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Meantime the sky\r\ndarkens—the wind rises_.)\r\n\r\nLASCAR SAILOR. By Brahma! boys, it’ll be douse sail soon. The sky-born,\r\nhigh-tide Ganges turned to wind! Thou showest thy black brow, Seeva!\r\n\r\nMALTESE SAILOR. (_Reclining and shaking his cap_.) It’s the waves—the\r\nsnow’s caps turn to jig it now. They’ll shake their tassels soon. Now\r\nwould all the waves were women, then I’d go drown, and chassee with\r\nthem evermore! There’s naught so sweet on earth—heaven may not match\r\nit!—as those swift glances of warm, wild bosoms in the dance, when the\r\nover-arboring arms hide such ripe, bursting grapes.\r\n\r\nSICILIAN SAILOR. (_Reclining_.) Tell me not of it! Hark ye, lad—fleet\r\ninterlacings of the limbs—lithe swayings—coyings—flutterings! lip!\r\nheart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye,\r\nelse come satiety. Eh, Pagan? (_Nudging_.)\r\n\r\nTAHITAN SAILOR. (_Reclining on a mat_.) Hail, holy nakedness of our\r\ndancing girls!—the Heeva-Heeva! Ah! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I\r\nstill rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven\r\nin the wood, my mat! green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn\r\nand wilted quite. Ah me!—not thou nor I can bear the change! How then,\r\nif so be transplanted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from\r\nPirohitee’s peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the\r\nvillages?—The blast! the blast! Up, spine, and meet it! (_Leaps to his\r\nfeet_.)\r\n\r\nPORTUGUESE SAILOR. How the sea rolls swashing ’gainst the side! Stand\r\nby for reefing, hearties! the winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell\r\nthey’ll go lunging presently.\r\n\r\nDANISH SAILOR. Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou\r\nholdest! Well done! The mate there holds ye to it stiffly. He’s no more\r\nafraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic\r\nwith storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes!\r\n\r\n4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. He has his orders, mind ye that. I heard old Ahab\r\ntell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a\r\nwaterspout with a pistol—fire your ship right into it!\r\n\r\nENGLISH SAILOR. Blood! but that old man’s a grand old cove! We are the\r\nlads to hunt him up his whale!\r\n\r\nALL. Aye! aye!\r\n\r\nOLD MANX SAILOR. How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort\r\nof tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none\r\nbut the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort\r\nof weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at\r\nsea. Our captain has his birthmark; look yonder, boys, there’s another\r\nin the sky—lurid-like, ye see, all else pitch black.\r\n\r\nDAGGOO. What of that? Who’s afraid of black’s afraid of me! I’m\r\nquarried out of it!\r\n\r\nSPANISH SAILOR. (_Aside_.) He wants to bully, ah!—the old grudge makes\r\nme touchy (_Advancing_.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable\r\ndark side of mankind—devilish dark at that. No offence.\r\n\r\nDAGGOO (_grimly_). None.\r\n\r\nST. JAGO’S SAILOR. That Spaniard’s mad or drunk. But that can’t be, or\r\nelse in his one case our old Mogul’s fire-waters are somewhat long in\r\nworking.\r\n\r\n5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR. What’s that I saw—lightning? Yes.\r\n\r\nSPANISH SAILOR. No; Daggoo showing his teeth.\r\n\r\nDAGGOO (_springing_). Swallow thine, mannikin! White skin, white liver!\r\n\r\nSPANISH SAILOR (_meeting him_). Knife thee heartily! big frame, small\r\nspirit!\r\n\r\nALL. A row! a row! a row!\r\n\r\nTASHTEGO (_with a whiff_). A row a’low, and a row aloft—Gods and\r\nmen—both brawlers! Humph!\r\n\r\nBELFAST SAILOR. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row!\r\nPlunge in with ye!\r\n\r\nENGLISH SAILOR. Fair play! Snatch the Spaniard’s knife! A ring, a ring!\r\n\r\nOLD MANX SAILOR. Ready formed. There! the ringed horizon. In that ring\r\nCain struck Abel. Sweet work, right work! No? Why then, God, mad’st\r\nthou the ring?\r\n\r\nMATE’S VOICE FROM THE QUARTER-DECK. Hands by the halyards! in\r\ntop-gallant sails! Stand by to reef topsails!\r\n\r\nALL. The squall! the squall! jump, my jollies! (_They scatter_.)\r\n\r\nPIP (_shrinking under the windlass_). Jollies? Lord help such jollies!\r\nCrish, crash! there goes the jib-stay! Blang-whang! God! Duck lower,\r\nPip, here comes the royal yard! It’s worse than being in the whirled\r\nwoods, the last day of the year! Who’d go climbing after chestnuts now?\r\nBut there they go, all cursing, and here I don’t. Fine prospects to\r\n’em; they’re on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a\r\nsquall! But those chaps there are worse yet—they are your white\r\nsqualls, they. White squalls? white whale, shirr! shirr! Here have I\r\nheard all their chat just now, and the white whale—shirr! shirr!—but\r\nspoken of once! and only this evening—it makes me jingle all over like\r\nmy tambourine—that anaconda of an old man swore ’em in to hunt him! Oh,\r\nthou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on\r\nthis small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no\r\nbowels to feel fear!\r\n\r\n\r\nCHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.\r\n\r\nI, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest;\r\nmy oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more\r\ndid I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul. A\r\nwild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab’s quenchless feud\r\nseemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous\r\nmonster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of\r\nviolence and revenge.\r\n\r\nFor some time past, though at intervals only, the unaccompanied,\r\nsecluded White Whale had haunted those uncivilized seas mostly\r\nfrequented by the Sperm Whale fishermen. But not all of them knew of\r\nhis existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen\r\nhim; while the number who as yet had actually and knowingly given\r\nbattle to him, was small indeed. For, owing to the large number of\r\nwhale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire\r\nwatery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest\r\nalong solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth\r\nor more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any\r\nsort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity\r\nof the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances,\r\ndirect and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole\r\nworld-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings\r\nconcerning Moby Dick. It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels\r\nreported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or\r\nsuch a meridian, a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity,\r\nwhich whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had\r\ncompletely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair\r\npresumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other\r\nthan Moby Dick. Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked\r\nby various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and\r\nmalice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by\r\naccident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps,\r\nfor the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred,\r\nmore, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large,\r\nthan to the individual cause."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KJNXEDHZCC8DR4EPSQD0QP4P","peer_label":"moby-dick","peer_type":"text","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KJNXECF9R1EZKS5Z7J8A8ZSB","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KJNXKZBGV5QSFPD19S2BQF68","peer_label":"captain 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