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Every
whale-ship
takes
out
a
goodly
number
of
letters
for
various
ships
,
whose
delivery
to
the
persons
to
whom
they
may
be
addressed
,
depends
upon
the
mere
chance
of
encountering
them
in
the
four
oceans
.
Thus
,
most
letters
never
reach
their
mark
;
and
many
are
only
received
after
attaining
an
age
of
two
or
three
years
or
more
.
Soon
Starbuck
returned
with
a
letter
in
his
hand
.
It
was
sorely
tumbled
,
damp
,
and
covered
with
a
dull
,
spotted
,
green
mould
,
in
consequence
of
being
kept
in
a
dark
locker
of
the
cabin
.
Of
such
a
letter
,
Death
himself
might
well
have
been
the
post-boy
.
"
Can
's
t
not
read
it
?
"
cried
Ahab
.
"
Give
it
me
,
man
.
Aye
,
aye
,
it
's
but
a
dim
scrawl
;
--
what
's
this
?
"
As
he
was
studying
it
out
,
Starbuck
took
a
long
cutting-spade
pole
,
and
with
his
knife
slightly
split
the
end
,
to
insert
the
letter
there
,
and
in
that
way
,
hand
it
to
the
boat
,
without
its
coming
any
closer
to
the
ship
.
Meantime
,
Ahab
holding
the
letter
,
muttered
,
"
Mr.
Har
--
yes
,
Mr.
Harry
--
(
a
woman
's
pinny
hand
--
the
man
's
wife
,
I
'll
wager
)
--
Aye
--
Mr.
Harry
Macey
,
Ship
Jeroboam
;
why
it
's
Macey
,
and
he
's
dead
!
"
"
Poor
fellow
!
poor
fellow
!
and
from
his
wife
,
"
sighed
Mayhew
;
"
but
let
me
have
it
.
"
"
Nay
,
keep
it
thyself
,
"
cried
Gabriel
to
Ahab
;
"
thou
art
soon
going
that
way
.
"
"
Curses
throttle
thee
!
"
yelled
Ahab
.
"
Captain
Mayhew
,
stand
by
now
to
receive
it
"
;
and
taking
the
fatal
missive
from
Starbuck
's
hands
,
he
caught
it
in
the
slit
of
the
pole
,
and
reached
it
over
towards
the
boat
.
But
as
he
did
so
,
the
oarsmen
expectantly
desisted
from
rowing
;
the
boat
drifted
a
little
towards
the
ship
's
stern
;
so
that
,
as
if
by
magic
,
the
letter
suddenly
ranged
along
with
Gabriel
's
eager
hand
.
He
clutched
it
in
an
instant
,
seized
the
boat-knife
,
and
impaling
the
letter
on
it
,
sent
it
thus
loaded
back
into
the
ship
.
It
fell
at
Ahab
's
feet
.
Then
Gabriel
shrieked
out
to
his
comrades
to
give
way
with
their
oars
,
and
in
that
manner
the
mutinous
boat
rapidly
shot
away
from
the
Pequod
As
,
after
this
interlude
,
the
seamen
resumed
their
work
upon
the
jacket
of
the
whale
,
many
strange
things
were
hinted
in
reference
to
this
wild
affair
.
In
the
tumultuous
business
of
cutting-in
and
attending
to
a
whale
,
there
is
much
running
backwards
and
forwards
among
the
crew
.
Now
hands
are
wanted
here
,
and
then
again
hands
are
wanted
there
.
There
is
no
staying
in
any
one
place
;
for
at
one
and
the
same
time
everything
has
to
be
done
everywhere
.
It
is
much
the
same
with
him
who
endeavors
the
description
of
the
scene
.
We
must
now
retrace
our
way
a
little
.
It
was
mentioned
that
upon
first
breaking
ground
in
the
whale
's
back
,
the
blubber-hook
was
inserted
into
the
original
hole
there
cut
by
the
spades
of
the
mates
.
But
how
did
so
clumsy
and
weighty
a
mass
as
that
same
hook
get
fixed
in
that
hole
?
It
was
inserted
there
by
my
particular
friend
Queequeg
,
whose
duty
it
was
,
as
harpooneer
,
to
descend
upon
the
monster
's
back
for
the
special
purpose
referred
to
.
But
in
very
many
cases
,
circumstances
require
that
the
harpooneer
shall
remain
on
the
whale
till
the
whole
tensing
or
stripping
operation
is
concluded
.
The
whale
,
be
it
observed
,
lies
almost
entirely
submerged
,
excepting
the
immediate
parts
operated
upon
.
So
down
there
,
some
ten
feet
below
the
level
of
the
deck
,
the
poor
harpooneer
flounders
about
,
half
on
the
whale
and
half
in
the
water
,
as
the
vast
mass
revolves
like
a
tread-mill
beneath
him
.
On
the
occasion
in
question
,
Queequeg
figured
in
the
Highland
costume
--
a
shirt
and
socks
--
in
which
to
my
eyes
,
at
least
,
he
appeared
to
uncommon
advantage
;
and
no
one
had
a
better
chance
to
observe
him
,
as
will
presently
be
seen
.
Being
the
savage
's
bowsman
,
that
is
,
the
person
who
pulled
the
bow-oar
in
his
boat
(
the
second
one
from
forward
)
,
it
was
my
cheerful
duty
to
attend
upon
him
while
taking
that
hard-scrabble
scramble
upon
the
dead
whale
's
back
.
You
have
seen
Italian
organ-boys
holding
a
dancing-ape
by
a
long
cord
.
Just
so
,
from
the
ship
's
steep
side
,
did
I
hold
Queequeg
down
there
in
the
sea
,
by
what
is
technically
called
in
the
fishery
a
monkey-rope
,
attached
to
a
strong
strip
of
canvas
belted
round
his
waist
.
