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But
in
gazing
at
such
scenes
,
it
is
all
in
all
what
mood
you
are
in
;
if
in
the
Dantean
,
the
devils
will
occur
to
you
;
if
in
that
of
Isaiah
,
the
archangels
.
Standing
at
the
mast-head
of
my
ship
during
a
sunrise
that
crimsoned
sky
and
sea
,
I
once
saw
a
large
herd
of
whales
in
the
east
,
all
heading
towards
the
sun
,
and
for
a
moment
vibrating
in
concert
with
peaked
flukes
.
As
it
seemed
to
me
at
the
time
,
such
a
grand
embodiment
of
adoration
of
the
gods
was
never
beheld
,
even
in
Persia
,
the
home
of
the
fire
worshippers
.
As
Ptolemy
Philopater
testified
of
the
African
elephant
,
I
then
testified
of
the
whale
,
pronouncing
him
the
most
devout
of
all
beings
.
For
according
to
King
Juba
,
the
military
elephants
of
antiquity
often
hailed
the
morning
with
their
trunks
uplifted
in
the
profoundest
silence
.
The
chance
comparison
in
this
chapter
,
between
the
whale
and
the
elephant
,
so
far
as
some
aspects
of
the
tail
of
the
one
and
the
trunk
of
the
other
are
concerned
,
should
not
tend
to
place
those
two
opposite
organs
on
an
equality
,
much
less
the
creatures
to
which
they
respectively
belong
.
For
as
the
mightiest
elephant
is
but
a
terror
to
Leviathan
,
so
,
compared
with
Leviathan
's
tail
,
his
trunk
is
but
the
stalk
of
a
lily
.
The
most
direful
blow
from
the
elephant
's
trunk
were
as
the
playful
tap
of
a
fan
,
compared
with
the
measureless
crush
and
crash
of
the
sperm
whale
's
ponderous
flukes
,
which
in
repeated
instances
have
one
after
the
other
hurled
entire
boats
with
all
their
oars
and
crews
into
the
air
,
very
much
as
an
Indian
juggler
tosses
his
balls
The
more
I
consider
this
mighty
tail
,
the
more
do
I
deplore
my
inability
to
express
it
.
At
times
there
are
gestures
in
it
,
which
,
though
they
would
well
grace
the
hand
of
man
,
remain
wholly
inexplicable
.
In
an
extensive
herd
,
so
remarkable
,
occasionally
,
are
these
mystic
gestures
,
that
I
have
heard
hunters
who
have
declared
them
akin
to
Free-Mason
signs
and
symbols
;
that
the
whale
,
indeed
,
by
these
methods
intelligently
conversed
with
the
world
.
Nor
are
there
wanting
other
motions
of
the
whale
in
his
general
body
,
full
of
strangeness
,
and
unaccountable
to
his
most
experienced
assailant
.
Dissect
him
how
I
may
,
then
,
I
but
go
skin
deep
.
I
know
him
not
,
and
never
will
.
But
if
I
know
not
even
the
tail
of
this
whale
,
how
understand
his
head
?
much
more
,
how
comprehend
his
face
,
when
face
he
has
none
?
Thou
shalt
see
my
back
parts
,
my
tail
,
he
seems
to
say
,
but
my
face
shall
not
be
seen
.
But
I
can
not
completely
make
out
his
back
parts
;
and
hint
what
he
will
about
his
face
,
I
say
again
he
has
no
face
.
The
long
and
narrow
peninsula
of
Malacca
,
extending
south-eastward
from
the
territories
of
Birmah
,
forms
the
most
southerly
point
of
all
Asia
.
In
a
continuous
line
from
that
peninsula
stretch
the
long
islands
of
Sumatra
,
Java
,
Bally
,
and
Timor
;
which
,
with
many
others
,
form
a
vast
mole
,
or
rampart
,
lengthwise
connecting
Asia
with
Australia
,
and
dividing
the
long
unbroken
Indian
ocean
from
the
thickly
studded
oriental
archipelagoes
.
This
rampart
is
pierced
by
several
sally-ports
for
the
convenience
of
ships
and
whales
;
conspicuous
among
which
are
the
straits
of
Sunda
and
Malacca
.
By
the
straits
of
Sunda
,
chiefly
,
vessels
bound
to
China
from
the
west
,
emerge
into
the
China
seas
.
