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But
ere
the
first
wild
alarm
could
get
out
abroad
among
the
crew
,
the
old
man
with
a
rigid
laugh
exclaimed
,
"
I
have
it
!
It
has
happened
before
.
Mr.
Starbuck
,
last
night
's
thunder
turned
our
compasses
--
that
's
all
.
Thou
hast
before
now
heard
of
such
a
thing
,
I
take
it
.
"
"
Aye
;
but
never
before
has
it
happened
to
me
,
sir
,
"
said
the
pale
mate
,
gloomily
.
Here
,
it
must
needs
be
said
,
that
accidents
like
this
have
in
more
than
one
case
occurred
to
ships
in
violent
storms
.
The
magnetic
energy
,
as
developed
in
the
mariner
's
needle
,
is
,
as
all
know
,
essentially
one
with
the
electricity
beheld
in
heaven
;
hence
it
is
not
to
be
much
marvelled
at
,
that
such
things
should
be
.
Instances
where
the
lightning
has
actually
struck
the
vessel
,
so
as
to
smite
down
some
of
the
spars
and
rigging
,
the
effect
upon
the
needle
has
at
times
been
still
more
fatal
;
all
its
loathsome
virtue
being
annihilated
,
so
that
the
before
magnetic
steel
was
of
no
more
use
than
an
old
wife
's
knitting
needle
.
But
in
either
case
,
the
needle
never
again
,
of
itself
,
recovers
the
original
virtue
thus
marred
or
lost
;
and
if
the
binnacle
compasses
be
affected
,
the
same
fate
reaches
all
the
others
that
may
be
in
the
ship
;
even
were
the
lowermost
one
inserted
into
the
kelson
.
Deliberately
standing
before
the
binnacle
,
and
eyeing
the
transpointed
compasses
,
the
old
man
,
with
the
sharp
of
his
extended
hand
,
now
took
the
precise
bearing
of
the
sun
,
and
satisfied
that
the
needles
were
exactly
inverted
,
shouted
out
his
orders
for
the
ship
's
course
to
be
changed
accordingly
.
The
yards
were
hard
up
;
and
once
more
the
Pequod
thrust
her
undaunted
bows
into
the
opposing
wind
,
for
the
supposed
fair
one
had
only
been
juggling
her
.
Meanwhile
,
whatever
were
his
own
secret
thoughts
,
Starbuck
said
nothing
,
but
quietly
he
issued
all
requisite
orders
;
while
Stubb
and
Flask
--
who
in
some
small
degree
seemed
then
to
be
sharing
his
feelings
--
likewise
unmurmuringly
acquiesced
.
As
for
the
men
,
though
some
of
them
lowly
rumbled
,
their
fear
of
Ahab
was
greater
than
their
fear
of
Fate
.
But
as
ever
before
,
the
pagan
harpooneers
remained
almost
wholly
unimpressed
;
or
if
impressed
,
it
was
only
with
a
certain
magnetism
shot
into
their
congenial
hearts
from
inflexible
Ahab
's
.
For
a
space
the
old
man
walked
the
deck
in
rolling
reveries
.
But
chancing
to
slip
with
his
ivory
heel
,
he
saw
the
crushed
copper
sight-tubes
of
the
quadrant
he
had
the
day
before
dashed
to
the
deck
.
"
Thou
poor
,
proud
heaven-gazer
and
sun
's
pilot
!
yesterday
I
wrecked
thee
,
and
to-day
the
compasses
would
fain
have
wrecked
me
.
So
,
so
.
But
Ahab
is
lord
over
the
level
loadstone
yet
.
Mr.
Starbuck
--
a
lance
without
the
pole
;
a
top-maul
,
and
the
smallest
of
the
sail-maker
's
needles
.
Quick
!
"
Accessory
,
perhaps
,
to
the
impulse
dictating
the
thing
he
was
now
about
to
do
,
were
certain
prudential
motives
,
whose
object
might
have
been
to
revive
the
spirits
of
his
crew
by
a
stroke
of
his
subtile
skill
,
in
a
matter
so
wondrous
as
that
of
the
inverted
compasses
.
Besides
,
the
old
man
well
knew
that
to
steer
by
transpointed
needles
,
though
clumsily
practicable
,
was
not
a
thing
to
be
passed
over
by
superstitious
sailors
,
without
some
shudderings
and
evil
portents
.
