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What
other
marvels
might
have
been
rummaged
out
of
this
monstrous
cabinet
there
is
no
telling
.
But
a
sudden
stop
was
put
to
further
discoveries
,
by
the
ship
's
being
unprecedentedly
dragged
over
sideways
to
the
sea
,
owing
to
the
body
's
immensely
increasing
tendency
to
sink
.
However
,
Starbuck
,
who
had
the
ordering
of
affairs
,
hung
on
to
it
to
the
last
;
hung
on
to
it
so
resolutely
,
indeed
,
that
when
at
length
the
ship
would
have
been
capsized
,
if
still
persisting
in
locking
arms
with
the
body
;
then
,
when
the
command
was
given
to
break
clear
from
it
,
such
was
the
immovable
strain
upon
the
timber-heads
to
which
the
fluke-chains
and
cables
were
fastened
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
cast
them
off
.
Meantime
everything
in
the
Pequod
was
aslant
.
To
cross
to
the
other
side
of
the
deck
was
like
walking
up
the
steep
gabled
roof
of
a
house
.
The
ship
groaned
and
gasped
.
Many
of
the
ivory
inlayings
of
her
bulwarks
and
cabins
were
started
from
their
places
,
by
the
unnatural
dislocation
.
In
vain
handspikes
and
crows
were
brought
to
bear
upon
the
immovable
fluke-chains
,
to
pry
them
adrift
from
the
timberheads
;
and
so
low
had
the
whale
now
settled
that
the
submerged
ends
could
not
be
at
all
approached
,
while
every
moment
whole
tons
of
ponderosity
seemed
added
to
the
sinking
bulk
,
and
the
ship
seemed
on
the
point
of
going
over
.
"
Hold
on
,
hold
on
,
wo
n't
ye
?
"
cried
Stubb
to
the
body
,
"
do
n't
be
in
such
a
devil
of
a
hurry
to
sink
!
By
thunder
,
men
,
we
must
do
something
or
go
for
it
.
No
use
prying
there
;
avast
,
I
say
with
your
handspikes
,
and
run
one
of
ye
for
a
prayer
book
and
a
pen-knife
,
and
cut
the
big
chains
.
"
"
Knife
?
Aye
,
aye
,
"
cried
Queequeg
,
and
seizing
the
carpenter
's
heavy
hatchet
,
he
leaned
out
of
a
porthole
,
and
steel
to
iron
,
began
slashing
at
the
largest
fluke-chains
.
But
a
few
strokes
,
full
of
sparks
,
were
given
,
when
the
exceeding
strain
effected
the
rest
.
With
a
terrific
snap
,
every
fastening
went
adrift
;
the
ship
righted
,
the
carcase
sank
.
Now
,
this
occasional
inevitable
sinking
of
the
recently
killed
Sperm
Whale
is
a
very
curious
thing
;
nor
has
any
fisherman
yet
adequately
accounted
for
it
.
Usually
the
dead
Sperm
Whale
floats
with
great
buoyancy
,
with
its
side
or
belly
considerably
elevated
above
the
surface
.
If
the
only
whales
that
thus
sank
were
old
,
meagre
,
and
broken-hearted
creatures
,
their
pads
of
lard
diminished
and
all
their
bones
heavy
and
rheumatic
;
then
you
might
with
some
reason
assert
that
this
sinking
is
caused
by
an
uncommon
specific
gravity
in
the
fish
so
sinking
,
consequent
upon
this
absence
of
buoyant
matter
in
him
.
But
it
is
not
so
.
For
young
whales
,
in
the
highest
health
,
and
swelling
with
noble
aspirations
,
prematurely
cut
off
in
the
warm
flush
and
May
of
life
,
with
all
their
panting
lard
about
them
!
even
these
brawny
,
buoyant
heroes
do
sometimes
sink
.
Be
it
said
,
however
,
that
the
Sperm
Whale
is
far
less
liable
to
this
accident
than
any
other
species
.
Where
one
of
that
sort
go
down
,
twenty
Right
Whales
do
.
This
difference
in
the
species
is
no
doubt
imputable
in
no
small
degree
to
the
greater
quantity
of
bone
in
the
Right
Whale
;
his
Venetian
blinds
alone
sometimes
weighing
more
than
a
ton
;
from
this
incumbrance
the
Sperm
Whale
is
wholly
free
.
But
there
are
instances
where
,
after
the
lapse
of
many
hours
or
several
days
,
the
sunken
whale
again
rises
,
more
buoyant
than
in
life
.
But
the
reason
of
this
is
obvious
.
Gases
are
generated
in
him
;
he
swells
to
a
prodigious
magnitude
;
becomes
a
sort
of
animal
balloon
.
A
line-of-battle
ship
could
hardly
keep
him
under
then
.
In
the
Shore
Whaling
,
on
soundings
,
among
the
Bays
of
New
Zealand
,
when
a
Right
Whale
gives
token
of
sinking
,
they
fasten
buoys
to
him
,
with
plenty
of
rope
;
so
that
when
the
body
has
gone
down
,
they
know
where
to
look
for
it
when
it
shall
have
ascended
again
It
was
not
long
after
the
sinking
of
the
body
that
a
cry
was
heard
from
the
Pequod
's
mast-heads
,
announcing
that
the
Jungfrau
was
again
lowering
her
boats
;
though
the
only
spout
in
sight
was
that
of
a
Fin-Back
,
belonging
to
the
species
of
uncapturable
whales
,
because
of
its
incredible
power
of
swimming
.
Nevertheless
,
the
Fin-Back
's
spout
is
so
similar
to
the
Sperm
Whale
's
,
that
by
unskilful
fishermen
it
is
often
mistaken
for
it
.
And
consequently
Derick
and
all
his
host
were
now
in
valiant
chase
of
this
unnearable
brute
.
The
Virgin
crowding
all
sail
,
made
after
her
four
young
keels
,
and
thus
they
all
disappeared
far
to
leeward
,
still
in
bold
,
hopeful
chase
.
Oh
!
many
are
the
Fin-Backs
,
and
many
are
the
Dericks
,
my
friend
.
There
are
some
enterprises
in
which
a
careful
disorderliness
is
the
true
method
.
