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Furthermore
:
you
must
know
that
when
the
second
iron
is
thrown
overboard
,
it
thenceforth
becomes
a
dangling
,
sharp-edged
terror
,
skittishly
curvetting
about
both
boat
and
whale
,
entangling
the
lines
,
or
cutting
them
,
and
making
a
prodigious
sensation
in
all
directions
.
Nor
,
in
general
,
is
it
possible
to
secure
it
again
until
the
whale
is
fairly
captured
and
a
corpse
.
Consider
,
now
,
how
it
must
be
in
the
case
of
four
boats
all
engaging
one
unusually
strong
,
active
,
and
knowing
whale
;
when
owing
to
these
qualities
in
him
,
as
well
as
to
the
thousand
concurring
accidents
of
such
an
audacious
enterprise
,
eight
or
ten
loose
second
irons
may
be
simultaneously
dangling
about
him
.
For
,
of
course
,
each
boat
is
supplied
with
several
harpoons
to
bend
on
to
the
line
should
the
first
one
be
ineffectually
darted
without
recovery
.
All
these
particulars
are
faithfully
narrated
here
,
as
they
will
not
fail
to
elucidate
several
most
important
however
intricate
passages
,
in
scenes
hereafter
to
be
painted
.
Stubb
's
whale
had
been
killed
some
distance
from
the
ship
.
It
was
a
calm
;
so
,
forming
a
tandem
of
three
boats
,
we
commenced
slow
business
of
towing
the
trophy
to
the
Pequod
.
And
now
,
as
we
eighteen
men
with
our
thirty-six
arms
,
and
one
hundred
and
eighty
thumbs
and
fingers
,
slowly
toiled
hour
after
hour
upon
that
inert
,
sluggish
corpse
in
the
sea
;
and
it
seemed
hardly
to
budge
at
all
,
except
at
long
intervals
;
good
evidence
was
hereby
furnished
of
the
enormousness
of
the
mass
we
moved
.
For
,
upon
the
great
canal
of
Hang-Ho
,
or
whatever
they
call
it
,
in
China
,
four
or
five
laborers
on
the
foot-path
will
draw
a
bulky
freighted
junk
at
the
rate
of
a
mile
an
hour
;
but
this
grand
argosy
we
towed
heavily
forged
along
,
as
if
laden
with
piglead
in
bulk
.
Darkness
came
on
;
but
three
lights
up
and
down
in
the
Pequod
's
main-rigging
dimly
guided
our
way
;
till
drawing
nearer
we
saw
Ahab
dropping
one
of
several
more
lanterns
over
the
bulwarks
.
Vacantly
eyeing
the
heaving
whale
for
a
moment
,
he
issued
the
usual
orders
for
securing
it
for
the
night
,
and
then
handing
his
lantern
to
a
seaman
,
went
his
way
into
the
cabin
,
and
did
not
come
forward
again
until
morning
.
Though
,
in
overseeing
the
pursuit
of
this
whale
,
Captain
Ahab
had
evinced
his
customary
activity
,
to
call
it
so
;
yet
now
that
the
creature
was
dead
,
some
vague
dissatisfaction
,
or
impatience
,
or
despair
,
seemed
working
in
him
;
as
if
the
sight
of
that
dead
body
reminded
him
that
Moby
Dick
was
yet
to
be
slain
;
and
though
a
thousand
other
whales
were
brought
to
his
ship
,
all
that
would
not
one
jot
advance
his
grand
,
monomaniac
object
.
Very
soon
you
would
have
thought
from
the
sound
on
the
Pequod
's
decks
,
that
all
hands
were
preparing
to
cast
anchor
in
the
deep
;
for
heavy
chains
are
being
dragged
along
the
deck
,
and
thrust
rattling
out
of
the
port-holes
.
But
by
those
clanking
links
,
the
vast
corpse
itself
,
not
the
ship
,
is
to
be
moored
.
Tied
by
the
head
to
the
stern
,
and
by
the
tall
to
the
bows
,
the
whale
now
lies
with
its
black
hull
close
to
the
vessel
's
,
and
seen
through
the
darkness
of
the
night
,
which
obscured
the
spars
and
rigging
aloft
,
the
two
--
ship
and
whale
,
seemed
yoked
together
like
colossal
bullocks
,
whereof
one
reclines
while
the
other
remains
standing
.
If
moody
Ahab
was
now
all
quiescence
,
at
least
so
far
as
could
be
known
on
deck
,
Stubb
,
his
second
mate
,
flushed
with
conquest
,
betrayed
an
unusual
but
still
good-natured
excitement
.
Such
an
unwonted
bustle
was
he
in
that
the
staid
Starbuck
,
his
official
superior
,
quietly
resigned
to
him
for
the
time
the
sole
management
of
affairs
.
One
small
,
helping
cause
of
all
this
liveliness
in
Stubb
,
was
soon
made
strangely
manifest
.
Stubb
was
a
high
liver
;
he
was
somewhat
intemperately
fond
of
the
whale
as
a
flavorish
thing
to
his
palate
.
"
A
steak
,
a
steak
,
ere
I
sleep
!
You
,
Daggoo
!
overboard
you
go
,
and
cut
me
one
from
his
small
!
"
Here
be
it
known
,
that
though
these
wild
fishermen
do
not
,
as
a
general
thing
,
and
according
to
the
great
military
maxim
,
make
the
enemy
defray
the
current
expenses
of
the
war
(
at
least
before
realizing
the
proceeds
of
the
voyage
)
,
yet
now
and
then
you
find
some
of
these
Nantucketers
who
have
a
genuine
relish
for
that
particular
part
of
the
Sperm
Whale
designated
by
Stubb
;
comprising
the
tapering
extremity
of
the
body
.
About
midnight
that
steak
was
cut
and
cooked
;
and
lighted
by
two
lanterns
of
sperm
oil
,
Stubb
stoutly
stood
up
to
his
spermaceti
supper
at
the
capstan-head
,
as
if
that
capstan
were
a
sideboard
.
Nor
was
Stubb
the
only
banqueter
on
whale
's
flesh
that
night
.
Mingling
their
mumblings
with
his
own
mastications
,
thousands
on
thousands
of
sharks
,
swarming
round
the
dead
leviathan
,
smackingly
feasted
on
its
fatness
.
The
few
sleepers
below
in
their
bunks
were
often
startled
by
the
sharp
slapping
of
their
tails
against
the
hull
,
within
a
few
inches
of
the
sleepers
'
hearts
.
Peering
over
the
side
you
could
just
see
them
(
as
before
you
heard
them
)
wallowing
in
the
sullen
,
black
waters
,
and
turning
over
on
their
backs
as
they
scooped
out
huge
globular
pieces
of
the
whale
of
the
bigness
of
a
human
head
.
This
particular
feat
of
the
shark
seems
all
but
miraculous
.
