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Whether
the
flitting
attendance
of
the
one
still
and
solitary
jet
had
gradually
worked
upon
Ahab
,
so
that
he
was
now
prepared
to
connect
the
ideas
of
mildness
and
repose
with
the
first
sight
of
the
particular
whale
he
pursued
;
however
this
was
,
or
whether
his
eagerness
betrayed
him
;
whichever
way
it
might
have
been
,
no
sooner
did
he
distinctly
perceive
the
white
mass
,
than
with
a
quick
intensity
he
instantly
gave
orders
for
lowering
.
The
four
boats
were
soon
on
the
water
;
Ahab
's
in
advance
,
and
all
swiftly
pulling
towards
their
prey
.
Soon
it
went
down
,
and
while
,
with
oars
suspended
,
we
were
awaiting
its
reappearance
,
lo
!
in
the
same
spot
where
it
sank
,
once
more
it
slowly
rose
.
Almost
forgetting
for
the
moment
all
thoughts
of
Moby
Dick
,
we
now
gazed
at
the
most
wondrous
phenomenon
which
the
secret
seas
have
hitherto
revealed
to
mankind
.
A
vast
pulpy
mass
,
furlongs
in
length
and
breadth
,
of
a
glancing
cream-color
,
lay
floating
on
the
water
,
innumerable
long
arms
radiating
from
its
centre
,
and
curling
and
twisting
like
a
nest
of
anacondas
,
as
if
blindly
to
catch
at
any
hapless
object
within
reach
.
No
perceptible
face
or
front
did
it
have
;
no
conceivable
token
of
either
sensation
or
instinct
;
but
undulated
there
on
the
billows
,
an
unearthly
,
formless
,
chance-like
apparition
of
life
.
As
with
a
low
sucking
sound
it
slowly
disappeared
again
,
Starbuck
still
gazing
at
the
agitated
waters
where
it
had
sunk
,
with
a
wild
voice
exclaimed
--
"
Almost
rather
had
I
seen
Moby
Dick
and
fought
him
,
than
to
have
seen
thee
,
thou
white
ghost
!
"
"
What
was
it
,
Sir
?
"
said
Flask
.
"
The
great
live
squid
,
which
,
they
say
,
few
whale-ships
ever
beheld
,
and
returned
to
their
ports
to
tell
of
it
.
"
But
Ahab
said
nothing
;
turning
his
boat
,
he
sailed
back
to
the
vessel
;
the
rest
as
silently
following
.
Whatever
superstitions
the
sperm
whalemen
in
general
have
connected
with
the
sight
of
this
object
,
certain
it
is
,
that
a
glimpse
of
it
being
so
very
unusual
,
that
circumstance
has
gone
far
to
invest
it
with
portentousness
.
So
rarely
is
it
beheld
,
that
though
one
and
all
of
them
declare
it
to
be
the
largest
animated
thing
in
the
ocean
,
yet
very
few
of
them
have
any
but
the
most
vague
ideas
concerning
its
true
nature
and
form
;
notwithstanding
,
they
believe
it
to
furnish
to
the
sperm
whale
his
only
food
.
For
though
other
species
of
whales
find
their
food
above
water
,
and
may
be
seen
by
man
in
the
act
of
feeding
,
the
spermaceti
whale
obtains
his
whole
food
in
unknown
zones
below
the
surface
;
and
only
by
inference
is
it
that
any
one
can
tell
of
what
,
precisely
,
that
food
consists
.
At
times
,
when
closely
pursued
,
he
will
disgorge
what
are
supposed
to
be
the
detached
arms
of
the
squid
;
some
of
them
thus
exhibited
exceeding
twenty
and
thirty
feet
in
length
They
fancy
that
the
monster
to
which
these
arms
belonged
ordinarily
clings
by
them
to
the
bed
of
the
ocean
;
and
that
the
sperm
whale
,
unlike
other
species
,
is
supplied
with
teeth
in
order
to
attack
and
tear
it
.
There
seems
some
ground
to
imagine
that
the
great
Kraken
of
Bishop
Pontoppodan
may
ultimately
resolve
itself
into
Squid
.
The
manner
in
which
the
Bishop
describes
it
,
as
alternately
rising
and
sinking
,
with
some
other
particulars
he
narrates
,
in
all
this
the
two
correspond
.
But
much
abatement
is
necessary
with
respect
to
the
incredible
bulk
he
assigns
it
.
By
some
naturalists
who
have
vaguely
heard
rumors
of
the
mysterious
creature
,
here
spoken
of
,
it
is
included
among
the
class
of
cuttle-fish
,
to
which
,
indeed
,
in
certain
external
respects
it
would
seem
to
belong
,
but
only
as
the
Anak
of
the
tribe
.
