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For
several
days
after
leaving
Nantucket
,
nothing
above
hatches
was
seen
of
Captain
Ahab
.
The
mates
regularly
relieved
each
other
at
the
watches
,
and
for
aught
that
could
be
seen
to
the
contrary
,
they
seemed
to
be
the
only
commanders
of
the
ship
;
only
they
sometimes
issued
from
the
cabin
with
orders
so
sudden
and
peremptory
,
that
after
all
it
was
plain
they
but
commanded
vicariously
.
Yet
,
their
supreme
lord
and
dictator
was
there
,
though
hitherto
unseen
by
any
eyes
not
permitted
to
penetrate
into
the
now
sacred
retreat
of
the
cabin
.
Every
time
I
ascended
to
the
deck
from
my
watches
below
,
I
instantly
gazed
aft
to
mark
if
any
strange
face
was
visible
;
for
my
first
vague
disquietude
touching
the
unknown
captain
,
now
in
the
seclusion
of
the
sea
became
almost
a
perturbation
.
This
was
strangely
heightened
at
times
by
the
ragged
Elijah
's
diabolical
incoherences
uninvitedly
recurring
to
me
,
with
a
subtle
energy
I
could
not
have
before
conceived
of
.
But
poorly
could
I
withstand
them
,
much
as
in
other
moods
I
was
almost
ready
to
smile
at
the
solemn
whimsicalities
of
that
outlandish
prophet
of
the
wharves
.
But
whatever
it
was
of
apprehensiveness
or
uneasiness
--
to
call
it
so
--
which
I
felt
,
yet
whenever
I
came
to
look
about
me
in
the
ship
,
it
seemed
against
all
warranty
to
cherish
such
emotions
.
For
though
the
harpooneers
,
with
the
great
body
of
the
crew
,
were
a
far
more
barbaric
,
heathenish
,
and
motley
set
than
any
of
the
tame
merchant-ship
companies
which
my
previous
experiences
had
made
me
acquainted
with
,
still
I
ascribed
this
--
and
rightly
ascribed
it
--
to
the
fierce
uniqueness
of
the
very
nature
of
that
wild
Scandinavian
vocation
in
which
I
had
so
abandonedly
embarked
.
But
it
was
especially
the
aspect
of
the
three
chief
officers
of
the
ship
,
the
mates
,
which
was
most
forcibly
calculated
to
allay
these
colorless
misgivings
,
and
induce
confidence
and
cheerfulness
in
every
presentment
of
the
voyage
.
Three
better
,
more
likely
sea-officers
and
men
,
each
in
his
own
different
way
,
could
not
readily
be
found
,
and
they
were
every
one
of
them
Americans
;
a
Nantucketer
,
a
Vineyarder
,
a
Cape
man
.
Now
,
it
being
Christmas
when
the
ship
shot
from
out
her
harbor
,
for
a
space
we
had
biting
Polar
weather
,
though
all
the
time
running
away
from
it
to
the
southward
;
and
by
every
degree
and
minute
of
latitude
which
we
sailed
,
gradually
leaving
that
merciless
winter
,
and
all
its
intolerable
weather
behind
us
.
It
was
one
of
those
less
lowering
,
but
still
grey
and
gloomy
enough
mornings
of
the
transition
,
when
with
a
fair
wind
the
ship
was
rushing
through
the
water
with
a
vindictive
sort
of
leaping
and
melancholy
rapidity
,
that
as
I
mounted
to
the
deck
at
the
call
of
the
forenoon
watch
,
so
soon
as
I
levelled
my
glance
towards
the
taffrail
,
foreboding
shivers
ran
over
me
.
Reality
outran
apprehension
;
Captain
Ahab
stood
upon
his
quarter-deck
.
There
seemed
no
sign
of
common
bodily
illness
about
him
,
nor
of
the
recovery
from
any
.
He
looked
like
a
man
cut
away
from
the
stake
,
when
the
fire
has
overrunningly
wasted
all
the
limbs
without
consuming
them
,
or
taking
away
one
particle
from
their
compacted
aged
robustness
.
His
whole
high
,
broad
form
,
seemed
made
of
solid
bronze
,
and
shaped
in
an
unalterable
mould
,
like
Cellini
's
cast
Perseus
.
Threading
its
way
out
from
among
his
grey
hairs
,
and
continuing
right
down
one
side
of
his
tawny
scorched
face
and
neck
,
till
it
disappeared
in
his
clothing
,
you
saw
a
slender
rod-like
mark
,
lividly
whitish
.
It
resembled
that
perpendicular
seam
sometimes
made
in
the
straight
,
lofty
trunk
of
a
great
tree
,
when
the
upper
lightning
tearingly
darts
down
it
,
and
without
wrenching
a
single
twig
,
peels
and
grooves
out
the
bark
from
top
to
bottom
ere
running
off
into
the
soil
,
leaving
the
tree
still
greenly
alive
,
but
branded
.
Whether
that
mark
was
born
with
him
,
or
whether
it
was
the
scar
left
by
some
desperate
wound
,
no
one
could
certainly
say
.
