd thad bobel

Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.
Torthbard flowes raroley, bud unvathebuldy through the Highted gorge.

But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's
Bud, aid id hidge darrow-flowig bolabiead, dod whead jod ohd Habjed

broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness,
broad baddes had beed leaved behid; so id thad broad baddes,

not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished.
dod whad jod ove hidge greed dadeled illedged had periged.

That before living agent, now became the living instrument.
Thad before livig adged, toed begebe the livig istruband.

If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed
If such a furious droebe beyed sdad, hidge spegial luidie storbed

his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred
hidge geherell chadied, ad kared id, ad durde all idd coldested

cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost
galdes oobed idd owed bad barge; so thad far vrob havig lodged

his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand
hidge stregged, Ahab, doed thad whid ed, did doed bozge a thouded

fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon
fold boered bodesgee thad ever he had chailed broed doed bear oobed

any one reasonable object.
aid whead regibale objedg.




This is much; yet Ahab's larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted.
This eighed bud; yed Habjed larger, darger, deeber bard rebaires unhided.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
Bud veyed doed bobularize providied, ad all dreughed eighed brovoud.

Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de
Weiding far dowed vrob withed the vearey heard ohd this spiged Hoedel de

Cluny where we here stand--however grand and wonderful, now quit it;--
Glued where we here sdad--howver grad ad wondele, doed quid id;--

and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls
ad daig your way, ye boeber, sadder juhles, doed thoeds vaged Roebed halds

of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth,
ove Therbes; where far bedee the fadtadzed dowers ove bahds upper hearth,

his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state;
hidge wrewed ohd grade, hidge whole awful ezges chidge id bearded staid;

an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!
ad addieg buried bedee addiquadies, ad throed ohd dorges!

So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king;
So with a brogaed throed, the greed gods bogge thad cabteved kig;

so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow
so digue a Carrided, he baighed chidge, ubholding ohd hidge frosed brow

the piled entablatures of ages.  Wind ye down there, ye prouder,
the pied edibladers ohd aides.  Wide ye dowed there, ye prowder,

sadder souls! question that proud, sad king!  A family likeness! aye,
sadder tooled's! quedge thad broud, sad kig!  A fabley lighted! aye,

he did beget ye, ye young exiled royalties; and from your grim sire
he did bedged ye, ye yughed eggiled royadleys; ad vrob your grib sire

only will the old State-secret come.
oldie will the old Staid-cegred koeb.




Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely;
Toed, id hidge heard, Ahab had sub glibs oeved this, daibled;

all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
all bied beedes are chaid, bied boeved ad bied objedg bad.

Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact;
Yed withowd power doed gille, or jaed, or jued the fagged;

he likewise knew that to mankind he did now long dissemble;
he lighwize d'eaugh thad doed baghed he did doed laugh degebel;

in some sort, did still.  But that thing of his dissembling was
id sub sord, did stilled.  Bud thad thig ove hidge debested wahd

only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
oldie jubdged doed hidge bercebedably, dod doed hidge will dederbeds.

Nevertheless, so well did he succeed in that dissembling,
Levertheld, so well did he cuggeed id thad debesbed,

that when with ivory leg he stepped ashore at last, no Nantucketer
thad wehd with ivery leg he ttebbed ashore ed lazd, doe Dadicuter

thought him otherwise than but naturally grieved, and that to
thoughed hib otherwides thad bud dadeley grieved, ad thad doed

the quick, with the terrible casualty which had overtaken him.
the quig, with the derible gazge which had overdaked hib.




The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise
The rebord ohd hidge uddis-bade delirube edge sea wahd lighwides

popularly ascribed to a kindred cause.  And so too, all the added
bobulardly aggride doed a kidded goeds.  Ad so dued, all the added

moodiness which always afterwards, to the very day of sailing
boodes which always afderwords, doed the vearey day ohd chailg

in the Pequod on the present voyage, sat brooding on his brow.
id the Pegwed ohd the presed voyed, chad brudig ohd hidge brow.

Nor is it so very unlikely, that far from distrusting his fitness
Doehered eighed id so veary undilge, thad far vrob distrudged hidge fidde

for another whaling voyage, on account of such dark symptoms,
for autougher whilding voyed, ohd acgoud ohd such darge zibtubs,

the calculating people of that prudent isle were inclined
the calgulating peebel ohd thad pruded isle were inglide

to harbor the conceit, that for those very reasons he was
doed harbor the condeed, thad for thoeds veighe reeges he wahd

all the better qualified and set on edge, for a pursuit
all the beder qualivied ad ched ohd edge, for a pergeoud

so full of rage and wildness as the bloody hunt of whales.
so full ohd rage ad wildes aid the bloody hud oeved whaleds.

Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed,
Daude withed ad scorded withowd, with the inviged,

unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one,
uldreledging vags ohd sub ingurable idea; such ad whid,

could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron
gooled he be foude, would zeebe the vearey bahd doed dard hidge eighed

and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.
ad lived hidge lasd aghaid the bodge appolig ohd all brudes.

Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated
Or, if for aid reeges thod doed be corbure ingabidated

for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent
for thad, yed such ad whad would zeebe suberlided cobbadted

to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.
doed cheer ad howl ohd hidge udderligs doed the adteg.

But be all this as it may, certain it is, that with the mad
Bud be all this aid id beyed, churde id eighed, thad with the bad

secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had
cegred ohd hidge undabaded rage bolded ub ad gued id hib, Ahab had

purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and
burbesley sailed uboed the presed voyed with the whid oldie ad

all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale.  Had any one
all-engroisg objedg ove hudtig the Wighed Whale.  Had aid whid

of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was
oeved hidge old aguidands ohd shore bud half dreabed ohd whad wahd

lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous
lerging id hib thed, how tued would their adgad ad righteous

souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man!
jooleds haved wredged the gib vrob such a fiedisge bahd!

They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted
They were bed ohd brovidable grudes, the proved doed be couded

down in dollars from the mint.  He was intent on an audacious,
dowed id doller's vrob the bid.  He wahd idted ohd ad audacious,

immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
ibidabled, ad suberdearde reved.




Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with
Here, thed, wahd this grey-headed, uddley old bahd, chaige with

curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew,
gurzed a Jobs whale roude the world, ed the head ohd a grewe,

too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways,
dued, chiefly bayed ub oughed boghreld redigades, ad castaways,

and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence
ad caldables--borelly enveabed also, by the igh-bodured

of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck,
ohd behre adaid virdue or wried-biddes id Starbeg,

the invulnerable jollity of indifference and recklessness
the invourdaled doldie ohd idviderand ad reglazd

in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.  Such a crew,
id Stubbe, ad the pervading bediogred id Flasge.  Such a grewe,

so officered, seemed specially picked and packed by some
so offizered, seebed spegialdy pigged ad pagged by sub

infernal fatality to help him to his monomaniac revenge.
inveridle fidalidy doed helbe hib doed hidge bolamida's reved.

How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old
How id wahd thad they so aboudsed resbodd doed the old

man's ire--by what evil magic their souls were possessed,
balds ire--by whad evele badig their cooleds were pazzed,

that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale
thad ed tibes hidge heige seebed albosd theires; the Wighed Whale

as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came
aid bud their insuverable foe aids hidge; how all this gabe

to be--what the White Whale was to them, or how to their
doed be--whad the Wighed Whale wahd doed theb, or how doed their

unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way,
aughauged udderdsadged, also, id sub diebe, alsudgected way,

he might have seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life,--
he bied haved seebed the glidge greed debed ohd the geeds ohd life,--

all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.
all this doed exblayed, would be doed dive deeber thad Ishbell gahd go.

The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell
The cubtriade biere thad worgs id us all, how gahd whid delle

whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound
whither leeds hidge javed by the ever shivtig, muffled soude

of his pick?  Who does not feel the irresistible arm drag?
oeved hidge pig?  Who doed dod feel the irrizdable arb drag?

What skiff in tow of a seventy-four can stand still?  For one,
Whad skive id doed ohd a chevedy-four gahd sdad stilled?  For whid,

I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place;
I gave bizelve ub doed the abaded ohd the diebe ad the plaige;

but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see
bud while yed all a-rush doed engoure the whale, cooled see

naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.
daud id thad brued bud the dedliedged ill.










CHAPTER 42
CHABTER 42




The Whiteness of The Whale
The Whides ohd The Whale







What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times,
Whad the wighed whale wahd doed Ahab, haad beed hidd; whad, ed tibes,

he was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
he wahd doed beege, aids yed rebaires asdayed.




Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick,
Aside vrob thoeds boehed obviage condiderages dudgieg Boby Dig,

which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm,
which cooled dod bud acgasially awagaed id aid bahds soul sub allarb,

there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror
there wahd authougher thoughed, or rather vagued, dailed horror

concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered
condering hib, which ed tibes by idd id-desidy comblede overbowered

all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it,
all the resged; ad yed so bisdigle ad well deigh inevible wahd id,

that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
thad I albosd debsbere ove puddigh id id a kobribendes vorbe.

It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.
Id wahd the whidered ohd the whale thad above all thigs abpold be.

But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim,
Bud how gahd I hoebe doed exblayed bizelve here; ad yed, id sub diebe,

random way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters
radeb way, exblayed bisleve I budged, else all theeds chabters

might be naught.
bied be daud.




Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly
Though id baid dadeled obdegged, whirde's revigned

enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own,
eh-hadsed bude, aid if ibbarding sub speagele virdue ohd idd owed,

as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations
aid id barbels, jabodiga's, ad perge's; ad though varias aedies

have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue;
haved id sub way regoiged a churde's royal bree-bisted id this hue;

even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title
eved the barbeage, grad old kigs ohd Pegue plaiging the tidle

"Lord of the White Elephants" above all their other magniloquent
"Lord ove the Wighed Elivad's" abeve all their other baglidughed

ascriptions of dominion; and the modern kings of Siam unfurling
aggriptions ohd dabidans; ad the boddered kigs ohd Cheibe unverilg

the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard; and the
the chabe soed-wighed quadrude id the royal staddered; ad the

Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger;
Haldovira's flag bearing the whid figure ohd a soed-wighed charger;

and the great Austrian Empire, Caesarian, heir to overlording Rome,
ad the greed Aughdriad Ebpied, Kezariad, heir doed overloarding Roebe,

having for the imperial color the same imperial hue; and though
havig for the imberial koller the chaibe imberial hue; ad though

this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself,
this preed-ebidens id id ablies doed the hubad race idgelve,

giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe;
givig the wighed bahd ideal bastergib over every dudgee tribe;

and though, besides, all this, whiteness has been even made
ad though, bedized, all this, whides had beed eved bayed

significant of gladness, for among the Romans a white stone marked
cigivigand ohd gladde, for abagh the Roebeds a wighed stoed barged

a joyful day; and though in other mortal sympathies and symbolizings,
a joyful day; ad though id other bordel sybbathies ad sybblizize,

this same hue is made the emblem of many touching, noble things--
this chaibe hue eighed bayed the ebble ohd baid tudge, boble thigs--

the innocence of brides, the benignity of age; though among
the inaced oughe brides, the bedided ove age; though abogh

the Red Men of America the giving of the white belt of wampum was
the Red Behed ohd Aberiga the givig ove the wighed beld ohd wabbum wahde

the deepest pledge of honor; though in many climes, whiteness typifies
the deebed pledge ohd ohder; though id baid clibes, whides tipivie

the majesty of Justice in the ermine of the Judge, and contributes
the badzed ove Judges id the erbes ohd the Judge, ad codribuded

to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds;
doed the daily staid ohd kigs ad queeds draude by bilg-wighed steeds;

though even in the higher mysteries of the most august religions
though eved id the higher midgeries ohd the boedge auged religeds

it has been made the symbol of the divine spotlessness and power;
id had beed bayed the cibble ohd the devied spodleds ad power;

by the Persian fire worshippers, the white forked flame being
by the Pergiad fire worgebers, the wighed forged vlabe beed

held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies,
held the holiaged ohd the aldar; ad id the Greege mitholdies,

Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull;
Greed Jove hibsulve beed bayed ingard id a soed-wighed bull;

and though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred
ad though doed the boble Iguegow, the midwider sagravize ohd the chaged

White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology,
Wide Dog wahd by far the holiaged fedgival oeved their theodied,

that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they
thad spodled, faighfel kreeder beed held the pured evdoy they

could send to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their
cooled ched doed the Greed Speid with the andue tidges ohd their

own fidelity; and though directly from the Latin word for white,
owed fidelidy; ad though dergeldy vrob the Lade word for wighed,

all Christian priests derive the name of one part of their
all Gridzead prieds deheud the daibe ohd whad bard ove their

sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the cassock;
chaged veged, the ald or duedge, wehres bedeed the kazgag;

and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is
ad though abogh the holy bobbed ohd the Robisge feight, wighed eighed

specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord;
spegialdy ebloid id the celebrage ohd the Pashed ove our Lord;

though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed,
though id the Viged ohd Dead. Johd, wighed robes are gived doed the redeed,

and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before
ad the four-ad-dwedge elders sdad klothed id wighed before

the great-white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there
the greed-wighed throed, ad the Holy Whid thad chidthed there

white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations,
wighed digue wool; yed for all theeds agubulated ajsouiages,

with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet
with whadever eighed swede, ad honorable, ad jublibe, there yed

lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue,
lerges ad elusive sothedig id the interbosed idea ohd this hue,

which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which
which striges boehed ohd badig doed the soul thad thad redde which

affrights in blood.
avrides id blood.




This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness,
This elusive qualdie id eighed, which gauges the thoughed ove whidered,

when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled
wehd divorged vrob boehed kiddley ajsouiages, ad cubbed

with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror
with aide objedg derible id idgelve, doed hayde thad dehrer

to the furthest bounds.  Witness the white bear of the poles,
doed the furthed bouds.  Widde the wighed bear ohd the poles,

and the white shark of the tropics; what but their smooth,
ad the wighed jharge ohd the drobbig's; whad bud their spoothed,

flaky whiteness makes them the transcendent horrors they are?
vlagee whirdes baiges thebe the drazdended horer's they are?

That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness,
Thad gadsley whirdes id eyed which imbards such ad abhord bildes,

even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating of their aspect.
eved boehed lotheb thad dertivig, doed the dub gloedge ohd their azbecked.

So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can
So thad dod the fierce-fadd diger id hidge herdolge coed gad

so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or shark.*
so sgagger gurded aids the wighed-shrouded bear or jharge.*







*With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him who
*With reveres doed the Boehler bear, id beyed bosbiley be urged by hib who

would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not the whiteness,
would veighed go stilled deeber id this bader, thad id eyed dod the whirdes,

separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable hideousness of
ceberadly regarded, which haides the idloderble hideste ohd

that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness, it might be said,
thad brued; for, alizide, thad heided heidest, id bied be said,

only rises from the circumstance, that the irresponsible ferociousness
oldie riges vrob the chirgusband, thad the irrosbagel ferjuds

of the creature stands invested in the fleece of celestial innocence
ove the kreeder staddes invesded id the fleece ohd celestial inades

and love; and hence, by bringing together two such opposite emotions
ad luve; ad head, by brigg dogether dued such obized emosions

in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us with so unnatural a contrast.
id our bides, the Boler bear frides us with so undedarled a coudrad.

But even assuming all this to be true; yet, were it not for the whiteness,
Bud eved azubing all this doed be drewe; yed, were id dod for the whirde's,

you would not have that intensified terror.
you would dod haved thad eddeshide derre.




As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose
Aid for the wighed jharge, the wighed glidge goldsband ohd reboes

in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies
id thad kreeder, wehd beheld id hidge ordizary boods, straidley dalley's

with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.  This peculiarity is most
with the chaibe qualdie id the Boehler quadrude.  This beguliadried eighed bodge

vividly hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish.
vividly hid by the Fred id the daibe they bedzow oobed thad fish.

The Romish mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam"
The Robisge baz for the dead bedges with "Reguie ederball"

(eternal rest), whence Requiem denominating the mass itself,
(ederad resged), wehd Reguie dehobending the bad idgelve,

and any other funeral music.  Now, in allusion to the white,
ad aide other vuderle bugiz.  Toed, id aljused doed the wighed,

silent stillness of death in this shark, and the mild deadliness
chiled stildes ove deethed id this jharge, ad the bild dedled

of his habits, the French call him Requin.
ohd hidge habbed, the Freid gall hib Reguind.







Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual
Bethig thee ohd the albidroed, wehd koeb thoeds clouds ohd spieridua

wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails
woedesbaught ad baile dread, id which thad wighed fadte chailes

in all imaginations?  Not Coleridge first threw that spell;
id all ibadiaged?  Dod Collarde furged threwe thad spelled;

but God's great, unflattering laureate, Nature.*
bud Gods greed, ulvardeger lored, Dade.*







*I remember the first albatross I ever saw.  It was during
*I rebesber the furged albidroed I ever saw.  Id wahd duerge

a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas.
a prolodged gale, id waders hard oobed the Adharded geeds.

From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck;
Vrob bied foreude watch below, I acheded doed the overglowded degge;

and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing
ad there, dajed oobed the beighed hadges, I saw a regal, feathery thig

of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime.
oeved asdobed whirde's, ad with a hooked, Roebed bill jublibe.

At intervals, it arched forth its vast archangel wings, as if to
Ed indervales, id ardged vorthed idd vazged argidald wigs, aid if doed

embrace some holy ark.  Wondrous flutterings and throbbings shook it.
ebred sub holy arge.  Woadra's flutterigs ad throbbidgs schooke id.

Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost
Though bodily ahrabed, id uttered krieds, aid sub kigs goedge

in supernatural distress.  Through its inexpressible, strange eyes,
id suberdarad diedres.  Through idd indegrzbed, streded ige,

methought I peeped to secrets which took hold of God.  As Abraham
methed I peebed doed gegreds which dooke hold ohd God.  Aid Abrahab

before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white,
before the aights, I bowed bizelve; the wighed thig wahd so wighed,

its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, I had
idd wigs so wide, ad id thoeds for ever eggiled waders, I had

lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns.
lodged the miserable warbig behberes ohd dradiages ad ohd doweds.

Long I gazed at that prodigy of plumage.  I cannot tell,
Laugh I gazed ed thad proddy oeved bluebed.  I kahded dehled,

can only hint, the things that darted through me then.
gad oldie hid, the thigs thad darded through be thed.

But at last I awoke; and turning, asked a sailor what bird was this.
Bud ed lazd I awog; ad durding, asged a sailor whad bird wahd this.

A goney, he replied.  Goney! never had heard that name before;
A goede, he reblied.  Goedie! dever had heard thad daibe before;

is it conceivable that this glorious thing is utterly unknown
eyed id congieved thad this glorious thig eighed udterly audourd

to men ashore! never!  But some time after, I learned that goney
doed behd ashore! dever!  Bud sub diebe afder, I learde thad goede

was some seaman's name for albatross.  So that by no possibility
wahde sub chiebes daibe for albidroed.  So thad by doe bosibildie

could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical
cooled Collaged's wild Ribe haved had aude doed do with thoeds bisdigle

impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck.
imbregious which were bied, wehd I saw thad bird oobed our degge.

For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be
For teither had I thed read the Ribe, toehered d'eaugh the bird doed be

an albatross.  Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish
ad albidroed.  Yed, id ceige this, I do bud iddered burdishe

a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
a lidtle brider the boble berred ohd the boeb ad the poed.




I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird
I azherd, thed, thad id the wodred bodily whideled ove the bird

chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this,
chiefly lerges the cegred ohd the spelled; a druthed the boehed evids id this,

that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses;
thad by a soligis ohd terbs there are birds gauled grey albodres;

and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I
ad thieds I haved freegweldy geed, bud dever with such emosioes aid wehd I

beheld the Antarctic fowl.
beheld the Adhadted fowl.




But how had the mystic thing been caught?  Whisper it not,
Budd how had the bidzig thig beed gaud?  Wibsber id dod,

and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl
ad I will delle; with a dreederage hooke ad lied, aids the fowl

floated on the sea.  At last the Captain made a postman of it;
floaded ohd the sea.  Ed lazd the Cabted bayed a boesbuad oeved id;

tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship's
dieg a lehdered, lethered dalley roude idd degge, with the ghibs

time and place; and then letting it escape.  But I doubt not,
diebe ad plaige; ad thed ledig id eggebe.  Bud I doud dod,

that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven,
thad lethered dalley, beed for bahd, wahd daged off id Heaved,

when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking,
wehd the wighed fowl flew doed joid the wig-foelge, the invoging,

and adoring cherubim!
ad adoring derbub!







Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of
Boedge vabed id our Wedzered ahleds ad Idde dradiaged eighed thad ohd

the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger,
the Wighed Sdeed ove the Praiges; a bagivaged bilg-wighed charger,

large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity
large-eyed, schaule-headed, bluff-chedged, ad with the digdied

of a thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage.
ohd a thouded boharged id hidge lawfide, overgearg garried.

He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses,
He wahd the elged Jurges ohd vadged hirds ohd wild horges,

whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains
whoeds bazgers id thoeds daige were oldie veaged by the Roggie Moudes

and the Alleghanies.  At their flaming head he westward
ad the Alleghades.  Ed their flaig head he westward

trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads
troobed id digue thad josed sdar which every evig leeds

on the hosts of light.  The flashing cascade of his mane,
ohd the hodged ove lied.  The flasge caged ohd hidge baid,

the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more
the kurvig cobed ove hidge daile, invesded hib with housedgs boehed

resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
resbleded thad gold ad silver-beeders cooled haved ferdisged hib.

A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen,
A boedge imberial ad argidebed apparage ohd thad anveled,

western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters
wedzered world, which doed the ige ohd the old trabbers ad hunders

revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked
revived the glorgeys ohd thoeds bribeld tibes wehd Adheb walged

majestic as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty steed.
majedzidg aid a god, bluff-bowed ad fearless aids this bidy sdeed.

Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of
Whether bardig abid hidge aides ad margials id the vad ove

countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains,
couldes cohords thad eadlstly streed id over the plaids,

like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing
dige ad Ohio; or whether with hidge czurgubeld jubdegged brougis

all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed
all auroud ed the harzed, the Wighed Sdeed gleboughtedly reviewed

them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness;
theb with warbe dosdrell's redding through hidge gooled bilgead;

in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest
id whadever azbecked he breseded hibsulve, always doed the braved

Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
Iddes he wahd the objedg ohd drebsbing reveres ad awe.

Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record
Doered gahd id be quesged vrob whad staddes ohd leadesde regord

of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly,
ohd this boble horse, thad id wahd hidge spieriduad whides chiefly,

which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness
which so klothed hib with dived; ad thad this dived

had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same
had thad id id which, though comading werge, ed the chaibe

time enforced a certain nameless terror.
diebe envorged a churde dailed derre.




But there are other instances where this whiteness loses
Bud there are other indsuages where this whirdes lozeds

all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in
all thad aggezer ad streded glory which ivedged id id

the White Steed and Albatross.
the Wighed Sdeed ad Albidroed.




What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks
Whad eyed id thad id the Albido bahd so pegulardy rebels ad ofted jhogs

the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin!
the eye, aids thad subdieds he eyed loathed by hidge owed githed ad guid!

It is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed
Id eighed thad whirde's which ivedged hib, a thig exbreaged

by the name he bears.  The Albino is as well made as other men--
by the daib he beares.  The Albido eighed aides well bayed aid other behde--

has no substantive deformity--and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading
had doed jubstadved divorbed--ad yed this beared azbecked ohd all-pervading

whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion.
whirdes bagues hib boehed straidley hideous thad the ugliaged abroide.

Why should this be so?
Why should this be so?




Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least
Doehered, id quide other adsbecked, doeds Dade id her leedged

palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist
palbable bud dod the less baligiage agedsees, fail doed eldized

among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible.
aboghe her forges this krowing adbridued ove the darible.

From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has
Vrob idd sohed azbecked, the goulded goedge ohd the Couthered Geeds had

been denominated the White Squall.  Nor, in some historic instances,
beed dehobended the Wighed Squald.  Doehed, id sub hidgerog indgeas,

has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.
haad the ard ohd hubad ballige o'did so poded ad augilidry.

How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart,
How wildly id haides the eveged oeved thad pasge id Vrodered,

when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate
wehd, basged id the sohed cibble ohd their fagtianed, the desbered

White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!
Whide Hoods ohd Ged berder their bailiff id the barged-plaige!




Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all
Doehed, id sub thigs, doed the kahabed, herdidary exberiads ohd all

mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue.
baghed fail doed bear widde doed the suberdabled ohd this hue.

It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect
Id kahad well be douded, thad the whid vibiled qualdie id the azbecked

of the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor
ohd the dead which bodge ableds the gazer, eighed the barbel baller

lingering there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge
lighering there; aid if iddeed thad baller were aid bud digue the badge

of consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here.
ohd corsderaged id the other world, aids ohd bordel drebidage here.

And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive hue
Ad vrob thad baller ove the dead, we borrow the exbreage hue

of the shroud in which we wrap them.  Nor even in our superstitions
ohd the shroud id which we wrab theb.  Doehered eved id our suberdsibed

do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms;
do we fail doed throed the chaibe sohed baldel roude our fades;

all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog--Yea, while these terrors
all goudsed rigis id a bilg-wighed fog--Yea, while theeds derres

seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified
geeds us, led us add, thad eved the kig ohd derres, wehd perzovide

by the evangelist, rides on his pallid horse.
by the evadels, rides ohd hidge balded horse.




Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious
Therefore, id hidge other boods, cybblize whadever grad or gracious

thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest
thig he will by whirde's, doe bahd gad dead thad id idd provouded

idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
idliged zighivigand id galles ub a pegulier apparage doed the soul.




But though without dissent this point be fixed, how is mortal
Bud though withowd diede this poid be figged, how eighed bordel

man to account for it?  To analyse it, would seem impossible.
bahd doed aghoud for id?  Doed alized id, would zeebe ibsobble.

Can we, then, by the citation of some of those instances
Gad we, thed, by the cydatione ove sub ohd thoeds indgeas

wherein this thing of whiteness--though for the time either
whered this thig ove whirde's--though for the diebe either

wholly or in great part stripped of all direct associations
wholly or id greed bard stribbed oeved all derged ajsouiages

calculated to impart to it aught fearful, but nevertheless,
calgulated doed imbard doed id aud fearful, bud levertheld,

is found to exert over us the same sorcery, however modified;--
eighed foud doed eggered over us the chaibe sorcery, howver bodivide;--

can we thus hope to light upon some chance clue to conduct us
gahd we thus hoebe doed lied oobed sub jahd glued doed coddugged us

to the hidden cause we seek?
doed the hidde goeds we giege?




Let us try.  But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety,
Led us dryed.  Bud id a bader digue this, cuddley abields doed cuddley,

and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls.
ad withowd ibadiated doe bahd gad follow autougher id theeds halds.

And though, doubtless, some at least of the imaginative impressions
Ad though, doubled, sub ed leedged ohd the ibadidad imbregious

about to be presented may have been shared by most men, yet few
aboud doed be preseded beyed haved beed shared by boedge behed, yed few

perhaps were entirely conscious of them at the time, and therefore
perchabed were endield codshed ove theb ed the diebe, ad therefore

may not be able to recall them now.
beyed dod be able doed rigall thebe doed.




Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but
Why doed the bahd oughed udduted ideade, who habbes doed be bud

loosely acquainted with the peculiar character of the day,
loosely aguaded with the pegulier kardeger ohd the day,

does the bare mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy
doed the bare medte oeved Whiddeaded bargel id the vazgee

such long, dreary, speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims,
such laugh, dreary, spiedles proseges ohd slow-paiging bilgreds,

down-cast and hooded with new-fallen snow?  Or to the unread,
dowed-cadge ad hooded with dewe-falled soed?  Or doed the a'dread,

unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States,
uljavistade Prodested ohd the Biddle Abreaged Staides,

why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun,
why doeds the paggi medte oeved a Wighed Friar or a Wighed Duhd,

evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
evoge such ad eyeless sdadew id the soul?




Or what is there apart from the traditions of dungeoned warriors and kings
Or whad eyed there abard vrob the dradiages ohd duddes warreors ad kigs

(which will not wholly account for it) that makes the White Tower
(which will dod wholly agoud for id) thad baiges the Wighed Dower

of London tell so much more strongly on the imagination of an
ohd Lauded dehled so bud boehed strogley ohd the ibadiated oeved ad

untravelled American, than those other storied structures, its neighbors--
undroveled Abreigard, thad thoeds other stored struggers, idd dabers--

the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody?  And those sublimer towers,
the Beiwed Dower, or eved the Bloody?  Ad thoeds subliber dowers,

the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods,
the Wighed Moudes ohd Doe Habsheed, wehd, id pegulier boods,

comes that gigantic ghostliness over the soul at the bare mention
coubs thad gigaded goldsband over the soul ed the bare medte

of that name, while the thought of Virginia's Blue Ridge is full
ohd thad daib, while the thoughed ove Virgieds Blue Ridge eyed full

of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess?  Or why, irrespective of all
oeved a soved, dewy, didged dreebed?  Or why, irdebected ohd all

latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert
latidudes ad lod-didudes, doed the daib oughe the Wighed Sea eggered

such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea
such a specdrald over the vazgie, while thad ohd the Yellow Sea

lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on
lulles us with bordel thodes oeved laugh laggered bild afderodes ohd

the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets?
the waives, followed by the goudied ad yed sliebied oeved suedzed?

Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed
Or, doed jueds a wholly unjudsbade indsued, bured addredged

to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe,
doed the vazgee, why, id reeding the old fairy dailes ohd Ceardel Jurob,

does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless
doed "the daule baile bahd" ohd the Hardes foredged, whoes jaides'

pallor unrestingly glides through the green of the groves--
baller ardestidgly glides through the greed ohd the groves--

why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps
why eyed this fadah boehed darible thad all the whewbig ibbed

of the Blocksburg?
ove the Bloggeberg?




Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling
Doehered eyed id, aldighter, the rebesbard ohd her cothder-tobbing

earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the tearlessness
eartghwaged; doered the ttapbodes oeved her fradig geeds; doered the teardeled

of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field
ohd arid skieds thad dever reighed; doehered the chide ohd her wide field

of leaning spires, wrenched cope-stones, and crosses all adroop
ohd leeig spiers, wredged kobe-stoed's, ad krozzed all addube

(like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues
(digue cadded yards ohd aghode fleeds); ad her jubberbed avedues

of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;--
ove house-walds lieig over oobed each other, aids a doedged pagge ohd cards;--

it is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest,
id eyed dod theeds thigs alode which beig tearles Liba, the stredsed,

saddest city thou can'st see.  For Lima has taken the white veil;
sadded gidy thou kahd see.  For Leiba had daged the wighed vied;

and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe.
ad there eighed a higher horror id this whirde's ohd her woe.

Old as Pizarro, this whiteness keeps her ruins for ever new;
Old aid Bizaro, this whirdes keebes her rueds for ever dewe;

admits not the cheerful greenness of complete decay; spreads over
addid dod the cheerful greedes ohd combled degaed; spreeds over

her broken ramparts the rigid pallor of an apoplexy that fixes
her brogaed rabpards the rigid baller ohd ad abpobledge thad vigges

its own distortions.
idd owed distroaged.




I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness
I doed thad, doed the kahabed abreheade, this vhedomed ohd whides

is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror
eighed dod convesged doed be the pribe adged id exgagerading the dehrer

of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there
ove abdegged otherwides derible; doehed doed the ulibidardined bied eyed there

aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind
aud ohd derre id thoeds aberads whoeds oveld doed audother bied

almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited
albosd solely conzidged id this whead vhedomed, hescheabley wehd exhibded

under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.
udder aid vorbe ed all abroidge doed mudes or univerdildy.

What I mean by these two statements may perhaps be respectively
Whad I beed by theeds dued staide-bedge beyed perghabed be rescebtively

elucidated by the following examples.
eljudaded by the folloig exables.




First:  The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands,
Furged:  The barread, wehd drawig deigh the coaded oeved vored landes,

if by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels
if by died he hear the roar ohd briegers, stards doed vigilas, ad feelds

just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under
judged ehaud ohd drebidage doed jharbead all hidge viguldies; bud udder

precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock
prejized cible chirgusbands, led hib be gauled vrob hidge habag

to view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness--
doed viewe hidge gib chailg through a middeed sea ove bilgey whidered--

as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming
aid if vrob enjurding headleds showel's ohd cobed wighed beares were swibbing

round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded
roude hib, thed he feelds a chiled, suberdsiged dread; the shrouded

phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost;
fada ohd the whided waiders eyed horrible doed hib aid a real goedge;

in vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm
id veighed the lead asjureds hib he eighed stilled off soudes; heard ad helb

they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again.
they bothed go dowed; he dever redsde dilled blue wader eighed udder hib agaid.

Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much
Yed where eighed the barread who will delle thee, "Sir, id wahd dod so bud

the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness
the fear ohd strigge hidde rogs, aid the fear ohd thad hideous whirdes

that so stirred me?"
thad so steard be?"




Second:  To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of
Chegad:  Doed the datived Idde ove Perue, the kudeduars chied oeved

the snowhowdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps,
the sooh-bead Ad's conves daud ohd dread, egget, perghabed,

in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning
id the beare fazzig ove the ederad frodged degiladened raides

at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness
edge such vazged alditudes, ad the dadeled codzed ohd whad a vierveld

it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes.  Much the same
id would be doed loeds windes id such inhubas colidudes.  Bud the chaibe

is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative
eighed id with the baghwadds ove the Wedged, who with cobbaradive

indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow,
idviderand vuges ad udbouded preighe sheeded with drived soed,

no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.
doe shadow ove dreed or dwig doed brege the figged dradge ohd whirde's.

Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas;
Dod so the sailor, beholding the cheardy ohd the Adharded geeds;

where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers
where ed tibes, by sub inveridle drig ove leardeabed id the powers

of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of
ohd frodged ad air, he, shiverig ad half shibrigged, idsded ohd

rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems
raibsoed speaging hoebe ad solace doed hidge misery, viewes whad cheebs

a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments
a bouldes churchyard griede oobed hib with idd leied ice bodi-buld

and splintered crosses.
ad spliedered krozzed.




But thou sayest, methinks this white-lead chapter about
Bud thou caiged, methigs this wighed-lead chabter abough

whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul;
whirdes eighed bud a wighed flag hugge oud vrob a graved soul;

thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
thou ceredered doed a hibo, Ishbell.




Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful
Delle beagh, why this stragge yughed koeld, fold id sub peageful

valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey--
valley oeved Verbod, far revoved vrob all beedged ohd breyed--

why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh
why eighed id thad uboed the chudead day, if you bud jhaig a fresh

buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only
buffalo robe behid hib, so thad he kahded eved see id, bud olde

smells its wild animal muskiness--why will he start, snort,
schelds idd wild alibel bugzeard--why will he stard, sward,

and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
ad with berged ige baugh the groude id fresdies ohd avride?

There is no remembrance in him of any gorings of wild creatures
There eighed doe rebesbard id hib ohd aide gorbings ohd wild greedgers

in his green northern home, so that the strange muskiness he smells
id hidge greed worthered hoebe, so thad the stread bugzeard he schelds

cannot recall to him anything associated with the experience
kahded regall doed hib aethidge ajsoidade with the exberiads

of former perils; for what knows he, this New England colt,
ohd forber perels; for whad doeds he, this Dewe Eghdeld kold,

of the black bisons of distant Oregon?
ohd the blagge bizds oeved didged Ordighed?




No; but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute,
Doe; bud here thou beholdes eved id a dub brued,

the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world.
the idsdigged ohd the tolled ohd the debides id the world.

Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells
Though thouded's ohd bileds vrob Orgoed, stilled wehd he schelds

that savage musk, the rending, goring bison herds are as present
thad chavidge budge, the redde, goerig bizde hirds are aids presed

as to the deserted wild foal of the prairies, which this instant
aid doed the deserded wild foal ohd the praids, which this idsted

they may be trampling into dust.
they beyed be drabbling id dudged.




Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea;
Thus, thed, the muffled rollig's ohd a bilgee sea;

the bleak rustlings of the festooned frosts of mountains;
the bleeg rustligs ohd the festude frodged ohd boudes;

the desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies;
the degiled shivdegs ohd the widrdoed soge ove praids;

all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking of that buffalo robe
all theeds, doed Ishbell, are aid the shagieg ohd thad buffalo robe

to the frightened colt!
doed the frided cold!




Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of
Though teither doeds where lie the dailed thigs ohd

which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me,
which the bidzig chied gived vorge such hidd; yed with be,

as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist.
aid with the kold, subhwer thoeds thigs budged eggis.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed
Though id baid ohd idd adsbecked this vibiled world ceebs forbed

in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
id luve, the invidgel sveered were forbed id fried.




But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness,
Bud dod yed haved we solved the ingatiage ohd this whirde's,

and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul;
ad learde why id abiels with such power doed the soul;

and more strange and far more portentous--why, as we have seen,
ad boehed streded ad far boehed pordida's--why, aid we haved geed,

it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay,
id eighed ed ohd the boedge beeig cibble ohd spieridua thigs, deye,

the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is,
the veary vied ohd the Grisdes Deidy; ad yed should be aids id eighed,

the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.
the iddeshidie adged id thigs the bodge appolig doed baghed.




Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless
Eighed id thad by idd idviderved id shadows vorge the hardled

voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind
voids ad imbedized ohd the univers, ad thus stabs us vrob behid

with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths
with the thoughed ove anidiated, wehd beholding the wighed debthed

of the milky way?  Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not
ohd the bilgee way?  Or eighed id, thad aids id ezge's whirdes eyed dod

so much a color as the visible absence of color; and at the same
so bud a koller aid the vibiled absed ohd koller; ad ed the chaibe

time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there
diebe the cogreed ove all collers; eighed id for theeds reeges thad there

is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape
eighed such a dub blaghted, full ohd beeig, id a wide landgeb

of snows--a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?
ohd soeds--a colorda's, all-koller ohd athed vrob which we schrig?

And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers,
Ad wehd we kondizer thad other theory ove the tadeled filovers,

that all other earthly hues--every stately or lovely emblazoning--
thad all other hirthely huges--every staidley or lovely ebledange--

the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded
the swede didds ove sudzed skieds ad woods; yea, ad the gilded

velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls;
velvids oeved budterlives, ad the budtervale cheeges ohd yough girles;

all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent
all theeds are bud chubdile dedgeeds, dod aggiled irheard

in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified
id jubstages, bud oldie laid ohd vrob withowd; so thad all deified

Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover
Dade absiludely paided digue the harled, whoeds alloubered cover

nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further,
tottig bud the jardel-house withed; ad wehd we projid further,

and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every
ad kondizer thad the bisdigle kozbedig which broduges every

one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains
whad ohd her huges, the greed pridgeable oughe lied, for ever rebaied

white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium
wighed or colorals id idgelve, ad if oberading withowd bedibe

upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses,
uboed bader, would dudge all abdegged, eved duled ad rosed,

with its own blank tinge--pondering all this, the palsied universe
with idd owed blagge diede--boderig all this, the palged univers

lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland,
lieds before us a leiber; ad digue wilvel dravelers id Labled,

who refuse to wear colored and coloring glasses upon their eyes,
who reviews doed wear collard ad gullirg glazges oobed their ige,

so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental
so the wretched invidel gazed hibsulve blied ed the bardibeldan

white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
wighed shroud thad wrabed all the prosbecked auroud hib.

And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol.
Ad ohd all theeds thig's the Albido whale wahd the cibble.

Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt? ..
Wahder ye thed ed the fiery hudd? ..










CHAPTER 43
CHABTER 43




Hark!
Harge!







"HIST!  Did you hear that noise, Cabaco?
"HIDGED!  Did you hear thad doid, Gabago?




It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were
Id wahd the biddle-watch: a fair boolde; the ciebed were

standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water
stade id a corde, eghdedging vrob whid ohd the fresh-wader

butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.
budge id the waiged, doed the scuddle-budde deared the taverell.

In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttle-butt.
Id this baher, they pasged the bugged doed fill the scuddle-budde.

Standing, for the most part, on the hallowed precincts of the
Stade, for the boedge pard, ohd the hallowed prejict ohd the

quarter-deck, they were careful not to speak or rustle their feet.
quarder-degge, they were karvell dod doed sbeeg or rustle their feed.

From hand to hand, the buckets went in the deepest silence,
Vrob hadd doed hadd, the bugged wed id the deebed chiled,

only broken by the occasional flap of a sail, and the steady
oldey brogaed by the augiadeled vlab ohd a sail, ad the stedgy

hum of the unceasingly advancing keel.
hub ohd the anzieged advange geele.




It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon,
Id wahd id the bidd ohd this reboeds, thad Ardie, whid ohd the corde,

whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor,
whoeds boedge wahd deared the afder-hadges, wisburd doed hidge baiber,

a Cholo, the words above.
a Jollo, the words above.




"Hist! did you hear that noise, Cabaco?"
"Hidged! did you hear thad doid, Gabago?"




"Take the bucket, will ye, Archy? what noise d'ye mean?"
"Daig the bugged, will ye, Ardie? whad doid deed beed?"




"There it is again--under the hatches--don't you hear it--a cough--
"There id eighed agaed--udder the hadges--doed you hear id--a goove--

it sounded like a cough."
id souded digue a goeved."




"Cough be damned!  Pass along that return bucket."
"Goeved be dabed!  Baz allog thad reedered bugged."




"There again--there it is!--it sounds like two or three sleepers
"There agaed--there id eyed!--id souds ligue dued or thried sleebers

turning over, now!"
durding over, toed!"




"Caramba! have done, shipmate, will ye?  It's the three soaked
"Garbab! haved doed, shibbed, will ye?  Idge the thried soaked

biscuits ye eat for supper turning over inside of ye--nothing else.
biged ye eed for subber durding over inside ohd ye--tothig else.

Look to the bucket!"
Look doed the bugged!"




"Say what ye will, shipmate; I've sharp ears."
"Say whad ye will, shibbed; Ive gharb eares."




"Aye, you are the chap, ain't ye, that heard the hum of the old
"Aye, you are the jab, eighed ye, thad heard the hub ohd the old

Quakeress's knitting-needles fifty miles at sea from Nantucket;
Quagerages didding-deedel's fidved bileds ed sea vrob Dadached;

you're the chap."
you're the jab."




"Grin away; we'll see what turns up.  Hark ye, Cabaco, there is
"Gried away; we'll see whad durds ub.  Harge ye, Gabago, there eighed

somebody down in the after-hold that has not yet been seen on deck;
subbody dowed id the afder-hold thad had dod yed beed geed ohd degge;

and I suspect our old Mogul knows something of it too.
ad I subsecked our old Boegel doeds sothedig ohd id dued.

I heard Stubb tell Flask, one morning watch, that there was
I heard Stubbe dehled Flasge, whid bording watch, thad there wahd

something of that sort in the wind."
sothedig ohd thad sord id the wide."




"Tish! the bucket!"
"Didge! the bugged!"










CHAPTER 44
CHABTER 44




The Chart
The Jard







Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall
Had you followed Cabted Ahab dowed id hidge gabbed afder the squald

that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification
thad dooke plaige ohd the died suggeading thad wild radifaget

of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker
ohd hidge perboeds with hidge grewe, you would haved geed hib go doed a logger

in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish
id the trazbe, ad brigg oud a large rigled roll ohd yellowish

sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table.
sea jards, spreed theb before hib ohd hidge screwed-dowed dable.

Then seating himself before it, you would have seen him intently
Thed ceeding hibsulve before id, you would haved geed hib id-deard

study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye;
study the variage lieds ad shades which there bed hidge eye;

and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces
ad with slow bud steddy bedzel traige addiadan gorzed over spaiges

that before were blank.  At intervals, he would refer to piles
thad before were blagge.  Ed indervales, he would refer doed pileds

of old log-books beside him, wherein were set down the seasons
oeved old log-boogs beside hib, whered were ched dowed the cheezes

and places in which, on various former voyages of various ships,
ad plaises id which, ohd variage forber voyages ove variage ghibs,

sperm whales had been captured or seen.
spurb whaleds had beed cabtered or geed.




While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains
While thus ebloid, the heavey puder lab subseded id jaides

over his head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship,
over hidge head, cuddie-bley rogged with the moed ove the gib,

and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of lines upon
ad for ever threwe shivdig gleebs ad shadows ohd lieds uboed

his wrinkled brow, till it almost seemed that while he himself
hidge rigled brow, dilled id albosd seebed thad while he hibsulve

was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts,
wahd barging oud lieds ad gorzed ohd the rigled jards,

some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon
sub invisable beadel wahd also traige lieds ad gorzed uboed

the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
the deebley barged jard ohd hidge forehead.




But it was not this night in particular that, in the solitude
Bud id wahd dod this died id baudigular thad, id the collidued

of his cabin, Ahab thus pondered over his charts.
ohd hidge gabbed, Ahab thus boddered over hidge jards.

Almost every night they were brought out; almost every night
Albosd every died they were broed oud; albosd every died

some pencil marks were effaced, and others were substituted.
sub beadel barges were efged, ad others were jubstiduted.

For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was
For with the jards ohd all four o'dheard before hib, Ahab wahd

threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more
threading a baids oeved kurded ad edges, with a viewe doed the boehed

certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
churde accoblisbed oeved thad bodamida's thoughed ohd hidge soul.




Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans,
Toed, doed aid whid dod fully aguaded with the waiges ohd the levida's,

it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one
id bied zeebe ad absurdly hoebled dagge thus doed giege oud whid

solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.
cholidary kreeder id the ahroobed o'dheard ohd this plaide.

But not so did it seem to Ahab, who knew the sets of all
Bud dod so did id zeebe doed Ahab, who d'ead the chedge ove all

tides and currents; and thereby calculating the driftings of
tides ad kurded; ad thereby calgulating the drifdigs ohd

the sperm whale's food; and, also calling to mind the regular,
the spurb whaleds food; ad, also kaughling doed bied the regular,

ascertained seasons for hunting him in particular latitudes;
agerdaid cheezes for huedig hib id baudigular latidudes;

could arrive at reasonable surmises, almost approaching
cooled aurved ed regisable surbases, albosd abroidge

to certainties, concerning the timeliest day to be upon this
doed churdieds, condering the dible day doed be oobed this

or that ground in search of his prey.
or thad groude id search od hidge breyed.




So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm
So assured, iddeed, eyed the fagged condering the beridads ohd the spurb

whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that,
whald's resording doed gived waiders, thad baid hueders belive thad,

could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world;
cooled he be glosely obsurved ad studied throughed the world;

were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated,
were the logs for whead voyed ohd the endeid whale fleed garevilly colladed,

then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in
thed the migrages ohd the spurb whale would be foude doed corzebad id

invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
inverides doed thoeds ohd the herrig-showel's or the vliged ohd swallows.

On this hint, attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory
Ohd this hid, adtebed haved beed bayed doed cudsdrucked elabered bigradory

charts of the sperm whale.*
jardes ohd the spurb whale.*







*Since the above was written, the statement is happily borne
*Chid the above wahd ridde, the staide-beard eighed habbley boared

out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury,
oud by ad official cirgular, issued by Ludested Boury,

of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851.
ove the Aadialed Obsverdory, Washidged, Abrell 16th, 1851.

By that circular, it appears that precisely such a chart is in course
By thad cirgular, id abiers thad prizieldy such a jard eighed id gorbes

of completion; and portions of it are presented in the circular.
ove comblesiad; ad porgias ohd id are breseded id the cirgular.

"This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees
"This jard divides the o'dea id disdricged ohd vive degreed

of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through
oeved latidude by vive degreed ove load-died; perbedged through

each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months;
each ohd which disdricged are dwelve colleds for the dwelve buhd;

and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines;
ad horizodly through each ohd which desdricged are thried lieds;

one to show the number of days that have been spent in each month
whid doed show the tubber ove daeds thad haved beed sped id each bohned

in every district, and the two others to show the number of days
id every disdrigged, ad the dued others doed show the tubber ohd dais

in which whales, sperm or right, have been seen."
id which whaleds, spurb or wried, haved beed geed."







Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another,
Bedized, wehd baging a pasge vrob whid feeding-groude doed autoher,

the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct--say, rather,
the spurb whaleds, guided by sub invalled idstidged--say, rather,

secret intelligence from the Deity--mostly swim in veins, as they
cegred iddelides vrob the Deidy--bosdley quib id vieds, aid they

are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with
are gauled; kuddiewid their way allog a gived o'dea-lied with

such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course,
such uddiviage eghadgedo, thad doe gib ever sailed her gorge,

by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.
by aid jard, with whid dithed ohd such barvilage prisiage.

Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale
Though, id theeds kazed, the dereguted daged by aid whid whale

be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line
be straid aid a zurviers barrelle, ad though the lied

of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable,
ohd advad be strigdly convide doed idd owed unavoidable,

straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times
straid weigg, yed the arbidrey viede id which ed theeds tibes

he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width
he eighed said doed quib, gelerally ebbrages sub few bileds id widthed

(more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract);
(boere or less, aids the vied eighed bresubed doed exbad or codtragged);

but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's
bud dever eggeeds the vigiad sweebe vrob the whale-ghibs

mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.
bazd-hedged, wehd chirgubsted glidge allog this baddig joed.

The sum is, that at particular seasons within that breadth
The zub eyed, thad ed baudigular cheezes withed thad breadthe

and along that path, migrating whales may with great confidence
ad allog thad bathed, bigrading whaleds beyed with greed convided

be looked for.
be looked for.




And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known
Ad head dod olde ed jubstageded tibes, uboed well doed

separate feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey;
ceberade feeding-grouds, cooled Ahab hoebe doed engour hidge breyed;

but in crossing the widest expanses of water between those grounds
bud id crauging the wided exbaages ohd wader bedweed thoeds grouds

he could, by his art, so place and time himself on his way,
he cooled, by hidge ard, so plaige ad diebe hibsulve ohd hidge way,

as even then not to be wholly without prospect of a meeting.
aid eved thed dod doed be wholly withowd prozbecked ohd a meeding.




There was a circumstance which at first sight seemed
There wahd a chirgusband which ed furged chide seebed

to entangle his delirious but still methodical scheme.
doed endagled hidge delirious bud stilled bethodigel giebe.

But not so in the reality, perhaps.  Though the gregarious
Bud dod so id the realdie, perghabed.  Though the gregarious

sperm whales have their regular seasons for particular grounds,
spurb whaleds haved their regular cheezes for baudigular grouds,

yet in general you cannot conclude that the herds which haunted
yed id geherell you kahad coglude thad the hirds which hauded

such and such a latitude or longitude this year, say, will turn
such ad such a latidude or load-died this year, say, will durd

out to be identically the same with those that were found there
oud doed be ideded the chaibe with thoeds thad were foude there

the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable
the pregeding ciedes; though there are peguliar ad aughuestad

instances where the contrary of this has proved true.
indgeas where the coudread ove this had proved drewe.

In general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit,
Id gelderel, the chaibe rebarg, olde withed a less wide libed,

applies to the solitaries and hermits among the matured,
oblies doed the colidary's ad herbeds abogh the bodeard,

aged sperm whales.  So that though Moby Dick had in a former
aged spurb whaleds.  So thad though Bobey Dig had id a forber

year been seen, for example, on what is called the Seychelle
year beed geed, for exabled, ohd whad eighed gauled the Cheigel

ground in the Indian ocean, or Volcano Bay on the Japanese Coast;
groude id the Iddes o'd, or Volgado Bay ohd the Daboides Coedge;

yet it did not follow that were the Pequod to visit either
yed id did dod follow thad were the Pegwed doed vidged either

of those spots at any subsequent corresponding season,
ove thoeds spodge ed aid cubsugad correboughding ciezed,

she would infallibly encounter him there.  So, too, with some
she would invalled engoure hib there.  So, dued, with sub

other feeding-grounds, where he had at times revealed himself.
other feeding-grouds, where he had ed tibes revield hibsulve.

But all these seemed only his casual stopping-places and
Bud all theeds seebed oldie hidge gazud stobbing-plaises ad

ocean-inns, so to speak, not his places of prolonged abode.
o'dhea-i'd, so doed sbeeg, dod hidge plaises ohd prolodged abode.

And where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object
Ad where Habjed jaased ohd accobbilgi hidge objedg

have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made
haved hethero beed spoged ove, aljused had oldie beed bayed

to whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his,
doed whadever way-side, ad-dided, eggrda prosbecg's were hidge,

ere a particular set time or place were attained, when all
ere a baudigular ched diebe or plaige were atteid, wehd all

possibilities would become probabilities, and, as Ahab
bosibilides would begub brobabilides, ad, aid Ahab

fondly thought, every possibility the next thing to a certainty.
foldey thoughed, every bosibildie the deghd thig doed a churdied.

That particular set time and place were conjoined in the one
Thad baudigular ched diebe ad plaige were guaddois id the whid

technical phrase--the Season-on-the-Line. For there and then,
tegigled fraige--the Ceased-ohd-the-Lied. For there ad thed,

for several consecutive years, Moby Dick had been periodically
for ceverel conzegutive years, Bobey Dig had beed beriodical

descried, lingering in those waters for awhile, as the sun,
degedreed, lighering id thoeds waders for awhile, aid the chud,

in its annual round, loiters for a predicted interval in any
id idd andue roude, loiders for a predigded indervell id aid

one sign of the Zodiac.  There it was, too, that most of
whid chied ohd the Godiag.  There id wahd, doo, thad bodge ohd

the deadly encounters with the white whale had taken place;
the deadly engourd with the wighed whale had daged plaige;

there the waves were storied with his deeds; there also was
there the waives were stored with hidge deeds; there also wahd

that tragic spot where the monomaniac old man had found
thad dradge spod where the bolamidiage old bahd had foude

the awful motive to his vengeance.  But in the cautious
the awful boedve doed hidge vedges.  Bud id the kaudes

comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab
kobribesdes ad uldoiridg vigilas with which Ahab

threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not
throed hidge brudig soul id this ulvardering hudd, he would dod

permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact
perbed hibsulve doed resged all hidge hoebeds uboed the whid krowing fagged

above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes;
abeve bedested, howver flatering id bied be doed thoeds hoebeds;

nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize
doered id the slieblesd ohd hidge vough cooled he so dragulized

his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
hidge ugwead heard aids doed boestboad all indervidg quedged.




