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For
as
the
secrets
of
the
currents
in
the
seas
have
never
yet
been
divulged
,
even
to
the
most
erudite
research
;
so
the
hidden
ways
of
the
Sperm
Whale
when
beneath
the
surface
remain
,
in
great
part
,
unaccountable
to
his
pursuers
;
and
from
time
to
time
have
originated
the
most
curious
and
contradictory
speculations
regarding
them
,
especially
concerning
the
mystic
modes
whereby
,
after
sounding
to
a
great
depth
,
he
transports
himself
with
such
vast
swiftness
to
the
most
widely
distant
points
.
It
is
a
thing
well
known
to
both
American
and
English
whale-ships
,
and
as
well
a
thing
placed
upon
authoritative
record
years
ago
by
Scoresby
,
that
some
whales
have
been
captured
far
north
in
the
Pacific
,
in
whose
bodies
have
been
found
the
barbs
of
harpoons
darted
in
the
Greenland
seas
.
Nor
is
it
to
be
gainsaid
,
that
in
some
of
these
instances
it
has
been
declared
that
the
interval
of
time
between
the
two
assaults
could
not
have
exceeded
very
many
days
.
Hence
,
by
inference
,
it
has
been
believed
by
some
whalemen
,
that
the
Nor
'
West
Passage
,
so
long
a
problem
to
man
,
was
never
a
problem
to
the
whale
.
So
that
here
,
in
the
real
living
experience
of
living
men
,
the
prodigies
related
in
old
times
of
the
inland
Strello
mountain
in
Portugal
(
near
whose
top
there
was
said
to
be
a
lake
in
which
the
wrecks
of
ships
floated
up
to
the
surface
)
;
and
that
still
more
wonderful
story
of
the
Arethusa
fountain
near
Syracuse
(
whose
waters
were
believed
to
have
come
from
the
Holy
Land
by
an
underground
passage
)
;
these
fabulous
narrations
are
almost
fully
equalled
by
the
realities
of
the
whalemen
.
Forced
into
familiarity
,
then
,
with
such
prodigies
as
these
;
and
knowing
that
after
repeated
,
intrepid
assaults
,
the
White
Whale
had
escaped
alive
;
it
can
not
be
much
matter
of
surprise
that
some
whalemen
should
go
still
further
in
their
superstitions
;
declaring
Moby
Dick
not
only
ubiquitous
,
but
immortal
(
for
immortality
is
but
ubiquity
in
time
)
;
that
though
groves
of
spears
should
be
planted
in
his
flanks
,
he
would
still
swim
away
unharmed
;
or
if
indeed
he
should
ever
be
made
to
spout
thick
blood
,
such
a
sight
would
be
but
a
ghastly
deception
;
for
again
in
unensanguined
billows
hundreds
of
leagues
away
,
his
unsullied
jet
would
once
more
be
seen
.
But
even
stripped
of
these
supernatural
surmisings
,
there
was
enough
in
the
earthly
make
and
incontestable
character
of
the
monster
to
strike
the
imagination
with
unwonted
power
.
For
,
it
was
not
so
much
his
uncommon
bulk
that
so
much
distinguished
him
from
other
sperm
whales
,
but
,
as
was
elsewhere
thrown
out
--
a
peculiar
snow-white
wrinkled
forehead
,
and
a
high
,
pyramidical
white
hump
.
These
were
his
prominent
features
;
the
tokens
whereby
,
even
in
the
limitless
,
uncharted
seas
,
he
revealed
his
identity
,
at
a
long
distance
,
to
those
who
knew
him
.
The
rest
of
his
body
was
so
streaked
,
and
spotted
,
and
marbled
with
the
same
shrouded
hue
,
that
,
in
the
end
,
he
had
gained
his
distinctive
appellation
of
the
White
Whale
;
a
name
,
indeed
,
literally
justified
by
his
vivid
aspect
,
when
seen
gliding
at
high
noon
through
a
dark
blue
sea
,
leaving
a
milky-way
wake
of
creamy
foam
,
all
spangled
with
golden
gleamings
.
