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"
Men
,
"
said
he
,
steadily
turning
upon
the
crew
,
as
the
mate
handed
him
the
things
he
had
demanded
,
"
my
men
,
the
thunder
turned
old
Ahab
's
needles
;
but
out
of
this
bit
of
steel
Ahab
can
make
one
of
his
own
,
that
will
point
as
true
as
any
.
"
Abashed
glances
of
servile
wonder
were
exchanged
by
the
sailors
,
as
this
was
said
;
and
with
fascinated
eyes
they
awaited
whatever
magic
might
follow
.
But
Starbuck
looked
away
.
With
a
blow
from
the
top-maul
Ahab
knocked
off
the
steel
head
of
the
lance
,
and
then
handing
to
the
mate
the
long
iron
rod
remaining
,
bade
him
hold
it
upright
,
without
its
touching
the
deck
.
Then
,
with
the
maul
,
after
repeatedly
smiting
the
upper
end
of
this
iron
rod
,
he
placed
the
blunted
needle
endwise
on
the
top
of
it
,
and
less
strongly
hammered
that
,
several
times
,
the
mate
still
holding
the
rod
as
before
Then
going
through
some
small
strange
motions
with
it
--
whether
indispensable
to
the
magnetizing
of
the
steel
,
or
merely
intended
to
augment
the
awe
of
the
crew
,
is
uncertain
--
he
called
for
linen
thread
;
and
moving
to
the
binnacle
,
slipped
out
the
two
reversed
needles
there
,
and
horizontally
suspended
the
sail-needle
by
its
middle
,
over
one
of
the
compass
cards
.
At
first
,
the
steel
went
round
and
round
,
quivering
and
vibrating
at
either
end
;
but
at
last
it
settled
to
its
place
,
when
Ahab
,
who
had
been
intently
watching
for
this
result
,
stepped
frankly
back
from
the
binnacle
,
and
pointing
his
stretched
arm
towards
it
,
exclaimed
--
"
Look
ye
,
for
yourselves
,
if
Ahab
be
not
lord
of
the
level
loadstone
!
The
sun
is
East
,
and
that
compass
swears
it
!
"
One
after
another
they
peered
in
,
for
nothing
but
their
own
eyes
could
persuade
such
ignorance
as
theirs
,
and
one
after
another
they
slunk
away
.
In
his
fiery
eyes
of
scorn
and
triumph
,
you
then
saw
Ahab
in
all
his
fatal
pride
.
While
now
the
fated
Pequod
had
been
so
long
afloat
this
voyage
,
the
log
and
line
had
but
very
seldom
been
in
use
.
Owing
to
a
confident
reliance
upon
other
means
of
determining
the
vessel
's
place
,
some
merchantmen
,
and
many
whalemen
,
especially
when
cruising
,
wholly
neglect
to
heave
the
log
;
though
at
the
same
time
,
and
frequently
more
for
form
's
sake
than
anything
else
,
regularly
putting
down
upon
the
customary
slate
the
course
steered
by
the
ship
,
as
well
as
the
presumed
average
of
progression
every
hour
.
It
had
been
thus
with
the
Pequod
.
The
wooden
reel
and
angular
log
attached
hung
,
long
untouched
,
just
beneath
the
railing
of
the
after
bulwarks
.
Rains
and
spray
had
damped
it
;
sun
and
wind
had
warped
it
;
all
the
elements
had
combined
to
rot
a
thing
that
hung
so
idly
.
But
heedless
of
all
this
,
his
mood
seized
Ahab
,
as
he
happened
to
glance
upon
the
reel
,
not
many
hours
after
the
magnet
scene
,
and
he
remembered
how
his
quadrant
was
no
more
,
and
recalled
his
frantic
oath
about
the
level
log
and
line
.
The
ship
was
sailing
plungingly
;
astern
the
billows
rolled
in
riots
.
"
Forward
,
there
!
Heave
the
log
!
"
Two
seamen
came
.
The
golden-hued
Tahitian
and
the
grizzly
Manxman
.
"
Take
the
reel
,
one
of
ye
,
I
'll
heave
.
"
They
went
towards
the
extreme
stern
,
on
the
ship
's
lee
side
,
where
the
deck
,
with
the
oblique
energy
of
the
wind
,
was
now
almost
dipping
into
the
creamy
,
sidelong-rushing
sea
.
