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The
whale
never
figured
in
any
grand
imposing
way
?
In
one
of
the
mighty
triumphs
given
to
a
Roman
general
upon
his
entering
the
world
's
capital
,
the
bones
of
a
whale
,
brought
all
the
way
from
the
Syrian
coast
,
were
the
most
conspicuous
object
in
the
cymballed
procession
.
1
1
See
subsequent
chapters
for
something
more
on
this
head
.
Grant
it
,
since
you
cite
it
;
but
say
what
you
will
,
there
is
no
real
dignity
in
whaling
.
No
dignity
in
whaling
?
The
dignity
of
our
calling
the
very
heavens
attest
.
Cetus
is
a
constellation
in
the
south
!
No
more
!
Drive
down
your
hat
in
presence
of
the
Czar
,
and
take
it
off
to
Queequeg
!
No
more
!
I
know
a
man
that
,
in
his
lifetime
has
taken
three
hundred
and
fifty
whales
.
I
account
that
man
more
honorable
than
that
great
captain
of
antiquity
who
boasted
of
taking
as
many
walled
towns
.
And
,
as
for
me
,
if
,
by
any
possibility
,
there
be
any
as
yet
undiscovered
prime
thing
in
me
;
if
I
shall
ever
deserve
any
real
repute
in
that
small
but
high
hushed
world
which
I
might
not
be
unreasonably
ambitious
of
;
if
hereafter
I
shall
do
anything
upon
the
whole
,
a
man
might
rather
have
done
than
to
have
left
undone
;
if
,
at
my
death
,
my
executors
,
or
more
properly
my
creditors
,
find
any
precious
MSS
.
in
my
desk
,
then
here
I
prospectively
ascribe
all
the
honor
and
the
glory
to
whaling
;
for
a
whale-ship
was
my
Yale
College
and
my
Harvard
.
In
behalf
of
the
dignity
of
whaling
,
I
would
fain
advance
naught
but
substantiated
facts
.
But
after
embattling
his
facts
,
an
advocate
who
should
wholly
suppress
a
not
unreasonable
surmise
,
which
might
tell
eloquently
upon
his
cause
--
such
an
advocate
,
would
he
not
be
blame-worthy
?
It
is
well
known
that
at
the
coronation
of
kings
and
queens
,
even
modern
ones
,
a
certain
curious
process
of
seasoning
them
for
their
functions
is
gone
through
.
There
is
a
saltcellar
of
state
,
so
called
,
and
there
may
be
a
castor
of
state
.
How
they
use
the
salt
,
precisely
--
who
knows
?
Certain
I
am
,
however
,
that
a
king
's
head
is
solemnly
oiled
at
his
coronation
,
even
as
a
head
of
salad
.
Can
it
be
,
though
,
that
they
anoint
it
with
a
view
of
making
its
interior
run
well
,
as
they
anoint
machinery
?
Much
might
be
ruminated
here
,
concerning
the
essential
dignity
of
this
regal
process
,
because
in
common
life
we
esteem
but
meanly
and
contemptibly
a
fellow
who
anoints
his
hair
,
and
palpably
smells
of
that
anointing
.
In
truth
,
a
mature
man
who
uses
hairoil
,
unless
medicinally
,
that
man
has
probably
got
a
quoggy
spot
in
him
somewhere
.
As
a
general
rule
,
he
ca
n't
amount
to
much
in
his
totality
.
But
the
only
thing
to
be
considered
here
is
this
--
what
kind
of
oil
is
used
at
coronations
?
Certainly
it
can
not
be
olive
oil
,
nor
macassar
oil
,
nor
castor
oil
,
nor
bear
's
oil
,
nor
train
oil
,
nor
cod-liver
oil
.
What
then
can
it
possibly
be
,
but
the
sperm
oil
in
its
unmanufactured
,
unpolluted
state
,
the
sweetest
of
all
oils
?
Think
of
that
,
ye
loyal
Britons
!
we
whalemen
supply
your
kings
and
queens
with
coronation
stuff
!
The
chief
mate
of
the
Pequod
was
Starbuck
,
a
native
of
Nantucket
,
and
a
Quaker
by
descent
.
He
was
a
long
,
earnest
man
,
and
though
born
on
an
icy
coast
,
seemed
well
adapted
to
endure
hot
latitudes
,
his
flesh
being
hard
as
twice-baked
biscuit
.
Transported
to
the
Indies
,
his
live
blood
would
not
spoil
like
bottled
ale
.
He
must
have
been
born
in
some
time
of
general
drought
and
famine
,
or
upon
one
of
those
fast
days
for
which
his
state
is
famous
.
Only
some
thirty
and
summers
had
he
seen
;
those
summers
had
dried
up
all
his
physical
superfluousness
.
But
this
,
his
thinness
,
so
to
speak
,
seemed
no
more
the
token
of
wasting
anxieties
and
cares
,
than
it
seemed
the
indication
of
any
bodily
blight
.
It
was
merely
the
condensation
of
the
man
.
He
was
by
no
means
ill-looking
;
quite
the
contrary
.
His
pure
tight
skin
was
an
excellent
fit
;
and
closely
wrapped
up
in
it
,
and
embalmed
with
inner
health
and
strength
,
like
a
revivified
Egyptian
,
this
Starbuck
seemed
prepared
to
endure
for
long
ages
to
come
,
and
to
endure
always
,
as
now
;
for
be
it
Polar
snow
or
torrid
sun
,
like
a
patent
chronometer
,
his
interior
vitality
was
warranted
to
do
well
in
all
climates
.
Looking
into
his
eves
,
you
seemed
to
see
there
the
yet
lingering
images
of
those
thousand-fold
perils
he
had
calmly
confronted
through
life
.
A
staid
,
steadfast
man
,
whose
life
for
the
most
part
was
a
telling
pantomime
of
action
,
and
not
a
tame
chapter
of
sounds
.
Yet
,
for
all
his
hardy
sobriety
and
fortitude
,
there
were
certain
qualities
in
him
which
at
times
affected
,
and
in
some
cases
seemed
well
nigh
to
overbalance
all
the
rest
.
Uncommonly
conscientious
for
a
seaman
,
and
endued
with
a
deep
natural
reverence
,
the
wild
watery
loneliness
of
his
life
did
therefore
strongly
incline
him
to
superstition
;
but
to
that
sort
of
superstition
,
which
in
some
organization
seems
rather
to
spring
,
somehow
,
from
intelligence
than
from
ignorance
.
Outward
portents
and
inward
presentiments
were
his
.