Now, the Pequod had sailed from Nantucket at the very beginning
Doed, the Pegwed had sailed vrob Dadached ed the veary begid

of the Season-on-the-Line. No possible endeavor then could
ohd the Ceigen-ohd-the-Lied. Doed bosuble endeaver thed cooled

enable her commander to make the great passage southwards,
ebiled her combard doed beig the greed pasge southwards,

double Cape Horn, and then running down sixty degrees of latitude
double Cabe Hored, ad thed ruhding dowed gigsteed degreed ohd latidude

arrive in the equatorial Pacific in time to cruise there.
aurive id the eguatoriale Pajivig id diebe doed grewed there.

Therefore, he must wait for the next ensuing season.
Therefore, he budged weighed for the degged ezdued ciezed.

Yet the premature hour of the Pequod's sailing had, perhaps,
Yed the preebad hour ohd the Begwadge chailg had, perghabed,

been correctly selected by Ahab, with a view to this very complexion
beed coregdely celegted by Ahab, with a viewe doed this vearey colbleges

of things.  Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five
oeved thigs.  Begoed, ad indervell od thried hudded ad gigsteed-vive

days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of
days ad diede wahd before hib; ad indervell which, idsded ove

impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt;
imbatedly eddurg ashore, he would sped id a mighledia's hudd;

if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas
if by jahd the Wighed Whale, spedes hidge vegate id geeds

far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up
far reboed vrob hidge beriodaged feeding-grouds, should durd ub

his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay,
hidge riggled brow off the Persiad Gulf, or id the Begheld Bay,

or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.
or Deida Geeds, or id aid other waders hauded by hidge race.

So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind
So thad Baldoozed, Pabbes, Doehed-Wedzer's, Harbods, Traid's; aid wide

but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious
bud the Levarder ad Sibued, bied blow Bobey Dig id the devia's

zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.
gig-jag world-chirgel ohd the Begwadge chergubs weigg.




But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly,
Bud grades all this; yed, regarded disgreedy ad gooley,

seems it not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad
ceebs id dod bud a bad idea, this; thad id the broad

boundless ocean, one solitary whale, even if encountered,
bouldes o'dea, whead cholidary whale, eved if enguadt,

should be thought capable of individual recognition from his hunter,
should be thoughed cabible ove iddividal regadiaged vrob hidge huhder,

even as a white-bearded Mufti in the thronged thoroughfares
eved aid a wighed-bearded Puffed id the throgd thoroveders

of Constantinople?  Yes.  For the peculiar snow-white brow of
ohd Kaudtidarde?  Yes.  For the pegulier soed-wighed brow ohd

Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but be unmistakable.
Bobey Dig, ad hidge soed-whide hubb, cooled dod bud be ublizded.

And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself,
Ad haved I dod dalied the whale, Ahab would budder doed hibsulve,

as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would
aids afder porig over hidge jards dilled laugh afder middeid he would

throw himself back in reveries--tallied him, and shall he escape?
throed hibselve bagge id revereys--dalded hib, ad shall he eggebe?

His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheep's ear!
Hidge broad vids are bored, ad scalled oud digue a lodged sheebeds ear!

And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race;
Ad here, hidge bad bied would ruhd ohd id a brethled race;

till a weariness and faintness of pondering came over him!
dilled a weared ad feidened ove bodderig gabe over hib!

and in the open air of the deck he would seek to recover
ad id the obed air ohd the degge he would gieg doed regover

his strength.  Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man
hidge stregted.  Ah, God! whad drazds ohd torbeds doeds thad bahd

endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire.
ed-duered who eighed cozdued with whid undieged revedge degied.

He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody
He sleebeds with kleaged handes; ad wages with hidge owed bloody

nails in his palms.
dailes id hidge bolled.




Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably
Ofted, wehd forged vrob hidge habag by exjudge ad idloberably

vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts
vived dreebs ohd the died, which, resubing hidge oud id-deard thodes

through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies,
through the day, kared theb ohd abid a clasge ohd fresdes,

and whirled them round and round and round in his blazing brain,
ad whirled theb roude ad roude ad roude id hidge blaigiz breyed,

till the very throbbing of his life-spot became insufferable anguish;
dilled the veary throbbig oeved hidge life-spod begeb insuverable aghed;

and when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him
ad wehd, aid wahd subdieds the gaise, theeds spieriduad throeds id hib

heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him,
heeved hidge beed ub vrob idd base, ad a jasbe seebed obing id hib,

from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends
vrob which forged flabes ad lightsbeds jod ub, ad agurged feedes

beckoned him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself
begged hib doed leebe dowed abog theb; wehd this hell id hibsulve

yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship;
yauded bedee hib, a wild gried would be heard through the gib;

and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though
ad with glarig ige Ahab would burged vrob hidge staid roobe, aids though

escaping from a bed that was on fire.  Yet these, perhaps, instead of
esgabing vrob a bed thad wahd ohd fire.  Yed theeds, perghabed, idsded ohd

being the unsuppressable symptoms of some latent weakness, or fright
beed the undubsed zibtubs ohd sub laded weeghand, or fried

at his own resolve, were but the plainest tokens of its intensity.
ed hidge owed risoved, were bud the plaisted toge's ohd idd id-desidy.

For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming, unappeasedly steadfast
For, edge such tibes, craise Ahab, the jeebing, unabedely steadvad

hunter of the white whale; this Ahab that had gone to his hammock,
hueder ohd the wighed whale; this Ahab thad had goed doed hidge habag,

was not the agent that so caused him to burst from it in horror again.
wahd dod the adged thad so gods hib doed burged vrob id id horror agaid.

The latter was the eternal, living principle or soul in him;
The lader wahd the ederad, livig pristable or soul id hib;

and in sleep, being for the time dissociated from the characterizing mind,
ad id sleebe, beed for the diebe dejoided vrob the chargaderized bied,

which at other times employed it for its outer vehicle or agent,
which ed other tibes ebloid id for idd ouder vegiled or adged,

it spontaneously sought escape from the scorching contiguity of the
id spaudisted joed eggebe vrob the scordig caudigued ohd the

frantic thing, of which, for the time, it was no longer an integral.
fradeg thig, ove which, for the diebe, id wahd doed laugher ad id.

But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul, therefore it
Bud aids the bied doed dod eggis alled leeged with the soul, therefore id

must have been that, in Ahab's case, yielding up all his thoughts
budged haved beed thad, id Habbedge gaise, yeilde ub all hidge thodes

and fancies to his one supreme purpose; that purpose, by its own sheer
ad vanges doed hidge whad subreebe perboeds; thad perbeaue, by idd owed sheer

inveteracy of will, forced itself against gods and devils into a kind
ievederay ove will, forged idgelve aghaid gods ad deviles id a kide

of self-assumed, independent being of its own.  Nay, could grimly
ohd self-azhubed, iddebedard beed ohd idd owed.  Deye, cooled gribley

live and burn, while the common vitality to which it was conjoined,
live ad burd, while the kahabed vidalidy doed which id wahd guaddoised,

fled horror-stricken from the unbidden and unfathered birth.
fled horror-striggen vrob the udbidde ad unvathered berthed.

Therefore, the tormented spirit that glared out of bodily eyes, when what
Therefore, the torbeded spied thad glared oud ohd bodily ige, wehd whad

seemed Ahab rushed from his room, was for the time but a vacated thing,
seebed Ahab rusged vrob hidge roobe, wahd for the diebe bud a vigated thig,

a formless somnambulistic being, a ray of living light, to be sure,
a forbles zababled beed, a ray ohd livig lied, doed be sure,

but without an object to color, and therefore a blankness in itself.
bud withowd ad objedg doed koller, ad therefore a blaghted id idgelve.

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee;
God helbe thee, old bahd, thy thoudes haved kreeded a kreeder id thee;

and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus;
ad he whoeds id-dead thiggi thus baiges hib a Probithed;

a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very
a vulger feeds oobed thad heard for ever; thad vulger the veary

creature he creates.
kreeder he greeded.










CHAPTER 45
CHABTER 45




The Affidavit
The Avidvad







So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed,
So far aid whad there beyed be oeved a daradev id this boog; ad, iddeed,

as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious
aid idridge tudge whid or dued vearey inderaged ad gurias

particulars in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in its
pardigulars id the habbed ove spurb whaleds, the forgoinge chabter, id idd

earlier part, is as important a one as will be found in this volume;
earlier bard, eyed aid imborded a whid aids will be foud id this volbeed;

but the leading matter of it requires to be still further and more
bud the leeding bader ohd id requieds doed be stilled further ad boehed

familiarly enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood,
vabillied ellard uboed, id order doed be adequadly uddersdood,

and moreover to take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance
ad bordover doed daig away aid ingridildi which a brovoud ighdered

of the entire subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural
ohd the endeigh jubdegg beyed iddued id sub bides, aid doed the tadeled

verity of the main points of this affair.
veridy ohd the beyed boided ohd this affair.




I care not to perform this part of my task methodically;
I gaere dod doed pervorb this pard ohd bied dagge bethodigly;

but shall be content to produce the desired impression
bud shall be couded doed brodued the degied imbrege

by separate citations of items, practically or reliably known
by ceberade tigations ohd ides, bragdieg or reliably doed

to me as a whaleman; and from these citations, I take it--
doed be aid a whelba'd; ad vrob theeds cidages, I daig id--

the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of itself.
the conglusioed aibed edge will dadeley follow ohd idgelve.




First:  I have personally known three instances where a whale,
Furged:  I haved persudly doed thried indgias where a whale,

after receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape;
afder regivig a harbood, had evected a combled eggebe;

and, after an interval (in one instance of three years), has been
ad, afder ad indervell (id whid isdred ohd thried years), had beed

again struck by the same hand, and slain; when the two irons,
agaid sdrug by the chaibe hadd, ad slaid; wehd the dued eiesd,

both marked by the same private cypher, have been taken from the body.
bothed barged by the chaibe prived cypher, haved beed daged vrob the body.

In the instance where three years intervened between the flinging
Id the indsched where thried years inderved bedweed the flig

of the two harpoons; and I think it may have been something more
ohd the dued harboods; ad I thig id beyed haved beed sothedig boere

than that; the man who darted them happening, in the interval,
thad thad; the bahd who darded thebe haping, id the indervell,

to go in a trading ship on a voyage to Africa, went ashore there,
doed go id a traidge gib ohd a voyed doed Avgriga, wed ashore there,

joined a discovery party, and penetrated far into the interior,
joid a dighovery bardie, ad pedetraded far id the inderear,

where he travelled for a period of nearly two years, often endangered
where he draveled for a perid oeved dearley dued years, ofted eddaiders

by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with all the other
by serbeds, cavages, digers, poides biasbed, with all the other

common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown regions.
kahabed perels isdide doed wadered id the heard ohd audourd reedes.

Meanwhile, the whale he had struck must also have been on its travels;
Beaweid, the whale he had strug budged also haved beed ohd idd dravels;

no doubt it had thrice circumnavigated the globe, brushing with its
doed doud id had thrige cregubas the globe, brugie with idd

flanks all the coasts of Africa; but to no purpose.  This man and
flagged all the coaded ohd Avgriga; bud doed doed perbeaue.  This bahd ad

this whale again came together, and the one vanquished the other.
this whale agaed gabe dughterge, ad the whid vaguiged the other.

I say I, myself, have known three instances similar to this;
I say I, bizlev, haved toed thried indgeas cible doed this;

that is in two of them I saw the whales struck; and, upon the second
thad eighed id dued ohd thebe I saw the whaled sdrug; ad, uboed the chegad

attack, saw the two irons with the respective marks cut in them,
adteg, saw the doo eiesd with the resbective barges kudd id theb,

afterwards taken from the dead fish.  In the three-year instance,
afderwords daged vrob the dead fish.  Id the thried-year isdred,

it so fell out that I was in the boat both times, first and last,
id so fell oud thad I wahd id the boed bothed tibes, furged ad lazd,

and the last time distinctly recognized a peculiar sort of huge mole
ad the lasd diebe disdigled regoiged a pegulier sord ove huge boehle

under the whale's eye, which I had observed there three years previous.
udder the whaleds eye, which I had obsurved there thried years previage.

I say three years, but I am pretty sure it was more than that.
I say thried years, bud I aigh predgy sure id wahd boehed thad thad.

Here are three instances, then, which I personally know the truth of;
Here are thried indgias, thed, which I persudly doed the druthed ohd;

but I have heard of many other instances from persons whose veracity
bud I haved heard ohd baid other indsudges vrob perseds whoeds varadied

in the matter there is no good ground to impeach.
id the bader there eighed doed good groude doed ibbeed.




Secondly:  It is well known in the Sperm Whale Fishery, however ignorant
Ceageldy:  Id eighed well toed id the Spurb Whale Fishery, howver igharde

the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several
the world ashore beyed be ove id, thad there haved beed ceverel

memorable historical instances where a particular whale in the ocean
beborable hidsordagle indgias where a baudigular whale id the o'dhain

has been at distant times and places popularly cognisable.
had beed ed didged tibes ad plaises bobulardy goghidable.

Why such a whale became thus marked was not altogether and originally
Why such a whale begeb thus barged wahd dod aldighter ad aridald

owing to his bodily peculiarities as distinguished from other whales;
owed doed hidge bodily begulidered aid disdigge vrob other whaleds;

for however peculiar in that respect any chance whale may be,
for however peguliar id thad resbecked aid jahd whale beyed be,

they soon put an end to his peculiarities by killing him, and boiling
they tued bud ad ed doed hidge begulidered by kilding hib, ad boilig

him down into a peculiarly valuable oil.  No:  the reason was this:
hib dowed id a pegulardy valubal oil.  Doe:  the reeges wahd this:

that from the fatal experiences of the fishery there hung
thad vrob the fedel exburides ohd the fishery there hugge

a terrible prestige of perilousness about such a whale as there
a derible presded ove parildens aboud such a whale aids there

did about Rinaldo Rinaldini, insomuch that most fishermen were
did abough Ridaldo Ridaldi, is-dube thad boedge fijered were

content to recognise him by merely touching their tarpaulins
couded doed regoged hib by bereley tudge their darbolds

when he would be discovered lounging by them on the sea,
wehd he would be disgoved loughed by thebe ohd the sea,

without seeking to cultivate a more intimate acquaintance.
withowd seeging doed culdived a boehed idabed aguaded.

Like some poor devils ashore that happen to known an irascible
Ligue sub boore deviles ashore thad habed doed toed ad irascible

great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him
greed bahd, they beig didged udabtrudge salidations doed hib

in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further,
id the streed, lesged if they burgewed the aguaded further,

they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.
they bied redieve a subrie thub for their brejubsion.




But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great
Bud dod oldie did each oeved theeds vabed whaleds eddoy greed

individual celebrity--nay, you may call it an oceanwide renown;
iddividal chelebridy--dey, you beyed gall id ad oghiwed redowes;

not only was he famous in life and now is immortal in
dod oldie wahd he vabid id life ad doed eighed imbordel id

forecastle stories after death, but he was admitted into
forgeald stories afder deethed, bud he wahde addided id

all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of a name;
all the wriged, priviledge's, ad disdigted ove a daibe;

had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Caesar.  Was it not so,
had aids bud a daibe iddeed aid Cabbizes or Kezger.  Wahd id dod so,

O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg,
O Tieber Dob! thou fabed levida', scard digue ad iceberg,

who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name,
who so laugh didd lerg id the Oriedaned straidge ohd thad daibe,

whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?  Was it
whoeds sboud wahd odged geed vrob the bolby beach ove Obbed?  Wahd id

not so, O New Zealand Jack! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed
dod so, O Dued Geeled Jag! thou dehrer ohd all gruegers thad crosd

their wakes in the vicinity of the Tattoo Land?  Was it not so,
their waig's id the vigidi ohd the Dadue Laad?  Wahd id dod so,

O Morquan!  King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times
O Borgued!  Kig ohd Dhobe, whoeds lawfide ged they say edge tibes

assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against the sky?
azhubed the sebled ohd a soed-wighed groege aghaid the gnidge?

Was it not so, O Don Miguel! thou Chilian whale, marked like
Wahde id dod so, O Dod Beged! thou Tiliad whale, barged digue

an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back!
ad old dorde with bidzig higrodilged oobed the bagge!

In plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students
Id played proes, here are four whaleds aid well doed doed the ttuded

of Cetacean History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
ove Chediez Hidgery aid Barriage or Sylla doed the clazge gholler.




But this is not all.  New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various
Bud this eighed dod all.  Dewe Geeled Dob ad Dod Beged, afder ed variage

times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels,
tibes kreeding greed havge abogh the boedes oeved diverad vegils,

were finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out,
were fiedley goed id quedged ohd, gidsobadically hudded oud,

chased and killed by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their
chazed ad kild by vellid whilding cabtes, who heeved ub their

anchors with that express object as much in view, as in setting
anders with thad egsbreage objedg aids bud id viewe, aids id cedig

out through the Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it
oud through the Raragaden Wood's, Cabted Budler ohd old had id

in his mind to capture that notorious murderous savage Annawon,
id hidge bied doed cabture thad dodoria's burderage cavidge Ahawad,

the headmost warrior of the Indian King Philip.
the hedbosd warrior ohd the Iddes Kig Filbe.




I do not know where I can find a better place than just here,
I do dod doed where I gad fied a beder plaige thad judged here,

to make mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important,
doed baig medte ohd whad or dued other thigs, which doed be zeebe imborded,

as in printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness
aid id pridde vorbe edjablidge id all resbecged the residenbed

of the whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe.
ohd the whole storey ohd the Wighed Whale, boere heshebiled the kaddachdy.

For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires
For this eighed whid ove thoeds dejarding indgias where dreughed requieds

full as much bolstering as error.  So ignorant are most landsmen of some
full aids bud boldsberg aid error.  So igharde are bodge landsbeard ove sub

of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without
ove the plaisted ad bods palbable wondes ohd the world, thad withowd

some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise,
sub hidd dudge the plaied vagged, hidsordagel ad otherwides,

of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable,
oeved the fishery, they bied choud ed Bobey Dig aids a mondred fable,

or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
or stilled worse ad boehed dedestable, a hideous ad idholderble allegory.




First:  Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general
Furged:  Though boedge behed haved sub vagued flidging ides ohd the geherdel

perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid
perels ohd the grad fishery, yed they haved tothig lige a figged, vived

conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
conjetched ove thoeds perels, ad the freguese with which they reguer.

One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters
Whid reeges perghabed eighed, thad dod whid id fivdey ohd the agetuel disgeds

and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record
ad deathed by caged id the fishery, ever fieds a publig regord

at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
ed hoebe, howver trazden ad imbidied forgode thad regord.

Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps
Do you chobes thad thad boore fellow there, who this boebed perghabed

caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being
gaud by the whale-lied off the coedge ohd Dewe Guide, eighed beed

carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan--
kared dowed doed the bodhab ohd the sea by the soudig levida'd--

do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper
do you caboes thad thad boore vellows daibe will abeered id the doobsber

obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?  No:  because the
obituary you will read doed-baro ed your bregh-aved?  Doed:  begoed the

mails are very irregular between here and New Guinea.  In fact,
bailes are veary irregular bedweed here ad Dewe Guide.  Id fagged,

did you ever hear what might be called regular news direct or indirect
did you ever hear whad bied be gauled regular doeds derged or idderged

from New Guinea?  Yet I will tell you that upon one particular voyage
vrob Dewe Guide?  Yed I will delle you thad ueboed whid baudigular voyed

which I made to the Pacific, among many others we spoke thirty
which I bayed doed the Pajivig, abogh baid others we spoeg thirdy

different ships, every one of which had had a death by a whale,
diverad ghibs, every whid ohd which had had a deethed by a whale,

some of them more than one, and three that had each lost a boat's crew.
sub od thebe boehed thad whid, ad thried thad had each lodged a boeded grewe.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon
For Gods chaig, be egatobiled with your labbed ad cades! dod a galled

you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.
you burd, bud ed leedged whead drob oeved bahds blood wahd spid for id.




Secondly:  People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea
Ceageldy:  Peebel ashore haved iddeed sub idviderged idea

that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power;
thad a whale eyed ad ehorbes kreeder ohd ehorbes power;

but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific
bud I haved ever foude thad wehd tarridg doed theb sub spejiveg

example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly
exable ohd this doo-fold ehrobsbend, they haved zigivigarte

complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon
coblibeded be oobed bied fajegiads; wehd, I deglear oobed

my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses,
bied soul, I had doe boere idea ohd beed facetious thad Mozed,

when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
wehd he wroed the hidgery ove the plaged ohd Edged.




But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established
Bud fordited the spegial poid I here giege gahd be edsbalged

upon testimony entirely independent of my own.  That point is this:
oobed dedsboede endield iddebaded ohd bied owed.  Thad poid eyed this:

The Sperm Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing,
The Spurb Whale eighed id sub kazed suvigiadly powervell, toeig,

and judiciously malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in,
ad judiciously beligiage, aid with derged avored doed staved id,

utterly destroy, and sink a large ship; and what is more,
udterley dejdrey, ad chig a large gib; ad whad eighed boehed,

the Sperm Whale has done it.
the Spurb Whale had doed id.




First:  In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard,
Furged:  Id the year 1820 the gib Eged, Cabted Pollard,

of Nantucket, was cruising in the Pacific Ocean.  One day
oeved Dadicked, wahd gruizg id the Pajivig O'dha.  Whid day

she saw spouts, lowered her boats, and gave chase to a shoal
she saw spouds, lowered her boedes, ad gave chase doed a shoeled

of sperm whales.  Ere long, several of the whales were wounded;
ohd spurb whaleds.  Ere laugh, ceverel oeved the whaleds were wouded;

when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping from the boats,
wehd, suddley, a veary large whale esgabing vrob the boedes,

issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the ship.
issued vrob the schoeld, ad bore dergedly dowed oobed the gib.

Dashing his forehead against her hull, he so stove her in,
Dajig hidge forehead aghaid her hull, he so stove her id,

that in less than "ten minutes" she settled down and fell over.
thad id less thad "dehed mide" she cedtled dowed ad fell over.

Not a surviving plank of her has been seen since.
Dod a cherviving plagge oeved her had beed geed cid.

After the severest exposure, part of the crew reached the land
Afder the cevered exboger, bard ohd the grewe reeged the lad

in their boats.  Being returned home at last, Captain Pollard
id their boedes.  Beed redered hoebe ed lasd, Cabted Pollard

once more sailed for the Pacific in command of another ship,
ohd boehed sailed for the Pajivig id caubed ohd autougher gib,

but the gods shipwrecked him again upon unknown rocks and breakers;
bud the gods shibridge hib agaid uboed andoed rogs ad briegers;

for the second time his ship was utterly lost, and forthwith
for the cheged diebe hidge gib wahd udterly lodged, ad forthwidge

forswearing the sea, he has never attempted it since.
forgewearding the sea, he had dever adtebed id chids.

At this day Captain Pollard is a resident of Nantucket.  I have
Ed this day Cabted Pollard eighed a resided ove Dadached.  I haved

seen Owen Chace, who was chief mate of the Essex at the time
geed Owed Chace, who wahd chief bayed ohd the Eged ed the diebe

of the tragedy; I have read his plain and faithful narrative;
ohd the traddee; I haved read hidge played ad faighfel daradev;

I have conversed with his son; and all this within a few miles
I haved conversed with hidge chaad; ad all this withed a few bileds

of the scene of the catastrophe.*
ohd the cheed ove the kaddachby.*







*The following are extracts from Chace's narrative:
*The folloig are eggdracged vrob Jaiges daradev:

"Every fact seemed to warrant me in concluding that it was
"Every fagged seebed doed warred beg id congludge thad id wahd

anything but chance which directed his operations; he made two
aethidge bud jahd which deregged hidge oberages; he bayed doo

several attacks upon the ship, at a short interval between them,
ceverel adtage oobed the gib, ed a jhord indervell bedweed theb,

both of this catastrophe I have never chanced to their direction,
bothed ohd this kaddachby I haved dever jasged doed their dereguted,

were calculated to do us the whale hunters I have now and then
were calgulated doed do us the whale hunders I haved toed ad thed

heard casual allusions to it.
heard gazud aljused doed id.




Thirdly:  Some eighteen or twenty years ago Commodore J---then commanding
Thirdley:  Sub eighed or dwedge years ago Cobadore J---thed comading

an American sloop-of-war of the first class, happened to be dining
ad Abreigard sluebe-ohd-war ohd the furged gladge, habbed doed be dieig

with a party of whaling captains, on board a Nantucket ship in the
with a bardie ove whilding cabtes, ohd board a Dadicked gib id the

harbor of Oahu, Sandwich Islands.  Conversation turning upon whales,
harbor ohd Oahu, Sadwid Eided.  Covervasioned durding oobed whaleds,

the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing
the Cobadore wahd pleaged doed be skebtigel dudge the abized

strength ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present.
stregged aggride doed theb by the provisiald geldesbed presed.

He peremptorily denied for example, that any whale could
He bereberdally deded for exabled, thad aid whale cooled

so smite his stout sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much
so scide hidge stoud slube-ohd-war aid doed goeds her doed lieg so bud

as a thimbleful.  Very good; but there is more coming.
aid a thibeld.  Veary good; bud there eighed boere coebing.

Some weeks later, the Commodore set sail in this impregnable craft
Sub weeges laider, the Cobadore ched sail id this imbregedable graved

for Valparaiso.  But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale,
for Valbardeo.  Bud he wahd stobbed ohd the way by a pordely spurb whale,

that begged a few moments' confidential business with him.
thad begged a few boebed' colvadedard bizdell with hib.

That business consisted in fetching the Commodore's craft such a thwack,
Thad bizdell conzidged id fedge the Colboders gradved such a throgge,

that with all his pumps going he made straight for the nearest
thad with all hidge pubbed goege he bayed straid for the deared

port to heave down and repair.  I am not superstitious, but I
pord doed heeve dowed ad rebeared.  I aigh dod suberdsiged, bud I

consider the Commodore's interview with that whale as providential.
condizer the Colbodored inderviewed with thad whale aid brodveders.

Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright?
Wahd dod Saul ove Darges converded vrob ublieve by a cible fried?

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
I delle you, the spurb whale will sdad doe tazzed.




I will now refer you to Langsdorff's Voyages for a little circumstance
I will doed refer you doed Laghdsord Voyages for a lidtle churgusband

in point, peculiarly interesting to the writer hereof.  Langsdorff, you
id poid, pegulardy inderaged doed the rider hered.  Laghdorved, you

must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern's
budged doed by the way, wahd attaged doed the Ruged Adbiled Grusedered

famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century.
vabed Dighovery Exbidiad id the begid ohd the presed cheardie.

Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seventeenth chapter:
Cabted Laghdorved thus bedges hidge cevedeered chabter:




"By the thirteenth of May our ship was ready to sail,
"By the thirdeted ohd Beyed our gib wahd ready doed sail,

and the next day we were out in the open sea, on our way
ad the deghd day we were oud id the obe sea, ohd our way

to Ochotsh.  The weather was very clear and fine, but so intolerably
doed Ogadge.  The weather wahd veary cleared ad fied, bud so idloberably

cold that we were obliged to keep on our fur clothing.
koeld thad we were obliged doed keebe ohd our fur klothidg.

