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"
And
thou
mayest
as
well
sign
the
papers
right
off
,
"
he
added
--
"
come
along
with
ye
.
"
And
so
saying
,
he
led
the
way
below
deck
into
the
cabin
.
Seated
on
the
transom
was
what
seemed
to
me
a
most
uncommon
and
surprising
figure
.
It
turned
out
to
be
Captain
Bildad
who
along
with
Captain
Peleg
was
one
of
the
largest
owners
of
the
vessel
;
the
other
shares
,
as
is
sometimes
the
case
in
these
ports
,
being
held
by
a
crowd
of
old
annuitants
;
widows
,
fatherless
children
,
and
chancery
wards
;
each
owning
about
the
value
of
a
timber
head
,
or
a
foot
of
plank
,
or
a
nail
or
two
in
the
ship
.
People
in
Nantucket
invest
their
money
in
whaling
vessels
,
the
same
way
that
you
do
yours
in
approved
state
stocks
bringing
in
good
interest
.
Now
,
Bildad
,
like
Peleg
,
and
indeed
many
other
Nantucketers
,
was
a
Quaker
,
the
island
having
been
originally
settled
by
that
sect
;
and
to
this
day
its
inhabitants
in
general
retain
in
an
uncommon
measure
peculiarities
of
the
Quaker
,
only
variously
and
anomalously
modified
by
things
altogether
alien
and
heterogeneous
.
For
some
of
these
same
Quakers
are
the
most
sanguinary
of
all
sailors
and
whale-hunters
.
They
are
fighting
Quakers
;
they
are
Quakers
with
a
vengeance
.
So
that
there
are
instances
among
them
of
men
,
who
,
named
with
Scripture
names
--
a
singularly
common
fashion
on
the
island
--
and
in
childhood
naturally
imbibing
the
stately
dramatic
thee
and
thou
of
the
Quaker
idiom
;
still
,
from
the
audacious
,
daring
,
and
boundless
adventure
of
their
subsequent
lives
,
strangely
blend
with
these
unoutgrown
peculiarities
,
a
thousand
bold
dashes
of
character
,
not
unworthy
a
Scandinavian
sea-king
,
or
a
poetical
Pagan
Roman
.
And
when
these
things
unite
in
a
man
of
greatly
superior
natural
force
,
with
a
globular
brain
and
a
ponderous
heart
;
who
has
also
by
the
stillness
and
seclusion
of
many
long
night-watches
in
the
remotest
waters
,
and
beneath
constellations
never
seen
here
at
the
north
,
been
led
to
think
untraditionally
and
independently
;
receiving
all
nature
's
sweet
or
savage
impressions
fresh
from
her
own
virgin
voluntary
and
confiding
breast
,
and
thereby
chiefly
,
but
with
some
help
from
accidental
advantages
,
to
learn
a
bold
and
nervous
lofty
language
--
that
man
makes
one
in
a
whole
nation
's
census
--
a
mighty
pageant
creature
,
formed
for
noble
tragedies
.
Nor
will
it
at
all
detract
from
him
,
dramatically
regarded
,
if
either
by
birth
or
other
circumstances
,
he
have
what
seems
a
half
wilful
overruling
morbidness
at
the
bottom
of
his
nature
.
For
all
men
tragically
great
are
made
so
through
a
certain
morbidness
.
Be
sure
of
this
,
O
young
ambition
,
all
mortal
greatness
is
but
disease
.
But
,
as
yet
we
have
not
to
do
with
such
an
one
,
but
with
quite
another
;
and
still
a
man
,
who
,
if
indeed
peculiar
,
it
only
results
again
from
another
phase
of
the
Quaker
,
modified
by
individual
circumstances
.
Like
Captain
Peleg
,
Captain
Bildad
was
a
well-to-do
,
retired
whaleman
.