Those
narrow
straits
of
Sunda
divide
Sumatra
from
Java
;
and
standing
midway
in
that
vast
rampart
of
islands
,
buttressed
by
that
bold
green
promontory
,
known
to
seamen
as
Java
Head
;
they
not
a
little
correspond
to
the
central
gateway
opening
into
some
vast
walled
empire
:
and
considering
the
inexhaustible
wealth
of
spices
,
and
silks
,
and
jewels
,
and
gold
,
and
ivory
,
with
which
the
thousand
islands
of
that
oriental
sea
are
enriched
,
it
seems
a
significant
provision
of
nature
,
that
such
treasures
,
by
the
very
formation
of
the
land
,
should
at
least
bear
the
appearance
,
however
ineffectual
,
of
being
guarded
from
the
all-grasping
western
world
.
The
shores
of
the
Straits
of
Sunda
are
unsupplied
with
those
domineering
fortresses
which
guard
the
entrances
to
the
Mediterranean
,
the
Baltic
,
and
the
Propontis
.
Unlike
the
Danes
,
these
Orientals
do
not
demand
the
obsequious
homage
of
lowered
top-sails
from
the
endless
procession
of
ships
before
the
wind
,
which
for
centuries
past
,
by
night
and
by
day
,
have
passed
between
the
islands
of
Sumatra
and
Java
,
freighted
with
the
costliest
cargoes
of
the
east
.
But
while
they
freely
waive
a
ceremonial
like
this
,
they
do
by
no
means
renounce
their
claim
to
more
solid
tribute
.
Time
out
of
mind
the
piratical
proas
of
the
Malays
,
lurking
among
the
low
shaded
coves
and
islets
of
Sumatra
,
have
sallied
out
upon
the
vessels
sailing
through
the
straits
,
fiercely
demanding
tribute
at
the
point
of
their
spears
.
Though
by
the
repeated
bloody
chastisements
they
have
received
at
the
hands
of
European
cruisers
,
the
audacity
of
these
corsairs
has
of
late
been
somewhat
repressed
;
yet
,
even
at
the
present
day
,
we
occasionally
hear
of
English
and
American
vessels
,
which
,
in
those
waters
,
have
been
remorselessly
boarded
and
pillaged
.
With
a
fair
,
fresh
wind
,
the
Pequod
was
now
drawing
nigh
to
these
straits
;
Ahab
purposing
to
pass
through
them
into
the
Java
sea
,
and
thence
,
cruising
northwards
,
over
waters
known
to
be
frequented
here
and
there
by
the
Sperm
Whale
,
sweep
inshore
by
the
Philippine
Islands
,
and
gain
the
far
coast
of
Japan
,
in
time
for
the
great
whaling
season
there
.
By
these
means
,
the
circumnavigating
Pequod
would
sweep
almost
all
the
known
Sperm
Whale
cruising
grounds
of
the
world
,
previous
to
descending
upon
the
Line
in
the
Pacific
;
where
Ahab
,
though
everywhere
else
foiled
in
his
pursuit
,
firmly
counted
upon
giving
battle
to
Moby
Dick
,
in
the
sea
he
was
most
known
to
frequent
;
and
at
a
season
when
he
might
most
reasonably
be
presumed
to
be
haunting
it
.
But
how
now
?
in
this
zoned
quest
,
does
Ahab
touch
no
land
?
does
his
crew
drink
air
?
Surely
,
he
will
stop
for
water
.
Nay
.
For
a
long
time
,
now
,
the
circus-running
sun
had
raced
within
his
fiery
ring
,
and
needs
no
sustenance
but
what
's
in
himself
.
So
Ahab
.
Mark
this
,
too
,
in
the
whaler
.
While
other
hulls
are
loaded
down
with
alien
stuff
,
to
be
transferred
to
foreign
wharves
;
the
world-wandering
whale-ship
carries
no
cargo
but
herself
and
crew
,
their
weapons
and
their
wants
.
She
has
a
whole
lake
's
contents
bottled
in
her
ample
hold
.
She
is
ballasted
with
utilities
;
not
altogether
with
unusable
pig-lead
and
kentledge
.
She
carries
years
'
water
in
her
.
Clear
old
prime
Nantucket
water
;
which
,
when
three
years
afloat
,
the
Nantucketer
,
in
the
Pacific
,
prefers
to
drink
before
the
brackish
fluid
,
but
yesterday
rafted
off
in
casks
,
from
the
Peruvian
or
Indian
streams
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
,
while
other
ships
may
have
gone
to
China
from
New
York
,
and
back
again
,
touching
at
a
score
of
ports
,
the
whale-ship
,
in
all
that
interval
,
may
not
have
sighted
one
grain
of
soil
;
her
crew
having
seen
no
man
but
floating
seamen
like
themselves
.