By
some
tacit
consent
,
throughout
the
voyage
little
or
no
allusion
was
made
to
it
,
especially
by
the
mates
.
But
once
Tashtego
's
senior
,
an
old
Gay-Head
Indian
among
the
crew
,
superstitiously
asserted
that
not
till
he
was
full
forty
years
old
did
Ahab
become
that
way
branded
,
and
then
it
came
upon
him
,
not
in
the
fury
of
any
mortal
fray
,
but
in
an
elemental
strife
at
sea
.
Yet
,
this
wild
hint
seemed
inferentially
negatived
,
by
what
a
grey
Manxman
insinuated
,
an
old
sepulchral
man
,
who
,
having
never
before
sailed
out
of
Nantucket
,
had
never
ere
this
laid
eye
upon
wild
Ahab
.
Nevertheless
,
the
old
sea-traditions
,
the
immemorial
credulities
,
popularly
invested
this
old
Manxman
with
preternatural
powers
of
discernment
.
So
that
no
white
sailor
seriously
contradicted
him
when
he
said
that
if
ever
Captain
Ahab
should
be
tranquilly
laid
out
--
which
might
hardly
come
to
pass
,
so
he
muttered
--
then
,
whoever
should
do
that
last
office
for
the
dead
,
would
find
a
birth-mark
on
him
from
crown
to
sole
.
So
powerfully
did
the
whole
grim
aspect
of
Ahab
affect
me
,
and
the
livid
brand
which
streaked
it
,
that
for
the
first
few
moments
I
hardly
noted
that
not
a
little
of
this
overbearing
grimness
was
owing
to
the
barbaric
white
leg
upon
which
he
partly
stood
.
It
had
previously
come
to
me
that
this
ivory
leg
had
at
sea
been
fashioned
from
the
polished
bone
of
the
sperm
whale
's
jaw
.
"
Aye
,
he
was
dismasted
off
Japan
,
"
said
the
old
Gay-Head
Indian
once
;
"
but
like
his
dismasted
craft
,
he
shipped
another
mast
without
coming
home
for
it
.
He
has
a
quiver
of
'
em
.
"
I
was
struck
with
the
singular
posture
he
maintained
.
Upon
each
side
of
the
Pequod
's
quarter
deck
,
and
pretty
close
to
the
mizzen
shrouds
,
there
was
an
auger
hole
,
bored
about
half
an
inch
or
so
,
into
the
plank
.
His
bone
leg
steadied
in
that
hole
;
one
arm
elevated
,
and
holding
by
a
shroud
;
Captain
Ahab
stood
erect
,
looking
straight
out
beyond
the
ship
's
ever-pitching
prow
.
There
was
an
infinity
of
firmest
fortitude
,
a
determinate
,
unsurrenderable
wilfulness
,
in
the
fixed
and
fearless
,
forward
dedication
of
that
glance
.
Not
a
word
he
spoke
;
nor
did
his
officers
say
aught
to
him
;
though
by
all
their
minutest
gestures
and
expressions
,
they
plainly
showed
the
uneasy
,
if
not
painful
,
consciousness
of
being
under
a
troubled
master-eye
.
And
not
only
that
,
but
moody
stricken
Ahab
stood
before
them
with
a
crucifixion
in
his
face
;
in
all
the
nameless
regal
overbearing
dignity
of
some
mighty
woe
.
Ere
long
,
from
his
first
visit
in
the
air
,
he
withdrew
into
his
cabin
.
But
after
that
morning
,
he
was
every
day
visible
to
the
crew
;
either
standing
in
his
pivot-hole
,
or
seated
upon
an
ivory
stool
he
had
;
or
heavily
walking
the
deck
.
As
the
sky
grew
less
gloomy
;
indeed
,
began
to
grow
a
little
genial
,
he
became
still
less
and
less
a
recluse
;
as
if
,
when
the
ship
had
sailed
from
home
,
nothing
but
the
dead
wintry
bleakness
of
the
sea
had
then
kept
him
so
secluded
.
And
,
by
and
by
,
it
came
to
pass
,
that
he
was
almost
continually
in
the
air
;
but
,
as
yet
,
for
all
that
he
said
,
or
perceptibly
did
,
on
the
at
last
sunny
deck
,
he
seemed
as
unnecessary
there
as
another
mast
.
But
the
Pequod
was
only
making
a
passage
now
;
not
regularly
cruising
;
nearly
all
whaling
preparatives
needing
supervision
the
mates
were
fully
competent
to
,
so
that
there
was
little
or
nothing
,
out
of
himself
,
to
employ
or
excite
Ahab
,
now
;
and
thus
chase
away
,
for
that
one
interval
,
the
clouds
that
layer
upon
layer
were
piled
upon
his
brow
,
as
ever
all
clouds
choose
the
loftiest
peaks
to
pile
themselves
upon
.
Nevertheless
,
ere
long
,
the
warm
,
warbling
persuasiveness
of
the
pleasant
,
holiday
weather
we
came
to
,
seemed
gradually
to
charm
him
from
his
mood
.
