{"id":"01KF7FPP16K19Y03MEVS8J7DVZ","cid":"bafkreibakubnbtundx47tjxbscsit73el7upcqlyruymhirp3azjwob7ha","type":"chapter","properties":{"end_line":19227,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:16.574Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chapter 119","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":19198,"text":"\r\nCHAPTER 119. The Candles.\r\n\r\nWarmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal\r\ncrouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most\r\neffulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows\r\ntornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in\r\nthese resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of\r\nall storms, the Typhoon. It will sometimes burst from out that\r\ncloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.\r\n\r\nTowards evening of that day, the Pequod was torn of her canvas, and\r\nbare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon which had struck her directly\r\nahead. When darkness came on, sky and sea roared and split with the\r\nthunder, and blazed with the lightning, that showed the disabled masts\r\nfluttering here and there with the rags which the first fury of the\r\ntempest had left for its after sport.\r\n\r\nHolding by a shroud, Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck; at\r\nevery flash of the lightning glancing aloft, to see what additional\r\ndisaster might have befallen the intricate hamper there; while Stubb\r\nand Flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer\r\nlashing of the boats. But all their pains seemed naught. Though lifted\r\nto the very top of the cranes, the windward quarter boat (Ahab’s) did\r\nnot escape. A great rolling sea, dashing high up against the reeling\r\nship’s high teetering side, stove in the boat’s bottom at the stern,\r\nand left it again, all dripping through like a sieve.\r\n\r\n“Bad work, bad work! Mr. Starbuck,” said Stubb, regarding the wreck,\r\n“but the sea will have its way. Stubb, for one, can’t fight it. You\r","title":"Chapter 119"},"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":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.394Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:17.394Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}