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"
Some
two
years
prior
to
my
first
learning
the
events
which
I
am
about
rehearsing
to
you
,
gentlemen
,
the
Town-Ho
,
Sperm
Whaler
of
Nantucket
,
was
cruising
in
your
Pacific
here
,
not
very
many
days
'
sail
eastward
from
the
eaves
of
this
good
Golden
Inn
.
She
was
somewhere
to
the
northward
of
the
Line
.
One
morning
upon
handling
the
pumps
according
to
daily
usage
,
it
was
observed
that
she
made
more
water
in
her
hold
than
common
.
They
supposed
a
sword-fish
had
stabbed
her
,
gentlemen
.
But
the
captain
,
having
some
unusual
reason
for
believing
that
rare
good
luck
awaited
him
in
those
latitudes
;
and
therefore
being
very
averse
to
quit
them
,
and
the
leak
not
being
then
considered
at
all
dangerous
,
though
,
indeed
,
they
could
not
find
it
after
searching
the
hold
as
low
down
as
was
possible
in
rather
heavy
weather
,
the
ship
still
continued
her
cruisings
,
the
mariners
working
at
the
pumps
at
wide
and
easy
intervals
;
but
no
good
luck
came
;
more
days
went
by
and
not
only
was
the
leak
yet
undiscovered
,
but
it
sensibly
increased
.
So
much
so
,
that
now
taking
some
alarm
,
the
captain
,
making
all
sail
,
stood
away
for
the
nearest
harbor
among
the
islands
,
there
to
have
his
hull
hove
out
and
repaired
.
"
Though
no
small
passage
was
before
her
,
yet
,
if
the
commonest
chance
favoured
,
he
did
not
at
all
fear
that
his
ship
would
founder
by
the
way
,
because
his
pumps
were
of
the
best
,
and
being
periodically
relieved
at
them
,
those
six-and-thirty
men
of
his
could
easily
keep
the
ship
free
;
never
mind
if
the
leak
should
double
on
her
.
In
truth
,
well
nigh
the
whole
of
this
passage
being
attended
by
very
prosperous
breezes
,
the
Town-Ho
had
all
but
certainly
arrived
in
perfect
safety
at
her
port
without
the
occurrence
of
the
least
fatality
,
had
it
not
been
for
the
brutal
overbearing
of
Radney
,
the
mate
,
a
Vineyarder
,
and
the
bitterly
provoked
vengeance
of
Steelkilt
,
a
Lakeman
and
desperado
from
Buffalo
.
"
'
Lakeman
!
--
Buffalo
!
Pray
,
what
is
a
Lakeman
,
and
where
is
Buffalo
?
'
said
Don
Sebastian
,
rising
in
his
swinging
mat
of
grass
.
"
On
the
eastern
shore
of
our
Lake
Erie
,
Don
;
but
--
I
crave
your
courtesy
--
may
be
,
you
shall
soon
hear
further
of
all
that
.
Now
,
gentlemen
,
in
square-sail
brigs
and
three-masted
ships
,
well
nigh
as
large
and
stout
as
any
that
ever
sailed
out
of
your
old
Callao
to
far
Manilla
;
this
Lakeman
,
in
the
land-locked
heart
of
our
America
,
had
yet
been
nurtured
by
all
those
agrarian
freebooting
impressions
popularly
connected
with
the
open
ocean
.
For
in
their
interflowing
aggregate
,
those
grand
fresh-water
seas
of
ours
--
Erie
,
and
Ontario
,
and
Huron
,
and
Superior
,
and
Michigan
--
possess
an
ocean-like
expansiveness
,
with
many
of
the
ocean
's
noblest
traits
;
with
many
of
its
rimmed
varieties
of
races
and
of
climes
.
They
contain
round
archipelagoes
of
romantic
isles
,
even
as
the
Polynesian
waters
do
;
in
large
part
,
are
shored
by
two
great
contrasting
nations
,
as
the
Atlantic
is
;
they
furnish
long
maritime
approaches
to
our
numerous
territorial
colonies
from
the
East
,
dotted
all
round
their
banks
;
here
and
there
are
frowned
upon
by
batteries
,
and
by
the
goat-like
craggy
guns
of
lofty
Mackinaw
;
they
have
heard
the
fleet
thunderings
of
naval
victories
;
at
intervals
,
they
yield
their
beaches
to
wild
barbarians
,
whose
red
painted
faces
flash
from
out
their
peltry
wigwams
;
for
leagues
and
leagues
are
flanked
by
ancient
and
unentered
forests
,
where
the
gaunt
pines
stand
like
serried
lines
of
kings
in
Gothic
genealogies
;
those
same
woods
harboring
wild
Afric
beasts
of
prey
,
and
silken
creatures
whose
exported
furs
give
robes
to
Tartar
Emperors
;
they
mirror
the
paved
capitals
of
Buffalo
and
Cleveland
,
as
well
as
Winnebago
villages
;
they
float
alike
the
full-rigged
merchant
ship
,
the
armed
cruiser
of
the
State
,
the
steamer
,
and
the
beech
canoe
;
they
are
swept
by
Borean
and
dismasting
blasts
as
direful
as
any
that
lash
the
salted
wave
;
they
know
what
shipwrecks
are
,
for
out
of
sight
of
land
,
however
inland
,
they
have
drowned
full
many
a
midnight
ship
with
all
its
shrieking
crew
.
