{"id":"01KF7FPMNZQQ6HK83YRY74S0B8","cid":"bafkreid5lbwivu4mf4qpljurxysa2mikgl63uujnidj6bekzga7rf7kxmq","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":12494,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.080Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"The Sphynx.","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":12464,"text":"\r\nBut now Gabriel started to his feet.\r\n\r\n“Think, think of the fevers, yellow and bilious! Beware of the horrible\r\nplague!”\r\n\r\n“Gabriel! Gabriel!” cried Captain Mayhew; “thou must either—” But that\r\ninstant a headlong wave shot the boat far ahead, and its seethings\r\ndrowned all speech.\r\n\r\n“Hast thou seen the White Whale?” demanded Ahab, when the boat drifted\r\nback.\r\n\r\n“Think, think of thy whale-boat, stoven and sunk! Beware of the\r\nhorrible tail!”\r\n\r\n“I tell thee again, Gabriel, that—” But again the boat tore ahead as if\r\ndragged by fiends. Nothing was said for some moments, while a\r\nsuccession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional\r\ncaprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it. Meantime, the\r\nhoisted sperm whale’s head jogged about very violently, and Gabriel was\r\nseen eyeing it with rather more apprehensiveness than his archangel\r\nnature seemed to warrant.\r\n\r\nWhen this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story\r\nconcerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from\r\nGabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed\r\nleagued with him.\r\n\r\nIt seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home, when upon speaking\r\na whale-ship, her people were reliably apprised of the existence of\r","title":"The Sphynx."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.131Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.131Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}