But
unlike
Captain
Peleg
--
who
cared
not
a
rush
for
what
are
called
serious
things
,
and
indeed
deemed
those
self-same
serious
things
the
veriest
of
all
trifles
--
Captain
Bildad
had
not
only
been
originally
educated
according
to
the
strictest
sect
of
Nantucket
Quakerism
,
but
all
his
subsequent
ocean
life
,
and
the
sight
of
many
unclad
,
lovely
island
creatures
,
round
the
Horn
--
all
that
had
not
moved
this
native
born
Quaker
one
single
jot
,
had
not
so
much
as
altered
one
angle
of
his
vest
.
Still
,
for
all
this
immutableness
,
was
there
some
lack
of
common
consistency
about
worthy
Captain
Peleg
.
Though
refusing
,
from
conscientious
scruples
,
to
bear
arms
against
land
invaders
,
yet
himself
had
illimitably
invaded
the
Atlantic
and
Pacific
;
and
though
a
sworn
foe
to
human
bloodshed
,
yet
had
he
in
his
straight-bodied
coat
,
spilled
tuns
upon
tuns
of
leviathan
gore
.
How
now
in
the
contemplative
evening
of
his
days
,
the
pious
Bildad
reconciled
these
things
in
the
reminiscence
,
I
do
not
know
;
but
it
did
not
seem
to
concern
him
much
,
and
very
probably
he
had
long
since
come
to
the
sage
and
sensible
conclusion
that
a
man
's
religion
is
one
thing
,
and
this
practical
world
quite
another
.
This
world
pays
dividends
.
Rising
from
a
little
cabin
boy
in
short
clothes
of
the
drabbest
drab
,
to
a
harpooneer
in
a
broad
shad-bellied
waistcoat
;
from
that
becoming
boat-header
,
chief
mate
,
and
captain
,
and
finally
a
shipowner
;
Bildad
,
as
I
hinted
before
,
had
concluded
his
adventurous
career
by
wholly
retiring
from
active
life
at
the
goodly
age
of
sixty
,
and
dedicating
his
remaining
days
to
the
quiet
receiving
of
his
well-earned
income
.
Now
,
Bildad
,
I
am
sorry
to
say
,
had
the
reputation
of
being
an
incorrigible
old
hunks
,
and
in
his
sea-going
days
,
a
bitter
,
hard
task-master
.
They
told
me
in
Nantucket
,
though
it
certainly
seems
a
curious
story
,
that
when
he
sailed
the
old
Categut
whaleman
,
his
crew
,
upon
arriving
home
,
were
mostly
all
carried
ashore
to
the
hospital
,
sore
exhausted
and
worn
out
.
For
a
pious
man
,
especially
for
a
Quaker
,
he
was
certainly
rather
hard-hearted
,
to
say
the
least
.
He
never
used
to
swear
,
though
,
at
his
men
,
they
said
;
but
somehow
he
got
an
inordinate
quantity
of
cruel
,
unmitigated
hard
work
out
of
them
.
When
Bildad
was
a
chief-mate
,
to
have
his
drab-colored
eye
intently
looking
at
you
,
made
you
feel
completely
nervous
,
till
you
could
clutch
something
--
a
hammer
or
a
marrling-spike
,
and
go
to
work
like
mad
,
at
something
or
other
,
never
mind
what
.
Indolence
and
idleness
perished
before
him
.
His
own
person
was
the
exact
embodiment
of
his
utilitarian
character
.
On
his
long
,
gaunt
body
,
he
carried
no
spare
flesh
,
no
superfluous
beard
,
his
chin
having
a
soft
,
economical
nap
to
it
,
like
that
worn
nap
of
his
broad-brimmed
hat
.
Such
,
then
,
was
the
person
that
I
saw
seated
on
the
transom
when
I
followed
Captain
Peleg
down
into
the
cabin
.
The
space
between
the
decks
was
small
;
and
there
,
bolt
upright
,
sat
old
Bildad
,
who
always
sat
so
,
and
never
leaned
,
and
this
to
save
his
coat-tails
.
His
broad-brim
was
placed
beside
him
;
his
legs
were
stiffly
crossed
;
his
drab
vesture
was
buttoned
up
to
his
chin
;
and
spectacles
on
nose
,
he
seemed
absorbed
in
reading
from
a
ponderous
volume
.
