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"
Think
,
think
of
thy
whale-boat
,
stoven
and
sunk
!
Beware
of
the
horrible
tail
!
"
"
I
tell
thee
again
,
Gabriel
,
that
-
"
But
again
the
boat
tore
ahead
as
if
dragged
by
fiends
.
Nothing
was
said
for
some
moments
,
while
a
succession
of
riotous
waves
rolled
by
which
by
one
of
those
occasional
caprices
of
the
seas
were
tumbling
,
not
heaving
it
.
Meantime
,
the
hoisted
sperm
whale
's
head
jogged
about
very
violently
,
and
Gabriel
was
seen
eyeing
it
with
rather
more
apprehensiveness
than
his
archangel
nature
seemed
to
warrant
.
When
this
interlude
was
over
,
Captain
Mayhew
began
a
dark
story
concerning
Moby
Dick
;
not
,
however
,
without
frequent
interruptions
from
Gabriel
,
whenever
his
name
was
mentioned
,
and
the
crazy
sea
that
seemed
leagued
with
him
.
It
seemed
that
the
Jeroboam
had
not
long
left
home
,
when
upon
speaking
a
whale-ship
,
her
people
were
reliably
apprised
of
the
existence
of
Moby
Dick
,
and
the
havoc
he
had
made
.
Greedily
sucking
in
this
intelligence
,
Gabriel
solemnly
warned
the
captain
against
attacking
the
White
Whale
,
in
case
the
monster
should
be
seen
;
in
his
gibbering
insanity
,
pronouncing
the
White
Whale
to
be
no
less
a
being
than
the
Shaker
God
incarnated
;
the
Shakers
receiving
the
Bible
.
But
when
,
some
year
or
two
afterwards
,
Moby
Dick
was
fairly
sighted
from
the
mast-heads
,
Macey
,
the
chief
mate
,
burned
with
ardor
to
encounter
him
;
and
the
captain
himself
being
not
unwilling
to
let
him
have
the
opportunity
,
despite
all
the
archangel
's
denunciations
and
forewarnings
,
Macey
succeeded
in
persuading
five
men
to
man
his
boat
.
With
them
he
pushed
off
;
and
,
after
much
weary
pulling
,
and
many
perilous
,
unsuccessful
onsets
,
he
at
last
succeeded
in
getting
one
iron
fast
.
Meantime
,
Gabriel
,
ascending
to
the
main-royal
mast-head
,
was
tossing
one
arm
in
frantic
gestures
,
and
hurling
forth
prophecies
of
speedy
doom
to
the
sacrilegious
assailants
of
his
divinity
.
Now
,
while
Macey
,
the
mate
,
was
standing
up
in
his
boat
's
bow
,
and
with
all
the
reckless
energy
of
his
tribe
was
venting
his
wild
exclamations
upon
the
whale
,
and
essaying
to
get
a
fair
chance
for
his
poised
lance
,
lo
!
a
broad
white
shadow
rose
from
the
sea
;
by
its
quick
,
fanning
motion
,
temporarily
taking
the
breath
out
of
the
bodies
of
the
oarsmen
.
Next
instant
,
the
luckless
mate
,
so
full
of
furious
life
,
was
smitten
bodily
into
the
air
,
and
making
a
long
arc
in
his
descent
,
fell
into
the
sea
at
the
distance
of
about
fifty
yards
.
Not
a
chip
of
the
boat
was
harmed
,
nor
a
hair
of
any
oarsman
's
head
;
but
the
mate
for
ever
sank
.
It
is
well
to
parenthesize
here
,
that
of
the
fatal
accidents
in
the
Sperm-Whale
Fishery
,
this
kind
is
perhaps
almost
as
frequent
as
any
.
Sometimes
,
nothing
is
injured
but
the
man
who
is
thus
annihilated
;
oftener
the
boat
's
bow
is
knocked
off
,
or
the
thigh-board
,
on
which
the
headsman
stands
,
is
torn
from
its
place
and
accompanies
the
body
.
But
strangest
of
all
is
the
circumstance
,
that
in
more
instances
than
one
,
when
the
body
has
been
recovered
,
not
a
single
mark
of
violence
is
discernible
the
man
being
stark
dead
.
The
whole
calamity
,
with
the
falling
form
of
Macey
,
was
plainly
descried
from
the
ship
.
Raising
a
piercing
shriek
--
"
The
vial
!
the
vial
!
"
Gabriel
called
off
the
terror-stricken
crew
from
the
further
hunting
of
the
whale
.
This
terrible
event
clothed
the
archangel
with
added
influence
;
because
his
credulous
disciples
believed
that
he
had
specifically
fore-announced
it
,
instead
of
only
making
a
general
prophecy
,
which
any
one
might
have
done
,
and
so
have
chanced
to
hit
one
of
many
marks
in
the
wide
margin
allowed
.
He
became
a
nameless
terror
to
the
ship
.
Mayhew
having
concluded
his
narration
,
Ahab
put
such
questions
to
him
,
that
the
stranger
captain
could
not
forbear
inquiring
whether
he
intended
to
hunt
the
White
Whale
,
if
opportunity
should
offer
.
To
which
Ahab
answered
--
"
Aye
.
"
Straightway
,
then
,
Gabriel
once
more
started
to
his
feet
,
glaring
upon
the
old
man
,
and
vehemently
exclaimed
,
with
downward
pointed
finger
--
"
Think
,
think
of
the
blasphemer
--
dead
,
and
down
there
!
--
beware
of
the
blasphemer
's
end
!
"
Ahab
stolidly
turned
aside
;
then
said
to
Mayhew
,
"
Captain
,
I
have
just
bethought
me
of
my
letter-bag
;
there
is
a
letter
for
one
of
thy
officers
,
if
I
mistake
not
.
Starbuck
,
look
over
the
bag
.
"
