{"id":"01KJNXJQTB1A798H4SP6ZPVTAP","cid":"bafkreihhduzqky6jzvqw5d2up7uyefavw6dgqci7jwzqeebhc5pusups7u","type":"text_chunk","properties":{"char_end":29631,"char_start":21657,"chunk_index":3,"chunk_total":178,"estimated_tokens":1994,"source_file_key":"moby-dick","text":"  stove by a whale.” —“_Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship\r\n  Essex of Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a\r\n  large Sperm Whale in the Pacific Ocean_.” _By Owen Chace of\r\n  Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York_, 1821.\r\n\r\n\r\n  “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free;\r\n  Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher\r\n  gleamed in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea.”\r\n  —_Elizabeth Oakes Smith_.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n  “The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture\r\n  of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six\r\n  English miles....\r\n\r\n  “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which,\r\n  cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four\r\n  miles.” —_Scoresby_.\r\n\r\n  “Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the\r\n  infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous\r\n  head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he\r\n  rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with\r\n  vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed.... It is a matter of\r\n  great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so\r\n  interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an\r\n  animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected,\r\n  or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and\r\n  many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have\r\n  possessed the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of\r\n  witnessing their habitudes.” —_Thomas Beale’s History of the Sperm\r\n  Whale_, 1839.\r\n\r\n  “The Cachalot” (Sperm Whale) “is not only better armed than the True\r\n  Whale” (Greenland or Right Whale) “in possessing a formidable weapon\r\n  at either extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a\r\n  disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in manner at once\r\n  so artful, bold, and mischievous, as to lead to its being regarded as\r\n  the most dangerous to attack of all the known species of the whale\r\n  tribe.” —_Frederick Debell Bennett’s Whaling Voyage Round the Globe_,\r\n  1840.\r\n\r\n\r\n  October 13.  “There she blows,” was sung out from the mast-head.\r\n  “Where away?” demanded the captain. “Three points off the lee bow,\r\n  sir.” “Raise up your wheel.  Steady!”  “Steady, sir.” “Mast-head\r\n  ahoy! Do you see that whale now?” “Ay ay, sir!  A shoal of Sperm\r\n  Whales! There she blows!  There she breaches!” “Sing out! sing out\r\n  every time!” “Ay Ay, sir!  There she blows! there—there—_thar_ she\r\n  blows—bowes—bo-o-os!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder\r\n  and lightning! so near!  Call all hands.” —_J. Ross Browne’s Etchings\r\n  of a Whaling Cruize_.  1846.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n  “The Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid\r\n  transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of\r\n  Nantucket.” —“_Narrative of the Globe Mutiny_,” _by Lay and Hussey\r\n  survivors. A.D._ 1828.\r\n\r\n  Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the\r\n  assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length\r\n  rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by\r\n  leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.”\r\n  —_Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett_.\r\n\r\n  “Nantucket itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and\r\n  peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of\r\n  eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely\r\n  every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering\r\n  industry.” —_Report of Daniel Webster’s Speech in the U. S. Senate,\r\n  on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket_.\r\n  1828.\r\n\r\n  “The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him in a\r\n  moment.” —“_The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman’s Adventures\r\n  and the Whale’s Biography, gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the\r\n  Commodore Preble_.” _By Rev. Henry T. Cheever_.\r\n\r\n  “If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will\r\n  send you to hell.” —_Life of Samuel Comstock_ (_the mutineer_), _by\r\n  his brother, William Comstock. Another Version of the whale-ship\r\n  Globe narrative_.\r\n\r\n  “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in\r\n  order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though\r\n  they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the whale.”\r\n  —_McCulloch’s Commercial Dictionary_.\r\n\r\n  “These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound\r\n  forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the\r\n  whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same\r\n  mystic North-West Passage.” —_From_ “_Something_” _unpublished_.\r\n\r\n  “It is impossible to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being\r\n  struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with\r\n  look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around\r\n  them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular\r\n  voyage.” —_Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex_.\r\n\r\n  “Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect\r\n  having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to\r\n  form arches over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may\r\n  perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales.” —_Tales\r\n  of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean_.\r\n\r\n  “It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales,\r\n  that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages\r\n  enrolled among the crew.” —_Newspaper Account of the Taking and\r\n  Retaking of the Whale-Ship Hobomack_.\r\n\r\n  “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels\r\n  (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they\r\n  departed.” —_Cruise in a Whale Boat_.\r\n\r\n  “Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up\r\n  perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale.” —_Miriam Coffin or\r\n  the Whale Fisherman_.\r\n\r\n  “The Whale is harpooned to be sure; but bethink you, how you would\r\n  manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope\r\n  tied to the root of his tail.” —_A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and\r\n  Trucks_.\r\n\r\n  “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male\r\n  and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a\r\n  stone’s throw of the shore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech\r\n  tree extended its branches.” —_Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist_.\r\n\r\n  “‘Stern all!’ exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw\r\n  the distended jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the\r\n  boat, threatening it with instant destruction;—‘Stern all, for your\r\n  lives!’” —_Wharton the Whale Killer_.\r\n\r\n  “So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold\r\n  harpooneer is striking the whale!” —_Nantucket Song_.\r\n\r\n\r\n  “Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be\r\n  A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless\r\n  sea.” —_Whale Song_.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER 1. Loomings.\r\n\r\nCall me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having\r\nlittle or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me\r\non shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part\r\nof the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and\r\nregulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about\r\nthe mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever\r\nI find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and\r\nbringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever\r\nmy hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral\r\nprinciple to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and\r\nmethodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to\r\nget to sea as soon as I can."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJNXEDHZCC8DR4EPSQD0QP4P","peer_label":"moby-dick","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJNXECF9R1EZKS5Z7J8A8ZSB","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJNXKYGCZNXREK07X11VQXHV","peer_label":"sperm whale","predicate":"extracted_entity","properties":{"entity_type":"whale_species","extracted_at":"2026-03-02T00:08:12.136Z"}},{"peer":"01KJNXKZTEDRAVQY55ZXTCS226","peer_label":"pacific 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