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"
How
was
it
?
"
It
seemed
that
somewhat
late
on
the
afternoon
of
the
day
previous
,
while
three
of
the
stranger
's
boats
were
engaged
with
a
shoal
of
whales
,
which
had
led
them
some
four
or
five
miles
from
the
ship
;
and
while
they
were
yet
in
swift
chase
to
windward
,
the
white
hump
and
head
of
Moby
Dick
had
suddenly
loomed
up
out
of
the
water
,
not
very
far
to
leeward
;
whereupon
,
the
fourth
rigged
boat
--
a
reserved
one
--
had
been
instantly
lowered
in
chase
.
After
a
keen
sail
before
the
wind
,
this
fourth
boat
--
the
swiftest
keeled
of
all
--
seemed
to
have
succeeded
in
fastening
--
at
least
,
as
well
as
the
man
at
the
mast-head
could
tell
anything
about
it
.
In
the
distance
he
saw
the
diminished
dotted
boat
;
and
then
a
swift
gleam
of
bubbling
white
water
;
and
after
that
nothing
more
;
whence
it
was
concluded
that
the
stricken
whale
must
have
indefinitely
run
away
with
his
pursuers
,
as
often
happens
.
There
was
some
apprehension
,
but
no
positive
alarm
,
as
yet
.
The
recall
signals
were
placed
in
the
rigging
;
darkness
came
on
;
and
forced
to
pick
up
her
three
far
to
windward
boats
--
ere
going
in
quest
of
the
fourth
one
in
the
precisely
opposite
direction
--
the
ship
had
not
only
been
necessitated
to
leave
that
boat
to
its
fate
till
near
midnight
,
but
,
for
the
time
,
to
increase
her
distance
from
it
.
But
the
rest
of
her
crew
being
at
last
safe
aboard
,
she
crowded
all
sail
--
stunsail
on
stunsail
--
after
the
missing
boat
;
kindling
a
fire
in
her
try-pots
for
a
beacon
;
and
every
other
man
aloft
on
the
look-out
.
But
though
when
she
had
thus
sailed
a
sufficient
distance
to
gain
the
presumed
place
of
the
absent
ones
when
last
seen
;
though
she
then
paused
to
lower
her
spare
boats
to
pull
all
around
her
;
and
not
finding
anything
,
had
again
dashed
on
;
again
paused
,
and
lowered
her
boats
;
and
though
she
had
thus
continued
doing
till
daylight
;
yet
not
the
least
glimpse
of
the
missing
keel
had
been
seen
.
The
story
told
,
the
stranger
Captain
immediately
went
on
to
reveal
his
object
in
boarding
the
Pequod
.
He
desired
that
ship
to
unite
with
his
own
in
the
search
;
by
sailing
over
the
sea
some
four
or
five
miles
apart
,
on
parallel
lines
,
and
so
sweeping
a
double
horizon
,
as
it
were
.
"
I
will
wager
something
now
,
"
whispered
Stubb
to
Flask
,
"
that
some
one
in
that
missing
boat
wore
off
that
Captain
's
best
coat
;
mayhap
,
his
watch
--
he
's
so
cursed
anxious
to
get
it
back
.
Who
ever
heard
of
two
pious
whale-ships
cruising
after
one
missing
whale-boat
in
the
height
of
the
whaling
season
?
See
,
Flask
,
only
see
how
pale
he
looks-pale
in
the
very
buttons
of
his
eyes
--
look
--
it
was
n't
the
coat
--
it
must
have
been
the
-
"
"
My
boy
,
my
own
boy
is
among
them
.
For
God
's
sake
--
I
beg
,
I
conjure
"
--
here
exclaimed
the
stranger
Captain
to
Ahab
,
who
thus
far
had
but
icily
received
his
petition
.
"
For
eight-and-forty
hours
let
me
charter
your
ship
--
I
will
gladly
pay
for
it
,
and
roundly
pay
for
it
--
if
there
be
no
other
way
--
for
eight-and-forty
hours
only
--
only
that
--
you
must
,
oh
,
you
must
,
and
you
shall
do
this
thing
.
"
"
His
son
!
"
cried
Stubb
,
"
oh
,
it
's
his
son
he
's
lost
!
I
take
back
the
coat
and
watch
--
what
says
Ahab
?
We
must
save
that
boy
.
"
"
He
's
drowned
with
the
rest
on
'
em
,
last
night
,
"
said
the
old
Manx
sailor
standing
behind
them
;
"
I
heard
;
all
of
ye
heard
their
spirits
.
"
Now
,
as
it
shortly
turned
out
,
what
made
this
incident
of
the
Rachel
's
the
more
melancholy
,
was
the
circumstance
,
that
not
only
was
one
of
the
Captain
's
sons
among
the
number
of
the
missing
boat
's
crew
;
but
among
the
number
of
the
other
boats
'
crews
,
at
the
same
time
,
but
on
the
other
hand
,
separated
from
the
ship
during
the
dark
vicissitudes
of
the
chase
,
there
had
been
still
another
son
;
as
that
for
a
time
,
the
wretched
father
was
plunged
to
the
bottom
of
the
cruellest
perplexity
;
which
was
only
solved
for
him
by
his
chief
mate
's
instinctively
adopting
the
ordinary
procedure
of
a
whaleship
in
such
emergencies
,
that
is
,
when
placed
between
jeopardized
but
divided
boats
,
always
to
pick
up
the
majority
first
.
But
the
captain
,
for
some
unknown
constitutional
reason
,
had
refrained
from
mentioning
all
this
,
and
not
till
forced
to
it
by
Ahab
's
iciness
did
he
allude
to
his
one
yet
missing
boy
;
a
little
lad
,
but
twelve
years
old
,
whose
father
with
the
earnest
but
unmisgiving
hardihood
of
a
Nantucketer
's
paternal
love
,
had
thus
early
sought
to
initiate
him
in
the
perils
and
wonders
of
a
vocation
almost
immemorially
the
destiny
of
all
his
race
.
Nor
does
it
unfrequently
occur
,
that
Nantucket
captains
will
send
a
son
of
such
tender
age
away
from
them
,
for
a
protracted
three
or
four
years
'
voyage
in
some
other
ship
than
their
own
;
so
that
their
first
knowledge
of
a
whaleman
's
career
shall
be
unenervated
by
any
chance
display
of
a
father
's
natural
but
untimely
partiality
,
or
undue
apprehensiveness
and
concern
.
