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In
the
case
of
a
small
Sperm
Whale
the
brains
are
accounted
a
fine
dish
.
The
casket
of
the
skull
is
broken
into
with
an
axe
,
and
the
two
plump
,
whitish
lobes
being
withdrawn
(
precisely
resembling
two
large
puddings
)
,
they
are
then
mixed
with
flour
,
and
cooked
into
a
most
delectable
mess
,
in
flavor
somewhat
resembling
calves
'
head
,
which
is
quite
a
dish
among
some
epicures
;
and
every
one
knows
that
some
young
bucks
among
the
epicures
,
by
continually
dining
upon
calves
'
brains
,
by
and
by
get
to
have
a
little
brains
of
their
own
,
so
as
to
be
able
to
tell
a
calf
's
head
from
their
own
heads
;
which
,
indeed
,
requires
uncommon
discrimination
.
And
that
is
the
reason
why
a
young
buck
with
an
intelligent
looking
calf
's
head
before
him
,
is
somehow
one
of
the
saddest
sights
you
can
see
.
The
head
looks
a
sort
of
reproachfully
at
him
,
with
an
"
Et
tu
Brute
!
"
expression
.
It
is
not
,
perhaps
,
entirely
because
the
whale
is
so
excessively
unctuous
that
landsmen
seem
to
regard
the
eating
of
him
with
abhorrence
;
that
appears
to
result
,
in
some
way
,
from
the
consideration
before
mentioned
:
i.e.
that
a
man
should
eat
a
newly
murdered
thing
of
the
sea
,
and
eat
it
too
by
its
own
light
.
But
no
doubt
the
first
man
that
ever
murdered
an
ox
was
regarded
as
a
murderer
;
perhaps
he
was
hung
;
and
if
he
had
been
put
on
his
trial
by
oxen
,
he
certainly
would
have
been
;
and
he
certainly
deserved
it
if
any
murderer
does
.
Go
to
the
meat-market
of
a
Saturday
night
and
see
the
crowds
of
live
bipeds
staring
up
at
the
long
rows
of
dead
quadrupeds
Does
not
that
sight
take
a
tooth
out
of
the
cannibal
's
jaw
?
Cannibals
?
who
is
not
a
cannibal
?
I
tell
you
it
will
be
more
tolerable
for
the
Fejee
that
salted
down
a
lean
missionary
in
his
cellar
against
a
coming
famine
;
it
will
be
more
tolerable
for
that
provident
Fejee
,
I
say
,
in
the
day
of
judgment
,
than
for
thee
,
civilized
and
enlightened
gourmand
,
who
nailest
geese
to
the
ground
and
feastest
on
their
bloated
livers
in
thy
pate-de-foie-gras
.
But
Stubb
,
he
eats
the
whale
by
its
own
light
,
does
he
?
and
that
is
adding
insult
to
injury
,
is
it
?
Look
at
your
knife-handle
,
there
,
my
civilized
and
enlightened
gourmand
,
dining
off
that
roast
beef
,
what
is
that
handle
made
of
?
--
what
but
the
bones
of
the
brother
of
the
very
ox
you
are
eating
?
And
what
do
you
pick
your
teeth
with
,
after
devouring
that
fat
goose
?
With
a
feather
of
the
same
fowl
.
And
with
what
quill
did
the
Secretary
of
the
Society
for
the
Suppression
of
Cruelty
of
Ganders
formally
indite
his
circulars
?
It
is
only
within
the
last
month
or
two
that
the
society
passed
a
resolution
to
patronize
nothing
but
steel
pens
.
When
in
the
Southern
Fishery
a
captured
Sperm
Whale
,
after
long
and
weary
toil
,
is
brought
alongside
late
at
night
,
it
is
not
,
as
a
general
thing
at
least
,
customary
to
proceed
at
once
to
the
business
of
cutting
him
in
.
For
that
business
is
an
exceedingly
laborious
one
;
is
not
very
soon
completed
;
and
requires
all
hands
to
set
about
it
.