Thus
,
gentlemen
,
though
an
inlander
,
Steelkilt
was
wild-ocean
born
,
and
wild-ocean
nurtured
;
as
much
of
an
audacious
mariner
as
any
.
And
for
Radney
,
though
in
his
infancy
he
may
have
laid
him
down
on
the
lone
Nantucket
beach
,
to
nurse
at
his
maternal
sea
;
though
in
after
life
he
had
long
followed
our
austere
Atlantic
and
your
contemplative
Pacific
;
yet
was
he
quite
as
vengeful
and
full
of
social
quarrel
as
the
backwoods
seaman
,
fresh
from
the
latitudes
of
buckhorn
handled
Bowie-knives
.
Yet
was
this
Nantucketer
a
man
with
some
good-hearted
traits
;
and
this
Lakeman
,
a
mariner
,
who
though
a
sort
of
devil
indeed
,
might
yet
by
inflexible
firmness
,
only
tempered
by
that
common
decency
of
human
recognition
which
is
the
meanest
slave
's
right
;
thus
treated
,
this
Steelkilt
had
long
been
retained
harmless
and
docile
.
At
all
events
,
he
had
proved
so
thus
far
;
but
Radney
was
doomed
and
made
mad
,
and
Steelkilt
--
but
,
gentlemen
,
you
shall
hear
.
"
It
was
not
more
than
a
day
or
two
at
the
furthest
after
pointing
her
prow
for
her
island
haven
,
that
the
Town-Ho
's
leak
seemed
again
increasing
,
but
only
so
as
to
require
an
hour
or
more
at
the
pumps
every
day
.
You
must
know
that
in
a
settled
and
civilized
ocean
like
our
Atlantic
,
for
example
,
some
skippers
think
little
of
pumping
their
whole
way
across
it
;
though
of
a
still
,
sleepy
night
,
should
the
officer
of
the
deck
happen
to
forget
his
duty
in
that
respect
,
the
probability
would
be
that
he
and
his
shipmates
would
never
again
remember
it
,
on
account
of
all
hands
gently
subsiding
to
the
bottom
.
Nor
in
the
solitary
and
savage
seas
far
from
you
to
the
westward
,
gentlemen
,
is
it
altogether
unusual
for
ships
to
keep
clanging
at
their
pump-handles
in
full
chorus
even
for
a
voyage
of
considerable
length
!
that
is
,
if
it
lie
along
a
tolerably
accessible
coast
,
or
if
any
other
reasonable
retreat
is
afforded
them
.
It
is
only
when
a
leaky
vessel
is
in
some
very
out
of
the
way
part
of
those
waters
,
some
really
landless
latitude
,
that
her
captain
begins
to
feel
a
little
anxious
.
"
Much
this
way
had
it
been
with
the
Town-Ho
;
so
when
her
leak
was
found
gaining
once
more
,
there
was
in
truth
some
small
concern
manifested
by
several
of
her
company
;
especially
by
Radney
the
mate
.
He
commanded
the
upper
sails
to
be
well
hoisted
,
sheeted
home
anew
,
and
every
way
expanded
to
the
breeze
.
Now
this
Radney
,
I
suppose
,
was
as
little
of
a
coward
,
and
as
little
inclined
to
any
sort
of
nervous
apprehensiveness
touching
his
own
person
as
any
fearless
,
unthinking
creature
on
land
or
on
sea
that
you
can
conveniently
gentlemen
.
Therefore
when
he
betrayed
this
imagine
,
solicitude
about
the
safety
of
the
ship
,
some
of
the
seamen
declared
that
it
was
only
on
account
of
his
being
a
part
owner
in
her
.
So
when
they
were
working
that
evening
at
the
pumps
,
there
was
on
this
head
no
small
gamesomeness
slily
going
on
among
them
,
as
they
stood
with
their
feet
continually
overflowed
by
the
rippling
clear
water
;
clear
as
any
mountain
spring
,
gentlemen
--
that
bubbling
from
the
pumps
ran
across
the
deck
,
and
poured
itself
out
in
steady
spouts
at
the
lee
scupper-holes
.
