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Were
this
world
an
endless
plain
,
and
by
sailing
eastward
we
could
for
ever
reach
new
distances
,
and
discover
sights
more
sweet
and
strange
than
any
Cyclades
or
Islands
of
King
Solomon
,
then
there
were
promise
in
the
voyage
.
But
in
pursuit
of
those
far
mysteries
we
dream
of
,
or
in
tormented
chase
of
the
demon
phantom
that
,
some
time
or
other
,
swims
before
all
human
hearts
;
while
chasing
such
over
this
round
globe
,
they
either
lead
us
on
in
barren
mazes
or
midway
leave
us
whelmed
.
The
ostensible
reason
why
Ahab
did
not
go
on
board
of
the
whaler
we
had
spoken
was
this
:
the
wind
and
sea
betokened
storms
.
But
even
had
this
not
been
the
case
,
he
would
not
after
all
,
perhaps
,
have
boarded
her
--
judging
by
his
subsequent
conduct
on
similar
occasions
--
if
so
it
had
been
that
,
by
the
process
of
hailing
,
he
had
obtained
a
negative
answer
to
the
question
he
put
.
For
,
as
it
eventually
turned
out
,
he
cared
not
to
consort
,
even
for
five
minutes
,
with
any
stranger
captain
,
except
he
could
contribute
some
of
that
information
he
so
absorbingly
sought
.
But
all
this
might
remain
inadequately
estimated
,
were
not
something
said
here
of
the
peculiar
usages
of
whaling-vessels
when
meeting
each
other
in
foreign
seas
,
and
especially
on
a
common
cruising-ground
.
If
two
strangers
crossing
the
Pine
Barrens
in
New
York
State
,
or
the
equally
desolate
Salisbury
Plain
in
England
;
if
casually
encountering
each
other
in
such
inhospitable
wilds
,
these
twain
,
for
the
life
of
them
,
can
not
well
avoid
a
mutual
salutation
;
and
stopping
for
a
moment
to
interchange
the
news
;
and
,
perhaps
,
sitting
down
for
a
while
and
resting
in
concert
:
then
,
how
much
more
natural
that
upon
the
illimitable
Pine
Barrens
and
Salisbury
Plains
of
the
sea
,
two
whaling
vessels
descrying
each
other
at
the
ends
of
the
earth
--
off
lone
Fanning
's
Island
,
or
the
far
away
King
's
Mills
;
how
much
more
natural
,
I
say
,
that
under
such
circumstances
these
ships
should
not
only
interchange
hails
,
but
come
into
still
closer
,
more
friendly
and
sociable
contact
.
And
especially
would
this
seem
to
be
a
matter
of
course
,
in
the
case
of
vessels
owned
in
one
seaport
,
and
whose
captains
,
officers
,
and
not
a
few
of
the
men
are
personally
known
to
each
other
;
and
consequently
,
have
all
sorts
of
dear
domestic
things
to
talk
about
.
For
the
long
absent
ship
,
the
outward-bounder
,
perhaps
,
has
letters
on
board
;
at
any
rate
,
she
will
be
sure
to
let
her
have
some
papers
of
a
date
a
year
or
two
later
than
the
last
one
on
her
blurred
and
thumb-worn
files
.
And
in
return
for
that
courtesy
,
the
outward-bound
ship
would
receive
the
latest
whaling
intelligence
from
the
cruising-ground
to
which
she
may
be
destined
,
a
thing
of
the
utmost
importance
to
her
.
And
in
degree
,
all
this
will
hold
true
concerning
whaling
vessels
crossing
each
other
's
track
on
the
cruising-ground
itself
,
even
though
they
are
equally
long
absent
from
home
.
For
one
of
them
may
have
received
a
transfer
of
letters
from
some
third
,
and
now
far
remote
vessel
;
and
some
of
those
letters
may
be
for
the
people
of
the
ship
she
now
meets
.
Besides
,
they
would
exchange
the
whaling
news
,
and
have
an
agreeable
chat
.
For
not
only
would
they
meet
with
all
the
sympathies
of
sailors
,
but
likewise
with
all
the
peculiar
congenialities
arising
from
a
common
pursuit
and
mutually
shared
privations
and
perils
.
Nor
would
difference
of
country
make
any
very
essential
difference
;
that
is
,
so
long
as
both
parties
speak
one
language
,
as
is
the
case
with
Americans
and
English
.
