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Meanwhile
,
as
we
thus
lay
entranced
,
the
occasional
sudden
frantic
spectacles
in
the
distance
evinced
the
activity
of
the
other
boats
,
still
engaged
in
drugging
the
whales
on
the
frontier
of
the
host
;
or
possibly
carrying
on
the
war
within
the
first
circle
,
where
abundance
of
room
and
some
convenient
retreats
were
afforded
them
.
But
the
sight
of
the
enraged
drugged
whales
now
and
then
blindly
darting
to
and
fro
across
the
circles
,
was
nothing
to
what
at
last
met
our
eyes
.
It
is
sometimes
the
custom
when
fast
to
a
whale
more
than
commonly
powerful
and
alert
,
to
seek
to
hamstring
him
,
as
it
were
,
by
sundering
or
maiming
his
gigantic
tail-tendon
.
It
is
done
by
darting
a
short-handled
cutting-spade
,
to
which
is
attached
a
rope
for
hauling
it
back
again
.
A
whale
wounded
(
as
we
afterwards
learned
)
in
this
part
,
but
not
effectually
,
as
it
seemed
,
had
broken
away
from
the
boat
,
carrying
along
with
him
half
of
the
harpoon
line
;
and
in
the
extraordinary
agony
of
the
wound
,
he
was
now
dashing
among
the
revolving
circles
like
the
lone
mounted
desperado
Arnold
,
at
the
battle
of
Saratoga
,
carrying
dismay
wherever
he
went
.
But
agonizing
as
was
the
wound
of
this
whale
,
and
an
appalling
spectacle
enough
,
any
way
;
yet
the
peculiar
horror
with
which
he
seemed
to
inspire
the
rest
of
the
herd
,
was
owing
to
a
cause
which
at
first
the
intervening
distance
obscured
from
us
.
But
at
length
we
perceived
that
by
one
of
the
unimaginable
accidents
of
the
fishery
,
this
whale
had
become
entangled
in
the
harpoon-line
that
he
towed
;
he
had
also
run
away
with
the
cutting-spade
in
him
;
and
while
the
free
end
of
the
rope
attached
to
that
weapon
,
had
permanently
caught
in
the
coils
of
the
harpoon-line
round
his
tail
,
the
cutting-spade
itself
had
worked
loose
from
his
flesh
.
So
that
tormented
to
madness
,
he
was
now
churning
through
the
water
,
violently
flailing
with
his
flexible
tail
,
and
tossing
the
keen
spade
about
him
,
wounding
and
murdering
his
own
comrades
.
This
terrific
object
seemed
to
recall
the
whole
herd
from
their
stationary
fright
.
First
,
the
whales
forming
the
margin
of
our
lake
began
to
crowd
a
little
,
and
tumble
against
each
other
,
as
if
lifted
by
half
spent
billows
from
afar
;
then
the
lake
itself
began
faintly
to
heave
and
swell
;
the
submarine
bridal-chambers
and
nurseries
vanished
;
in
more
and
more
contracting
orbits
the
whales
in
the
more
central
circles
began
to
swim
in
thickening
clusters
.
Yes
,
the
long
calm
was
departing
.
A
low
advancing
hum
was
soon
heard
;
and
then
like
to
the
tumultuous
masses
of
block-ice
when
the
great
river
Hudson
breaks
up
in
Spring
,
the
entire
host
of
whales
came
tumbling
upon
their
inner
centre
,
as
if
to
pile
themselves
up
in
one
common
mountain
.
Instantly
Starbuck
and
Queequeg
changed
places
;
Starbuck
taking
the
stern
.
"
Oars
!
Oars
!
"
he
intensely
whispered
,
seizing
the
helm
--
"
gripe
your
oars
,
and
clutch
your
souls
,
now
!
My
God
,
men
,
stand
by
!
Shove
him
off
,
you
Queequeg
--
the
whale
there
!
--
prick
him
!
--
hit
him
!
Stand
up
--
stand
up
,
and
stay
so
!
Spring
men
--
pull
,
men
;
never
mind
their
backs
--
scrape
them
!
--
scrape
away
!
"
The
boat
was
now
all
but
jammed
between
two
vast
black
bulks
,
leaving
a
narrow
Dardanelles
between
their
long
lengths
.
But
by
desperate
endeavor
we
at
last
shot
into
a
temporary
opening
;
then
giving
way
rapidly
,
and
at
the
same
time
earnestly
watching
for
another
outlet
.
After
many
similar
hair-breadth
escapes
,
we
at
last
swiftly
glided
into
what
had
just
been
one
of
the
outer
circles
,
but
now
crossed
by
random
whales
,
all
violently
making
for
one
centre
.
This
lucky
salvation
was
cheaply
purchased
by
the
loss
of
Queequeg
's
hat
,
who
,
while
standing
in
the
bows
to
prick
the
fugitive
whales
,
had
his
hat
taken
clean
from
his
head
by
the
air-eddy
made
by
the
sudden
tossing
of
a
pair
of
broad
flukes
close
by
.
Riotous
and
disordered
as
the
universal
commotion
now
was
,
it
soon
resolved
itself
into
what
seemed
a
systematic
movement
;
for
having
clumped
together
at
last
in
one
dense
body
,
they
then
renewed
their
onward
flight
with
augmented
fleetness
.
Further
pursuit
was
useless
;
but
the
boats
still
lingered
in
their
wake
to
pick
up
what
drugged
whales
might
be
dropped
astern
,
and
likewise
to
secure
one
which
Flask
had
killed
and
waited
The
waif
is
a
pennoned
pole
,
two
or
three
of
which
are
carried
by
every
boat
;
and
when
additional
game
is
at
hand
,
are
inserted
upright
into
the
floating
body
of
a
dead
whale
,
both
to
mark
its
place
on
the
sea
,
and
also
as
token
of
prior
possession
,
should
the
boats
of
any
other
ship
draw
near
.
The
result
of
this
lowering
was
somewhat
illustrative
of
that
sagacious
saying
in
the
Fishery
--
the
more
whales
the
less
fish
.
Of
all
the
drugged
whales
only
one
was
captured
.
The
rest
contrived
to
escape
for
the
time
,
but
only
to
be
taken
,
as
will
hereafter
be
seen
,
by
some
other
craft
than
the
Pequod
.
The
previous
chapter
gave
account
of
an
immense
body
or
herd
of
Sperm
Whales
,
and
there
was
also
then
given
the
probable
cause
inducing
those
vast
aggregations
.