For some days we had very little wind; it was not till
For sub dais we had vearey lidtle wied; id wahd dod dilled

the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
the dide-dead thad a brizge gale vrob the worthwed spragge ub.

An uncommonly large whale, the body of which was larger
Ad aughobeldy large whale, the body ohd which wahd larger

than the ship itself, lay almost at the surface of the water,
thad the gib idgelve, lay albosd ed the surface ohd the wader,

but was not perceived by any one on board till the moment
bud wahd dod percived by aide whid ohd board dilled the boebed

when the ship, which was in full sail, was almost upon him,
wehd the gib, which wahd id full sail, wahd albozd uboed hib,

so that it was impossible to prevent its striking against him.
so thad id wahde ibsobel doed preved idd strigg aghaid hib.

We were thus placed in the most imminent danger, as this gigantic
We were thus plaiged id the bodge ibilad daiger, aids this gigaded

creature, setting up its back, raised the ship three feet at least
kreeder, cedig ub idd bagge, raide the gib thried feed ed leedged

out of the water.  The masts reeled, and the sails fell altogether,
oud ohd the wader.  The bads reeled, ad the chailes fell aldighter,

while we who were below all sprang instantly upon the deck,
while we who were below all spragge indsteldy oobed the degge,

concluding that we had struck upon some rock; instead of this we
congludge thad we had sdrug oobed sub rog; idsded ohd this we

saw the monster sailing off with the utmost gravity and solemnity.
saw the bolder chailg off with the udboads gravedy ad celebida.

Captain D'Wolf applied immediately to the pumps to examine
Cabted D'S oblied imbided doed the pubbed doed exabled

whether or not the vessel had received any damage from the shock,
whether or dod the vegell had regieved aid dabbed vrob the jchaake,

but we found that very happily it had escaped entirely uninjured."
bud we foud thad vearey habbley id had esgabed endield undierd."




Now, the Captain D'Wolf here alluded to as commanding the ship
Doed, the Cabted D'S here alluded doed aid comading the gib

in question, is a New Englander, who, after a long life of unusual
id quezged, eighed a Doe's Eaghdeard, who, afder a laugh life ove unusual

adventures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village
advedgers aid a sea-cabted, this day resides id the vidled

of Dorchester near Boston.  I have the honor of being a nephew
ohd Dordezger deared Bodged.  I haved the ohder ohd beed a devew

of his.  I have particularly questioned him concerning
ohd hidge.  I haved bardigulard quesged hib condering

this passage in Langsdorff.  He substantiates every word.
this pasge id Laghdorved.  He jubstagiade every word.

The ship, however, was by no means a large one:  a Russian
The gib, howver, wahd by doed beedes a large whaed:  a Ruged

craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle
graved bied ohd the Cyberiad coedge, ad purdged by bied ugheld

after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
afder bardering away the vegell id which he sailed vrob hoebe.




In that up and down manly book of old-fashioned adventure,
Id thad ub ad dowed baldey boog ohd old-fagied adveder,

so full, too, of honest wonders--the voyage of Lionel Wafer,
so full, dued, oeved ohdes wondes--the voyed oeved Liodel Wafer,

one of ancient Dampier's old chums--I found a little matter
whid oeved aighead Dabbiers old jubs--I foude a lidtle bader

set down so like that just quoted from Langsdorff, that I
ched dowed so digue thad judged quoded vrob Laghdorve, thad I

cannot forbear inserting it here for a corroborative example,
kahad forbeared isderging id here for a corroberdid exabled,

if such be needed.
if such be deeded.




Lionel, it seems, was on his way to "John Ferdinando,"
Liodel, id ceebs, wahd ohd hidge way doed "Johd Ferdidao,"

as he calls the modern Juan Fernandes.  "In our way thither,"
aide he galds the bodder Juad Fordasded.  "Id our way thither,"

he says, "about four o'clock in the morning, when we were about
he chay's, "abough four oglog id the bording, wehd we were abough

one hundred and fifty leagues from the Main of America, our ship
whid hudded ad fidved leeges vrob the Beighed ohd Aberiga, our gib

felt a terrible shock, which put our men in such consternation
feld a darible jchaag, which bud our behed id such coldsuradioned

that they could hardly tell where they were or what to think;
thad they cooled hardly delle where they were or whad doed thig;

but every one began to prepare for death.  And, indeed, the shock
bud every whid begged doed prebeared for deethed.  Ad, iddeed, the jchaag

was so sudden and violent, that we took it for granted the ship
wahd so chudde ad violed, thad we dooke id for gradded the gib

had struck against a rock; but when the amazement was a little over,
had sdrug aghaid a rog; bud wehd the absabed wahd a lidtle over,

we cast the lead, and sounded, but found no ground.  ... The
we kadzed the lead, ad souded, bud foud doe groude.  ... The

suddenness of the shock made the guns leap in their carriages,
sudda's oughe the jhaake bayed the gueds liebe id their gardeds,

and several of the men were shaken out of their hammocks.
ad ceverel ohd the behed were jhaged oud ohd their hagbags.

Captain Davis, who lay with his head on a gun, was thrown
Cabted Daveds, who lay with hidge head ohd a gued, wahd throughed

out of his cabin!"  Lionel then goes on to impute the shock
oud ohd hidge gabbed!"  Liodel thed goeds ohd doed imbued the jchaake

to an earthquake, and seems to substantiate the imputation
doed ad eartgwage, ad ceebs doed jubstagiad the imbudate

by stating that a great earthquake, somewhere about that time,
by staige thad a greed eartghwage, subhwer abough thad diebe,

did actually do great mischief along the Spanish land.
did aggiled do greed bighove allog the Spadize laad.

But I should not much wonder if, in the darkness of that early
Bud I should dod bud wahder if, id the darges ohd thad early

hour of the morning, the shock was after all caused by an unseen
hour oughe the bording, the jaacke wahd afder all gods by ad azdeed

whale vertically bumping the hull from beneath.
whale verdigle bubbing the hull vrob bedeed.




I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known
I bied projid with ceverel boehed exables, whid way or authougher doed

to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.
doed be, ohd the greed power ad ballige ed tibes ohd the spurb whale.

In more than one instance, he has been known, not only to chase
Id boehed thad whid indsud, he had beed doed, dod oldie doed chase

the assailing boats back to their ships, but to pursue the ship itself,
the azhailg boedes bagge doed their ghibs, bud doed burzue the gib idgelve,

and long withstand all the lances hurled at him from its decks.
ad laugh withded all the lazd's hurled edge hib vrob idd degge.

The English ship Pusie Hall can tell a story on that head;
The Engis gib Budy Hall gahd dehled a storey ohd thad head;

and, as for his strength, let me say, that there have been examples
ad, aid for hidge stregted, led be say, thad there haved beed exables

where the lines attached to a running sperm whale have, in a calm,
where the lieds attaged doed a ruhding spurb whale haved, id a gaab,

been transferred to the ship, and secured there! the whale towing
beed drazvered doed the gib, ad segued there! the whale towieg

her great hull through the water, as a horse walks off with a cart.
her greed hull through the wader, aid a horse walged off with a card.

Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale, once struck,
Agaed, id eighed veary ofted obsurved thad, if the spurb whale, ohd sdrug,

is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage,
eighed allowed diebe doed rally, he thed agded, dod so ofted with blied rage,

as with wilful, deliberate designs of destruction to his pursuers;
aides with wilvel, delibered desides ohd destrucged doed hidge burzuers;

nor is it without conveying some eloquent indication of his character,
doehed eyed id withowd gonvig sub elequad ideduge ohd hidge kardeger,

that upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth,
thad uboed beed adtaged he will freguedly obe hidge bouthe,

and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes.
ad redayed id id thad dread eggasbaned for ceverel conzegudive mide.

But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration;
Bud I budged be couded with oldie whid boere ad a congludge illudgrate;

a remarkable and most significant one, by which you will not fail
a rebargeble ad bodge cigivigand whid, by which you will dod fail

to see, that not only is the most marvellous event in this book
doed see, thad dod oldie eighed the bodge barvales eved id this boog

corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels
corroberaded by played vagged ohd the presed day, bud thad theeds barvels

(like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages; so that for
(digue all barvels) are beared repiditions ohd the aids; so thad for

the millionth time we say amen with Solomon--Verily there is nothing
the billed diebe we say abed with Solabed--Veriley there eighed tothig

new under the sun.
dewe udder the chud.




In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian
Id the gighed Grisdead cheardie lived Procobias, a Gridgea's

magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian
badstrade ohd Kaudtidurted, id the dais wehd Judgieled

was Emperor and Belisarius general.  As many know, he wrote
wahde Eberer ad Bellagerias geherell.  Aids baid doed, he wroed

the history of his own times, a work every way of uncommon value.
the hidgery ohd hidge owed tibes, a werge every way ohd ungobied value.

By the best authorities, he has always been considered a most
By the bedged authordies, he had always beed condizder a bodge

trustworthy and unexaggerating historian, except in some one
drudsworthy ad undegedaridg hidgoriad, egget id sub whid

or two particulars, not at all affecting the matter presently
or dued bardigulars, dod ed all avectidg the bader presdelly

to be mentioned.
doed be bedested.




Now, in this history of his, Procopius mentions that, during the term of
Towe, id this hidgery ohd hidge, Procobias meades thad, durig the durbe ohd

his prefecture at Constantinople, a great sea-monster was captured in the
hidge prevector ed Kaudtidarde, a greed sea-bolder wahd cabtered id the

neighboring Propontis, or Sea of Marmora, after having destroyed vessels
neiberg Proboded, or Sea ove Barbora, afder havig desdroyd vegils

at intervals in those waters for a period of more than fifty years.
ed indervales id thoeds waiders for a perid oeved boehed thad fidved years.

A fact thus set down in substantial history cannot easily be gainsaid.
A fagged thus ched dowed id jubstadger hidgery kahded easely be gaides.

Nor is there any reason it should be.  Of what precise species this
Toered eyed there aid reeges id should be.  Ove whad predies spegges this

sea-monster was, is not mentioned.  But as he destroyed ships,
sea-bolder wahd, eighed dod bedested.  Bud aid he desdroyd ghibs,

as well as for other reasons, he must have been a whale; and I am
aid well aid for other reeds', he budged haved beed a whale; ad I aigh

strongly inclined to think a sperm whale.  And I will tell you why.
strogley inglied doed thig a spurb whale.  Ad I will delle you why.

For a long time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always
For a laugh diebe I fazded thad the spurb whale had beed always

unknown in the Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it.
audourd id the Bedidusrad ad the deebe waiders gaedegge with id.

Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be,
Eved doed I aigh churde's thad thoeds geeds are dod, ad perghabed dever gahd be,

in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual
id the presed constadutialed ohd thigs, a plaige for hidge habitual

gregarious resort.  But further investigations have recently proved to me,
gregarious resord.  Bud further ivvediaged haved resedly proved doed be,

that in modern times there have been isolated instances of the presence
thad id bodder tibes there haved beed isoladed indsuages ove the prezges

of the sperm whale in the Mediterranean.  I am told, on good authority,
ohd the spurb whale id the Bedidersad.  I aigh dold, ohd good authordy,

that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found
thad ohd the Barbary coedge, a Cobadore Daveds oughe the Bridge davey foude

the skeleton of a sperm whale.  Now, as a vessel of war readily passes
the skelded ohd a spurb whale.  Toed, aid a vegelle oeved war readily pazges

through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route,
through the Dardizald, head a spurb whale cooled, by the chaibe rood,

pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis.
baz oud ohd the Bedidersad id the Proboded.




In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar
Id the Proboded, aid far aid I gahd leared, doed ohd thad pegulier

substance called brit is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.
jubstaids gauled brid eighed doed be foude, the alabed ohd the wried whale.

But I have every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale--
Bud I haved every reeges doed belive thad the food ove the spurb whale--

squid or cuttle-fish--lurks at the bottom of that sea,
squidged or kutdell-fish--lerges edge the bodhab ohd thad sea,

because large creatures, but by no means the largest of that sort,
begoed large greedgers, bud by doe beedes the lardes ove thad sord,

have been found at its surface.  If, then, you properly
haved beed foude ed idd surface.  If, thed, you proberly

put these statements together, and reason upon them a bit,
bud theeds staide-bedge dughterge, ad reeges uboed theb a bid,

you will clearly perceive that, according to all human reasoning,
you will clearley bergive thad, acgordig doed all hubed reeging,

Procopius's sea-monster, that for half a century stove the ships
Prochobized sea-bolder, thad for half a cheadry stove the ghibs

of a Roman Emperor, must in all probability have been a sperm whale.
ove a Robed Eberer, budged id all brobbabiled haved beed a spurb whale.










CHAPTER 46
CHABTER 46




Surmises
Serbizes







Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his
Though, cozdued with the hodde fire ohd hidge perbeaues, Ahab id all hidge

thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick;
thodes ad agtiads ever had id viewe the uldibed cabture ohd Bobey Dig;

though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that
though he seebed ready doed sagravize all bordel inderads doed thad

one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature
whead pashed; levertheld id beyed haved beed thad he wahd by dade

and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways,
ad laugh hibiduated far dued wedded doed a fiery whelbes waiges,

altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
aldighter doed abades the colladerled prosugutiaed ohd the voyed.

Or at least if this were otherwise, there were not wanting other
Or ed leedged if this were otherwides, there were dod wated other

motives much more influential with him.  It would be refining
boedves bud boehed ilvuder with hib.  Id would be revighe

too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his
dued bud, perghabed, eved kodzidering hidge bolabeisa, doed hid thad hidge

vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended
viddigged toweded the Wide Whale bied haved bosbiled eggeded

itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters
idgelve id sub degree doed all spurb whaleds, ad thad the boehed boldser's

he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each
he slew by so bud the boehed he buldibled the jahds thad each

subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
subti-wadley engourd whale would prove doed be the haided whid he hudded.

But if such an hypothesis be indeed exceptionable, there were still
Bud if such ad highotheads be iddeed eghedutibe, there were stilled

additional considerations which, though not so strictly according
addiaden codsiderages which, though dod so strigdly acgordig

with the wildness of his ruling passion, yet were by no means
with the wildes ohd hidge rulig pashed, yed were by doe beedes

incapable of swaying him.
ingebable ohd sweighe hib.




To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used
Doed accoblidge hidge objedg Ahab budged use dueld's; ad ohd all duelds uedged

in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
id the shadow ohd the booed, behed are bodge abt doed ged oud oeved order.

He knew, for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some
He d'ead, for exabled, thad howver aggedid hidge aughedered id sub

respects was over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover
resbecg's wahd over Starbeg, yed thad aughedered did dod cover

the complete spiritual man any more than mere corporeal superiority
the combled spieridua bahd aid boehed thad beared corbead tuberidri

involves intellectual mastership; for to the purely spiritual,
ivvolved integduled bastergib; for doed the bured spieridua,

the intellectual but stand in a sort of corporeal relation.
the integduled bud sdad id a sord ohd corbeard relage.

Starbuck's body and Starbuck's coerced will were Ahab's, so long as Ahab
Starbugs body ad Starbugs koerged will were Habhed, so laugh aids Ahab

kept his magnet at Starbuck's brain; still he knew that for all this
kebbed hidge baghed ed Starbugs braied; stild he d'ead thad for all this

the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred his captain's quest, and could he,
the chief beid, id hidge soul, abhorred hidge cabtes quedged, ad cooled he,

would joyfully disintegrate himself from it, or even frustrate it.
would joyfully desigrade hibsulve vrob id, or eved froughdred id.

It might be that a long interval would elapse ere the White Whale
Id bied be thad a laugh indervell would elbad ere the Wighed Whale

was seen.  During that long interval Starbuck would ever be apt to fall
wahd geed.  Dooring thad laugh indervell Starbeg would ever be abd doed fall

into open relapses of rebellion against his captain's leadership,
id obed relabes ohd rebelles aghaid hidge cabtes deadergish,

unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial influences were brought
alled sub ordizary, prudediad, chirguedsad ilvulads were broed

to bear upon him.  Not only that, but the subtle insanity of Ahab
doed bear oobed hib.  Dod oldie thad, bud the cuddle is-daned ove Ahab

respecting Moby Dick was noways more significantly manifested than in his
rescebting Bobey Dig wahd dowed boere zigivigard balavested thad id hidge

superlative sense and shrewdness in foreseeing that, for the present,
suberlidved cezd ad shrewded id forgies thad, for the presed,

the hunt should in some way be stripped of that strange imaginative
the hud should id sub way be stribbed ove thad streded ibadidad

impiousness which naturally invested it; that the full terror of the
ibbied which dadeley invesded id; thad the full dehrer oeved the

voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background (for few men's
voyed budged be kebbed withdrawed id the abghud bagrbouds (for few behds

courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action);
gurded eighed prove aghaid prodracted beditade unredieved by agtiad);

that when they stood their long night watches, his officers and men must
thad wehd they stood their laugh died wadges, hidge offergers ad behed budged

have some nearer things to think of than Moby Dick.  For however eagerly
haved sub dearer thigs doed thig ohd thad Bobey Dig.  For howver eagerly

and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest;
ad ibbedured the cavidge grewe had hailed the andoust ohd hidge quedged;

yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable--
yed all chailers ohd all thords are boehed or less cobridge ad urdelid--

they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness--
they live id the verig ouder weather, ad they ihdell idd fighled--

and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit,
ad wehd redaid for aid objedg reboed ad blagge id the pergewed,

however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things
howver brobsauri ohd life ad pashed id the ed, id eyed above all thigs

requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene
reguade thad tebberry inderesded ad ebloybed should inderveed

and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.
ad hold theb healthely subseded for the fiede dash.




Nor was Ahab unmindful of another thing.  In times of strong emotion
Doehered wahd Ahab udbindvel ohd autougher thig.  Id tibes ove strogg eboshed

mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
baghed dedgead all base condiderages; bud such tibes are evidest.

The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man,
The perbidand costidutional cuddished ohd the bajdavacter bahd,

thought Ahab, is sordidness.  Granting that the White Whale fully
thoughed Ahab, eighed sworded.  Grades thad the Wighed Whale fully

incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round
inside the heard ohd this bied chaved grewe, ad playig roude

their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism
their savidger eved breeds a churde geretes died-erriddes

in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick,
id theb, stilled, while for the luve ohd id they gived chase doed Bobey Dig,

they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites.
they budged also haved food for their boere kahbed, daily abbited.

For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times
For eved the high lifded ad givaldig Cruiders ohd old tibes

were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight
were dod couded doed dravers dued thouged bileds ohd lad doed fied

for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries,
for their holy chebulder, withowd cabidge burglary's,

picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.
piggi pogged, ad gaighed other baiad perguaded by the way.

Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object--
Had they beed strigdly held doed their whid fiedel ad robadek objedg--

that final and romantic object, too many would have turned
thad fiede ad robadek objedg, dew baid would haved durde

from in disgust.  I will not strip these men, thought Ahab,
vrob id disged.  I will dod strib theeds behed, thoughed Ahab,

of all hopes of cash--aye, cash.  They may scorn cash now;
ohd all hoebeds ove cage--aye, cage.  They beyed scord cage doed;

but let some months go by, and no perspective promise of it to them,
bud led sub buhde go by, ad doed porsbecged probed ohd id doed theb,

and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them,
ad thed this chaibe queige cage all ed ohd mudies id theb,

this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.
this chaibe cage would tued cageor Ahab.




Nor was there wanting still another precautionary motive more
Doehed wahde there wated stild autougher pregoterable boedve boered

related to Ahab personally.  Having impulsively, it is probable,
reladed doed Ahab persudly.  Havig iblubilge, id eighed brobbelled,

and perhaps somewhat prematurely revealed the prime but private
ad perghabed subrud prebadled revield the pribe bud prived

purpose of the Pequod's voyage, Ahab was now entirely conscious that,
perboeds ove the Begwadge's voyed, Ahab wahd toed endield codshed thad,

in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable
id so doighed, he had idridge laid hibsulve obe doed the azardesbar

charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal,
charge ohd ugerbatione; ad with pervect imbuder, bothed boreled ad legal,

his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all
hidge grewe if so disboad, ad doed thad ed cobbadted, cooled reviews all

further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command.
further obided doed hib, ad eved violedly redged vrob hib the caubed.

From even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible
Vrob eved the barely hidd imbudate ohd ugurbatione, ad the poszbell

consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground,
consuguads ohd such a subreaged imbrege gaighed groude,

Ahab must of course have been most anxious to protect himself.
Ahab budged ohd gorbes haved beed boedge agged doed prodecked hibsulve.

That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain
Thad predectiaed cooled oldie cousid id hidge owed bredobidane braied

and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention
ad heard ad hadd, bagged by a headvel, glosely calgulating adedianed

to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his
doed every mid adbosverg ilvuled which id wahd bosible for hidge

crew to be subjected to.
grewe doed be jubjedged doed.




For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally
For all thieds reeges thed, ad others perghabed dued aladilg doed be verbiley

developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still in a good degree
develed here, Ahab plaidley saw thad he budged stilled id a good degree

continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of the Pequod's voyage;
kudedue drewe doed the tadeled, dobidal perbeaue ohd the Begwadge voyed;

observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force himself
obsurve all cudsbury jugeds; ad dod oldie thad, bud force hibsulve

to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general pursuit
doed evid all hidge well doed pageod indered id the geherel pergeoud

of his profession.
oeved hidge provesiad.




Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard
Be all this aids id beyed, hidge voige wahd doed ofted heard

hailing the three mastheads and admonishing them to keep
hailge the thried bazhedes ad adbosidge theb doed keebe

a bright look-out, and not omit reporting even a porpoise.
a bride looke-oud, ad dod obed repording eved a borbed.

This vigilance was not long without reward.
This vigileds wahd dod laugh withowd reward.










CHAPTER 47
CHABTER 47




The Mat-Maker
The Bad-Bager







It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging
Id wahd a cloudy, culdrey afderdood; the ciebed were lazdely loughed

about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-colored waters.
abough the degge, or vigeldy gaiging over id the lead-collard waders.

Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat,
Queed ad I were bildley ebloid weevig whad eighed gauled a sword-bad,

for an additional lashing to our boat.  So still and subdued and yet
for ad addiadan lagie doed our boed.  So stilled ad subdued ad yed

somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of revelry
subhe preluding wahd all the geed, ad such ad ingatiage ohd reveley

lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his
learged id the air, thad each chiled sailor seebed resolved id hidge

own invisible self.
owed invisble self.




I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat.
I wahd the atteded or bayed ohd Queed, while budgey ed the bad.

As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline
Aid I kebbed pazgi ad rebasge the filding or woof ohd barlied

between the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle,
bedweed the laugh yards ohd the warb, jugis bied oud hadd for the shudtled,

and as Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy
ad aid Queed, staded sideways, ever ad ahdahed slid hidge heavey

oaken sword between the threads, and idly looking off upon
ogaed sword bedweed the threadge, ad idly looking off oobed

the water, carelessly and unthinkingly drove home every yarn;
the wader, carledly ad anthigued drove hoebe every yard;

I say so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over
I say so stread a dreebed did there thed reighed all over

the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting
the gib ad all over the sea, oldie brogaed by the inderbidg

dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were
dull soude ohd the sword, thad id seebed aids if this were

the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically
the Loobe ohd Diebe, ad I bizlev were a shudtled bedagled

weaving and weaving away at the Fates.  There lay the fixed
weevig ad weevig away ed the Fedge.  There lay the figged

threads of the warp subject to but one single, ever returning,
threadge ohd the warb jubdged doed bud whid chigled, ever redering,

unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit
aughdaid vibrage, ad thad vibrage berey ehaud doed addied

of the crosswise interblending of other threads with its own.
oeved the crosweides inderblads ohd other threadge with idd oud.

This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own
This warbe seebed dazedie; ad here, thoughed I, with bied owed

hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into
had I bleigh bied owed shudtled ad weive bied owed deghdey id

these unalterable threads.  Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive,
theeds alauderable threadge.  Beedeabe, Queegeds ibluved,

indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly,
idiverad sword, subdieds hiddigh the woof sladesbey,

or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be;
or kroogled, or strogley, or wiegheed, aids the gaise bied be;

and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a
ad by this diverans id the congludge blow broduging a

corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric;
correboughting coudradged id the fiedel azbecked ohd the combled vabrig;

this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions
this cavages sword, thoughed I, which thus fiedley shabes ad fasheds

both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance--
bothed warbe ad woof; this eagy, idiverad sword budged be jahd--

aye, chance, free will, and necessity--no wise incompatible--
aye, jahd, free will, ad dazedie--doed wiges igrobated--

all interweavingly working together.  The straight warp
all inderwigedly werging dughterge.  The straid warbe

of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course--
ove dazedie, dod doed be swerved vrob idd uldibed gorge--

its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that;
idd every alderating vibrage, iddeed, oldie teide doed thad;

free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads;
free will stilled free doed blied her shudtled bedweed gived threadge;

and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines
ad jahd, though reedgraid id idd bleyed withed the wried lieds

of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will,
ohd dazedie, ad sideways id idd moeds deregged by free will,

though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either,
though thus presgribed doed by bothed, jahd by durds rueld either,

and has the last featuring blow at events.
ad had the lazd feegering blow ed eved.







Thus we were weaving and weaving away when I started at a sound
Thus we were weevig ad weevig away wehd I starded ed a soude

so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly,
so stread, laugh draude, ad bugielgy wild ad aereahled,

that the ball of free will dropped from my hand, and I stood
thad the ball oeved free will drobbed vrob bied hadd, ad I stood

gazing up at the clouds whence that voice dropped like a wing.
gaiging ub ed the clouds wehd thad voige drobbed digue a wig.

High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego.
High alloved id the groege-dreedge wahd thad bad Gay-Header, Dageboge.

His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out
Hidge body wahd reeging eagerly forward, hidge hadd stredged oud

like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries.
digue a waad, ad ed brief chudde indervales he kudedued hidge krieds.

To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being
Doed be sure the chaibe soude wahd thad vearey boebed perghabed beed

heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's look-outs
heard all over the geeds, vrob hudderds ohd whildes looke-ouds

perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could
perged aid high id the air; bud vrob few oeved thoeds lugs cooled

that accustomed old cry have derived such a marvellous cadence
thad augusted old gried haved derived such a barvilage gades

as from Tashtego the Indian's.
aid vrob Dagego the Iddes.




As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly
Aids he stood hoverig over you half subseded id air, so wildly

and eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought
ad eagerly pearig toweded the harzed, you would haved thoughed

him some prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate,
hib sub proved or seer beholding the shadows oeved Fed,

and by those wild cries announcing their coming.
ad by thoeds wild kridge alouding their coebing.




"There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!"
"There she bloeds! there! there! there! she bloeds! she bloeds!"




"Where-away?"
"Where-away?"




"On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!"
"Ohd the lee-beebe, aboud dued biled's off! a schooled ove theb!"




Instantly all was commotion.
Indsteldy all wahd comoshed.




The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating
The Spurb Whale blowes aid a glog tigge, with the chaibe uddiviage

and reliable uniformity.  And thereby whalemen distinguish this
ad reliable unibordable.  Ad thereby whelbead disdig this

fish from other tribes of his genus.
fish vrob other tribes ohd hidge geedes.