Though
,
to
be
sure
,
from
the
small
number
of
English
whalers
,
such
meetings
do
not
very
often
occur
,
and
when
they
do
occur
there
.
is
too
apt
to
be
a
sort
of
shyness
between
them
;
for
your
Englishman
is
rather
reserved
,
and
your
Yankee
,
he
does
not
fancy
that
sort
of
thing
in
anybody
but
himself
.
Besides
,
the
English
whalers
sometimes
affect
a
kind
of
metropolitan
superiority
over
the
American
whalers
;
regarding
the
long
,
lean
Nantucketer
,
with
his
nondescript
provincialisms
,
as
a
sort
of
sea-peasant
.
But
where
this
superiority
in
the
English
whaleman
does
really
consist
,
it
would
be
hard
to
say
,
seeing
that
the
Yankees
in
one
day
,
collectively
,
kill
more
whales
than
all
the
English
,
collectively
,
in
ten
years
.
But
this
is
a
harmless
little
foible
in
the
English
whale-hunters
,
which
the
Nantucketer
does
not
take
much
to
heart
;
probably
,
because
he
knows
that
he
has
a
few
foibles
himself
.
So
,
then
,
we
see
that
of
all
ships
separately
sailing
the
sea
,
the
whalers
have
most
reason
to
be
sociable
--
and
they
are
so
.
Whereas
,
some
merchant
ships
crossing
each
other
's
wake
in
the
mid-Atlantic
,
will
oftentimes
pass
on
without
so
much
as
a
single
word
of
recognition
,
mutually
cutting
each
other
on
the
high
seas
,
like
a
brace
of
dandies
in
Broadway
;
and
all
the
time
indulging
,
perhaps
,
in
finical
criticism
upon
each
other
's
rig
.
As
for
Men-of-War
,
when
they
chance
to
meet
at
sea
,
they
first
go
through
such
a
string
of
silly
bowings
and
scrapings
,
such
a
ducking
of
ensigns
,
that
there
does
not
seem
to
be
much
right-down
hearty
good-will
and
brotherly
love
about
it
at
all
.
As
touching
Slave-ships
meeting
,
why
,
they
are
in
such
a
prodigious
hurry
,
they
run
away
from
each
other
as
soon
as
possible
.
And
as
for
Pirates
,
when
they
chance
to
cross
each
other
's
cross-bones
,
the
first
hail
is
--
"
How
many
skulls
?
"
--
the
same
way
that
whalers
hail
--
"
How
many
barrels
?
"
And
that
question
once
answered
,
pirates
straightway
steer
apart
,
for
they
are
infernal
villains
on
both
sides
,
and
do
n't
like
to
see
overmuch
of
each
other
's
villanous
likenesses
.
But
look
at
the
godly
,
honest
,
unostentatious
,
hospitable
,
sociable
,
free-and-easy
whaler
!
What
does
the
whaler
do
when
she
meets
another
whaler
in
any
sort
of
decent
weather
?
She
has
a
"
Gam
,
"
a
thing
so
utterly
unknown
to
all
other
ships
that
they
never
heard
of
the
name
even
;
and
if
by
chance
they
should
hear
of
it
,
they
only
grin
at
it
,
and
repeat
gamesome
stuff
about
"
spouters
"
and
"
blubber-boilers
,
"
and
such
like
pretty
exclamations
.
Why
it
is
that
all
Merchant-seamen
,
and
also
all
Pirates
and
Man-of-War
's
men
,
and
Slave-ship
sailors
,
cherish
such
a
scornful
feeling
towards
Whale-ships
;
this
is
a
question
it
would
be
hard
to
answer
.
Because
,
in
the
case
of
pirates
,
say
,
I
should
like
to
know
whether
that
profession
of
theirs
has
any
peculiar
glory
about
it
.
It
sometimes
ends
in
uncommon
elevation
,
indeed
;
but
only
at
the
gallows
.
And
besides
,
when
a
man
is
elevated
in
that
odd
fashion
,
he
has
no
proper
foundation
for
his
superior
altitude
.
Hence
,
I
conclude
,
that
in
boasting
himself
to
be
high
lifted
above
a
whaleman
,
in
that
assertion
the
pirate
has
no
solid
basis
to
stand
on
.
