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Perseus
,
St.
George
,
Hercules
,
Jonah
,
and
Vishnoo
!
there
's
a
member-roll
for
you
!
What
club
but
the
whaleman
's
can
head
off
like
that
?
Reference
was
made
to
the
historical
story
of
Jonah
and
the
whale
in
the
preceding
chapter
.
Now
some
Nantucketers
rather
distrust
this
historical
story
of
Jonah
and
the
whale
.
But
then
there
were
some
sceptical
Greeks
and
Romans
,
who
,
standing
out
from
the
orthodox
pagans
of
their
times
,
equally
doubted
the
story
of
Hercules
and
the
whale
,
and
Arion
and
the
dolphin
;
and
yet
their
doubting
those
traditions
did
not
make
those
traditions
one
whit
the
less
facts
,
for
all
that
.
One
old
Sag-Harbor
whaleman
's
chief
reason
for
questioning
the
Hebrew
story
was
this
:
--
He
had
one
of
those
quaint
old-fashioned
Bibles
,
embellished
with
curious
,
unscientific
plates
;
one
of
which
represented
Jonah
's
whale
with
two
spouts
in
his
head
--
a
peculiarity
only
true
with
respect
to
a
species
of
the
Leviathan
(
the
Right
Whale
,
and
the
varieties
of
that
order
)
,
concerning
which
the
fishermen
have
this
saying
,
"
A
penny
roll
would
choke
him
"
;
his
swallow
is
so
very
small
.
But
,
to
this
,
Bishop
Jebb
's
anticipative
answer
is
ready
.
It
is
not
necessary
,
hints
the
Bishop
,
that
we
consider
Jonah
as
tombed
in
the
whale
's
belly
,
but
as
temporarily
lodged
in
some
part
of
his
mouth
.
And
this
seems
reasonable
enough
in
the
good
Bishop
.
For
truly
,
the
Right
Whale
's
mouth
would
accommodate
a
couple
of
whist-tables
,
and
comfortably
seat
all
the
players
.
Possibly
,
too
,
Jonah
might
have
ensconced
himself
in
a
hollow
tooth
;
but
,
on
second
thoughts
,
the
Right
Whale
is
toothless
.
Another
reason
which
Sag-Harbor
(
he
went
by
that
name
)
urged
for
his
want
of
faith
in
this
matter
of
the
prophet
,
was
something
obscurely
in
reference
to
his
incarcerated
body
and
the
whale
's
gastric
juices
.
But
this
objection
likewise
falls
to
the
ground
,
because
a
German
exegetist
supposes
that
Jonah
must
have
taken
refuge
in
the
floating
body
of
a
dead
whale
--
even
as
the
French
soldiers
in
the
Russian
campaign
turned
their
dead
horses
into
tents
,
and
crawled
into
them
.
Besides
,
it
has
been
divined
by
other
continental
commentators
,
that
when
Jonah
was
thrown
overboard
from
the
Joppa
ship
,
he
straightway
effected
his
escape
to
another
vessel
near
by
,
some
vessel
with
a
whale
for
a
figure-head
;
and
,
I
would
add
,
possibly
called
"
The
Whale
,
"
as
some
craft
are
nowadays
christened
the
"
Shark
,
"
the
"
Gull
,
"
the
"
Eagle
.
"
Nor
have
there
been
wanting
learned
exegetists
who
have
opined
that
the
whale
mentioned
in
the
book
of
Jonah
merely
meant
a
life-preserver
--
an
inflated
bag
of
wind
--
which
the
endangered
prophet
swam
to
,
and
so
was
saved
from
a
watery
doom
.
Poor
Sag-Harbor
,
therefore
,
seems
worsted
all
round
.
But
he
had
still
another
reason
for
his
want
of
faith
.
It
was
this
,
if
I
remember
right
:
Jonah
was
swallowed
by
the
whale
in
the
Mediterranean
Sea
,
and
after
three
days
'
he
was
vomited
up
somewhere
within
three
days
'
journey
of
Nineveh
,
a
city
on
the
Tigris
,
very
much
more
than
three
days
'
journey
across
from
the
nearest
point
of
the
Mediterranean
coast
How
is
that
?