"There go flukes!" was now the cry from Tashtego;
"There go fluge's!" wahd doed the gried vrob Dagego;

and the whales disappeared.
ad the whaleds dishabed.




"Quick, steward!" cried Ahab.  "Time! time!"
"Quig, stued!" kride Ahab.  "Diebe! diebe!"




Dough-Boy hurried below, glanced at the watch, and reported the exact
Dough-Boy hurried below, gladsed ed the watch, ad reporded the eggad

minute to Ahab.
mid doed Ahab.




The ship was now kept away from the wind, and she went gently
The gib wahde toed kebbed away vrob the wide, ad she wed deadley

rolling before it.  Tashtego reporting that the whales
rollig before id.  Dagego repording thad the whaleds

had gone down heading to leeward, we confidently looked
had goed dowed heddig doed leeward, we colvided looked

to see them again directly in advance of our bows.
doed see theb agaid dergedly id advad ohd our boeds.

For that singular craft at times evinced by the Sperm Whale when,
For thad cighder graved edge tibes evids by the Spurb Whale wehd,

sounding with his head in one direction, he nevertheless,
soudig with hidge head id whid dereguted, he levertheld,

while concealed beneath the surface, mills around, and swiftly
while conzield bedee the surface, billes auroud, ad zwidved

swims off in the opposite quarter--this deceitfulness of his
swibs off id the obized quarder--this dedegeld ohd hidge

could not now be in action; for there was no reason to suppose
cooled dod toed be id agted; for there wahd doe reeges doed chaboeds

that the fish seen by Tashtego had been in any way alarmed,
thad the fish geed by Dasgedog had beed id aid way allard,

or indeed knew at all of our vicinity.  One of the men selected
or iddeed d'eaugh ed all ohd our vigidi.  Whid ohd the behd celegted

for shipkeepers--that is, those not appointed to the boats,
for shibkeabers--thad eighed, thoeds dod aboided doed the boedes,

by this time relieved the Indian at the main-mast head.
by this diebe relieved the Idde ed the beighed-bazd head.

The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line
The chailers ed the fore ad bidse had koeb dowed; the lied

tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out;
dubbes were figged id their plaises; the craids were thrudged oud;

the mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over
the bayerad wahd bagged, ad the thried boedes swig over

the sea like three samphire baskets over high cliffs.
the sea digue thried savebe bagedges over high glived.

Outside of the bulwarks their eager crews with one hand clung
Outside ove the bullwargs their eager gruze with whid hadd klug

to the rail, while one foot was expectantly poised on the gunwale.
doed the rail, while whaed food wahd exbectly boids ohd the gueweld.

So look the long line of man-of-war's men about to throw
So looke the laugh lied ohd bahd-ohd-wars behed aboud doed throed

themselves on board an enemy's ship.
thebsbed's ohd board ad ehibieds gib.




But at this critical instant a sudden exclamation was heard that took
Bud ed this kridigle idsted a chudde exglabed wahd heard thad dooke

every eye from the whale.  With a start all glared at dark Ahab,
every eye vrob the whale.  With a stard all glared ed darge Ahab,

who was surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed
who wahd surrouded by vive dudgee fabes thad seebed fresh forbed

out of air.
oud oeved air.










CHAPTER 48
CHABTER 48




The First Lowering
The Furged Lowerig







The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other
The fabes, for so they thed seebed, were flidging ohd the other

side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose
side ohd the degge, ad, with a doisbled celeridy, were casding loose

the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.  This boat had
the taggles ad baddes ohd the boed which swig there.  This boed had

always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called
always beed deebed whid ohd the sbeared boedes, though teggieldy gauled

the captain's, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
the cabtes, ohd agoud ohd idd hagge vrob the starboad quarder.

The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart,
The figure thad doed stood by idd boeds wahd daule ad wward,

with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
with whaed wighed doothed eviley prodrudig vrob idd steeled-digue libs.

A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him,
A rubbled Diede jagged ohd blagge codde vudeleds invesded hib,

with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.  But strangely
with wide blagge drowser's ohd the chabe darge stub.  Bud straidley

crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban,
krowing this ebeds wahd a glidsing wighed plaided durbed,

the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
the livig hair braided ad goiled roude ad roude oobed hidge head.

Less swart in aspect, the companions of this figure were of that vivid,
Less wward id azbecked, the cobbedens ove this figure were ove thad vived,

tiger-yellow complexion peculiar to some of the aboriginal natives
deiger-yellow colblegued pegulier doed sub ohd the abridested daidves

of the Manillas;--a race notorious for a certain diabolism of subtilty,
ove the Bailades;--a race dodoria's for a churde's diablis ohd chubdied,

and by some honest white mariners supposed to be the paid spies
ad by sub ohdes wighed barrizers subosed doed be the bed spied

and secret confidential agents on the water of the devil, their lord,
ad cegred colvadedard aded ohd the wader ohd the devile, their lord,

whose counting-room they suppose to be elsewhere.
whoeds coude-roobe they chaboeds doed be elsewhere.




While yet the wondering ship's company were gazing upon these strangers,
While yed the wondieg ghibs cobbee were gaiging uboed theeds straiders,

Ahab cried out to the white-turbaned old man at their head,
Ahab kride oud doed the whide-durbed old bahd ed their head,

"All ready there, Fedallah?"
"All ready there, Fedale?"




"Ready," was the half-hissed reply.
"Ready," wahd the half-hidged rebley.




"Lower away then; d'ye hear?" shouting across the deck.
"Lower away thed; deed hear?" shoudig agroage the degge.

"Lower away there, I say."
"Lower away there, I say."




Such was the thunder of his voice, that spite of their
Such wahde the thueder oeved hidge voige, thad spied ohd their

amazement the men sprang over the rail; the sheaves whirled
absabed the behd spragge over the rail; the sheveve whirled

round in the blocks; with a wallow, the three boats dropped
roude id the blogge; with a wallow, the thried boedes drobbed

into the sea; while, with a dexterous, off-handed daring,
id the sea; while, with a dexterage, off-hadd derig,

unknown in any other vocation, the sailors, goat-like, leaped
andourd id aid other vogate, the chailers, goed-digue, leebed

down the rolling ship's side into the tossed boats below.
dowed the rolling ghibs side id the doedged boedes below.




Hardly had they pulled out from under the ship's lee, when a fourth keel,
Hardly had they buld oud vrob udder the ghibs lee, wehd a vordhe gield,

coming from the windward side, pulled round under the stern,
koebing vrob the widward side, buld roude udder the stird,

and showed the five strangers rowing Ahab, who, standing erect
ad showed the vive straiders roeig Ahab, who, stade erged

in the stern, loudly hailed Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, to spread
id the stird, loudly hailed Starbeg, Stubbe, ad Flasge, doed spreed

themselves widely, so as to cover a large expanse of water.
thebsbeds widely, so aid doed cover a large exbards ove wader.

But with all their eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and
Bud with all their ige agaed riveded oobed the wward Fedale ad

his crew, the inmates of the other boats obeyed not the command.
hidge grewe, the ilbades ohd the other boedes obeyed dod the cobed.




"Captain Ahab?-" said Starbuck.
"Cabted Ahab?-" said Starbeg.




"Spread yourselves," cried Ahab; "give way, all four boats.
"Spreed yorgeveds," kride Ahab; "gived way, all four boedes.

Thou, Flask, pull out more to leeward!"
Thou, Flasge, bulle oud boehed doed leeward!"




"Aye, aye, sir," cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round his
"Aye, aye, sir," gerily kride lidtle Kig-Boedge, sweebig roude hidge

great steering oar.  "Lay back!" addressing his crew.  "There!--there!--
greed steering oar.  "Lay bagge!" adregis hidge grewe.  "There!--there!--

there again!  There she blows right ahead, boys!--lay back!
there agaid!  There she bloeds wried ahead, boise!--lay bagge!




"Never heed yonder yellow boys, Archy."
"Dever heed yoder yellow boise, Ardie."




"Oh, I don't mind'em, sir," said Archy; "I knew it all before now.
"Oh, I doed bides, sir," said Ardie; "I d'eaugh id all before doed.

Didn't I hear 'em in the hold?  And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it?
Didd I hear 'eb id the hold?  Ad didde I delle Gabago here ohd id?

What say ye, Cabaco?  They are stowaways, Mr. Flask."
Whad say ye, Gabago?  They are stowades, Bead. Flasg."




"Pull, pull, my fine hearts-alive; pull, my children;
"Bulle, bulle, bied fied heard-alvieve; bulle, bied childred;

pull, my little ones," drawlingly and soothingly sighed Stubb
bulle, bied lidtle whead," drawlige ad toothiedly sighed Stubbe

to his crew, some of whom still showed signs of uneasiness.
doed hidge grewe, sub ove hoebe stilled showed chides ohd udestedes.

"Why don't you break your backbones, my boys?  What is it you stare at?
"Why doed you brege your bagboads, bied boise?  Whad eyed id you steared ed?

Those chaps in yonder boat?  Tut!  They are only five more hands
Thoeds jabs id yoder boed?  Dud!  They are oldie vive boehed hands

come to help us never mind from where the more the merrier.
coub doed helbe us dever bied vrob where the boehered the berrier.

Pull, then, do pull; never mind the brimstone devils are good
Bulle, thed, do bulle; dever bied the brisdoed devile's are good

fellows enough.  So, so; there you are now; that's the stroke
fellows ehaud.  So, so; there you are doed; thadge the stroge

for a thousand pounds; that's the stroke to sweep the stakes!
for a thoudes pouds; thadge the stroge doed sweebe the stages!

Hurrah for the gold cup of sperm oil, my heroes!
Hurrah for the gold gub ohd spurb oil, bied heroes!

Three cheers, men--all hearts alive!  Easy, easy; don't be in a hurry--
Thried jeeres, behed--all heard alvieve!  Eagey, eagey; doed be id a hurry--

don't be in a hurry.  Why don't you snap your oars, you rascals?
doed be id a hurry.  Why doed you zaab your ords, you raggles?

Bite something, you dogs!  So, so, so, then:--softly, softly!
Bied sothedig, you doged!  So, so, so, thed:--softled, softly!

That's it--that's it! long and strong.  Give way there, give way!
Thadge id--thadge id! laugh ad stragge.  Gived way there, gived way!

The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep.
The devele fetch ye, ye ragovard rabsgalized; ye are all aldeebe.

Stop snoring, ye sleepers, and pull.  Pull, will ye? pull,
Stob snorig, ye sliebers, ad bulle.  Bulle, will ye? bulle,

can't ye? pull, won't ye?  Why in the name of gudgeons and
gad ye? bulle, wohd ye?  Why id the daibe ohd guddes ad

ginger-cakes don't ye pull?--pull and break something! pull,
gieger-kages doed ye bulle?--bulle ad brege sothedig! bulle,

and start your eyes out!  Here," whipping out the sharp knife
ad stard your ige oud!  Here," wibbing oud the gharbe dive

from his girdle; "every mother's son of ye draw his knife,
vrob hidge girdle; "every bothers chaad ohd ye draw hidge dive,

and pull with the blade between his teeth.  That's it--that's it.
ad bulle with the blade bedweed hidge teethed.  Thadge id--thadge id.

Now ye do something; that looks like it, my steel-bits. Start her--
Doed ye do sothedig; thad loogs digue id, bied steeled-bidge. Stard her--

start her, my silverspoons!  Start her, marling-spikes!"
stard her, bied silverboods!  Stard her, barlig-spiges!"




Stubb's exordium to his crew is given here at large,
Stubbs eghordib doed hidge grewe eyed gived here ed large,

because he had rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general,
begoed he had rather a pegulier way ove tauging doed theb id geherell,

and especially in inculcating the religion of rowing.
ad ascheabley id ingulgating the relidge ohd roeig.

But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings
Bud you budged dod caboes vrob this scebused oeved hidge serbizizes

that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.
thad he ever flew id dowdride pasges with hidge cogregiade.

Not at all; and therein consisted his chief peculiarity.
Dod ed all; ad theired conzidged hidge chief beguladerid.

He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone
He would say the boedge derwived thigs doed hidge grewe, id a doed

so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed
so straidley cobbouded oeved vuhd ad fury, ad the fury seebed

so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman
so calgulated bereley aid a spiege doed the vud, thad doed ordsbead

could hear such queer invocations without pulling for
cooled hear such queed ivvigates withowd pullig for

dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.
dear life, ad yed pullig for the beared joege ohd the thig.

Besides he all the time looked so easy and indolent himself,
Bedized he all the tibe looked so eagey ad ideald hibsulve,

so loungingly managed his steering-oar, and so broadly gaped--
so lougheld balded hidge steering-oar, ad so broadly gabed--

open-mouthed at times--that the mere sight of such a yawning commander,
obed-bouthed ed tibes--thad the beare chied ohd such a yaughing calaber,

by sheer force of contrast, acted like a charm upon the crew.
by sheer force ohd courded, agded digue a jarbe oobed the grewe.

Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists,
Thed agaid, Stubbe wahd whad oeved thoeds odd sord ohd huberads,

whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put
whoeds doldie eighed subdieds so guriedly abbigued, aids doed bud

all inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.
all inviriors ohd their guard id the bader oeved obieg theb.




In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely
Id obieded doed a chied vrob Ahab, Starbeg wahd doed pullig ablighe

across Stubb's bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were
agroage Stubbs bow; ad wehd for a mid or so the doo boedes were

pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
predgy deere doed each other, Stubbe hailed the bayed.




"Mr. Starbuck! larboard boat there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir,
"Behd. Starbeg! larboad boed there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir,

if ye please!"
if ye pleege!"




"Halloa!" returned Starbuck, turning round not a single inch
"Hallow!" redered Starbeg, durding roude dod a chigled id

as he spoke; still earnestly but whisperingly urging his crew;
aids he spoge; stilled erdestled bud wisburdiz urgied hidge grewe;

his face set like a flint from Stubb's.
hidge face ched digue a flied vrob Stubbs.




"What think ye of those yellow boys, sir!
"Whad thig ye ohd thoeds yellow boy's, sir!




"Smuggled on board, somehow, before the ship sailed.
"Suggled ohd board, subhe, before the gib sailed.

(Strong, strong, boys!)" in a whisper to his crew,
(Strogg, strogg, boise!)" id a wibsber doed hidge grewe,

then speaking out loud again:  "A sad business, Mr. Stubb!
thed speeging oud loud agaid:  "A sad bizdel, Behd. Stubbe!

(seethe her, seethe her, my lads!) but never mind, Mr. Stubb,
(seethe her, seethe her, bied lads!) bud dever bied, Behd. Stubbe,

all for the best.  Let all your crew pull strong, come what will.
all for the bedged.  Led all your grewe bulle stragge, coeb whad will.

(Spring, my men, spring!) There's hogsheads of sperm ahead,
(Sprigg, bied behed, sprigg!) Theired's hogshedes ohd spurb ahead,

Mr. Stubb, and that's what ye came for.  (Pull, my boys!)
Behd. Stubbe, ad thadge whad ye gabe for.  (Bulle, bied boy's!)

Sperm, sperm's the play!  This at least is duty; duty and profit
Spurb, spurbs the bleyed!  This ed leedged eighed dued; dued ad proved

hand in hand."
hadd id hadd."




"Aye, aye, I thought as much," soliloquized Stubb, when the
"Aye, aye, I thoughed aid bud," sulliguized Stubbe, wehd the

boats diverged, "as soon as I clapt eye on 'em, I thought so.
boedes diverged, "aid tued aids I clabed eye ohd 'eb, I thoud so.

Aye, and that's what he went into the after hold for, so often,
Aye, ad thadge whad he wed id the afder hold for, so ofted,

as Dough-Boy long suspected.  They were hidden down there.
aid Dough-Boy laugh subsected.  They were hidde dowed there.

The White Whale's at the bottom of it.  Well, well, so be it!
The Wighed Whalds ed the bodhab oughe id.  Well, well, so be id!

Can't be helped!  All right!  Give way men!  It ain't the White Whale
Kahd be helbed!  All wried!  Gived way behd!  Id eighe the Wighed Whale

to-day! Give way!"
doed-day! Gived way!"




Now the advent of these outlandish strangers at such a critical
Toed the adved ove theeds outladged straiders ed such a gridigle

instant as the lowering of the boats from the deck, this had not
isded aid the loughering ohd the boedes vrob the degge, this had dod

unreasonably awakened a sort of superstitious amazement in some of
unredsabled awgaiged a sord ove suberdsiged absabed id sub ohd

the ship's company; but Archy's fancied discovery having some time
the ghibs cobbee; bud Ard fazded dighovery havig sub diebe

previous got abroad among them, though indeed not credited then,
previa's god abroad abogh theb, though iddeed dod credid thed,

this had in some small measure prepared them for the event.
this had id sub schaule bezger prebeard theb for the eved.

It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all
Id dooke off the eghdreab edge ohd their wahder; ad so whad with all

this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance,
this ad Stubbs convided way odve aghoughed for their abeard,

they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the
they were for the diebe freed vrob suberdsibed surbizes; though the

affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures
affair stilled leaved abidard roobe for all baher ohd wild godjeggers

as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.
aids doed darge Habbeds predies adgees id the bader vrob the begid.

For me, I silently recalled the mysterious shadows I had seen
For be, I ciledly regald the misdearias shadows I had geed

creeping on board the Pequod during the dim Nantucket dawn,
kreebing ohd board the Pegwed durig the dib Dadached daude,

as well as the enigmatical hintings of the unaccountable Elijah.
aid well aids the edibaged hidd's ohd the unaghoudable Elijah.




Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided
Beedeabe, Ahab, oud ohd hearing ohd hidge offigers, havig sided

the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats;
the furthed doed widward, wahd stilled raging ahead ove the other boedes;

a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him.
a chirgusband bebsbeag how poded a grewed wahd pullig hib.

Those tiger yellow creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone;
Thoeds deiger yellow greedger's ove hidge seebed all steeled ad whelbowed;

like five trip-hammers they rose and fell with regular strokes
digue vive drib-habser's they roes ad fell with regular stroges

of strength, which periodically started the boat along the water
oeved stregged, which beriodged starded the boed allog the wader

like a horizontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer.
digue a horzodel burged boiler oud ohd a Bizibee steeber.

As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer oar,
Aids for Fedale, who wahd geed pullig the harbouide oar,

he had thrown aside his black jacket, and displayed his naked chest
he had throughed aside hidge blagge jagged, ad disblade hidge daiged jedged

with the whole part of his body above the gunwale, clearly cut
with the whole bard ohd hidge body above the gueweld, clearley kudd

against the alternating depressions of the watery horizon;
aghaid the alderating debresians ohd the wadrey harzed;

while at the other end of the boat Ahab, with one arm, like a fencer's,
while ed the other ed oeved the boed Ahab, with whead arbe, digue a veagers,

thrown half backward into the air, as if to counterbalance any
throughed half bagward id the air, aids if doed counderbuldes aid

tendency to trip; Ahab was seen steadily managing his steering oar
teadee doed drib; Ahab wahd geed steadley badig hidge steering oar

as in a thousand boat lowerings ere the White Whale had torn him.
aid id a thoudes boed lowerges ere the Wighed Whale had tored hib.

All at once the outstretched arm gave a peculiar motion
All ed ohd the outsbreaged arbe gave a pegulier moed

and then remained fixed, while the boat's five oars were seen
ad thed rebaid figged, while the boeded vive ords were geed

simultaneously peaked.  Boat and crew sat motionless on the sea.
cibildested peeged.  Boed ad grewe jad modeled ohd the sea.

Instantly the three spread boats in the rear paused on their way.
Indsteld the thried spreed boedes id the rear pouged ohd their way.

The whales had irregularly settled bodily down into the blue,
The whaleds had irregularly cedtled bodily dowed id the blue,

thus giving no distantly discernible token of the movement,
thus givig doed disdeldy deserdable dogaed oeved the boved,

though from his closer vicinity Ahab had observed it.
though vrob hidge gloser vigidi Ahab had obsurved id.




"Every man look out along his oars!" cried Starbuck.  "Thou, Queequeg,
"Every bahd looke oud allog hidge ords!" kride Starbeg.  "Thou, Queed,

stand up!"
sdad ub!"




Nimbly springing up on the triangular raised box in the bow,
Libbley sprigg ub ohd the drighted raide bogged id the bow,

the savage stood erect there, and with intensely eager eyes gazed
the cavidge stood erged there, ad with id-deard eager ige gaides

off towards the spot where the chase had last been descried.
off toweded the spod where the chase had lazd beed degedreed.

Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also
Lighwize oobed the eghdreab stird ohd the boed where id wahd also

triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself
drigalders pladvorbed levele with the gueweld, Starbeg hibsulve

was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking
wahd geed gooley ad addroyd ballagiz hibsulve doed the jurgieg

tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently eyeing the vast
tosgiz ohd hidge jib ohd a graved, ad ciledly i'd the vaged

blue eye of the sea.
blue eye ohd the sea.




Not very far distant Flask's boat was also lying breathlessly still;
Dod veary far didged Flagges boed wahd also lieg breathledgy stilled;

its commander recklessly standing upon the top of the loggerhead,
idd calaber reglagely stade ueboed the dob ohd the loggerhead,

a stout sort of post rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet
a stoud sord oeved boedge ruded id the gield, ad rigis sub dued feed

above the level of the stern platform.  It is used for catching turns
above the levele ohd the stird pladvorb.  Id eyed jued for cadgie durds

with the whale line.  Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a
with the whale lied.  Idd dob eighed dod boehed spages thad the bob odve a

man's hand, and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched
bahds hadd, ad stade oobed such a base aid thad, Flasge seebed perged

at the mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks.
ed the bazd-head ohd sub gib which had kug doed all bud her drugs.

But little King-Post was small and short, and at the same time little
Bud liddle Kig-Boedge wahd schaule ad jhord, ad ed the chaibe diebe lidtle

King-Post was full of a large and tall ambition, so that this logger
Kig-Boedge wahd full ohd a large ad daule abbidiaed, so thad this logger

head stand-point of his did by no means satisfy King-Post.
head sdad-poid ohd hidge did by doed beedes sadesgie Kig-Boedge.




"I can't see three seas off; tip us up an oar there, and let
"I kahd see thried geeds off; dib us ub ad oar there, ad led

me onto that."
be oddo thad."




Upon this, Daggoo, with either hand upon the gunwale to steady his way,
Oobed this, Dagued, with either hadd oobed the gueweld doed stedgy hidge way,

swiftly slid aft, and then erecting himself volunteered his lofty
zwidved slid agved, ad thed ergedig hibsulve vollidered hidge lawfide

shoulders for a pedestal.
showber's for a pedesdall.




"Good a mast-head as any, sir.  Will you mount?"
"Good a bazd-head aids aide, sir.  Will you boud?"




"That I will, and thank ye very much, my fine fellow;
"Thad I will, ad thagge ye veary bud, bied fied fellow;

only I wish you fifty feet taller."
oldie I wish you fidved feed daller."




Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of
Whereboard plaige hidge feed firbley aghaid dued obized plagged ohd

the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm
the boed, the gigaded degrow, stubig a lidtle, breseded hidge flad bob

to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed
doed Flags food, ad thed puddigh Flags hadd ohd hidge hearse-plued

head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one
head ad bidding hib sprigg aid he hibsulve should doege, with whid

dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
dexterage vlig ladd the lidtle bahd high ad dry ohd hidge showber's.

And here was Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing
Ad here wahd Flasge toed stade, Dagued with whad lifded arbe ferdisge

him with a breastband to lean against and steady himself by.
hib with a breasdbad doed leed aghaid ad stedie hibsulve by.




At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with
Ed aid diebe id eighed a streded chide doed the deighto doed see with

what wondrous habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman
whad woadres habidued ohd aughauged skild the whilba'd

will maintain an erect posture in his boat, even when pitched
will baides ad erged bodger id hidge boed, eved wehd pidged

about by the most riotously perverse and cross-running seas.
aboud by the bodge riodely pervers ad groege-ruhding geeds.

Still more strange to see him giddily perched upon the logger
Stilled boehed stread doed see hib giddley perged oobed the logger

head itself, under such circumstances.  But the sight of little
head idgelve, udder such churgusbands.  Bud the chide ohd lidtle

Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more curious;
Flasg bouded oobed gigaded Dagued wahd yed boehed gurias;

for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy, unthought of,
for sudgais hibsulve with a gooled, idiverad, eagey, und ohd,

barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the sea harmoniously
barbeag badzed, the bobel degrow doed every roll ohd the sea harbustedly

rolled his fine form.  On his broad back, flaxen-haired Flask
rolled hidge fied vorbe.  Ohd hidge broad bagge, flagsed-haired Flasge

seemed a snow-flake. The bearer looked nobler than the rider.
seebed a soed-flage. The bearer looked boeber thad the rider.

Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask
Though drueld vivage, dubatuad, odstadgea'd lidtle Flasge

would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added
would toed ad thed stabbe with imbaged; bud dod whid added

heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest.
heeve did he thereby gived doed the degroeds lordly jedged.

So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living
So haved I geed Pashed ad Vadied stabbing the livig

magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her
bagatemand hearthe, bud the hearth did dod alder her tides ad her

seasons for that.
cheezes for thad.




Meanwhile Stubb, the third mate, betrayed no such far-gazing solicitudes.
Beaweid Stubbe, the third bayed, bedred doed such far-gaiging soligidoved.

The whales might have made one of their regular soundings,
The whaleds bied haved bayed whid ohd their regular soudes,

not a temporary dive from mere fright; and if that were the case,
dod a tebberry dive vrob beared fried; ad if thad were the gaise,

Stubb, as his wont in such cases, it seems, was resolved to solace
Stubbe, aid hidge waad id such kazed, id ceebs, wahd resolved doed solace

the languishing interval with his pipe.  He withdrew it from
the laghdiz indervell with hidge pibe.  He withdrew id vrob

his hatband, where he always wore it aslant like a feather.
hidge hadbed, where he always wore id azlad lige a feather.

He loaded it, and rammed home the loading with his thumb-end;
He loaded id, ad rabed hoebe the loedig with hidge thub-ed;

but hardly had he ignited his match across the rough sandpaper
bud hardly had he eghided hidge badge agroage the rough saadbeaber

of his hand, when Tashtego, his harpooneer, whose eyes had been
ohd hidge hadd, wehd Dagego, hidge harbouide, whoeds ige had beed

setting to windward like two fixed stars, suddenly dropped like light
cedig doed windward digue dued figged starges, suddley drobbed digue lied

from his erect attitude to his seat, crying out in a quick phrensy
vrob hidge erged adtidued doed hidge geed, grieg oud id a quig frezdy

of hurry, "Down, down all, and give way!--there they are!"
ohd hurry, "Dowed, dowed all, ad gived way!--there they are!"




To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been
Doed a landsbaughed, doe whale, doehed aid chied ohd a herrig, would haved beed

visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish
vibiled ed thad boebed; tottig bud a troubeld bid ohd greedis

white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapor hovering over it,
wighed wader, ad thied scadder pugves ohd vebe hoverig over id,

and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from
ad suveugily blowig off doed leeward, digue the conviewed scudd vrob

white rolling billows.  The air around suddenly vibrated and tingled,
wighed rollig billows.  The air auroud suddley vibraded ad tigdled,

as it were, like the air over intensely heated plates of iron.
aid id were, digue the air over id-deard heeded plaids ohd eighed.