Nor
was
it
his
unwonted
magnitude
,
nor
his
remarkable
hue
,
nor
yet
his
deformed
lower
jaw
,
that
so
much
invested
the
whale
with
natural
terror
,
as
that
unexampled
,
intelligent
malignity
which
,
according
to
specific
accounts
,
he
had
over
and
over
again
evinced
in
his
assaults
.
More
than
all
,
his
treacherous
retreats
struck
more
of
dismay
than
perhaps
aught
else
.
For
,
when
swimming
before
his
exulting
pursuers
,
with
every
apparent
symptom
of
alarm
,
he
had
several
times
been
known
to
turn
round
suddenly
,
and
,
bearing
down
upon
them
,
either
stave
their
boats
to
splinters
,
or
drive
them
back
in
consternation
to
their
ship
.
Already
several
fatalities
had
attended
his
chase
.
But
though
similar
disasters
,
however
little
bruited
ashore
,
were
by
no
means
unusual
in
the
fishery
;
yet
,
in
most
instances
,
such
seemed
the
White
Whale
's
infernal
aforethought
of
ferocity
,
that
every
dismembering
or
death
that
he
caused
,
was
not
wholly
regarded
as
having
been
inflicted
by
an
unintelligent
agent
.
Judge
,
then
,
to
what
pitches
of
inflamed
,
distracted
fury
the
minds
of
his
more
desperate
hunters
were
impelled
,
when
amid
the
chips
of
chewed
boats
,
and
the
sinking
limbs
of
torn
comrades
,
they
swam
out
of
the
white
curds
of
the
whale
's
direful
wrath
into
the
serene
,
exasperating
sunlight
,
that
smiled
on
,
as
if
at
a
birth
or
a
bridal
.
His
three
boats
stove
around
him
,
and
oars
and
men
both
whirling
in
the
eddies
;
one
captain
,
seizing
the
line-knife
from
his
broken
prow
,
had
dashed
at
the
whale
,
as
an
Arkansas
duellist
at
his
foe
,
blindly
seeking
with
a
six
inch
blade
to
reach
the
fathom-deep
life
of
the
whale
.
That
captain
was
Ahab
.
And
then
it
was
,
that
suddenly
sweeping
his
sickle-shaped
lower
jaw
beneath
him
,
Moby
Dick
had
reaped
away
Ahab
's
leg
,
as
a
mower
a
blade
of
grass
in
the
field
.
No
turbaned
Turk
,
no
hired
Venetian
or
Malay
,
could
have
smote
him
with
more
seeming
malice
.
Small
reason
was
there
to
doubt
,
then
,
that
ever
since
that
almost
fatal
encounter
,
Ahab
had
cherished
a
wild
vindictiveness
against
the
whale
,
all
the
more
fell
for
that
in
his
frantic
morbidness
he
at
last
came
to
identify
with
him
,
not
only
all
his
bodily
woes
,
but
all
his
intellectual
and
spiritual
exasperations
.
The
White
Whale
swam
before
him
as
the
monomaniac
incarnation
of
all
those
malicious
agencies
which
some
deep
men
feel
eating
in
them
,
till
they
are
left
living
on
with
half
a
heart
and
half
a
lung
.
That
intangible
malignity
which
has
been
from
the
beginning
;
to
whose
dominion
even
the
modern
Christians
ascribe
one-half
of
the
worlds
;
which
the
ancient
Ophites
of
the
east
reverenced
in
their
statue
devil
;
--
Ahab
did
not
fall
down
and
worship
it
like
them
;
but
deliriously
transferring
its
idea
to
the
abhorred
white
whale
,
he
pitted
himself
,
all
mutilated
,
against
it
.
All
that
most
maddens
and
torments
;
all
that
stirs
up
the
lees
of
things
;
all
truth
with
malice
in
it
;
all
that
cracks
the
sinews
and
cakes
the
brain
;
all
the
subtle
demonisms
of
life
and
thought
;
all
evil
,
to
crazy
Ahab
,
were
visibly
personified
,
and
made
practically
assailable
in
Moby
Dick
.
He
piled
upon
the
whale
's
white
hump
the
sum
of
all
the
general
rage
and
hate
felt
by
his
whole
race
from
Adam
down
;
and
then
,
as
if
his
chest
had
been
a
mortar
,
he
burst
his
hot
heart
's
shell
upon
it
.
