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"
I
do
n't
think
it
so
strange
,
after
all
,
on
that
account
,
"
said
Flask
.
"
If
his
leg
were
off
at
the
hip
,
now
,
it
would
be
a
different
thing
.
That
would
disable
him
;
but
he
has
one
knee
,
and
good
part
of
the
other
left
,
you
know
.
"
"
I
do
n't
know
that
,
my
little
man
;
I
never
yet
saw
him
kneel
.
"
Among
whale-wise
people
it
has
often
been
argued
whether
,
considering
the
paramount
importance
of
his
life
to
the
success
of
the
voyage
,
it
is
right
for
a
whaling
captain
to
jeopardize
that
life
in
the
active
perils
of
the
chase
.
So
Tamerlane
's
soldiers
often
argued
with
tears
in
their
eyes
,
whether
that
invaluable
life
of
his
ought
to
be
carried
into
the
thickest
of
the
fight
.
But
with
Ahab
the
question
assumed
a
modified
aspect
.
Considering
that
with
two
legs
man
is
but
a
hobbling
wight
in
all
times
of
dancer
;
considering
that
the
pursuit
of
whales
is
always
under
great
and
extraordinary
difficulties
;
that
every
individual
moment
,
indeed
,
then
comprises
a
peril
;
under
these
circumstances
is
it
wise
for
any
maimed
man
to
enter
a
whale-boat
in
the
hunt
?
As
a
general
thing
,
the
joint-owners
of
the
Pequod
must
have
plainly
thought
not
.
Ahab
well
knew
that
although
his
friends
at
home
would
think
little
of
his
entering
a
boat
in
certain
comparatively
harmless
vicissitudes
of
the
chase
,
for
the
sake
of
being
near
the
scene
of
action
and
giving
his
orders
in
person
,
yet
for
Captain
Ahab
to
have
a
boat
actually
apportioned
to
him
as
a
regular
headsman
in
the
hunt
--
above
all
for
Ahab
to
be
supplied
with
five
extra
men
,
as
that
same
boat
's
crew
,
he
well
knew
that
such
generous
conceits
never
entered
the
heads
of
the
owners
of
the
Pequod
.
Therefore
he
had
not
solicited
a
boat
's
crew
from
them
,
nor
had
he
in
any
way
hinted
his
desires
on
that
head
.
Nevertheless
he
had
taken
private
measures
of
his
own
touching
all
that
matter
.
Until
Cabaco
's
published
discovery
,
the
sailors
had
little
foreseen
it
,
though
to
be
sure
when
,
after
being
a
little
while
out
of
port
,
all
hands
had
concluded
the
customary
business
of
fitting
the
whaleboats
for
service
;
when
some
time
after
this
Ahab
was
now
and
then
found
bestirring
himself
in
the
matter
of
making
thole-pins
with
his
own
hands
for
what
was
thought
to
be
one
of
the
spare
boats
,
and
even
solicitously
cutting
the
small
wooden
skewers
,
which
when
the
line
is
running
out
are
pinned
over
the
groove
in
the
bow
:
when
all
this
was
observed
in
him
,
and
particularly
his
solicitude
in
having
an
extra
coat
of
sheathing
in
the
bottom
of
the
boat
,
as
if
to
make
it
better
withstand
the
pointed
pressure
of
his
ivory
limb
;
and
also
the
anxiety
he
evinced
in
exactly
shaping
the
thigh
board
,
or
clumsy
cleat
,
as
it
is
sometimes
called
,
the
horizontal
piece
in
the
boat
's
bow
for
bracing
the
knee
against
in
darting
or
stabbing
at
the
whale
;
when
it
was
observed
how
often
he
stood
up
in
that
boat
with
his
solitary
knee
fixed
in
the
semi-circular
depression
in
the
cleat
,
and
with
the
carpenter
's
chisel
gouged
out
a
little
here
and
straightened
it
a
little
there
;
all
these
things
,
I
say
,
had
awakened
much
interest
and
curiosity
at
the
time
.
But
almost
everybody
supposed
that
this
particular
preparative
heedfulness
in
Ahab
must
only
be
with
a
view
to
the
ultimate
chase
of
Moby
Dick
;
for
he
had
already
revealed
his
intention
to
hunt
that
mortal
monster
in
person
.
But
such
a
supposition
did
by
no
means
involve
the
remotest
suspicion
as
to
any
boat
's
crew
being
assigned
to
that
boat
.
Now
,
with
the
subordinate
phantoms
,
what
wonder
remained
soon
waned
away
;
for
in
a
whaler
wonders
soon
wane
.
Besides
,
now
and
then
such
unaccountable
odds
and
ends
of
strange
nations
come
up
from
the
unknown
nooks
and
ash-holes
of
the
earth
to
man
these
floating
outlaws
of
whalers
;
and
the
ships
themselves
often
pick
up
such
queer
castaway
creatures
found
tossing
about
the
open
sea
on
planks
,
bits
of
wreck
,
oars
,
whaleboats
,
canoes
,
blown-off
Japanese
junks
,
and
what
not
;
that
Beelzebub
himself
might
climb
up
the
side
and
step
down
into
the
cabin
to
chat
with
the
captain
,
and
it
would
not
create
any
unsubduable
excitement
in
the
forecastle
.
But
be
all
this
as
it
may
,
certain
it
is
that
while
the
subordinate
phantoms
soon
found
their
place
among
the
crew
,
though
still
as
it
were
somehow
distinct
from
them
,
yet
that
hair-turbaned
Fedallah
remained
a
muffled
mystery
to
the
last
.
Whence
he
came
in
a
mannerly
world
like
this
,
by
what
sort
of
unaccountable
tie
he
soon
evinced
himself
to
be
linked
with
Ahab
's
peculiar
fortunes
;
nay
,
so
far
as
to
have
some
sort
of
a
half-hinted
influence
;
Heaven
knows
,
but
it
might
have
been
even
authority
over
him
;
all
this
none
knew
,
but
one
can
not
sustain
an
indifferent
air
concerning
Fedallah
He
was
such
a
creature
as
civilized
,
domestic
people
in
the
temperate
zone
only
see
in
their
dreams
,
and
that
but
dimly
;
but
the
like
of
whom
now
and
then
glide
among
the
unchanging
Asiatic
communities
,
especially
the
Oriental
isles
to
the
east
of
the
continent
--
those
insulated
,
immemorial
,
unalterable
countries
,
which
even
in
these
modern
days
still
preserve
much
of
the
ghostly
aboriginalness
of
earth
's
primal
generations
,
when
the
memory
of
the
first
man
was
a
distinct
recollection
,
and
all
men
his
descendants
,
unknowing
whence
he
came
,
eyed
each
other
as
real
phantoms
,
and
asked
of
the
sun
and
the
moon
why
they
were
created
and
to
what
end
;
when
though
,
according
to
Genesis
,
the
angels
indeed
consorted
with
the
daughters
of
men
,
the
devils
also
,
add
the
uncanonical
Robbins
,
indulged
in
mundane
amours
.
