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Being
returned
home
at
last
,
Captain
Pollard
once
more
sailed
for
the
Pacific
in
command
of
another
ship
,
but
the
gods
shipwrecked
him
again
upon
unknown
rocks
and
breakers
;
for
the
second
time
his
ship
was
utterly
lost
,
and
forthwith
forswearing
the
sea
,
he
has
never
attempted
it
since
.
At
this
day
Captain
Pollard
is
a
resident
of
Nantucket
.
I
have
seen
Owen
Chace
,
who
was
chief
mate
of
the
Essex
at
the
time
of
the
tragedy
;
I
have
read
his
plain
and
faithful
narrative
;
I
have
conversed
with
his
son
;
and
all
this
within
a
few
miles
of
the
scene
of
the
catastrophe
.
Here
are
his
reflections
some
time
after
quitting
the
ship
,
during
a
black
night
an
open
boat
,
when
almost
despairing
of
reaching
any
hospitable
shore
.
"
The
dark
ocean
and
swelling
waters
were
nothing
;
the
fears
of
being
swallowed
up
by
some
dreadful
tempest
,
or
dashed
upon
hidden
rocks
,
with
all
the
other
ordinary
subjects
of
fearful
contemplation
,
seemed
scarcely
entitled
to
a
moment
's
thought
;
the
dismal
looking
wreck
,
and
the
horrid
aspect
and
revenge
of
the
whale
,
wholly
engrossed
my
reflections
,
until
day
again
made
its
appearance
.
"
In
another
place
--
p.
45
--
he
speaks
of
"
the
mysterious
and
mortal
attack
of
the
animal
.
"
Secondly
:
The
ship
Union
,
also
of
Nantucket
,
was
in
the
year
1807
totally
lost
off
the
Azores
by
a
similar
onset
,
but
the
authentic
particulars
of
this
catastrophe
I
have
never
chanced
to
encounter
,
though
from
the
whale
hunters
I
have
now
and
then
heard
casual
allusions
to
it
.
Thirdly
:
Some
eighteen
or
twenty
years
ago
Commodore
J
--
then
commanding
an
American
sloop-of-war
of
the
first
class
,
happened
to
be
dining
with
a
party
of
whaling
captains
,
on
board
a
Nantucket
ship
in
the
harbor
of
Oahu
,
Sandwich
Islands
.
Conversation
turning
upon
whales
,
the
Commodore
was
pleased
to
be
sceptical
touching
the
amazing
strength
ascribed
to
them
by
the
professional
gentlemen
present
.
He
peremptorily
denied
for
example
,
that
any
whale
could
so
smite
his
stout
sloop-of-war
as
to
cause
her
to
leak
so
much
as
a
thimbleful
.
Very
good
;
but
there
is
more
coming
.
Some
weeks
later
,
the
Commodore
set
sail
in
this
impregnable
craft
for
Valparaiso
.
But
he
was
stopped
on
the
way
by
a
portly
sperm
whale
,
that
begged
a
few
moments
'
confidential
business
with
him
.
That
business
consisted
in
fetching
the
Commodore
's
craft
such
a
thwack
,
that
with
all
his
pumps
going
he
made
straight
for
the
nearest
port
to
heave
down
and
repair
.
I
am
not
superstitious
,
but
I
consider
the
Commodore
's
interview
with
that
whale
as
providential
.
Was
not
Saul
of
Tarsus
converted
from
unbelief
by
a
similar
fright
?
I
tell
you
,
the
sperm
whale
will
stand
no
nonsense
.
I
will
now
refer
you
to
Langsdorff
's
Voyages
for
a
little
circumstance
in
point
,
peculiarly
interesting
to
the
writer
hereof
.
Langsdorff
,
you
must
know
by
the
way
,
was
attached
to
the
Russian
Admiral
Krusenstern
's
famous
Discovery
Expedition
in
the
beginning
of
the
present
century
.
Captain
Langsdorff
thus
begins
his
seventeenth
chapter
:
"
By
the
thirteenth
of
May
our
ship
was
ready
to
sail
,
and
the
next
day
we
were
out
in
the
open
sea
,
on
our
way
to
Ochotsh
.
The
weather
was
very
clear
and
fine
,
but
so
intolerably
cold
that
we
were
obliged
to
keep
on
our
fur
clothing
.
For
some
days
we
had
very
little
wind
;
it
was
not
till
the
nineteenth
that
a
brisk
gale
from
the
northwest
sprang
up
.
An
uncommonly
large
whale
,
the
body
of
which
was
larger
than
the
ship
itself
,
lay
almost
at
the
surface
of
the
water
,
but
was
not
perceived
by
any
one
on
board
till
the
moment
when
the
ship
,
which
was
in
full
sail
,
was
almost
upon
him
,
so
that
it
was
impossible
to
prevent
its
striking
against
him
.
We
were
thus
placed
in
the
most
imminent
danger
,
as
this
gigantic
creature
,
setting
up
its
back
,
raised
the
ship
three
feet
at
least
out
of
the
water
.
The
masts
reeled
,
and
the
sails
fell
altogether
,
while
we
who
were
below
all
sprang
instantly
upon
the
deck
,
concluding
that
we
had
struck
upon
some
rock
;
instead
of
this
we
saw
the
monster
sailing
off
with
the
utmost
gravity
and
solemnity
.
Captain
D'Wolf
applied
immediately
to
the
pumps
to
examine
whether
or
not
the
vessel
had
received
any
damage
from
the
shock
,
but
we
found
that
very
happily
it
had
escaped
entirely
uninjured
.
"
Now
,
the
Captain
D'Wolf
here
alluded
to
as
commanding
the
ship
in
question
,
is
a
New
Englander
,
who
,
after
a
long
life
of
unusual
adventures
as
a
sea-captain
,
this
day
resides
in
the
village
of
Dorchester
near
Boston
.
I
have
the
honor
of
being
a
nephew
of
his
.
I
have
particularly
questioned
him
concerning
this
passage
in
Langsdorff
.
He
substantiates
every
word
.
The
ship
,
however
,
was
by
no
means
a
large
one
:
a
Russian
craft
built
on
the
Siberian
coast
,
and
purchased
by
my
uncle
after
bartering
away
the
vessel
in
which
he
sailed
from
home
.
