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Had
you
followed
Captain
Ahab
down
into
his
cabin
after
the
squall
that
took
place
on
the
night
succeeding
that
wild
ratification
of
his
purpose
with
his
crew
,
you
would
have
seen
him
go
to
a
locker
in
the
transom
,
and
bringing
out
a
large
wrinkled
roll
of
yellowish
sea
charts
,
spread
them
before
him
on
his
screwed-down
table
.
Then
seating
himself
before
it
,
you
would
have
seen
him
intently
study
the
various
lines
and
shadings
which
there
met
his
eye
;
and
with
slow
but
steady
pencil
trace
additional
courses
over
spaces
that
before
were
blank
.
At
intervals
,
he
would
refer
to
piles
of
old
log-books
beside
him
,
wherein
were
set
down
the
seasons
and
places
in
which
,
on
various
former
voyages
of
various
ships
,
sperm
whales
had
been
captured
or
seen
.
While
thus
employed
,
the
heavy
pewter
lamp
suspended
in
chains
over
his
head
,
continually
rocked
with
the
motion
of
the
ship
,
and
for
ever
threw
shifting
gleams
and
shadows
of
lines
upon
his
wrinkled
brow
,
till
it
almost
seemed
that
while
he
himself
was
marking
out
lines
and
courses
on
the
wrinkled
charts
,
some
invisible
pencil
was
also
tracing
lines
and
courses
upon
the
deeply
marked
chart
of
his
forehead
.
But
it
was
not
this
night
in
particular
that
,
in
the
solitude
of
his
cabin
,
Ahab
thus
pondered
over
his
charts
.
Almost
every
night
they
were
brought
out
;
almost
every
night
some
pencil
marks
were
effaced
,
and
others
were
substituted
.
For
with
the
charts
of
all
four
oceans
before
him
,
Ahab
was
threading
a
maze
of
currents
and
eddies
,
with
a
view
to
the
more
certain
accomplishment
of
that
monomaniac
thought
of
his
soul
.
Now
,
to
any
one
not
fully
acquainted
with
the
ways
of
the
leviathans
,
it
might
seem
an
absurdly
hopeless
task
thus
to
seek
out
one
solitary
creature
in
the
unhooped
oceans
of
this
planet
.
But
not
so
did
it
seem
to
Ahab
,
who
knew
the
sets
of
all
tides
and
currents
;
and
thereby
calculating
the
driftings
of
the
sperm
whale
's
food
;
and
,
also
calling
to
mind
the
regular
,
ascertained
seasons
for
hunting
him
in
particular
latitudes
;
could
arrive
at
reasonable
surmises
,
almost
approaching
to
certainties
,
concerning
the
timeliest
day
to
be
upon
this
or
that
ground
in
search
of
his
prey
.
So
assured
,
indeed
,
is
the
fact
concerning
the
periodicalness
of
the
sperm
whale
's
resorting
to
given
waters
,
that
many
hunters
believe
that
,
could
he
be
closely
observed
and
studied
throughout
the
world
;
were
the
logs
for
one
voyage
of
the
entire
whale
fleet
carefully
collated
,
then
the
migrations
of
the
sperm
whale
would
be
found
to
correspond
in
invariability
to
those
of
the
herring-shoals
or
the
flights
of
swallows
.
On
this
hint
,
attempts
have
been
made
to
construct
elaborate
migratory
charts
of
the
sperm
whale
.
Besides
,
when
making
a
passage
from
one
feeding-ground
to
another
,
the
sperm
whales
,
guided
by
some
infallible
instinct
--
say
,
rather
,
secret
intelligence
from
the
Deity
--
mostly
swim
in
veins
,
as
they
are
called
;
continuing
their
way
along
a
given
ocean-line
with
such
undeviating
exactitude
,
that
no
ship
ever
sailed
her
course
,
by
any
chart
,
with
one
tithe
of
such
marvellous
precision
.
