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But
you
must
be
a
thorough
whaleman
,
to
see
these
sights
;
and
not
only
that
,
but
if
you
wish
to
return
to
such
a
sight
again
,
you
must
be
sure
and
take
the
exact
intersecting
latitude
and
longitude
of
your
first
stand-point
,
else
so
chance-like
are
such
observations
of
the
hills
,
that
your
precise
,
previous
stand-point
would
require
a
laborious
re-discovery
;
like
the
Soloma
islands
,
which
still
remain
incognita
,
though
once
high-ruffled
Mendanna
trod
them
and
old
Figuera
chronicled
them
.
Nor
when
expandingly
lifted
by
your
subject
,
can
you
fail
to
trace
out
great
whales
in
the
starry
heavens
,
and
boats
in
pursuit
of
them
;
as
when
long
filled
with
thoughts
of
war
the
Eastern
nations
saw
armies
locked
in
battle
among
the
clouds
.
Thus
at
the
North
have
I
chased
Leviathan
round
and
round
the
Pole
with
the
revolutions
of
the
bright
points
that
first
defined
him
to
me
.
And
beneath
the
effulgent
Antarctic
skies
I
have
boarded
the
Argo-Navis
,
and
joined
the
chase
against
the
starry
Cetus
far
beyond
the
utmost
stretch
of
Hydrus
and
the
Flying
Fish
.
With
a
frigate
's
anchors
for
my
bridle-bitts
and
fasces
of
harpoons
for
spurs
,
would
I
could
mount
that
whale
and
leap
the
topmost
skies
,
to
see
whether
the
fabled
heavens
with
all
their
countless
tents
really
lie
encamped
beyond
my
mortal
sight
!
Steering
north-eastward
from
the
Crozetts
,
we
fell
in
with
vast
meadows
of
brit
,
the
minute
,
yellow
substance
,
upon
which
the
Right
Whale
largely
feeds
.
For
leagues
and
leagues
undulated
round
us
,
so
that
we
seemed
to
be
sailing
through
boundless
fields
of
ripe
and
golden
wheat
.
On
the
second
day
,
numbers
of
Right
Whales
were
seen
,
who
,
secure
from
the
attack
of
a
Sperm-Whaler
like
the
Pequod
,
with
open
jaws
sluggishly
swam
through
the
brit
,
which
,
adhering
to
the
fringing
fibres
of
that
wondrous
Venetian
blind
in
their
mouths
,
was
in
that
manner
separated
from
the
water
that
escaped
at
the
lips
.
As
morning
mowers
,
who
side
by
side
slowly
and
seethingly
advance
their
scythes
through
the
long
wet
grass
of
marshy
meads
;
even
so
these
monsters
swam
,
making
a
strange
,
grassy
,
cutting
sound
;
and
leaving
behind
them
endless
swaths
of
blue
upon
the
yellow
sea
.
But
it
was
only
the
sound
they
made
as
they
parted
the
brit
which
at
all
reminded
one
of
mowers
.
Seen
from
the
mast-heads
,
especially
when
they
paused
and
were
stationary
for
a
while
,
their
vast
black
forms
looked
more
like
lifeless
masses
of
rock
than
anything
else
.
And
as
in
the
great
hunting
countries
of
India
,
the
stranger
at
a
distance
will
sometimes
pass
on
the
plains
recumbent
elephants
without
knowing
them
to
be
such
,
taking
them
for
bare
,
blackened
elevations
of
the
soil
;
even
so
,
often
,
with
him
,
who
for
the
first
time
beholds
this
species
of
the
leviathans
of
the
sea
.
And
even
when
recognized
at
last
,
their
immense
magnitude
renders
it
very
hard
really
to
believe
that
such
bulky
masses
of
overgrowth
can
possibly
be
instinct
,
in
all
parts
,
with
the
same
sort
of
life
that
lives
in
a
dog
or
a
horse
.
Indeed
.
in
other
respects
,
you
can
hardly
regard
any
creatures
of
the
deep
with
the
same
feeling
that
you
do
those
of
the
shore
.
For
though
some
old
naturalists
have
maintained
that
all
creatures
of
the
land
are
of
their
kind
in
the
sea
;
and
though
taking
a
broad
general
view
of
the
thing
,
this
may
very
well
be
;
yet
coming
to
specialties
,
where
,
for
example
,
does
the
ocean
furnish
any
fish
that
in
disposition
answers
to
the
sagacious
kindness
of
the
dog
?
The
accursed
shark
alone
can
in
any
generic
respect
be
said
to
bear
comparative
analogy
to
him
.
But
though
,
to
landsmen
in
general
,
the
native
inhabitants
of
the
seas
have
ever
regarded
with
emotions
unspeakably
unsocial
and
repelling
;
though
we
know
the
sea
to
be
an
everlasting
terra
incognita
,
so
that
Columbus
sailed
over
numberless
unknown
worlds
to
discover
his
one
superficial
western
one
;
though
,
by
vast
odds
,
the
most
terrific
of
all
mortal
disasters
have
immemorially
and
indiscriminately
befallen
tens
and
hundreds
of
thousands
of
those
who
have
gone
upon
the
waters
;
though
but
a
moment
's
consideration
will
teach
that
,
however
baby
man
may
brag
of
his
science
and
skill
,
and
however
much
,
in
a
flattering
future
,
that
science
and
skill
may
augment
;
yet
for
ever
and
for
ever
,
to
the
crack
of
doom
,
the
sea
will
insult
and
murder
him
,
and
pulverize
the
stateliest
,
stiffest
frigate
he
can
make
;
nevertheless
,
by
the
continual
repetition
of
these
very
impressions
,
man
has
lost
that
sense
of
the
full
awfulness
of
the
sea
which
aboriginally
belongs
to
it
.