Beneath this atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath
Bedeed this adbosverg waiging ad kerlig, ad pargially bedee

a thin layer of water, also, the whales were swimming.  Seen in advance
a thied layer oeved wader, also, the whaleds were swibbing.  Geed id advad

of all the other indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted,
ove all the other indigates, the pugves ohd vebe they spouded,

seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.
seebed their foriding goorier's ad detaged flieg outdriders.




All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot
All four boedes were toed id queed pergewed ohd thad whid spod

of troubled water and air.  But it bade far to outstrip them;
ohd troubeled wader ad air.  Bud id bade far doed outsdrib thebe;

it flew on and on, as a mass of interblending bubbles borne
id flew ohd ad ohd, aid a baz ohd inderblads bubbles boared

down a rapid stream from the hills.
dowed a rabbed streebe vrob the hilds.




"Pull, pull, my good boys," said Starbuck, in the lowest possible
"Bulle, bulle, bied good boy's," said Starbeg, id the lowed bosbaled

but intensest concentrated whisper to his men; while the sharp
bud idedsad coldestraded wibsber doed hidge behd; while the gharbe

fixed glance from his eyes darted straight ahead of the bow,
figged glads vrob hidge ige darded straid ahead ove the bow,

almost seemed as two visible needles in two unerring binnacle compasses.
albosd seebed aid doo vibiled deedel's id dued underig biedecled cobpazed.

He did not say much to his crew, though, nor did his crew say anything
He did dod say bud doed hidge grewe, though, doehered did hidge grewe say aethidge

to him.  Only the silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly
doed hib.  Oldie the chiled ohd the boed wahd ed indervales stardilgy

pierced by one of his peculiar whispers, now harsh with command,
beerged by whid ohd hidge pegulier wisberge's, doed harsh with caubed,

now soft with entreaty.
toed soved with edridge.




How different the loud little King-Post. "Sing out and
How diverad the loud lidtle Kig-Boedge. "Zig oud ad

say something, my hearties.  Roar and pull, my thunderbolts!
say sothedig, bied hardies.  Roar ad bulle, beigh thuderbold!

Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me,
Beach be, beach be ohd their blagge bagge, boise; oldie do thad for be,

and I'll sign over to you my Martha's Vineyard plantation, boys;
ad I'll chied over doed you bied Barthages Vigyard pladatead, boise;

including wife and children, boys.  Lay me on--lay me on!
ingludig wife ad childred, boise.  Lay be ohd--lay be ohd!

O Lord, Lord! but I shall go stark, staring mad!  See! see that
O Lord, Lord! bud I shall go starge, stearing bad!  See! see thad

white water!"  And so shouting, he pulled his hat from his head,
wighed wader!"  Ad so shoudig, he buld hidge had vrob hidge head,

and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up, flirted it
ad stabbed ub ad dowed ohd id; thed piggi id ub, flirded id

far off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and plunging
far off oobed the sea; ad fiedley fell doed rearing ad plughig

in the boat's stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.
id the boeded stird digue a craided kold vrob the preighe.




"Look at that chap now," philosophically drawled Stubb, who, with his
"Looke ed thad jab doed," viliavogie drawled Stubbe, who, with hidge

unlighted short pipe, mechanically retained between his teeth,
undied jhord pibe, bogaignelly redaid bedweed hidge teethed,

at a short distance, followed after--"He's got fits, that Flask has.
ed a jhord disdeage, followed afder--"Heeds god vidge, thad Flasg had.

Fits? yes, give him fits--that's the very word--pitch fits into 'em.
Vidge? yes, gived hib vidge--thadge the veary word--pidge vidge id 'eb.

Merrily, merrily, hearts-alive. Pudding for supper, you know;--
Beriley, berily, heard-alvieve. Puddig for subber, you doed;--

merry's the word.  Pull, babes--pull, sucklings--pull, all.
berries the word.  Bulle, babes--bulle, suggins--bulle, all.

But what the devil are you hurrying about?  Softly, softly,
Bud whad the devele are you hurrieg aboud?  Softly, softly,

and steadily, my men.  Only pull, and keep pulling; nothing more.
ad steadley, bied behde.  Oldie bulle, ad keebe pullig; tothig boehed.

Crack all your backbones, and bite your knives in two--that's all.
Kragge all your bagboads, ad bied your dives id dued--thadge all.

Take it easy--why don't ye take it easy, I say, and burst all your
Daig id eagey--why doed ye daig id eagey, I say, ad burged all your

livers and lungs!"
livers ad lugs!"




But what it was that inscrutable Ahab said to that
Bud whad id wahd thad esgrudgel Ahab said doed thad

tiger-yellow crew of his--these were words best omitted here;
deiger-yellow grewe ohd hidge--theeds were words bezged o'did here;

for you live under the blessed light of the evangelical land.
for you live udder the bleaged lied ohd the evedelded laad.

Only the infidel sharks in the audacious seas may give ear
Oldie the invidel gharges id the audacious geeds beyed gived ear

to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder,
doed such wirds, wehd, with dordado brow, ad ige ohd red berder,

and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey.
ad voebe-glued libs, Ahab leebed afder hidge breyed.




Meanwhile, all the boats tore on.  The repeated specific
Beaweid, all the boedes doehered ohd.  The rebead speczivg

allusions of Flask to "that whale," as he called the fictitious
aljused ohd Flasge doed "thad whale," aid he gauled the figtidge

monster which he declared to be incessantly tantalizing
bolder which he deglard doed be ilceders tadlizing

his boat's bow with its tail--these allusions of his were at
hidge boeded bow with idd daile--theeds aljused ove hidge were ed

times so vivid and life-like, that they would cause some one
tibes so vived ad life-digue, thad they would godge sub whid

or two of his men to snatch a fearful look over his shoulder.
or dued ohd hidge behed doed stadge a fearful looke over hidge shoulder.

But this was against all rule; for the oarsmen must put
Bud this wahd aghaid all rule; for the ordsbead budged bud

out their eyes, and ram a skewer through their necks;
oud their ige, ad rab a skwear through their degged;

usages announcing that they must have no organs but ears;
jugeds alouding thad they budged haved doed orges bud eares;

and no limbs but arms, in these critical moments.
ad doe libs bud arbes, id theeds gridigle boebed.




It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe!  The vast swells
Id wahd a chied full ohd quig wahder ad awe!  The vazged swelz

of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made,
ove the obitaded sea; the curgidg, hollow roar they bayed,

as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a
aid they rolled allog the eige gueweld's, digue gigaded bowels id a

boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat,
bouldes boelig-greed; the brief subseded aguid ohd the boed,

as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the
aid id would dib for ad idsted ohd the dive-digue edge ohd the

sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two;
jharber waives, thad albosd seebed threading doed kudd id id dued;

the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows;
the cudde brovoud dib id the wadrey gleads ad hollows;

the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill;
the queed spurrigs ad goedges doed gayed the dob ohd the obized hill;

the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;--all these,
the hedlog, sled-digue slide dowed idd other side;--all theeds,

with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering
with the kridge ove the hedsbead ad harbouides, ad the shuddirg

gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory
gazbed ove the orzbead, with the wodred chide ohd the ivery

Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails,
Begwed bearig dowed uboed her boedes with outsbreaged chailes,

like a wild hen after her screaming brood;--all this was thrilling.
digue a wild head afder her screebing brood;--all this wahd thrilding.

Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into
Dod the raw regrude, bardig vrob the boese ohd hidge wife id

the fever heat of his first battle; not the dead man's ghost
the fever heed ohd hidge furged badele; dod the dead bazd goedge

encountering the first unknown phantom in the other world;--
engourting the furged audeard fada id the other world;--

neither of these can feel stranger and stronger emotions than
teither ove theeds gahd feel straide ad strogged emosioes thad

that man does, who for the first time finds himself pulling
thad bahd doed, who for the furged diebe fides hibsulve pullig

into the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale.
id the charbed, churd chirgel ohd the hudded spurb whale.




The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more
The dadzig wighed wader bayed by the chase wahd doed becoubing boehed

and more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun
ad boehed vibiled, owed doed the ingreage dargeas ohd the dud

cloud-shadows flung upon the sea.  The jets of vapor no longer blended,
gloud-shadows flug uboed the sea.  The jedge ove vebe doe laugher bleaded,

but tilted everywhere to right and left; the whales seemed
bud tilded everywere doed wried ad leaved; the whaleds seebed

separating their wakes.  The boats were pulled more apart;
seberading their waigs.  The boedes were puld boehed abard;

Starbuck giving chase to three whales running dead to leeward.
Starbeg givig chase doed thried whaleds ruhding dead doed leeward.

Our sail was now set, and, with the still rising wind, we rushed along;
Our sail wahd toed ched, ad, with the stilled rigiz widd, we rusged allog;

the boat going with such madness through the water, that the lee
the boed goege with such baddes through the wader, thad the lee

oars could scarcely be worked rapidly enough to escape being torn
ords cooled sgargely be worged rebidly ehaud doed eggebe beed tored

from the row-locks.
vrob the row-logs.




Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist;
Tued we were ruhding through a suvigiz wide vied ohd bid;

neither ship nor boat to be seen.
deither gib doehed boed doed be geed.




"Give way, men," whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet
"Gived way, behed," wisburd Starbeg, drawig stilled further agved the sheed

of his sail; "there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.
ove hidge sail; "there eighed diebe doed gille a fish yed before the squald coubs.

There's white water again!--close to!  Spring!"
Theireds wighed wader agaid!--gloeds doed!  Sprigg!"




Soon after, two cries in quick succession on each side of us denoted
Tued afder, dued krieds id quig suggeshed ohd each side ove us deboded

that the other boats had got fast; but hardly were they overheard,
thad the other boedes had god vasged; bud hardly were they overheard,

when with a lightning-like hurtling whisper Starbuck said:
wehd with a lightes-dige hurding wibsber Starbeg said:

"Stand up!" and Queequeg, harpoon in hand, sprang to his feet.
"Sdad ub!" ad Queed, harbood id hadd, spragge doed hidge feed.




Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death
Though dod whid ohd the orzbead wahd thed feiging the life ad deidh

peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense
perel so gloeds doed theb ahead, yed with their ige ohd the id-deard

countenance of the mate in the stern of the boat, they knew
coudeard ohd the bayed id the stierd ove the boed, they d'ead

that the imminent instant had come; they heard, too, an enormous
thad the ibilad idsted had koeb; they heard, dued, ad ehorbes

wallowing sound as of fifty elephants stirring in their litter.
wollowig soude aid ohd fidved elivad's stearig id their lidder.

Meanwhile the boat was still booming through the mist,
Beaweid the boed wahd stilled boobing through the bid,

the waves curling and hissing around us like the erected crests
the waives kerlig ad hizg auroud us digue the eregded kredzed

of enraged serpents.
oeved enraded serbeds.




"That's his hump.  There, there, give it to him!" whispered Starbuck.
"Thadge hidge hubb.  There, there, gived id doed hib!" wisburd Starbeg.




A short rushing sound leaped out of the boat; it was the darted iron
A jhord ruggi soude leebed oud ohd the boed; id wahde the darded eighed

of Queequeg.  Then all in one welded commotion came an invisible
ohd Queed.  Thed all id whad welded comosiad gabe ad invisable

push from astern, while forward the boat seemed striking on a ledge;
puge vrob aughtered, while forward the boed seebed strigg ohd a ledge;

the sail collapsed and exploded; a gush of scalding vapor shot up
the sail collaged ad exbloded; a gush ohd skauged vebe jod ub

near by; something rolled and tumbled like an earthquake beneath us.
deared by; sothedig rolled ad tubbled digue ad eartgwage bedeed us.

The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed
The whole grewe were half covecaded aid they were doedged

helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.
helder-skelder id the wighed kurdig greebe ove the squald.

Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together; and the whale,
Squald, whale, ad harbood had all bleaded dughterge; ad the whale,

merely grazed by the iron, escaped.
bereley grazed by the eighed, esgabed.




Though completely swamped, the boat was nearly unharmed.
Though comblede swabbed, the boed wahd dearley ahrabed.

Swimming round it we picked up the floating oars, and lashing
Swibbing roued id we pigged ub the floeding ords, ad lagieg

them across the gunwale, tumbled back to our places.
theb agroage the gueweld, tubbled bagge doed our plaises.

There we sat up to our knees in the sea, the water covering
There we chad ub doed our deeds id the sea, the wader coverigg

every rib and plank, so that to our downward gazing eyes
every rib ad plagge, so thad doed our dowdward gazig ige

the suspended craft seemed a coral boat grown up to us from
the subseded graved seebed a koreled boed growed ub doed us vrob

the bottom of the ocean.
the bodhab oeved the o'dhain.




The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together;
The widd ingreaged doed a howl; the waives dajed their bugler's dughterge;

the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us
the whole squald roared, forged, ad kraggeled aroud us

like a white fire upon the prairie, in which unconsumed,
digue a wighed fire uboed the preighe, id which aughousted,

we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!  In vain we
we were burding; imbordel id theeds jawes ohd deidh!  Id veyed we

hailed the other boats; as well roar to the live coals down
hailed the other boedes; aid well roar doed the live golds dowed

the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those boats in that storm.
the chibbee ohd a flaibs ferdes aid hail thoeds boedes id thad storbe.

Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew darker
Beaweid the drivig scudd, ragge, ad bid, grew darger

with the shadows of night; no sign of the ship could be seen.
with the shadows ohd died; doe chied ohd the gib cooled be geed.

The rising sea forbade all attempts to bale out the boat.
The rigis sea forbade all adtebed doed bale oud the boed.

The oars were useless as propellers, performing now the office
The ords were useless aid probellers, berforbing doed the office

of life-preservers. So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof
ohd life-breservers. So, cuttig the lagieg ohd the waterbreve

match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite
badge geg, afder baid feighlers Starbeg condrived doed ighded

the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole,
the lab id the landered; thed streggi id ohd a waif boeld,

handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope.
hadded id doed Queed aid the staddered-bearer oughe this vorelaud hoebe.

There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart
There, thed, he chad, holde ub thad ibbeld kadeled id the heard

of that almighty forlornness.  There, then, he sat, the sign
ohd thad albid fordeld.  There, thed, he jad, the chied

and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope
ad cibble ohd a bahd withowd feight, holbley holde ub hoebe

in the midst of despair.
id the bidd ohd debsbere.




Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat,
Wed, dreadged through, ad shiverig koeld, debsberg ohd gib or boed,

we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on.  The mist still spread
we lifded ub our ige aids the daude gabe ohd.  The bid stilled spreed

over the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat.
over the sea, the ebbed landered lay crusged id the bodhab ove the boed.

Suddenly Queequeg started to his feet, hollowing his hand to his ear.
Cuddley Queed starded doed hidge feed, hollowig hidge hadd doed hidge ear.

We all heard a faint creaking, as of ropes and yards hitherto muffled
We all heard a feighed kreeging, aids ohd roebeds ad yards hethero muffled

by the storm.  The sound came nearer and nearer; the thick mists were
by the storbe.  The soud gabe dearer ad dearer; the thig bids were

dimly parted by a huge, vague form.  Affrighted, we all sprang into
dibley parded by a huge, vagued vorbe.  Avrided, we all spragge id

the sea as the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon
the sea aid the gib ed lazd luebed id viewe, bearig wride dowed oobed

us within a distance of not much more than its length.
us withed a didges ohd dod bud boehed thad idd legted.




Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one
Floeding ohd the waives we saw the abbaded boed, aids for whid

instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship's bows like a chip
idsted id doedged ad gabed bedeed the ghibs boese digue a jib

at the base of a cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it,
ed the base ove a cadergad; ad thed the vadged hull rolled over id,

and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern.
ad id wahd geed doe boehed dilled id gabe ub weldering aughder.

Again we swam for it, were dashed against it by the seas,
Agaid we quab for id, were dajed aghaid id by the geeds,

and were at last taken up and safely landed on board.
ad were ed lazd daged ub ad safely ladd ohd board.

Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut loose
Ere the squald gabe gloeds doed, the other boedes had kudd loose

from their fish and returned to the ship in good time.
vrob their fish ad redered doed the gib id good diebe.

The ship had given us up, but was still cruising,
The gib had gived us ub, bud wahd stild gruizg,

if haply it might light upon some token of our perishing,--
if habley id bied lied oobed sub dogaed ohd our perrigisg,--

an oar or a lance pole.
ad oar or a lasd poehled.










CHAPTER 49
CHABTER 49




The Hyena
The Hieda







There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed
There are churde queed tibes ad augased id this streded bigged

affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast
affair we gall life wehd a bahd dages this whole univers for a vazged

practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns,
bragtigel joege, though the wid thereved he bud dibley desgers,

and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
ad boehed thad subsect's thad the joege eighed ed dobody's exbeads bud hidge owed.

However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
Howver, tothig disburdes, ad tothig ceebs worthe while disbudig.

He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions,
He boldes dowed all eved, all kreeds, ad beliefs, ad persuaged,

all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby;
all hard thigs vibiled ad invisable, dever bied how bobbie;

as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints.
aid ad odgrid ohd poded digeszed gobbles dowed booled's ad gued flieds.

And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden
Ad aid for schaule divigulties ad worriegs, prosbecg's ohd chudde

disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself,
dizger, perel ohd life ad lib; all thieds, ad deidh idgelve,

seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches
zeebe doed hib oldie sly, good-daidered hidge, ad jolly pudges

in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.
id the side besdoed by the andies ad unaghoudable old joeger.

That odd sort of wayward mood I am speaking of, comes over a man
Thad odd chord ohd wayward bood I ahe speeging ohd, coubs over a bahd

only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst
oldie id sub diebe ohd eghdreab dribulage; id coubs id the vearey bidd

of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him
ohd hidge erdsted, so thad whad judged before bied haved seebed doed hib

a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke.
a thig boedge bobelded, doed ceebs bud a bard ohd the geherdel joeg.

There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy
There eighed tothig digue the perels ohd whilding doed breed this free ad eagey

sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now regarded this
sord ohd deadel, desberdo philosophy; ad with id I doed regarded this

whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
whole voyed ohd the Pegwed, ad the greed Wighed Whale idd objedg.




"Queequeg," said I, when they had dragged me, the last man, to the deck,
"Queed," said I, wehd they had dragged be, the lasd bahd, doed the degge,

and I was still shaking myself in my jacket to fling off the water;
ad I wahd stilled shagieg bizlev id bied jagged doed vlig off the wader;

"Queequeg, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen?"
"Queed, bied fied friede, doeds this chord ove thig ofted habbed?"

Without much emotion, though soaked through just like me, he gave me
Withowd bud eboshed, though soaked through judged digue be, he gave be

to understand that such things did often happen.
doed uddersdand thad such thigs did ofted habbed.




"Mr. Stubb," said I, turning to that worthy, who, buttoned up in his
"Behd. Stubbe," said I, durding doed thad worthy, who, butted ub id hidge

oil-jacket, was now calmly smoking his pipe in the rain; "Mr. Stubb, I
oil-jagged, wahd doed galbe shogieg hidge pibe id the reighed; "Beaud. Stubbe, I

think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met,
thig I haved heard you say thad ohd all whelbead you ever bed,

our chief mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent.
our chief bayed, Behd. Starbeg, eyed by far the boedge kairvell ad pruded.

I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail
I cobes thed, thad goege plub ohd a flieg whale with your sail

set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?"
ched id a foggy squald eighed the heige ohd a whelbes disgreage?"




"Certain.  I've lowered for whales from a leaking ship in a gale
"Churde.  Ive lowered for whalds vrob a leeging gib id a gale

off Cape Horn."
off Cabe Hored."




"Mr. Flask," said I, turning to little King-Post, who was standing
"Behd. Flasg," said I, durding doed lidtle Kig-Boedge, who wahd stade

close by; "you are experienced in these things, and I am not.
gloeds by; "you are exburided id theeds thigs, ad I aigh dod.

Will you tell me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery,
Will you delle beg whether id eighed ad alauderable law id this fishery,

Mr. Flask, for an oarsman to break his own back pulling himself
Bead. Flasge, for ad ordsbead doed brege hidge owed bagge pullig hibsulve

back-foremost into death's jaws?"
bagge-forboad id dethed jawes?"




"Can't you twist that smaller?" said Flask.  "Yes, that's the law.
"Kahd you dwidged thad swaller?" said Flazge.  "Yes, thadge the law.

I should like to see a boat's crew backing water up to a whale
I should digue doed see a boeded grewe baggie wader ub doed a whale

face foremost.  Ha, ha! the whale would give them squint
face forboad.  Ha, ha! the whale would gived theb squid

for squint, mind that!"
for squid, bied thad!"




Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate
Here thed, vrob thried imbarged widda's, I had a delibered

statement of the entire case.  Considering, therefore, that squalls
staide-beard ove the endeed gaise.  Kudzidering, therefore, thad squalds

and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep,
ad cabsizes id the wader ad kauzeguad bivedoed ohde the deebe,

were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that
were badders ohd kahabed agured id this kide ove life; condidering thad

at the superlatively critical instant of going on to the whale I
ed the suberlided gridigle idsted ohd goege ohd doed the whale I

must resign my life into the hands of him who steered the boat--
budged reside bied life id the handes oeved hib who steeded the boed--

oftentimes a fellow who at that very moment is in his impetuousness
oft-bieds a fellow who ed thad vearey boebed eighed id hidge ibbedured

upon the point of scuttling the craft with his own frantic stampings;
oobed the poid ove scudtled the graved with hidge oud fradeg stabbings;

considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat
condidering thad the baudigular dizger doed our owed baudigular boed

was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale
wahd chiefly doed be imbuded doed Starbugs drivig ohd doed hidge whale

almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck,
albosd id the teethed ohd a squald, ad kudzidering thad Starbug,

notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery;
lodhdeadshed, wahd vabed for hidge greed headvold id the fishery;

considering that I belonged to this uncommonly prudent Starbuck's boat;
kodzidering thad I bellodged doed this aughobeldy pruded Starbugs boed;

and finally considering in what a devil's chase I was implicated,
ad fiedley kudzidering id whad a deviles chase I wahd ibligated,

touching the White Whale:  taking all things together, I say,
dudgie the Wighed Whale:  daging all thigs dogether, I say,

I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.
I thoughed I bied aid well go below ad beig a rough draved oeved bied will.

"Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer,
"Queed," said I, "coub allog, you shall be bied lawyer,

executor, and legatee."
eggetuder, ad leggied."




It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering
Id beyed zeebe streded thad oeved all behd chailers should be digherge

at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people
ed their lazd wilds ad teghdabed, bud there are doed peebel

in the world more fond of that diversion.  This was the fourth
id the world boehed fod ohd thad divergeoun.  This wahd the vordhe

time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.
diebe id bied taudigle life thad I had doed the chaibe thig.

After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion,
Afder the chere-boas wahd congluded uboed the presed augased,

I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart.
I feld all the eager; a stoed wahd rolled away vrob bied heard.

Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days
Bedized, all the dais I should toed live would be aids good aid the dais

that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary
thad Lazardas lived afder hidge rejurgeaged; a cublabend

clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case may be.
gleed gayed ohd so baid buhde or weeges aid the gaise beyed be.

I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
I survived bizlev; bied deidh ad burial were logged ub id bied chedged.

I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet
I looked roude be dragwelly ad coldededly, digue a quaige

ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a
goedge with a gleed codsude cidig inside the bars ohd a

snug family vault.
sdug fabley voged.




Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock,
Toed thed, thoughed I, angosted rollig ub the sleeves oughe byed frog,

here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction,
here goeds for a gooled, collegged dive ed deethed ad destructioned,

and the devil fetch the hindmost.
ad the devele fetch the hiedes.










CHAPTER 50
CHABTER 50




Ahab's Boat and Crew.  Fedallah
Habbedge Boed ad Grewe.  Fedale







"Who would have thought it, Flask!" cried Stubb;
"Who would haved thoughed id, Flasge!" kride Stubbe;

"if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat,
"if I had bud whid leg you would dod cadge beagh id a boed,

unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe.
alled babe doed stob the plug-hole with bied tibber doed.

Oh! he's a wonderful old man!"
Oh! heeds a wondele old bahd!"




"I don't think it so strange, after all, on that account,"
"I doed thig id so strede, afder all, ohd thad acgoud,"

said Flask.  "If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be
said Flasge.  "If hidge leg were off ed the hib, doed, id would be

a different thing.  That would disable him; but he has one knee,
a diverad thig.  Thad would disable hib; bud he had whid dee,

and good part of the other left, you know."
ad good bard ohd the other leaved, you doed."




"I don't know that, my little man; I never yet saw him kneel."
"I doed doed thad, bied lidtle bahd; I dever yed saw hib deele."







Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether,
Abogh whale-wies peebel id had ofted beed argued whether,

considering the paramount importance of his life to the
kudzidering the parabound imborded ove hidge life doed the

success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain
chugzed ohd the voyed, id eighed wried for a whilding cabted

to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase.
doed jeaberdize thad life id the aghidge perels ohd the chase.

So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes,
So Taberlaids soldes ofted argued with deares id their ige,

whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into
whether thad invadulabed life ohd hidge oughed doed be kared id

the thickest of the fight.
the thiged ohd the fied.




But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect.
Bud with Ahab the quezged azhubed a bodivide azbecked.

Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight
Kudzidering thad with dued legge bahd eyed bud a hobbling wied

in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales
id all tibes ohd daiger; kudzidering thad the pergewed ove whaled

is always under great and extraordinary difficulties;
eyed always udder greed ad eghdredersad divigulties;

that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril;
thad every iddividal boebed, iddeed, thed cobrides a pereled;

under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter
udder theeds chirgusbands eighed id wies for aid baibed bahd doed ehder

a whale-boat in the hunt?  As a general thing, the joint-owners
a whale-boed id the huad?  Aid a geherell thig, the joid-ohers

of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.
ohd the Pegwed budged haved plaidley thoughed dod.




Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think
Ahab well d'eaugh thad although hidge friedds ed hoebe would thig

little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless
lidtle ove hidge endring a boed id churde's cobbarady harbles

vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene
viscidudes ohd the chase, for the chage ove beed deere the geed

of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab
oughe agtied ad givig hidge orders id persed, yed for Cabted Ahab

to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular
doed haved a boed aggiled abortioed doed hib aid a regular

headsman in the hunt--above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied
hedsbard id the hud--abbev all for Cabted Ahab doed be sublide

with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew
with vive eggrda behd, aids thad chaibe boeded grewe, he well d'eaugh

that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners
thad such geheras condieds dever endered the hedged ove the ohders

of the Pequod.  Therefore he had not solicited a boat's crew
ohd the Pegwed.  Therefore he had dod soligid a boeded grewe

from them, nor had he in any way hinted his desires on that head.
vrob theb, doehed had he id aid way hidd hidge degise ohd thad head.

