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What
a
really
beautiful
and
chaste-looking
mouth
!
from
floor
to
ceiling
,
lined
,
or
rather
papered
with
a
glistening
white
membrane
,
glossy
as
bridal
satins
.
But
come
out
now
,
and
look
at
this
portentous
lower
jaw
,
which
seems
like
the
long
narrow
lid
of
an
immense
snuff-box
,
with
the
hinge
at
one
end
,
instead
of
one
side
.
If
you
pry
it
up
,
so
as
to
get
it
overhead
,
and
expose
its
rows
of
teeth
,
it
seems
a
terrific
portcullis
;
and
such
,
alas
!
it
proves
to
many
a
poor
wight
in
the
fishery
,
upon
whom
these
spikes
fall
with
impaling
force
.
But
far
more
terrible
is
it
to
behold
,
when
fathoms
down
in
the
sea
,
you
see
some
sulky
whale
,
floating
there
suspended
,
with
his
prodigious
jaw
,
some
fifteen
feet
long
,
hanging
straight
down
at
right-angles
with
his
body
;
for
all
the
world
like
a
ship
's
jibboom
.
This
whale
is
not
dead
;
he
is
only
dispirited
;
out
of
sorts
,
perhaps
;
hypochondriac
;
and
so
supine
,
that
the
hinges
of
his
jaw
have
relaxed
,
leaving
him
there
in
that
ungainly
sort
of
plight
,
a
reproach
to
all
his
tribe
,
who
must
,
no
doubt
,
imprecate
lock-jaws
upon
him
.
In
most
cases
this
lower
jaw
--
being
easily
unhinged
by
a
practised
artist
--
is
disengaged
and
hoisted
on
deck
for
the
purpose
of
extracting
the
ivory
teeth
,
and
furnishing
a
supply
of
that
hard
white
whalebone
with
which
the
fishermen
fashion
all
sorts
of
curious
articles
including
canes
,
umbrellasticks
,
and
handles
to
riding-whips
With
a
long
,
weary
hoist
the
jaw
is
dragged
on
board
,
as
if
it
were
an
anchor
;
and
when
the
proper
time
comes
--
some
few
days
after
the
other
work
--
Queequeg
,
Daggoo
,
and
Tashtego
,
being
all
accomplished
dentists
,
are
set
to
drawing
teeth
.
With
a
keen
cutting-spade
,
Queequeg
lances
the
gums
;
then
the
jaw
is
lashed
down
to
ringbolts
,
and
a
tackle
being
rigged
from
aloft
,
they
drag
out
these
teeth
,
as
Michigan
oxen
drag
stumps
of
old
oaks
out
of
wild
woodlands
.
There
are
generally
forty-two
teeth
in
all
;
in
old
whales
,
much
worn
down
,
but
undecayed
;
nor
filled
after
our
artificial
fashion
.
The
jaw
is
afterwards
sawn
into
slabs
,
and
piled
away
like
joists
for
building
houses
.
Crossing
the
deck
,
let
us
now
have
a
good
long
look
at
the
the
Right
Whale
's
head
.
As
in
general
shape
the
noble
Sperm
Whale
's
head
may
be
compared
to
a
Roman
war-chariot
(
especially
in
front
,
where
it
is
so
broadly
rounded
)
;
so
,
at
a
broad
view
,
the
Right
Whale
's
head
bears
a
rather
inelegant
resemblance
to
a
gigantic
galliot-toed
shoe
.
Two
hundred
years
ago
an
old
Dutch
voyager
likened
its
shape
to
that
of
a
shoemaker
's
last
.
And
in
this
same
last
or
shoe
,
that
old
woman
of
the
nursery
tale
with
the
swarming
brood
,
might
very
comfortably
be
lodged
,
she
and
all
her
progeny
.
But
as
you
come
nearer
to
this
great
head
it
begins
to
assume
different
aspects
,
according
to
your
point
of
view
.
If
you
stand
on
its
summit
and
look
at
these
two
f-shaped
spout-holes
,
you
would
take
the
whole
head
for
an
enormous
bass
viol
,
and
these
spiracles
,
the
apertures
in
its
soundingboard
.
Then
,
again
,
if
you
fix
your
eye
upon
this
strange
,
crested
,
comblike
incrustation
on
the
top
of
the
mass
--
this
green
,
barnacled
thing
,
which
the
Greenlanders
call
the
"
crown
,
"
and
the
Southern
fishers
the
"
bonnet
"
of
the
Right
Whale
;
fixing
your
eyes
solely
on
this
,
you
would
take
the
head
for
the
trunk
of
some
huge
oak
,
with
a
bird
's
nest
in
its
crotch
.
At
any
rate
,
when
you
watch
those
live
crabs
that
nestle
here
on
this
bonnet
,
such
an
idea
will
be
almost
sure
to
occur
to
you
;
unless
,
indeed
,
your
fancy
has
been
fixed
by
the
technical
term
"
crown
"
also
bestowed
upon
it
;
in
which
case
you
will
take
great
interest
in
thinking
how
this
mighty
monster
is
actually
a
diademed
king
of
the
sea
,
whose
green
crown
has
been
put
together
for
him
in
this
marvellous
manner
.
But
if
this
whale
be
a
king
,
he
is
a
very
sulky
looking
fellow
to
grace
a
diadem
.
Look
at
that
hanging
lower
lip
!
what
a
huge
sulk
and
pout
is
there
!
a
sulk
and
pout
,
by
carpenter
's
measurement
,
about
twenty
feet
long
and
five
feet
deep
;
a
sulk
and
pout
that
will
yield
you
some
500
gallons
of
oil
and
more
.
A
great
pity
,
now
,
that
this
unfortunate
whale
should
be
hare-lipped
.
The
fissure
is
about
a
foot
across
.
Probably
the
mother
during
an
important
interval
was
sailing
down
the
Peruvian
coast
,
when
earthquakes
caused
the
beach
to
gape
.
Over
this
lip
,
as
over
a
slippery
threshold
,
we
now
slide
into
the
mouth
.
Upon
my
word
were
I
at
Mackinaw
,
I
should
take
this
to
be
the
inside
of
an
Indian
wigwam
.
Good
Lord
!
is
this
the
road
that
Jonah
went
?
The
roof
is
about
twelve
feet
high
,
and
runs
to
a
pretty
sharp
angle
,
as
if
there
were
a
regular
ridge-pole
there
;
while
these
ribbed
,
arched
,
hairy
sides
,
present
us
with
those
wondrous
,
half
vertical
,
scimitar-shaped
slats
of
whalebone
,
say
three
hundred
on
a
side
,
which
depending
from
the
upper
part
of
the
head
or
crown
bone
,
form
those
Venetian
blinds
which
have
elsewhere
been
cursorily
mentioned
.
The
edges
of
these
bones
are
fringed
with
hairy
fibres
,
through
which
the
Right
Whale
strains
the
water
,
and
in
whose
intricacies
he
retains
the
small
fish
,
when
openmouthed
he
goes
through
the
seas
of
brit
in
feeding
time
.
In
the
central
blinds
of
bone
,
as
they
stand
in
their
natural
order
,
there
are
certain
curious
marks
,
curves
,
hollows
,
and
ridges
,
whereby
some
whalemen
calculate
the
creature
's
age
,
as
the
age
of
an
oak
by
its
circular
rings
.
Though
the
certainty
of
this
criterion
is
far
from
demonstrable
,
yet
it
has
the
savor
of
analogical
probability
.
At
any
rate
,
if
we
yield
to
it
,
we
must
grant
a
far
greater
age
to
the
Right
Whale
than
at
first
glance
will
seem
reasonable
.
