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His
motions
plainly
denoted
his
extreme
exhaustion
.
In
most
land
animals
there
are
certain
valves
or
flood-gates
in
many
of
their
veins
,
whereby
when
wounded
,
the
blood
is
in
some
degree
at
least
instantly
shut
off
in
certain
directions
.
Not
so
with
the
whale
;
one
of
whose
peculiarities
it
is
,
to
have
an
entire
non-valvular
structure
of
the
blood-vessels
,
so
that
when
pierced
even
by
so
small
a
point
as
a
harpoon
,
a
deadly
drain
is
at
once
begun
upon
his
whole
arterial
system
;
and
when
this
is
heightened
by
the
extraordinary
pressure
of
water
at
a
great
distance
below
the
surface
,
his
life
may
be
said
to
pour
from
him
in
incessant
streams
.
Yet
so
vast
is
the
quantity
of
blood
in
him
,
and
so
distant
and
numerous
its
interior
fountains
,
that
he
will
keep
thus
bleeding
and
bleeding
for
a
considerable
period
;
even
as
in
a
drought
a
river
will
flow
,
whose
source
is
the
well-springs
of
far-off
and
indiscernible
hills
.
Even
now
,
when
the
boats
pulled
upon
this
whale
,
and
perilously
drew
over
his
swaying
flukes
,
and
the
lances
were
darted
into
him
,
they
were
followed
by
steady
jets
from
the
new
made
wound
,
which
kept
continually
playing
,
while
the
natural
spout-hole
in
his
head
was
only
at
intervals
,
however
rapid
,
sending
its
affrighted
moisture
into
the
air
.
From
this
last
vent
no
blood
yet
came
,
because
no
vital
part
of
him
had
thus
far
been
struck
.
His
life
,
as
they
significantly
call
it
,
was
untouched
.
As
the
boats
now
more
closely
surrounded
him
,
the
whole
upper
part
of
his
form
,
with
much
of
it
that
is
ordinarily
submerged
,
was
plainly
revealed
.
His
eyes
,
or
rather
the
places
where
his
eyes
had
been
,
were
beheld
.
As
strange
misgrown
masses
gather
in
the
knot-holes
of
the
noblest
oaks
when
prostrate
,
so
from
the
points
which
the
whale
's
eyes
had
once
occupied
,
now
protruded
blind
bulbs
,
horribly
pitiable
to
see
.
But
pity
there
was
none
.
For
all
his
old
age
,
and
his
one
arm
,
and
his
blind
eyes
,
he
must
die
the
death
and
be
murdered
,
in
order
to
light
the
gay
bridals
and
other
merry-makings
of
men
,
and
also
to
illuminate
the
solemn
churches
that
preach
unconditional
inoffensiveness
by
all
to
all
.
Still
rolling
in
his
blood
,
at
last
he
partially
disclosed
a
strangely
discolored
bunch
or
protuberance
,
the
size
of
a
bushel
,
low
down
on
the
flank
.
"
A
nice
spot
,
"
cried
Flask
;
"
just
let
me
prick
him
there
once
.
"
"
Avast
!
"
cried
Starbuck
,
"
there
's
no
need
of
that
!
"
But
humane
Starbuck
was
too
late
.
At
the
instant
of
the
dart
an
ulcerous
jet
shot
from
this
cruel
wound
,
and
goaded
by
it
into
more
than
sufferable
anguish
,
the
whale
now
spouting
thick
blood
,
with
swift
fury
blindly
darted
at
the
craft
,
bespattering
them
and
their
glorying
crews
all
over
with
showers
of
gore
,
capsizing
Flask
's
boat
and
marring
the
bows
.
It
was
his
death
stroke
.
For
,
by
this
time
,
so
spent
was
he
by
loss
of
blood
,
that
he
helplessly
rolled
away
from
the
wreck
he
had
made
;
lay
panting
on
his
side
,
impotently
flapped
with
his
stumped
fin
,
then
over
and
over
slowly
revolved
like
a
waning
world
;
turned
up
the
white
secrets
of
his
belly
;
lay
like
a
log
,
and
died
.
It
was
most
piteous
,
that
last
expiring
spout
.
As
when
by
unseen
hands
the
water
is
gradually
drawn
off
from
some
mighty
fountain
,
and
with
half-stifled
melancholy
gurglings
the
spray-column
lowers
and
lowers
to
the
ground
--
so
the
last
long
dying
spout
of
the
whale
.
Soon
,
while
the
crews
were
awaiting
the
arrival
of
the
ship
,
the
body
showed
symptoms
of
sinking
with
all
its
treasures
unrifled
.
Immediately
,
by
Starbuck
's
orders
,
lines
were
secured
to
it
at
different
points
,
so
that
ere
long
every
boat
was
a
buoy
;
the
sunken
whale
being
suspended
a
few
inches
beneath
them
by
the
cords
.
By
very
heedful
management
,
when
the
ship
drew
nigh
,
the
whale
was
transferred
to
her
side
,
and
was
strongly
secured
there
by
the
stiffest
fluke-chains
,
for
it
was
plain
that
unless
artificially
upheld
,
the
body
would
at
once
sink
to
the
bottom
.
It
so
chanced
that
almost
upon
first
him
with
the
spade
,
the
entire
length
of
a
corroded
harpoon
was
found
imbedded
in
his
flesh
,
on
the
lower
part
of
the
bunch
before
described
.
But
as
the
stumps
of
harpoons
are
frequently
found
in
the
dead
bodies
of
captured
whales
,
with
the
flesh
perfectly
healed
around
them
,
and
no
prominence
of
any
kind
to
denote
their
place
;
therefore
,
there
must
needs
have
been
some
other
unknown
reason
in
the
present
case
fully
to
account
for
the
ulceration
alluded
to
.
But
still
more
curious
was
the
fact
of
a
lance-head
of
stone
being
found
in
him
,
not
far
from
the
buried
iron
,
the
flesh
perfectly
firm
about
it
.
Who
had
darted
that
stone
lance
?
And
when
?
It
might
have
been
darted
by
some
Nor
'
West
Indian
long
before
America
was
discovered
.
