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But
not
only
did
each
of
these
famous
whales
enjoy
great
individual
celebrity
--
nay
,
you
may
call
it
an
oceanwide
renown
;
not
only
was
he
famous
in
life
and
now
is
immortal
in
forecastle
stories
after
death
,
but
he
was
admitted
into
all
the
rights
,
privileges
,
and
distinctions
of
a
name
;
had
as
much
a
name
indeed
as
Cambyses
or
Caesar
.
Was
it
not
so
,
O
Timor
Tom
!
thou
famed
leviathan
,
scarred
like
a
iceberg
,
who
so
long
did
's
t
lurk
in
the
Oriental
straits
of
that
name
,
whose
spout
was
oft
seen
from
the
palmy
beach
of
Ombay
?
Was
it
not
so
,
O
New
Zealand
Jack
!
thou
terror
of
all
cruisers
that
crossed
their
wakes
in
the
vicinity
of
the
Tattoo
Land
?
Was
it
not
so
,
O
Morquan
!
King
of
Japan
,
whose
lofty
jet
they
say
at
times
assumed
the
semblance
of
a
snow-white
cross
against
the
sky
?
Was
it
not
so
,
O
Don
Miguel
!
thou
Chilian
whale
,
marked
like
an
old
tortoise
with
mystic
hieroglyphics
upon
the
back
!
In
plain
prose
,
here
are
four
whales
as
well
known
to
the
students
of
Cetacean
History
as
Marius
or
Sylla
to
the
classic
scholar
.
But
this
is
not
all
.
New
Zealand
Tom
and
Don
Miguel
,
after
at
various
times
creating
great
havoc
among
the
boats
of
different
vessels
,
were
finally
gone
in
quest
of
,
systematically
hunted
out
,
chased
and
killed
by
valiant
whaling
captains
,
who
heaved
up
their
anchors
with
that
express
object
as
much
in
view
,
as
in
setting
out
through
the
Narragansett
Woods
,
Captain
Butler
of
old
had
it
in
his
mind
to
capture
that
notorious
murderous
savage
Annawon
,
the
headmost
warrior
of
the
Indian
King
Philip
.
I
do
not
know
where
I
can
find
a
better
place
than
just
here
,
to
make
mention
of
one
or
two
other
things
,
which
to
me
seem
important
,
as
in
printed
form
establishing
in
all
respects
the
reasonableness
of
the
whole
story
of
the
White
Whale
,
more
especially
the
catastrophe
.
For
this
is
one
of
those
disheartening
instances
where
truth
requires
full
as
much
bolstering
as
error
.
So
ignorant
are
most
landsmen
of
some
of
the
plainest
and
most
palpable
wonders
of
the
world
,
that
without
some
hints
touching
the
plain
facts
,
historical
and
otherwise
,
of
the
fishery
,
they
might
scout
at
Moby
Dick
as
a
monstrous
fable
,
or
still
worse
and
more
detestable
,
a
hideous
and
intolerable
allegory
.
First
:
Though
most
men
have
some
vague
flitting
ideas
of
the
general
perils
of
the
grand
fishery
,
yet
they
have
nothing
like
a
fixed
,
vivid
conception
of
those
perils
,
and
the
frequency
with
which
they
recur
.
One
reason
perhaps
is
,
that
not
one
in
fifty
of
the
actual
disasters
and
deaths
by
casualties
in
the
fishery
,
ever
finds
a
public
record
at
home
,
however
transient
and
immediately
forgotten
that
record
.
Do
you
suppose
that
that
poor
fellow
there
,
who
this
moment
perhaps
caught
by
the
whale-line
off
the
coast
of
New
Guinea
,
is
being
carried
down
to
the
bottom
of
the
sea
by
the
sounding
leviathan
--
do
you
suppose
that
that
poor
fellow
's
name
will
appear
in
the
newspaper
obituary
you
will
read
to-morrow
at
your
breakfast
?
No
:
because
the
mails
are
very
irregular
between
here
and
New
Guinea
.
In
fact
,
did
you
ever
hear
what
might
be
called
regular
news
direct
or
indirect
from
New
Guinea
?
Yet
I
will
tell
you
that
upon
one
particular
voyage
which
I
made
to
the
Pacific
,
among
many
others
we
spoke
thirty
different
ships
,
every
one
of
which
had
had
a
death
by
a
whale
,
some
of
them
more
than
one
,
and
three
that
had
each
lost
a
boat
's
crew
.
For
God
's
sake
,
be
economical
with
your
lamps
and
candles
!
not
a
gallon
you
burn
,
but
at
least
one
drop
of
man
's
blood
was
spilled
for
it
.
Secondly
:
People
ashore
have
indeed
some
indefinite
idea
that
a
whale
is
an
enormous
creature
of
enormous
power
;
but
I
have
ever
found
that
when
narrating
to
them
some
specific
example
of
this
two-fold
enormousness
,
they
have
significantly
complimented
me
upon
my
facetiousness
;
when
,
I
declare
upon
my
soul
,
I
had
no
more
idea
of
being
facetious
than
Moses
,
when
he
wrote
the
history
of
the
plagues
of
Egypt
.
But
fortunately
the
special
point
I
here
seek
can
be
established
upon
testimony
entirely
independent
of
my
own
.
That
point
is
this
:
The
Sperm
Whale
is
in
some
cases
sufficiently
powerful
,
knowing
,
and
judiciously
malicious
,
as
with
direct
aforethought
to
stave
in
,
utterly
destroy
,
and
sink
a
large
ship
;
and
what
is
more
,
the
Sperm
Whale
has
done
it
.
First
:
In
the
year
1820
the
ship
Essex
,
Captain
Pollard
,
of
Nantucket
,
was
cruising
in
the
Pacific
Ocean
.
One
day
she
saw
spouts
,
lowered
her
boats
,
and
gave
chase
to
a
shoal
of
sperm
whales
.
Ere
long
,
several
of
the
whales
were
wounded
;
when
,
suddenly
,
a
very
large
whale
escaping
from
the
boats
,
issued
from
the
shoal
,
and
bore
directly
down
upon
the
ship
.
Dashing
his
forehead
against
her
hull
,
he
so
stove
her
in
,
that
in
less
than
"
ten
minutes
"
she
settled
down
and
fell
over
.
Not
a
surviving
plank
of
her
has
been
seen
since
.
After
the
severest
exposure
,
part
of
the
crew
reached
the
land
in
their
boats
.