But
was
there
no
other
way
for
the
whale
to
land
the
prophet
within
that
short
distance
of
Nineveh
?
Yes
.
He
might
have
carried
him
round
by
the
way
of
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
.
But
not
to
speak
of
the
passage
through
the
whole
length
of
the
Mediterranean
,
and
another
passage
up
the
Persian
Gulf
and
Red
Sea
,
such
a
supposition
would
involve
the
complete
circumnavigation
of
all
Africa
in
three
days
,
not
to
speak
of
the
Tigris
waters
,
near
the
site
of
Nineveh
,
being
too
shallow
for
any
whale
to
swim
in
.
Besides
,
this
idea
of
Jonah
's
weathering
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
at
so
early
a
day
would
wrest
the
honor
of
the
discovery
of
that
great
headland
from
Bartholomew
Diaz
,
its
reputed
discoverer
,
and
so
make
modern
history
a
liar
.
But
all
these
foolish
arguments
of
old
Sag-Harbor
only
evinced
his
foolish
pride
of
reason
--
a
thing
still
more
reprehensible
in
him
,
seeing
that
he
had
but
little
learning
except
what
he
had
picked
up
from
the
sun
and
the
sea
.
I
say
it
only
shows
his
foolish
,
impious
pride
,
and
abominable
,
devilish
rebellion
against
the
reverend
clergy
.
For
by
a
Portuguese
Catholic
priest
,
this
very
idea
of
Jonah
's
going
to
Nineveh
via
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
was
advanced
as
a
signal
magnification
of
the
general
miracle
.
And
so
it
was
.
Besides
,
to
this
day
,
the
highly
enlightened
Turks
devoutly
believe
in
the
historical
story
of
Jonah
.
And
some
three
centuries
ago
,
an
English
traveller
in
old
Harris
's
Voyages
,
speaks
of
a
Turkish
Mosque
built
in
honor
of
Jonah
,
in
which
Mosque
was
a
miraculous
lamp
that
burnt
without
any
oil
.
To
make
them
run
easily
and
swiftly
,
the
axles
of
carriages
are
anointed
;
and
for
much
the
same
purpose
,
some
whalers
perform
an
analogous
operation
upon
their
boat
;
they
grease
the
bottom
.
Nor
is
it
to
be
doubted
that
as
such
a
procedure
can
do
no
harm
,
it
may
possibly
be
of
no
contemptible
advantage
;
considering
that
oil
and
water
are
hostile
;
that
oil
is
a
sliding
thing
,
and
that
the
object
in
view
is
to
make
the
boat
slide
bravely
.
Queequeg
believed
strongly
in
anointing
his
boat
,
and
one
morning
not
long
after
the
German
ship
Jungfrau
disappeared
,
took
more
than
customary
pains
in
that
occupation
;
crawling
under
its
bottom
,
where
it
hung
over
the
side
,
and
rubbing
in
the
unctuousness
as
though
diligently
seeking
to
insure
a
crop
of
hair
from
the
craft
's
bald
keel
.
He
seemed
to
be
working
in
obedience
to
some
particular
presentiment
.
Nor
did
it
remain
unwarranted
by
the
event
.
Towards
noon
whales
were
raised
;
but
so
soon
as
the
ship
sailed
down
to
them
,
they
turned
and
fled
with
swift
precipitancy
;
a
disordered
flight
,
as
of
Cleopatra
's
barges
from
Actium
.
Nevertheless
,
the
boats
pursued
,
and
Stubb
's
was
foremost
.
By
great
exertion
,
Tashtego
at
last
succeeded
in
planting
one
iron
;
but
the
stricken
whale
,
without
at
all
sounding
,
still
continued
his
horizontal
flight
,
with
added
fleetness
.
Such
unintermitted
strainings
upon
the
planted
iron
must
sooner
or
later
inevitably
extract
it
.
It
became
imperative
to
lance
the
flying
whale
,
or
be
content
to
lose
him
.
But
to
haul
the
boat
up
to
his
flank
was
impossible
,
he
swam
so
fast
and
furious
.