Therefore
,
the
common
usage
is
to
take
in
all
sail
;
lash
the
helm
a
'
lee
;
and
then
send
every
one
below
to
his
hammock
till
daylight
,
with
the
reservation
that
,
until
that
time
,
anchor-watches
shall
be
kept
;
that
is
,
two
and
two
for
an
hour
,
each
couple
,
the
crew
in
rotation
shall
mount
the
deck
to
see
that
all
goes
well
.
But
sometimes
,
especially
upon
the
Line
in
the
Pacific
,
this
plan
will
not
answer
at
all
;
because
such
incalculable
hosts
of
sharks
gather
round
the
moored
carcase
,
that
were
he
left
so
for
six
hours
,
say
,
on
a
stretch
,
little
more
than
the
skeleton
would
be
visible
by
morning
.
In
most
other
parts
of
the
ocean
,
however
,
where
these
fish
do
not
so
largely
abound
,
their
wondrous
voracity
can
be
at
times
considerably
diminished
,
by
vigorously
stirring
them
up
with
sharp
whaling-spades
,
a
procedure
notwithstanding
,
which
,
in
some
instances
,
only
seems
to
tickle
them
into
still
greater
activity
.
But
it
was
not
thus
in
the
present
case
with
the
Pequod
's
sharks
;
though
,
to
be
sure
,
any
man
unaccustomed
to
such
sights
,
to
have
looked
over
her
side
that
night
,
would
have
almost
thought
the
whole
round
sea
was
one
huge
cheese
,
and
those
sharks
the
maggots
in
it
Nevertheless
,
upon
Stubb
setting
the
anchor-watch
after
his
supper
was
concluded
;
and
when
,
accordingly
Queequeg
and
a
forecastle
seaman
came
on
deck
,
no
small
excitement
was
created
among
the
sharks
;
for
immediately
suspending
the
cutting
stages
over
the
side
,
and
lowering
three
lanterns
,
so
that
they
cast
long
gleams
of
light
over
the
turbid
sea
,
these
two
mariners
,
darting
their
long
whaling-spades
,
kept
up
an
incessant
murdering
of
the
sharks
,
by
striking
the
keen
steel
deep
into
their
skulls
,
seemingly
their
only
vital
part
.
But
in
the
foamy
confusion
of
their
mixed
and
struggling
hosts
,
the
marksmen
could
not
always
hit
their
mark
;
and
this
brought
about
new
revelations
of
the
incredible
ferocity
of
the
foe
.
They
viciously
snapped
,
not
only
at
each
other
's
disembowelments
,
but
like
flexible
bows
,
bent
round
,
and
bit
their
own
;
till
those
entrails
seemed
swallowed
over
and
over
again
by
the
same
mouth
,
to
be
oppositely
voided
by
the
gaping
wound
.
Nor
was
this
all
.
It
was
unsafe
to
meddle
with
the
corpses
and
ghosts
of
these
creatures
.
A
sort
of
generic
or
Pantheistic
vitality
seemed
to
lurk
in
their
very
joints
and
bones
,
after
what
might
be
called
the
individual
life
had
departed
.
Killed
and
hoisted
on
deck
for
the
sake
of
his
skin
,
one
of
these
sharks
almost
took
poor
Queequeg
's
hand
off
,
when
he
tried
to
shut
down
the
dead
lid
of
his
murderous
jaw
.
"
Queequeg
no
care
what
god
made
him
shark
,
"
said
the
savage
,
agonizingly
lifting
his
hand
up
and
down
;
"
wedder
Fejee
god
or
Nantucket
god
;
but
de
god
wat
made
shark
must
be
one
dam
Ingin
.
"
It
was
a
Saturday
night
,
and
such
a
Sabbath
as
followed
!
Ex
officio
professors
of
Sabbath
breaking
are
all
whalemen
.
The
ivory
Pequod
was
turned
into
what
seemed
a
shamble
;
every
sailor
a
butcher
.
You
would
have
thought
we
were
offering
up
ten
thousand
red
oxen
to
the
sea
gods
.