Though
,
in
these
cases
,
the
direction
taken
by
any
one
whale
be
straight
as
a
surveyor
's
parallel
,
and
though
the
line
of
advance
be
strictly
confined
to
its
own
unavoidable
,
straight
wake
,
yet
the
arbitrary
vein
in
which
at
these
times
he
is
said
to
swim
,
generally
embraces
some
few
miles
in
width
(
more
or
less
,
as
the
vein
is
presumed
to
expand
or
contract
)
;
but
never
exceeds
the
visual
sweep
from
the
whale-ship
's
mast-heads
,
when
circumspectly
gliding
along
this
magic
zone
.
The
sum
is
,
that
at
particular
seasons
within
that
breadth
and
along
that
path
,
migrating
whales
may
with
great
confidence
be
looked
for
.
And
hence
not
only
at
substantiated
times
,
upon
well
known
separate
feeding-grounds
,
could
Ahab
hope
to
encounter
his
prey
;
but
in
crossing
the
widest
expanses
of
water
between
those
grounds
he
could
,
by
his
art
,
so
place
and
time
himself
on
his
way
,
as
even
then
not
to
be
wholly
without
prospect
of
a
meeting
.
There
was
a
circumstance
which
at
first
sight
seemed
to
entangle
his
delirious
but
still
methodical
scheme
.
But
not
so
in
the
reality
,
perhaps
.
Though
the
gregarious
sperm
whales
have
their
regular
seasons
for
particular
grounds
,
yet
in
general
you
can
not
conclude
that
the
herds
which
haunted
such
and
such
a
latitude
or
longitude
this
year
,
say
,
will
turn
out
to
be
identically
the
same
with
those
that
were
found
there
the
preceding
season
;
though
there
are
peculiar
and
unquestionable
instances
where
the
contrary
of
this
has
proved
true
.
In
general
,
the
same
remark
,
only
within
a
less
wide
limit
,
applies
to
the
solitaries
and
hermits
among
the
matured
,
aged
sperm
whales
.
So
that
though
Moby
Dick
had
in
a
former
year
been
seen
,
for
example
,
on
what
is
called
the
Seychelle
ground
in
the
Indian
ocean
,
or
Volcano
Bay
on
the
Japanese
Coast
;
yet
it
did
not
follow
that
were
the
Pequod
to
visit
either
of
those
spots
at
any
subsequent
corresponding
season
,
she
would
infallibly
encounter
him
there
.
So
,
too
,
with
some
other
feeding-grounds
,
where
he
had
at
times
revealed
himself
.
But
all
these
seemed
only
his
casual
stopping-places
and
ocean-inns
,
so
to
speak
,
not
his
places
of
prolonged
abode
.
And
where
Ahab
's
chances
of
accomplishing
his
object
have
hitherto
been
spoken
of
,
allusion
has
only
been
made
to
whatever
way-side
,
antecedent
,
extra
prospects
were
his
,
ere
a
particular
set
time
or
place
were
attained
,
when
all
possibilities
would
become
probabilities
,
and
,
as
Ahab
fondly
thought
,
every
possibility
the
next
thing
to
a
certainty
.
That
particular
set
time
and
place
were
conjoined
in
the
one
technical
phrase
--
the
Season-on-the-Line
.
For
there
and
then
,
for
several
consecutive
years
,
Moby
Dick
had
been
periodically
descried
,
lingering
in
those
waters
for
awhile
,
as
the
sun
,
in
its
annual
round
,
loiters
for
a
predicted
interval
in
any
one
sign
of
the
Zodiac
.
There
it
was
,
too
,
that
most
of
the
deadly
encounters
with
the
white
whale
had
taken
place
;
there
the
waves
were
storied
with
his
deeds
;
there
also
was
that
tragic
spot
where
the
monomaniac
old
man
had
found
the
awful
motive
to
his
vengeance
.
