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So
Ahab
's
proceedings
in
this
matter
were
not
unusual
;
the
only
strange
thing
about
them
seemed
to
be
,
that
Starbuck
,
almost
the
one
only
man
who
had
ever
ventured
to
oppose
him
with
anything
in
the
slightest
degree
approaching
to
decision
--
one
of
those
too
,
whose
faithfulness
on
the
look-out
he
had
seemed
to
doubt
somewhat
;
it
was
strange
,
that
this
was
the
very
man
he
should
select
for
his
watchman
;
freely
giving
his
whole
life
into
such
an
otherwise
distrusted
person
's
hands
.
Now
,
the
first
time
Ahab
was
perched
aloft
;
ere
he
had
been
there
ten
minutes
;
one
of
those
red-billed
savage
sea-hawks
which
so
often
fly
incommodiously
close
round
the
manned
mast-heads
of
whalemen
in
these
latitudes
;
one
of
these
birds
came
wheeling
and
screaming
round
his
head
in
a
maze
of
untrackably
swift
circlings
.
Then
it
darted
a
thousand
feet
straight
up
into
the
air
;
then
spiralized
downwards
,
and
went
eddying
again
round
his
head
.
But
with
his
gaze
fixed
upon
the
dim
and
distant
horizon
,
Ahab
seemed
not
to
mark
this
wild
bird
;
nor
,
indeed
,
would
any
one
else
have
marked
it
much
,
it
being
no
uncommon
circumstance
;
only
now
almost
the
least
heedful
eye
seemed
to
see
some
sort
of
cunning
meaning
in
almost
every
sight
.
"
Your
hat
,
your
hat
,
sir
!
"
suddenly
cried
the
Sicilian
seaman
,
who
being
posted
at
the
mizen-mast-head
,
stood
directly
behind
Ahab
,
though
somewhat
lower
than
his
level
,
and
with
a
deep
gulf
of
air
dividing
them
.
But
already
the
sable
wing
was
before
the
old
man
's
eyes
;
the
long
hooked
bill
at
his
head
:
with
a
scream
,
the
black
hawk
darted
away
with
his
prize
An
eagle
flew
thrice
round
Tarquin
's
head
,
removing
his
cap
to
replace
it
,
and
thereupon
Tanaquil
,
his
wife
,
declared
that
Tarquin
would
be
king
of
Rome
.
But
only
by
the
replacing
of
the
cap
was
that
omen
accounted
good
.
Ahab
's
hat
was
never
restored
;
the
wild
hawk
flew
on
and
on
with
it
;
far
in
advance
of
the
prow
:
and
at
last
disappeared
;
while
from
the
point
of
that
disappearance
,
a
minute
black
spot
was
dimly
discerned
,
falling
from
that
vast
height
into
the
sea
.
The
intense
Pequod
sailed
on
;
the
rolling
waves
and
days
went
by
;
the
life-buoy-coffin
still
lightly
swung
;
and
another
ship
,
most
miserably
misnamed
the
Delight
,
was
descried
.
As
she
drew
nigh
,
all
eyes
were
fixed
upon
her
broad
beams
,
called
shears
,
which
,
in
some
whaling-ships
,
cross
the
quarter-deck
at
the
height
of
eight
or
nine
feet
;
serving
to
carry
the
spare
,
unrigged
,
or
disabled
boats
.
Upon
the
stranger
's
shears
were
beheld
the
shattered
,
white
ribs
,
and
some
few
splintered
planks
,
of
what
had
once
been
a
whale-boat
;
but
you
now
saw
through
this
wreck
,
as
plainly
as
you
see
through
the
peeled
,
half-unhinged
,
and
bleaching
skeleton
of
a
horse
.
"
Hast
seen
the
White
Whale
?
"
"
Look
!
"
replied
the
hollow-cheeked
captain
from
his
taffrail
;
and
with
his
trumpet
he
pointed
to
the
wreck
.