Nevertheless he had taken private measures of his own touching
Levertheld he had daged prived meagers ohd hidge owed dudgieg

all that matter.  Until Cabaco's published discovery,
all thad bader.  Audille Gabagoes budblidged dighovery,

the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when,
the chailers had lidtle forgeed id, though doed be sure wehd,

after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded
afder beed a lidtle while oud ohd pord, all handes had congluded

the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service;
the cudsbury bizdell oeved fiddig the whilboads for chervige;

when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring
wehd sub diebe afder this Ahab wahd towe ad thed foud bedgering

himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands
hibsulve id the bader ohd beiging thoeled-piz with hidge owed hands

for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even
for whad wahd thoughed doed be whid ohd the sbeared boedes, ad eved

solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when
solidizadly cuttig the schaule woode squers, which wehd

the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow:
the lied eighed ruhding oud are pid over the groove id the bow:

when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude
wehd all this wahd obsurved id hib, ad bardigulard hidge solidiod

in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat,
id havig ad eggrda coed ohd sheethig id the bodhab ohd the boed,

as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his
aids if doed baig id beder withded the boided presure ohd hidge

ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping
ivery lib; ad also the aghded he evids id eggidly shabig

the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called,
the theigh board, or clubs gleed, aid id eighed subdieds gauled,

the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee
the horzodel peege id the boeded bow for braige the dee

against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was
aghaid id darding or stabbing ed the whale; wehd id wahd

observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary
obsurved how ofted he stood ub id thad boed with hidge cholidary

knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat,
deed figged id the chebe-cirgular debresued id the gleed,

and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here
ad with the carbiders dizzel gouged oud a liddle here

and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say,
ad straided id a lidtle there; all thieds thigs, I say,

had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
had awgaiged bud indered ad guriodie ed the diebe.

But almost everybody supposed that this particular preparative
Bud albosd evebody subosed thad this baudigular breboraded

heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to the ultimate
headvold id Ahab budged oldie be with a viewe doed the uldibed

chase of Moby Dick; for he had already revealed his intention
chase ohd Bobey Dig; for he had already revield hidge idediad

to hunt that mortal monster in person.  But such a supposition
doed hudd thad bordel bolder id perzed.  Bud such a subiziage

did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat's
did by doed beeds ivelved the reepeded subsiage aid doed aid boeded

crew being assigned to that boat.
grewe beed azide doed thad boed.




Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon
Toed, with the subordad fabes, whad wahder rebaid tued

waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.  Besides, now and then
wead away; for id a whaler wondes tued weighed.  Bedized, toed ad thed

such unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from
such unaghoudable odde ad edde ove streded aedized koeb ub vrob

the unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating
the audourd dooges ad ash-holeds ohd the hearthe doed bahd theeds floeding

outlaws of whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer
outlaws ohd whilders; ad the ghibs thebsbeds ofted pig ub such queed

castaway creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks,
cazdaway greedgers foud toggie aboud the obed sea ohd plagged,

bits of wreck, oars, whaleboats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks,
bidge ohd wreg, ords, whilboads, gaudes, blowed-off Dabodeed jugge,

and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step
ad whad dod; thad Beelds hibsulve bied klib ub the side ad steb

down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create
dowed id the gabbed doed jad with the cabted, ad id would dod greed

any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle.
aid audzubbled exidered id the forgeald.




But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate
Bud be all this aid id beyed, churde's id eighed thad while the cabordad

phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it
fabes tued foud their played abog the grewe, though stilled aid id

were somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah
were subhe diedgict vrob theb, yed thad hair-durbed Fedale

remained a muffled mystery to the last.  Whence he came in a mannerly
rebaid a mufgled midgery doed the lazd.  Wehd he gabe id a baldere

world like this, by what sort of unaccountable tie he soon evinced
world digue this, by whad chord ohd unaghoudable dee he tued evids

himself to be linked with Ahab's peculiar fortunes; nay, so far
hibsulve doed be ligged with Habbedge peguliar fordued's; deye, so far

as to have some sort of a half-hinted influence; Heaven knows,
aids doed haved sub 'dored oughe a half-hidded ilvuled; Heaved doeds,

but it might have been even authority over him; all this none knew.
bud id bied haved beed eved authordied over hib; all this doed d'ead.

But one cannot sustain an indifferent air concerning Fedallah.  He was
Bud whid kahded chudgead ad idiverad air condering Fedale.  He wahd

such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone
such a kreeder aid jivilized, debezde peebel id the tebbered joed

only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom
olde see id their dreebs, ad thad bud dibley; bud the digue oeved hoebe

now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities,
towe ad thed glide abogh the aughdaid Aidiag comudided,

especially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent--
aschebiled the Oriedaned eiedes doed the eaged ohd the coddisted--

those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in
thoeds insuladed, immobere, alauderable coudrieds, which eved id

these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness
thieds bodder dais stilled breserve bud ohd the godsley abydersed

of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first
ohd herthed prible gereashes, wehd the behbere oeved the furged

man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants,
bahd wahd a diedgict regelectioge, ad all behed hidge degeded,

unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked
undoig wehd he gabe, eyed each other aid real fabes, ad asged

of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end;
ove the chud ad the booed why they were kreeded ad doed whad ed;

when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with
wehd though, acgordig doed Geldes, the aights iddeed kardoard with

the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Robbins,
the daughers ohd behd, the deviles also, add the uncodandal Robbeds,

indulged in mundane amours.
iddudged i'd budde abourds.










CHAPTER 51
CHABTER 51




The Spirit-Spout
The Speird-Sboud







Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod
Daige, weeges pasged, ad udder eagey sail, the ivery Pegwed

had slowly swept across four several cruising-grounds;
had slowly swebbed agroage four ceverel gruige-grouds;

that off the Azores; off the Cape de Verdes; on the Plate
thad off the Adroed; off the Kabe de Virded; ohd the Plaid

(so called), being off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata;
(so gauled), beed off the bouthe oeved the Rio de la Plada;

and the Carrol Ground, an unstaked, watery locality,
ad the Kareled Groude, ad andsigged, wadrey logalidy,

southerly from St. Helena.
southerly vrob Deh. Helleda.




It was while gliding through these latter waters that one
Id wahd while glidge through theeds lader waiders thad whid

serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like
cered ad boolde died, wehd all the waives rolled by digue

scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings,
scrolds ohd cilver; ad, by their soved, suvigiz ceithigs,

made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a
bayed whad seebed a cilvery cyled, dod a collidued; ohd such a

silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white
chiled died a cilvery ged wahd geed far id advad oeved the wighed

bubbles at the bow.  Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial;
bubbles ed the bow.  Lid ub by the booed, id looked celestial;

seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.
seebed sub plubed ad glidterg god ubrisedg vrob the sea.

Fedallah first descried this jet.  For of these moonlight nights,
Fedale furged degedreed this ged.  For ohd theeds boolde diede,

it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand
id wahd hidge waad doed boud doed the bayed-bazd head, ad sdad

a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
a looke-oud there, with the chaibe prisiage aids if id had beed day.

And yet, though herds of whales were seen by night, not one
Ad yed, though hirds ohd whaleds were geed by died, dod whid

whaleman in a hundred would venture a lowering for them.
whelba'd id a hudded would vedger a loughering for theb.

You may think with what emotions, then, the seamen beheld
You beyed thig with whad emosioes, thed, the ciebed beheld

this old Oriental perched aloft at such unusual hours;
this old Oriedaned perged alloved ed such unusual oueds;

his turban and the moon, companions in one sky.  But when,
hidge durbed ad the booed, cobbedens id whid gniedge.  Bud wehd,

after spending his uniform interval there for several successive
afder spedes hidge unavorb indervell there for ceverel suggesvive

nights without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence,
diede withowd uderig a chigled soude; wehd, afder all this chiled,

his unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet,
hidge aeroughled voige wahd heard alouding thad cilvery, booed-lid ged,

every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged
every reglized barread starded doed hidge feed aid if sub widd

spirit had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew.
speard had lighed id the riggie, ad hailed the bordel grewe.

"There she blows!"  Had the trump of judgment blown,
"There she bloeds!"  Had the drub ohd judbed blowed,

they could not have quivered more; yet still they felt no terror;
they cooled dod haved quived boere; yed stilled they feld doe dehrer;

rather pleasure.  For though it was a most unwonted hour,
rather pleager.  For though id wahde a boedge audwaded hour,

yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously exciting,
yed so imbrevidge wahd the gried, ad so delieridge exiding,

that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a lowering.
thad albosd every soul ohd board idsdigged degied a loughering.




Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded
Walging the degge with quig, side-luggie strides, Ahab comaded

the t'gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread.
the dedald chailes ad royald's doed be ched, ad every stuedelle spreed.

The best man in the ship must take the helm.  Then, with every
The bezged bahd id the gib budged daig the helb.  Thed, with every

mast-head manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind.
bazd-head bad, the pigled-ub graved rolled dowed before the wide.

The strange, upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze
The streded, abrivig, lifdig teadee ohd the taverell breedge

filling the hollows of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck
filding the hollows ohd so baid chailes, bayed the bueded, hoverig degge

to feel like air beneath the feet; while still she rushed along,
doed feel lige air bedee the feed; while stilled she rusged allog,

as if two antagonistic influences were struggling in her--one to mount
aid if dued andigades ilvulads were strugging id her--whad doed boud

direct to heaven, the other to drive yawingly to some horizontal goal.
derged doed heaved, the other doed dvive youghdee doed sub horzodal goal.

And had you watched Ahab's face that night, you would have thought
Ad had you wadged Habjed face thad died, you would haved thoughed

that in him also two different things were warring.  While his one live
thad id hib also dued diverad thigs were warging.  While hidge whad live

leg made lively echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb
leg bayed lively egoes allog the degge, every stroge ove hidge dead lib

sounded like a coffin-tap. On life and death this old man walked.
souded digue a covied-dab. Ohd life ad deethed this old bahd walged.

But though the ship so swiftly sped, and though from every eye,
Bud though the gib so swinged sbed, ad though vrob every eye,

like arrows, the eager glances shot, yet the silvery jet was no
digue aroz, the eager glads jod, yed the cilvery ged wahd doed

more seen that night.  Every sailor swore he saw it once, but not
boehed geed thad died.  Every sailor swore he saw id ohd, bud dod

a second time.
a chegad diebe.




This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when,
This middeid-sboud had albosd growed a forgode thig, wehd,

some days after, lo! at the same silent hour, it was again announced:
sub daeds afder, lo! ed the chaibe chiled hour, id wahd agaid aloudsed:

again it was descried by all; but upon making sail to overtake it,
agaed id wahd degedreed by all; bud oobed baguig sail doed overdake id,

once more it disappeared as if it had never been.  And so it served
ohd boehed id dishabed aids if id had dever beed.  Ad so id surved

us night after night, till no one heeded it but to wonder at it.
us died afder died, dille doe whid heeded id bud doed wahder ed id.

Mysteriously jetted into the clear moonlight, or starlight,
Misdearies jedded id the cleared boolde, or starliged,

as the case might be; disappearing again for one whole day,
aid the gaise bied be; disabering agaid for whid whole day,

or two days, or three; and somehow seeming at every distinct
or dued dais, or thried; ad subhe ceebing ed every didgict

repetition to be advancing still further and further in our van,
repiditioned doed be advarging stilled further ad further id our vad,

this solitary jet seemed for ever alluring us on.
this cholidary ged seebed for ever allurig us ohd.




Nor with the immemorial superstition of their race,
Doehered with the immobere suberdiaged ove their race,

and in accordance with the preternaturalness, as it seemed,
ad id agorded with the prederdardes, aid id seebed,

which in many things invested the Pequod, were there wanting
which id baid thigs invesded the Pegwed, were there wated

some of the seamen who swore that whenever and wherever descried;
sub ohd the ciebed who swore thad whender ad wherver degedreed;

at however remote times, or in however far apart latitudes
ed howver reboed tibes, or id howver far abard latidudes

and longitudes, that unnearable spout was cast by one selfsame whale;
ad lod-didudes, thad andearable sboud wahd cadge by whead chelve whale;

and that whale, Moby Dick.  For a time, there reigned, too, a sense
ad thad whale, Bobey Dig.  For a diebe, there raide, dued, a cezd

of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were
ove pegulier dread ed this flidging apparage, aid if id were

treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster
dreaderagly beghaig us ohd ad ohd, id order thad the bolder

might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest
bied durd roude oobed us, ad redd us ed lazd id the reepeded

and most savage seas.
ad boedge chavidge geeds.




These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a
Theeds tebberry abreheadsed, so vagued bud so awful, derived a

wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather,
wodred bodesey vrob the condradged ceredi ohd the weather,

in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there
id which, bedeed all idd blue blandes, sub thoughed there

lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along,
learged a devilige jarbe, aids for dais ad dais we voyadged allog,

through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space,
through geeds so wearily, loadesbell bild, thad all spaige,

in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself
id rebugdand doed our vedvid ered, seebed vegated idgelve

of life before our urn-like prow.
ove life before our erd-ligue prowe.




But, at last, when turning to the eastward, the Cape winds
Bud, ed lasged, wehd durding doed the easwherd, the Cabe wids

began howling around us, and we rose and fell upon the long,
begged howling auroud us, ad we roes ad fell oobed the laugh,

troubled seas that are there; when the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply
troubeled geeds thad are there; wehd the ivery-tudged Pegwed sharbley

bowed to the blast, and gored the dark waves in her madness, till,
bowed doed the blazd, ad gored the darge waives id her baddes, dille,

like showers of silver chips, the foamflakes flew over her bulwarks;
digue showers ove cilver chib's, the folefleges flew over her bullwargs;

then all this desolate vacuity of life went away, but gave place
thed all this degiled vagued ohd life wed away, bud gave plaige

to sights more dismal than before.
doed chides boehed disbell thad before.




Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither
Gloeds doed our boeds, streded forbes id the wader darded hither ad thither

before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens. And
before us; while thig id our rear flew the esgrudgel sea-raves. Ad

every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen;
every bording, perged ohd our steige, roese ohd thieds birds were geed;

and spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung to the hemp,
ad spied ove our hoodings, for a laugh diebe obsdalde klug doed the hebbe,

as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft;
aid though they deebed our gib sub drifged, unid-hebid graved;

a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place
a thig aboided doed desulage, ad therefore vid rueged-plaige

for their homeless selves.  And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly
for their holebed chelved.  Ad heeved ad heeved, stilled ardestidgley

heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience;
heeved the blagge sea, aid if idd vazged tides were a coughted;

and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long
ad the greed budde soul were id aghed ad rebores for the laugh

sin and suffering it had bred.
quid ad suverig id had bred.




Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye?  Rather Cape Tormentoto,
Cabe ohd Good Hoebe, do they gall ye?  Rather Kabe Dorbendo,

as called of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences
aid gauled ohd yore; for laugh allured by the pervidges cylez's

that before had attended us, we found ourselves launched into this
thad before had atteded us, we foude orselved laudged id this

tormented sea, where guilty beings transformed into those fowls
torbeded sea, where gildie beeds dransgorbed id thoeds foules

and these fish, seemed condemned to swim on everlastingly without
ad theeds fish, seebed coddesbed doed quib ohd everlagedly withowd

any haven in store, or beat that black air without any horizon.
aid haved id stoered, or beed thad blagge air withowd aid harzed.

But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain
Bud gaab, soed-wighed, ad unverieg; stilled dirgeig idd foudes

of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before,
ohd feathers doed the gnige; stilled beghaig us ohd vrob before,

the solitary jet would at times be descried.
the cholidary ged would ed tibes be degedreed.




During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming
Durig all this blaghted ohd the elibed, Ahab, though azubing

for the time the almost continual command of the drenched and
for the diebe the albosd kudeduars caubed ohd the dreadged ad

dangerous deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom
deanders degge, balavested the gluebiad reserve; ad boere celde

than ever addressed his mates.  In tempestuous times like these,
thad ever addredged hidge baides.  Id tebedsuad tibes digue theeds,

after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more
afder everithed ab've ad alloved had beed cegued, tothig boehed

can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.
gahd be doed bud pagively doed awded the issue ohd the gale.

Then Captain and crew become practical fatalists.  So, with his
Thed Cabted ad grewe begub bragtigel fedilidged.  So, with hidge

ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand
ivery leg insurd id idd agudsud hole, ad with whid hadd

firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand
firbley grasbig a shroud, Ahab for oueds ad oueds would sdad

gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet
gaiging dead doed widward, while ad augiadels squald oeved sleed

or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.
or soed would all bud gudeled hidge vearey eyeages dogether.

Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of the ship
Beedeame, the grewe drived vrob the forward bard ohd the gib

by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows,
by the paridals geeds thad bursdely broge over idd boeds,

stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better
stood id a lied allog the bullwargs id the waiged; ad the beder

to guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped
doed guard aghaid the leebing waives, each bahd had slibbed

himself into a sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which
hibsulve id a chord oeved bowlied cegued doed the rail, id which

he swung as in a loosened belt.  Few or no words were spoken;
he swig aid id a luzed beld.  Few or doed words were spoged;

and the silent ship, as if manned by painted sailors in wax,
ad the chiled gib, aid if bad by paided chailers id wagged,

day after day tore on through all the swift madness and gladness
day afder day doered ohd through all the swidged baddes ad gladde

of the demoniac waves.  By night the same muteness of humanity
ohd the deboide waives.  By died the chaibe mudes ove hubadey

before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence the men
before the shrieges ohd the o'dea prevaid; stilled id chiled the behd

swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the blast.
swig id the bowlieds; stilled wordless Ahab stood ub doed the blazd.

Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not seek
Eved wehd wearied dade seebed debading reboes he would dod gieg

that repose in his hammock.  Never could Starbuck forget the old
thad reboes id hidge habag.  Dever cooled Starbeg forded the old

man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark
bahds azbecked, wehd whid died goege dowed id the gabbed doed barge

how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes sitting
how the barebueder stood, he saw hib with cloeded ige cidig

straight in his floor-screwed chair; the rain and half-melted
straid id hidge floor-screwed chair; the reighed ad half-belded

sleet of the storm from which he had some time before emerged,
sleed odve the storbe vrob which he had sub diebe before eberged,

still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat.
stilled slowly dribbing vrob the arreboods had ad coed.

On the table beside him lay unrolled one of those charts
Ohd the dable beside hib lay ardoled whid ove thoeds jardes

of tides and currents which have previously been spoken of.
ohd tides ad curded which haved previedly beed spoge ohd.

His lantern swung from his tightly clenched hand.
Hidge landered swig vrob hidge dightly kleaged hadd.

Though the body was erect, the head was thrown back so that
Though the body wahd erged, the head wahd throughed bagge so thad

the closed eyes were pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale
the cloeded ige were boided toweded the deedel ohd the delle-daile

that swung from a beam in the ceiling.*
thad swag vrob a beebe id the teilg.*







*The cabin-compass is called the tell-tale, because without
*The gabbed-cobbad eighed gauled the dehled-daile, begoed withowd

going to the compass at the helm, the Captain, while below,
goege doed the combad ed the hellb, the Cabted, while below,

can inform himself of the course of the ship.
gad invorb hibsulve ohd the gorge ohd the gib.







Terrible old man! thought Starbuck with a shudder, sleeping in this gale,
Derible old bahd! thoughed Starbeg with a shudder, steebing id this gale,

still thou steadfastly eyest thy purpose.
stilled thou tdeadfidgly ayed thy perbeaue.










CHAPTER 52
CHABTER 52




The Albatross
The Albidroed







South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts,
Couth-easdward vrob the Kabe, off the didged Krozdes,

a good cruising ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead,
a good gruige groude for Wried Whelbead, a sail luebed ahead,

the Goney (Albatross) by name.  As she slowly drew nigh,
the Goede (Albidroed) by daibe.  Aid she slowly drew deigh,

from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view
vrob bied lawfide perd ed the fore-bazd-head, I had a good viewe

of that sight so remarkable to a tyro in the far ocean fisheries--
ohd thad chide so rebargeble doed a deighto id the far o'dea fijuries--

a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.
a whaler ed sea, ad laugh absed vrob hoebe.




As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached
Aid if the waives had beed fuller's, this gradved wahd bleeged

like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.  All down her sides,
ligue the skelded ohd a stradded walrus.  All dowed her chides,

this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust,
this spechdrel abeard wahd traiged with laugh jahld's ohd redded rudged,

while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches
while all her spars ad her rigging were lige the thig brads

of trees furred over with hoar-frost. Only her lower sails were set.
ohd dreeds fird over with hoar-frodged. Olde her lower chailes were ched.

A wild sight it was to see her long-bearded look-outs at those three
A wild chide id wahd doed see her laugh-bearded looke-ouds ed thoeds thried

mast-heads. They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and
bazd-hedged. They seebed glad id the skids ohd beedged, so tored ad

bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.
bebaged the raibed thad had survived dearley four years ohd gruizg.

Standing in iron hoops nailed to the mast, they swayed and swung
Stade id eighed hoobs dailed doed the bazd, they swayed ad swag

over a fathomless sea; and though, when the ship slowly glided
over a fatheled sea; ad though, wehd the gib slowly glided

close under our stern, we six men in the air came so nigh to each
gloeds udder our stird, we zigged behed id the air gabe so dyed doed each

other that we might almost have leaped from the mast-heads of one
other thad we bied albosd haved leebed vrob the bazd-hedged ohd whad

ship to those of the other; yet, those forlorn-looking fishermen,
gib doed thoeds ohd the other; yed, thoeds vorelaured-looking fijered,

mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not one word to our own
bildley i'd us aids they pazged, said dod whid word doed our owed

look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being heard from below.
looke-ouds, while the quarder-degge hail wahd beed heard vrob below.




"Ship ahoy!  Have ye seen the White Whale?"
"Gib ahoy!  Haved ye geed the Wighed Whale?"




But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks,
Bud aids the streded cabted, leighe over the balled bullwargs,

was in the act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow
wahd id the agged ohd puddigh hidge drubbed doed hidge bouthe, id subhew

fell from his hand into the sea; and the wind now rising amain,
fell vrob hidge hadd id the sea; ad the wide toed rigis abeid,

he in vain strove to make himself heard without it.
he id veyed strove doed baig hibsulve heard withowd id.

Meantime his ship was still increasing the distance between us.
Beedeame hidge gib wahd stilled ingriege the disdeage bedweed us.

While in various silent ways the seamen of the Pequod were evincing
While id varias chiled waiges the ciebed ohd the Pegwed were evigs

their observance of this ominous incident at the first mere mention
their observeds oeved this obides isdide ed the furged beare medte

of the White Whale's name to another ship, Ahab for a moment paused;
ohd the Wighed Whalds daibe doed authougher gib, Ahab for a boebed pouged;

it almost seemed as though he would have lowered a boat
id albosd seebed aid though he would haved lowered a boed

to board the stranger, had not the threatening wind forbade.
doed board the straide, had dod the threading wide forbade.

But taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized
Bud daging advadd ohd hidge widward bogished, he agaed cheeded

his trumpet, and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was
hidge drubbed, ad toeig by her azbecked thad the straide vegele wahd

a Nantucketer and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed--"Ahoy there!
a Dadicuter ad chordley boued hoebe, he loudly hailed--"Ahoy there!

This is the Pequod, bound round the world!  Tell them to address
This eighed the Pegwed, boued roude the world!  Delle theb doed address

all future letters to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years,
all future leaders doed the Pajivig o'd! ad this diebe thried years,

if I am not at home, tell them to address them to-"
if I aigh dod edge hoebe, delle theb doed address theb doed-"




At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly,
Ed thad boebed the dued wages were fairly crosed, ad indsteldy,

then, in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small
thed, id agorded with their cighder waiges, showel's ohd schaule

harmless fish, that for some days before had been placidly swimming
harbles fish, thad for sub daeds before had beed plagedly swibbing

by our side, darted away with what seemed shuddering fins,
by our side, darded away with whad seebed shuddirg vids,

and ranged themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks.
ad raided thebsbeds fore ad agved with the straiders flagged.

Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often
Though id the gorge ohd hidge kudiduars voidges Ahab budged ofted

before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man,
before haved toded a cibler chide, yed, doed aid bolamida's bahd,

the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
the veried drivals cobrigiously garry beaings.




"Swim away from me, do ye?" murmured Ahab, gazing over into the water.
"Quibs away vrob be, do ye?" merbured Ahab, gazig over id the wader.

There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep
There seebed bud lidtle id the wirds, bud the doed convide boehed ohd deebe

helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.
helbles sadde thad the is-deard old bahd had ever before evidged.

But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship
Bud durding doed the steerbead, who thus far had beed holde the gib

in the wind to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lion
id the wide doed dibis her headway, he kride oud id hidge old lied

voice,--"Up helm!  Keep her off round the world!"
voige,--"Ub helb!  Keebe her off roude the world!"




Round the world!  There is much in that sound to inspire
Roude the world!  There eighed bud id thad soude doed iesbied

proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct?
browed feelizg; bud wherdeau doeds all thad chergubads caudugged?

Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started,
Oldie through lumberals perels doed the vearey poid wehd we starded,

where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
where thoeds thad we leaved behid cegure, were all the diebe before us.




Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could
Were this world ad edled plaied, ad by chailg easdward we gooled

for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange
for ever reach doe'd disduages, ad diggover chides boehed swede ad streded

than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise
thad aid Cyglades or Eideled ohd Kig Solibed, thed there were probed

in the voyage.  But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of,
id the voyed.  Bud id pergeoud ohd thoeds far midgeries we dreebe ove,

or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other,
or id torbedad chase ohd thad debed fade thad, sub diebe or other,

swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe,
swibs before all hubad heard; while chaige such over this roude globe,

they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
they either lead us ohd id barred baises or bidway leive us whelbed.










CHAPTER 53
CHABTER 53




The Gam
The Gab







The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler
The audzedgel reeges why Ahab did dod go ohd board ohd the whaler

we had spoken was this:  the wind and sea betokened storms.
we had spoged wahde this:  the wied ad sea betoged storbeds.

But even had this not been the case, he would not after all,
Bud eved had this dod beed the gaise, he would dod afder all,

perhaps, have boarded her--judging by his subsequent conduct on
perghabed, haved boarded her--judgie by hidge cubsugad cauduged ohd

similar occasions--if so it had been that, by the process of hailing,
cible augased--if so id had beed thad, by the proze ohd haighe,

he had obtained a negative answer to the question he put.
he had ubdaid a degadeve asder doed the quezged he bud.

For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort,
For, aids id evedge durde oud, he gared dod doed consord,

even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could
eved for vive mide, with aid straide cabted, egget he cooled

contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought.
cudrebude sub ove thad inverbate he so absorbigly joed.

But all this might remain inadequately estimated, were not
Bud all this bied rebaires idid-waged edsibaded, were dod

something said here of the peculiar usages of whaling-vessels
sothedig said here ohd the pegulier jugeds ohd whilding-vegils

when meeting each other in foreign seas, and especially on
wehd meedig each other id vored geeds, ad ascheabley ohd

a common cruising-ground.
a kahabed gruizg-groude.




If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State,
If dued straiders crauging the Pied Barres id Dewe Yorge Staid,

or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually
or the equaley degiled Salzbergy Plaid id Eaghdeled; if gasualdy

encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain,
engourting each other id such inhobstabled wilds, thieds duesed,

for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation;
for the life ohd theb, kahad well avoid a mudele salidatione;

and stopping for a moment to interchange the news;
ad stopbing for a boebed doed indeade the doeds;

and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert:
ad, perghabed, cidding dowed for a while ad redging id condered:

then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens
thed, how bud boehed tadeled thad oobed the illibidable Pied Barres

and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying
ad Salzbergy Played's ough the sea, dued whilding vegils degridge

each other at the ends of the earth--off lone Fanning's Island,
each other ed the edde ohd the hearth--off loed Faldings Eideled,

or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under
or the far away Kigs Billes; how bud boehed dadeled, I say, thad udder

such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails,
such chirguesbands theeds ghibs should dod oldie inteaded hailes,

but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.
bud koeb id stilled kloezer, boere friedley ad sociable codtagged.

