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At
length
the
breathless
hunter
came
so
nigh
seemingly
unsuspecting
prey
,
that
his
entire
dazzling
hump
was
distinctly
visible
,
sliding
along
the
sea
as
if
an
isolated
thing
,
and
continually
set
in
a
revolving
ring
of
finest
,
fleecy
,
greenish
foam
.
He
saw
the
vast
,
involved
wrinkles
of
the
slightly
projecting
head
beyond
.
Before
it
,
far
out
on
the
soft
Turkish-rugged
waters
,
went
the
glistening
white
shadow
from
his
broad
,
milky
forehead
,
a
musical
rippling
playfully
accompanying
the
shade
;
and
behind
,
the
blue
waters
interchangeably
flowed
over
into
the
moving
valley
of
his
steady
wake
;
and
on
either
hand
bright
bubbles
arose
and
danced
by
his
side
.
But
these
were
broken
again
by
the
light
toes
of
hundreds
of
gay
fowls
softly
feathering
the
sea
,
alternate
with
their
fitful
flight
;
and
like
to
some
flag-staff
rising
from
the
painted
hull
of
an
argosy
,
the
tall
but
shattered
pole
of
a
recent
lance
projected
from
the
white
whale
's
back
;
and
at
intervals
one
of
the
cloud
of
soft-toed
fowls
hovering
,
and
to
and
fro
skimming
like
a
canopy
over
the
fish
,
silently
perched
and
rocked
on
this
pole
,
the
long
tail
feathers
streaming
like
pennons
.
A
gentle
joyousness
--
a
mighty
mildness
of
repose
in
swiftness
,
invested
the
gliding
whale
.
Not
the
white
bull
Jupiter
swimming
away
with
ravished
Europa
clinging
to
his
graceful
horns
;
his
lovely
,
leering
eyes
sideways
intent
upon
the
maid
;
with
smooth
bewitching
fleetness
,
rippling
straight
for
the
nuptial
bower
in
Crete
;
not
Jove
,
not
that
great
majesty
Supreme
!
did
surpass
the
glorified
White
Whale
as
he
so
divinely
swam
.
On
each
soft
side
--
coincident
with
the
parted
swell
,
that
but
once
leaving
him
then
flowed
so
wide
away
--
on
each
bright
side
,
the
whale
shed
off
enticings
.
No
wonder
there
had
been
some
among
the
hunters
who
namelessly
transported
and
allured
by
all
this
serenity
,
had
ventured
to
assail
it
;
but
had
fatally
found
that
quietude
but
the
vesture
of
tornadoes
.
Yet
calm
,
enticing
calm
,
oh
,
whale
!
thou
glidest
on
,
to
all
who
for
the
first
time
eye
thee
,
no
matter
how
many
in
that
same
way
thou
mayst
have
bejuggled
and
destroyed
before
.
And
thus
,
through
the
serene
tranquilities
of
the
tropical
sea
,
among
waves
whose
hand-clappings
were
suspended
by
exceeding
rapture
,
Moby
Dick
moved
on
,
still
withholding
from
sight
the
full
terrors
of
his
submerged
trunk
,
entirely
hiding
the
wrenched
hideousness
of
his
jaw
.
But
soon
the
fore
part
of
him
slowly
rose
from
the
water
;
for
an
instant
his
whole
marbleized
body
formed
a
high
arch
,
like
Virginia
's
Natural
Bridge
,
and
warningly
waving
his
bannered
flukes
in
the
air
,
the
grand
god
revealed
himself
,
sounded
and
went
out
of
sight
.
Hoveringly
halting
,
and
dipping
on
the
wing
,
the
white
sea-fowls
longingly
lingered
over
the
agitated
pool
that
he
left
.
With
oars
apeak
,
and
paddles
down
,
the
sheets
of
their
sails
adrift
,
the
three
boats
now
stilly
floated
,
awaiting
Moby
Dick
's
reappearance
.
"
An
hour
,
"
said
Ahab
,
standing
rooted
in
his
boat
's
stern
;
and
he
gazed
beyond
the
whale
's
place
,
towards
the
dim
blue
spaces
and
wide
wooing
vacancies
to
leeward
.
It
was
only
an
instant
;
for
again
his
eyes
seemed
whirling
round
in
his
head
as
he
swept
the
watery
circle
.
The
breeze
now
freshened
;
the
sea
began
to
swell
.
"
The
birds
!
--
the
birds
!
"
cried
Tashtego
.
In
long
Indian
file
,
as
when
herons
take
wing
,
the
white
birds
were
now
all
flying
towards
Ahab
's
boat
;
and
when
within
a
few
yards
began
fluttering
over
the
water
there
,
wheeling
round
and
round
,
with
joyous
,
expectant
cries
.
Their
vision
was
keener
than
man
's
;
Ahab
could
discover
no
sign
in
the
sea
.
But
suddenly
as
he
peered
down
and
down
into
its
depths
,
he
profoundly
saw
a
white
living
spot
no
bigger
than
a
white
weasel
,
with
wonderful
celerity
uprising
,
and
magnifying
as
it
rose
,
till
it
turned
,
and
then
there
were
plainly
revealed
two
long
crooked
rows
of
white
,
glistening
teeth
,
floating
up
from
the
undiscoverable
bottom
.
It
was
Moby
Dick
's
open
mouth
and
scrolled
jaw
;
his
vast
,
shadowed
bulk
still
half
blending
with
the
blue
of
the
sea
.
The
glittering
mouth
yawned
beneath
the
boat
like
an
open-doored
marble
tomb
;
and
giving
one
sidelong
sweep
with
his
steering
oar
,
Ahab
whirled
the
craft
aside
from
this
tremendous
apparition
.
Then
,
calling
upon
Fedallah
to
change
places
with
him
,
went
forward
to
the
bows
,
and
seizing
Perth
's
harpoon
,
commanded
his
crew
to
grasp
their
oars
and
stand
by
to
stern
.
Now
,
by
reason
of
this
timely
spinning
round
the
boat
upon
its
axis
,
its
bow
,
by
anticipation
,
was
made
to
face
the
whale
's
head
while
yet
under
water
.