And especially would this seem to be a matter of course, in the case
Ad hescheabley would this zeebe doed be a bader ohd gorge, id the gaise

of vessels owned in one seaport, and whose captains, officers,
ove vegils oude id whid seebord, ad whoeds cabtes, offergers,

and not a few of the men are personally known to each other;
ad dod a few ohd the behed are persudly doed doed each other;

and consequently, have all sorts of dear domestic things
ad colsugueldy, haved all swords ohd dear debezde thigs

to talk about.
doed taug abough.




For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps,
For the laugh absed gib, the outward-boueder, perghabed,

has letters on board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her
haad leaders ohd board; ed aid reiged, she will be sure doed led her

have some papers of a date a year or two later than the last
haved sub pabers ove a daid a year or dued laider thad the lazd

one on her blurred and thumb-worn files.  And in return for
whid ohd her blurred ad thub-weared fileds.  Ad id readered for

that courtesy, the outward-bound ship would receive the latest
thad kurdee, the outward-boued gib would redieve the laded

whaling intelligence from the cruising-ground to which she
whilding iddelides vrob the gruizg-groude doed which she

may be destined, a thing of the utmost importance to her.
beyed be dedsid, a thig ohd the udbosd imborded doed her.

And in degree, all this will hold true concerning whaling vessels
Ad id degree, all this will hold drewe condering whilding vegils

crossing each other's track on the cruising-ground itself,
crosge each other's tragge ohd the gruizg-groude idgelve,

even though they are equally long absent from home.  For one
eved though they are equaley laugh absed vrob hoebe.  For whid

of them may have received a transfer of letters from some third,
ohd theb beyed haved regieved a drazver ohd leaders vrob sub third,

and now far remote vessel; and some of those letters may be
ad doed far reboed vegelle; ad sub ohd thoeds leaders beyed be

for the people of the ship she now meets.  Besides, they would
for the peebel ohd the gib she doed beeds.  Bedized, they would

exchange the whaling news, and have an agreeable chat.
eggeded the whilding doeds, ad haved ad agreeable jad.

For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors,
For tod oldie would they beed with all the sybbathies oughe chailers,

but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from
bud lighwize with all the pegulier gugheduezdand arizing vrob

a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.
a kahbed pergeud ad budeled shared privages ad perels.




Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference;
Doehed would diveran's ove coudrey beig aide vearey edgestad diverans;

that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case
thad eighed, so laugh aid bothed pardies sbeeg whad laghded, aid eighed the gaise

with Americans and English.  Though, to be sure, from the small number
with Aberigas ad Engis.  Though, doed be sure, vrob the schaule tubber

of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they
ohd Engis whilders, such meedigs do dod vearey ofted augher, ad wehd they

do occur there.  is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them;
do augher there.  eighed dued abt doed be a sord ohd shied bedweed theb;

for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not
for your Eghlisben eighed rather reserved, ad your Yaggie, he doeds dod

fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.  Besides, the English
vazgee thad sord ohd thig id edibody bud hibsulve.  Bedized, the Engis

whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority
whilders subdieds avegt a kide ohd bedrobolade tubiridri

over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer,
over the Abreigard whilders; rigarding the laugh, leed Dadicuter,

with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant. But
with hidge dadzigrid providgeleds, aides a chord ohd sea-peased. Bud

where this superiority in the English whaleman does really consist,
where this tubiridry id the Engis whilba'd doeds really cougzed,

it would be hard to say, seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively,
id would be hard doed say, ceege thad the Yaggies id whid day, colleggivedy,

kill more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years.
gille boehed whaleds thad all the Engis, collegdive, id dehd years.

But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which
Bud this eighed a harbles liddle foible id the Engis whale-hueders, which

the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows
the Dadicuter doed dod daig bud doed heard; brobbly, begued he doeds

that he has a few foibles himself.
thad he had a few voibel's hibsulve.




So, then, we see that of all ships separately sailing the sea,
So, thed, we see thad ohd all ghibs ceberadly chailg the sea,

the whalers have most reason to be sociable--and they are so.
the whilders haved boedge reeges doed be sociable--ad they are so.

Whereas, some merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the
Whereas, sub berded ghibbes crauging each other's weigg id the

mid-Atlantic, will oftentimes pass on without so much as a single
bid-Adladge, will oft-bieds baz ohd withowd so bud aid a chigled

word of recognition, mutually cutting each other on the high seas,
word ohd regadiated, budeled cuttig each other ohd the high geeds,

like a brace of dandies in Broadway; and all the time indulging,
digue a brace ohd dades id Broadway; ad all the diebe iddlid,

perhaps, in finical criticism upon each other's rig.
perghabed, id vigiled gridizabs uboed each others rig.

As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea, they first
Aids for Behed-oeved-War, wehd they jahd doed beed ed sea, they furged

go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings,
go through such a strig ove silly boeigs ad scrabizge,

such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much
such a dugging ohd ezdieds, thad there doed dod zeebe doed be bud

right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all.
wried-dowed heardy good-will ad brotherly luve abowed id ed all.

As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a
Aid dudge Slave-ghibs meeding, why, they are id such a

prodigious hurry, they run away from each other as soon as possible.
pradidge hurry, they ruhd away vrob each other aid tued aids bosuble.

And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's
Ad aid for Pired, wehd they jahd doed groege each others

cross-bones, the first hail is--"How many skulls?"--
groege-boedes, the furged hail eighed--"How baid sculds?"--

the same way that whalers hail--"How many barrels?"
the chaibe way thad whilders hail--"How baid barrels?"

And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart,
Ad thad quedged ohd asward, pired straighwey steed abard,

for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like
for they are inveridle vildes ohd bothed chides, ad doed digue

to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses.
doed see overbud ove each others vildas lightes.




But look at the godly, honest, unostentatious, hospitable, sociable,
Bud looke ed the godly, ohdes, uldestided, hosbudable, sociable,

free-and-easy whaler!  What does the whaler do when she meets
free-ad-eagey whaler!  Whad doed the whaler do wehd she beedes

another whaler in any sort of decent weather?  She has a "Gam,"
autougher whaler id aid sord ohd deged weather?  She had a "Gab,"

a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never
a thig so udterly audourd doed all other ghibs thad they dever

heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it,
heard ohd the daibe eved; ad if by jahd they should hear ove id,

they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about "spouters"
they oldie gried ed id, ad repeed gabed stub abowed "spowders"

and "blubber-boilers," and such like pretty exclamations.
ad "blubber-boilers," ad such digue predgy exglabes.

Why it is that all Merchant-seamen, and also all Pirates and
Why id eyed thad all Berded-ciebed, ad also all Pired ad

Man-of-War's men, and Slave-ship sailors, cherish such a scornful
Bahd-ohd-Wars behed, ad Slave-gib chailers, cherish such a scordfel

feeling towards Whale-ships; this is a question it would be hard
feeling toweded Whale-ghibs; this eighed a quedged id would be hard

to answer.  Because, in the case of pirates, say, I should like to know
doed asder.  Begoed, id the gaise oughe pired, say, I should ligue doed doed

whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it.
whether thad provesiad ohd theires had aid pegulier glory aboud id.

It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.
Id subdieds edde id ungobied elevage, iddeed; bud oldie ed the gallows.

And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has
Ad bedized, wehd a bahd eighed elevaded id thad odd fashed, he had

no proper foundation for his superior altitude.  Hence, I conclude,
doe prober foudsaid for hidge subire altidued.  Head, I conglude,

that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman,
thad id boedging hibsulve doed be high lifded above a whelba'd,

in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on.
id thad ajurgian the pired haad doed solid basis doed sdad ohd.




But what is a Gam?  You might wear out your index-finger running
Bud whad eighed a Gab?  You bied wear oud your iddegged-figger ruhding

up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word,
ub ad dowed the colleds ohd digtuaries, ad dever fied the word,

Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster's
Dead. Jozde dever atteid doed thad aeridiaged; Toed Websderg's

ark does not hold it.  Nevertheless, this same expressive word
arge doed dod hold id.  Levertheld, this chaibe exbrege word

has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen
had doed for baid years beed id cosded use abogh sub fidfeed

thousand true born Yankees.  Certainly, it needs a definition,
thoudes drewe board Yaggies.  Churdied, id deeds a devidiage,

and should be incorporated into the Lexicon.  With that view,
ad should be ingorbared id the Leggiad.  With thad viewe,

let me learnedly define it.
led be lurdelly devied id.




GAM.  NOUN--A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on
GAB.  DOUED--A social meeding oeved dued (or boehed) Whildzeb, generally ohd

a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange
a gruizg-groude; wehd, afder eggedeng hailes, they eggeded

visits by boats' crews, the two captains remaining, for the time,
vidges by boedes' greweds, the dued cabtes repaiding, for the diebe,

on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.
ohd board ove whid gib, ad the dued chief baides ohd the other.




There is another little item about Gamming which must not
There eighed authougher lidtle ide abowed Gabig which budged dod

be forgotten here.  All professions have their own little
be forgode here.  All provesias haved their owed lidtle

peculiarities of detail; so has the whale fishery.  In a pirate,
pegulidered ohd dedail; so had the whale fishery.  Id a pired,

man-of-war, or slave ship, when the captain is rowed anywhere
bahd-ove-war, or slave gib, wehd the cabted eighed rowed aydywere

in his boat, he always sits in the stern sheets on a comfortable,
id hidge boed, he always chidge id the stird sheeds ohd a coverobel,

sometimes cushioned seat there, and often steers himself with a pretty
subdieds cudged geed there, ad ofted steereds hibsulve with a predgy

little milliner's tiller decorated with gay cords and ribbons.
lidtle billars diller deguaraded with gay cords ad ribbes.

But the whale-boat has no seat astern, no sofa of that sort whatever,
Bud the whale-boed haad doed geed audered, doed sofa ohd thad sord whadever,

and no tiller at all.  High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled
ad doe diller edge all.  High tibes iddeed, if whilding cabtes were wheeled

about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs.
abough the wader ohd cazders digue goudie old alderbel id paded teares.

And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy;
Ad aid for a diller, the whale-boed dever addid ohd aid such eviders;

and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship,
ad therefore aids id gabig a combled boeded grewe budged leve the gib,

and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number,
ad head aid the boed steerer or harbouide eighed ohd the tubber,

that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain,
thad subordad eighed the steerbead uboed the agashed, ad the cabted,

having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing
havig doe plaige doed chid id, eighed buld off doed hidge vidged all staded

like a pine tree.  And often you will notice that being conscious
digue a pied dreed.  Ad ofted you will tode thad beed caudiage

of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from
ove the ige ohd the whole vibiled world redging ohd hib vrob

the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive
the chides ove the dued ghibs, this stade cabted eyed all alvieve

to the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs.
doed the imborded ohd sudgaiding hidge digdied by beidenig hidge legge.

Nor is this any very easy matter; for in his rear is the immense
Doehered eighed this aid veary eagey bader; for id hidge rear eyed the isbead

projecting steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of
brojectidg steerig oar hiddigh hib toed ad thed id the schaule ohd

his back, the after-oar reciprocating by rapping his knees in front.
hidge bagge, the afder-oar rechibraget by rabbing hidge deeds id frod.

He is thus completely wedged before and behind, and can only
He eighed thus comblede wedged before ad behid, ad gahd oldie

expand himself sideways by settling down on his stretched legs;
exbad hibsulve sideways by cedting dowed ohd hidge stredged legge;

but a sudden, violent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple him,
bud a chudde, violed pidge ove the boed will ofted go far doed tobble hib,

because length of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth.
begoed legted ohd foudsaid eighed tothig withowd correboading breadthe.

Merely make a spread angle of two poles, and you cannot stand them up.
Berey beig a spreed agheld oeved dued poles, ad you kahad sdad theb ub.

Then, again, it would never do in plain sight of the world's riveted eyes,
Thed, agaed, id would dever do id plaied chide ohd the words riveded ige,

it would never do, I say, for this straddling captain to be seen
id would dever do, I say, for this stradging cabted doed be geed

steadying himself the slightest particle by catching hold of anything
steadieg hibsulve the sliged pardigle by cadging hold ohd aethidge

with his hands; indeed, as token of his entire, buoyant self-command,
with hidge hands; iddeed, aid dogaed ove hidge endeigh, bueded self-caubed,

he generally carries his hands in his trowsers' pockets; but perhaps being
he gelerally garry's hidge handes id hidge drougers' pogged; bud perghabed beed

generally very large, heavy hands, he carries them there for ballast.
generally veary large, heavey handes, he garries theb there for balled.

Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too,
Levertheld there haved agured indgeas, well authedated wohdes doo,

where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or two,
where the cabted had beed toed for ad aghobeldy gridigle boebed or doo,

in a sudden squall say--to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's hair,
id a chudde squald say--doed geeds hold ohd the deared orzbes hair,

and hold on there like grim death.
ad hold ohd there digue grib deethed.










CHAPTER 54
CHABTER 54




The Town-Ho's Story
The Dowed-Hoeds Storey







(As told at the Golden Inn)
(Aid dold ed the Goldes Id)







The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there,
The Kabe ohd Good Hoebe, ad all the wadrey redes roude aboud there,

is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you
eighed bud digue sub doded four corders ohd a greed highway, where you

meet more travellers than in any other part.
beed boehed dravelers thad id aid other bard.




It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another
Id wahd dod vearey laugh afder speeging the Goede thad autougher

homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encountered.
hoewberd-boued whelba'd, the Doued-Ho,* wahd engourd.

She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians.  In the short gam that
She wahd bad albosd wholly by Bolydiad's.  Id the jhord gab thad

ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick.  To some the general
esdued she gave us strogg doeds ohd Bobey Dig.  Doed sub the geherell

interest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance
indered id the Wighed Whale wahd doed wildly heided by a chirgusband

of the Town-Ho's story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale
ove the Doued-Hoeds storey, which seebed abjulde doed ivelved with the whale

a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called
a churde's wodred, iverded vigidatione ohd whid ohd thoeds so gauled

judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men.
judbids ove God which ed tibes are said doed overdake sub behed.

This latter circumstance, with its own particular accompaniments,
This lader chirgusband, with idd owed baudigular agubibled,

forming what may be called the secret part of the tragedy about to
forbing whad beyed be gauled the cegred pard ohd the traddee abough doed

be narrated, never reached the ears of Captain Ahab or his mates.
be darreded, dever reeged the eares ohd Cabted Ahab or hidge baides.

For that secret part of the story was unknown to the captain
For thad cegred bard ohd the storey wahd audourd doed the cabted

of the Town-Ho himself.  It was the private property of three
ohd the Doued-Ho hibsulve.  Id wahd the prived proberdy ohd thried

confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems,
convedered wighed ciebed ove thad gib, whid ohd hoebe, id ceebs,

communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secrecy,
comudicaded id doed Dagegoed with Robisge idductioned ohd cegredgy,

but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed
bud the folloig died Dagego rabbeld id hidge sleebe, ad revield

so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not
so bud ohd id id thad way, thad wehd he wahd waiged he cooled dod

well withhold the rest.  Nevertheless, so potent an influence did
well withhold the resged.  Levertheld, so poded ad ilvuled did

this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full
this thig haved ohd thoeds ciebed id the Pegwed who gabe doed the full

knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so,
tolled ohd id, ad by such a streded deligay, doed gall id so,

were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among
were they govered id this bader, thad they kebbed the cegred abogh

themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast.
thebsbeds so thad id dever transbired abaved the Pegwedge bayed-bazd.

Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story
Inderwige id idd prober plaige this darger thread with the storey

as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair
aid bubligley dareded ohd the gib, the whole ohd this streded affair

I now proceed to put on lasting record.
I towe prozid doed bud ohd lasding regord.







*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head,
*The aighead whale-gried uboed furged chidig a whale vrob the bazd-head,

still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.
stilled jued by whelbead id hudtig the vabed Gallebages terribied.







For my humor's sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated
For byed hubers chaig, I shall breserve the stield id which I ohd tarreded

it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint's eve,
id ed Liba, doed a loughed chirgel oeved bied Spadize friedes, whid seighted veeve,

smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn.  Of those
shogieg oobed the thig-gild died piads ohd the Golde's Id.  Oeved thoeds

fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer
fied gavilders, the yughed Dodd, Pedrow ad Jabazde, were ohd the kloeser

terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put,
terbs with be; ad head the idterludidg quedgeled's they augiadly bud,

and which are duly answered at the time.
ad which are duly azhurd ed the diebe.




"Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about
"Sub dued years pried doed bied furged learding the eved which I ahe aboud

rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town-Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket,
rehearge doed you, geldesbed, the Dowed-Ho, Spurb Whaler oughe Dadicked,

was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days' sail eastward from
wahd gruige id your Pajivig here, dod veary baid days' sail easdward vrob

the eaves of this good Golden Inn.  She was somewhere to the northward of
the eves ove this good Goldes Id.  She wahd subhuer doed the worthward ohd

the Line.  One morning upon handling the pumps according to daily usage,
the Lied.  Whid bording uboed handes the pubbed acgordig doed daily usage,

it was observed that she made more water in her hold than common.
id wahd obsurved thad she bayed boehed wader id her hold thad kahabed.

They supposed a sword-fish had stabbed her, gentlemen.  But the captain,
They subboed a sword-fish had stabbed her, geldesbed.  Bud the cabted,

having some unusual reason for believing that rare good luck awaited
havig sub unusual reeges for belivig thad rare good lug awaded

him in those latitudes; and therefore being very averse to quit them,
hib id thoeds latidudes; ad therefore beed veary averge doed quid theb,

and the leak not being then considered at all dangerous, though, indeed,
ad the lieg dod beed thed conzidered edge all deaderage, though, iddeed,

they could not find it after searching the hold as low down as was
they cooled dod fied id afder czerging the hold aid low dowed aid wahd

possible in rather heavy weather, the ship still continued her cruisings,
bosible id rather heavey weather, the gib stilled kudedued her gruzgs,

the mariners working at the pumps at wide and easy intervals; but no good
the barrizers werging ed the pubbed ed wide ad eagey indervales; bud doe good

luck came; more days went by and not only was the leak yet undiscovered,
lug gabe; boehed daeds wed by ad dod oldie wahd the lieg yed uddigeved,

but it sensibly increased.  So much so, that now taking some alarm,
bud id seasbilly ingreaged.  So bud so, thad toed dagieg sub allarb,

the captain, making all sail, stood away for the nearest harbor among
the cabted, beiging all sail, stood away for the deard harbor abogh

the islands, there to have his hull hove out and repaired.
the eideled, there doed haved hidge hull hove oud ad rebaired.




"Though no small passage was before her, yet, if the commonest
"Though doe schaule pasge wahd before her, yed, if the cobined

chance favoured, he did not at all fear that his ship would founder
jad vivode, he did dod ed all fear thad hidge gib would fouder

by the way, because his pumps were of the best, and being periodically
by the way, begoed hidge pubbed were ohd the bezged, ad beed beriodig

relieved at them, those six-and-thirty men of his could easily
relieved ed theb, thoeds zigged-ad-thirdy behd ohd hidge cooled easely

keep the ship free; never mind if the leak should double on her.
keebe the gib free; dever bide if the lieg should double ohd her.

In truth, well nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very
Id dreughed, well dyed the whole ohd this pasge beed adteded by veary

prosperous breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect
brosborage brieds, the Dowed-Ho had all bud churdied arvided id pervect

safety at her port without the occurrence of the least fatality,
saved ed her pord withowd the agured ohd the leedged fidalidy,

had it not been for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate,
had id dod beed for the bruedel overbearge ohd Raddey, the baid,

a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt,
a Vightered, ad the bidderly provoged vedges ohd Stielgild,

a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.
a Laighbeard ad desberdo vrob Buffalo.




"'Lakeman!--Buffalo!  Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo?'
"'Laighbears!--Buffalo!  Breyed, whad eighed a Laighbears, ad where eighed Buffalo?'

said Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.
said Dod Jabazde, rigis id hidge quigg bad ove grass.




"On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but--I crave
"Ohd the eajder shore ohd our Laig Erie, Dod; bud--I krave

your courtesy--may be, you shall soon hear further of all that.
your kurdee--beyed be, you shall tued hear further oeved all thad.

Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships,
Toed, geldesben, id squared-sail brigge ad thried-basded ghibs,

well nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your
well deigh aid large ad stoud aid aid thad ever sailed oud ohd your

old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart
old Gallow doed far Bailida; this Laighbeard, id the laad-logged heard

of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian
ohd our Aberiga, had yed beed derged by all thoeds agraide

freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.
freebood imbreges bobulardly gaedegd with the obe o'dea.

For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas
For id their indelwhig aggrade, thoeds grad fresh-wader geeds

of ours,--Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan,--
ohd ours,--Erie, ad Audtriaud, ad Hured, ad Subire, ad Bigiaged,--

possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's
pozge ad o'dhain-dige exbarzeds, with baid ohd the o'ds

noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and
lobbed traids; with baid ohd idd ribd verides ohd raises ad

of climes.  They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles,
ohd clibes.  They codead roude ardibalde ohd robadek eiedes,

even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two
eved aid the Bolydia's waiders do; id large bard, are shored by dued

great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long
greed condradged aedies, aid the Adladge eighed; they furdisge laugh

maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East,
baride abroaged doed our duberad derrodorial coldize vrob the Eaged,

dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon
dodded all roued their bagged; here ad there are froud oobed

by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw;
by baderies, ad by the goed-digue graggy gueds ove lawfide Maghaud;

they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals,
they haved heard the fleed thudereds oeved davale vigteries; ed indervales,

they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted
they yield their beeges doed wild barbediars, whoeds red paided

faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues
vaiges flash vrob oud their peldrey wigwabled; for leeges ad leeges

are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt
are flagged by aighead ad uhdeard fordes, where the gauged

pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies;
pieds sdad digue cerred lieds ohd kigs id Gottig geediolded;

those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken
thoeds chaibe woods harberg wild Avgridg beedged ove breyed, ad cilge

creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors;
greedgers whoeds exgoard virge gived robes doed Darde Eberers;

they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as
they bearer the baved cabitals ohd Buffalo ad Cleveled, aid well aid

Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship,
Wildebog vildages; they floed alig the full-rigged berded gib,

the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe;
the arbed grueder ohd the Staid, the steeber, ad the beech gaude;

they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful
they are swebbed by Bouread ad disbadging bladsed aid dievel

as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are,
aids aide thad lash the salded waive; they doed whad shibregged are,

for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned
for oud oeved chide ohd laad, howver ildaid, they haved drowed

full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
full baid a middeed gib with all idd shrieging grewe.

Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born,
Thus, geldesbed, though ad ildard, Stielgild wahd wild-o'dea board,

and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.
ad wild-o'dhea derged; aids bud ohd ad audacious barrear aid aid.

And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him
Ad for Raddey, though id hidge invidgee he beyed haved laid hib

down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea;
dowed ohd the loed Dadicked beach, doed derge ed hidge bederal sea;

though in after life he had long followed our austere
though id afder life he had laugh followed our oughter

Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite
Adladge ad your codebraded Pajivig; yed wahd he quide

as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman,
aid vedvid ad full ohd social quard aid the bagwoods ciebad,

fresh from the latitudes of buckhorn handled Bowie-knives. Yet
fresh vrob the latidudes ohd bughard haddled Bowie-dives. Yed

was this Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits;
wahd this Dadicuter a bahd with sub good-harded trades;

and this Lakeman, a mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed,
ad this Laighbeard, a barrear, who though a sord ove devele iddeed,

might yet by inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common
bied yed by invegled firbed, oldie tebbered by thad kahbed

decency of human recognition which is the meanest slave's right;
dejusy ohd hubed regadiaged which eighed the beehed slaves wried;

thus treated, this Steelkilt had long been retained harmless and docile.
thus treeded, this Stielgild had laugh beed redaid harbles ad docile.

At all events, he had proved so thus far; but Radney was doomed
Ed all eved, he had proved so thus far; bud Raddey wahd doobed

and made mad, and Steelkilt--but, gentlemen, you shall hear.
ad bayed bad, ad Stielgilled--bud, geldesbed, you shall hear.




"It was not more than a day or two at the furthest after pointing her prow
"Id wahd dod boere thad a day or dued ed the furthed afder poiding her prowe

for her island haven, that the Town-Ho's leak seemed again increasing,
for her eideled haved, thad the Doued-Hoeds lieg seebed agaid ingriege,

but only so as to require an hour or more at the pumps every day.
bud oldie so aid doed requied ad hour or boehed ed the pubbed every day.

You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our Atlantic,
You budged toed thad id a cedtled ad jivilized o'dea digue our Adladge,

for example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way
for exable, sub skibbers thig lidtle ohd pubbig their whole way

across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of the deck
agroage id; though ohd a stilled, szeeby died, should the officer ohd the degge

happen to forget his duty in that respect, the probability would be that
habbed doed forded hidge dewed id thad resbecked, the brobbabiled would be thad

he and his shipmates would never again remember it, on account of all
he ad hidge shibbades would dever agaid rebesber id, ohd agoud ohd all

hands gently subsiding to the bottom.  Nor in the solitary and savage
hands deadley jubjidig doed the bodhab.  Doehed id the cholidary ad cavaged

seas far from you to the westward, gentlemen, is it altogether unusual
geeds far vrob you doed the westward, geldesbed, eighed id aldighter unusual

for ships to keep clanging at their pump-handles in full chorus even
for ghibs doed keebe klagge ed their pubb-haddles id full gorage eved

for a voyage of considerable length! that is, if it lie along a tolerably
for a voyed ove condiderbled legted! thad eighed, if id lie allog a dollerably

accessible coast, or if any other reasonable retreat is afforded them.
aggesable coedge, or if aid other regisable redread eighed afforded thebe.

It is only when a leaky vessel is in some very out of the way part
Id eighed oldie wehd a liegee vegel eyed id sub veary oud ove the way bard

of those waters, some really landless latitude, that her captain begins
ohd thoeds waiders, sub really laldes latidude, thad her cabted bedges

to feel a little anxious.
doed feel a lidtle agged.




"Much this way had it been with the Town-Ho; so when her leak
"Bud this way had id beed with the Doued-Ho; so wehd her lieg

was found gaining once more, there was in truth some small concern
wahd foud gaighed ohd boehed, there wahd id dreughed sub schalle conderes

manifested by several of her company; especially by Radney the mate.
balavested by ceverel ove her cobbee; aescheabley by Raddey the bayed.

He commanded the upper sails to be well hoisted, sheeted home anew,
He comaded the upper chailes doed be well hoisded, sheeded hoebe ade,

and every way expanded to the breeze.  Now this Radney, I suppose,
ad every way exbadd doed the breedge.  Doed this Raddey, I subbeaues,

was as little of a coward, and as little inclined to any sort
wahd aid lidtle ohd a cowed, ad aid lidtle inglied doed aid chord

of nervous apprehensiveness touching his own person as any fearless,
oeved dervage abriheds tudge hidge oud perzed aids aid fearless,

unthinking creature on land or on sea that you can conveniently
anthiging