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And
as
for
those
who
,
previously
hearing
of
the
White
Whale
,
by
chance
caught
sight
of
him
;
in
the
beginning
of
the
thing
they
had
every
one
of
them
,
almost
,
as
boldly
and
fearlessly
lowered
for
him
,
as
for
any
other
whale
of
that
species
.
But
at
length
,
such
calamities
did
ensue
in
these
assaults
--
not
restricted
to
sprained
wrists
and
ankles
,
broken
limbs
,
or
devouring
amputations
--
but
fatal
to
the
last
degree
of
fatality
;
those
repeated
disastrous
repulses
,
all
accumulating
and
piling
their
terrors
upon
Moby
Dick
;
those
things
had
gone
far
to
shake
the
fortitude
of
many
brave
hunters
,
to
whom
the
story
of
the
White
Whale
had
eventually
come
.
Nor
did
wild
rumors
of
all
sorts
fail
to
exaggerate
,
and
still
the
more
horrify
the
true
histories
of
these
deadly
encounters
.
For
not
only
do
fabulous
rumors
naturally
grow
out
of
the
very
body
of
all
surprising
terrible
events
--
as
the
smitten
tree
gives
birth
to
its
fungi
;
but
,
in
maritime
life
,
far
more
than
in
that
of
terra
firma
,
wild
rumors
abound
,
wherever
there
is
any
adequate
reality
for
them
to
cling
to
.
And
as
the
sea
surpasses
the
land
in
this
matter
,
so
the
whale
fishery
surpasses
every
other
sort
of
maritime
life
,
in
the
wonderfulness
and
fearfulness
of
the
rumors
which
sometimes
circulate
there
.
For
not
only
are
whalemen
as
a
body
unexempt
from
that
ignorance
and
superstitiousness
hereditary
to
all
sailors
;
but
of
all
sailors
,
they
are
by
all
odds
the
most
directly
brought
into
contact
with
whatever
is
appallingly
astonishing
in
the
sea
;
face
to
face
they
not
only
eye
its
greatest
marvels
,
but
,
hand
to
jaw
,
give
battle
to
them
.
Alone
,
in
such
remotest
waters
,
that
though
you
sailed
a
thousand
miles
,
and
passed
a
thousand
shores
,
you
would
not
come
to
any
chiselled
hearth-stone
,
or
aught
hospitable
beneath
that
part
of
the
sun
;
in
such
latitudes
and
longitudes
,
pursuing
too
such
a
calling
as
he
does
,
the
whaleman
is
wrapped
by
influences
all
tending
to
make
his
fancy
pregnant
with
many
a
mighty
birth
.
No
wonder
,
then
,
that
ever
gathering
volume
from
the
mere
transit
over
the
wildest
watery
spaces
,
the
outblown
rumors
of
the
White
Whale
did
in
the
end
incorporate
with
themselves
all
manner
of
morbid
hints
,
and
half-formed
foetal
suggestions
of
supernatural
agencies
,
which
eventually
invested
Moby
Dick
with
new
terrors
unborrowed
from
anything
that
visibly
appears
.
So
that
in
many
cases
such
a
panic
did
he
finally
strike
,
that
few
who
by
those
rumors
,
at
least
,
had
heard
of
the
White
Whale
,
few
of
those
hunters
were
willing
to
encounter
the
perils
of
his
jaw
.
But
there
were
still
other
and
more
vital
practical
influences
at
work
.
Nor
even
at
the
present
day
has
the
original
prestige
of
the
Sperm
Whale
,
as
fearfully
distinguished
from
all
other
species
of
the
leviathan
,
died
out
of
the
minds
of
the
whalemen
as
a
body
.
There
are
those
this
day
among
them
,
who
,
though
intelligent
and
courageous
enough
in
offering
battle
to
the
Greenland
or
Right
whale
,
would
perhaps
--
either
from
professional
inexperience
,
or
incompetency
,
or
timidity
,
decline
a
contest
with
the
Sperm
Whale
;
at
any
rate
,
there
are
plenty
of
whalemen
,
especially
among
those
whaling
nations
not
sailing
under
the
American
flag
,
who
have
never
hostilely
encountered
the
Sperm
Whale
,
but
whose
sole
knowledge
of
the
leviathan
is
restricted
to
the
ignoble
monster
primitively
pursued
in
the
North
;
seated
on
their
hatches
,
these
men
will
hearken
with
a
childish
fireside
interest
and
awe
,
to
the
wild
,
strange
tales
of
Southern
whaling
.
Nor
is
the
preeminent
tremendousness
of
the
great
Sperm
Whale
anywhere
more
feelingly
comprehended
,
than
on
board
of
those
prows
which
stem
him
.
And
as
if
the
now
tested
reality
of
his
might
had
in
former
legendary
times
thrown
its
shadow
before
it
;
we
find
some
book
naturalists
--
Olassen
and
Povelson
--
declaring
the
Sperm
Whale
not
only
to
be
a
consternation
to
every
other
creature
in
the
sea
,
but
also
to
be
so
incredibly
ferocious
as
continually
to
be
athirst
for
human
blood
.
Nor
even
down
to
so
late
a
time
as
Cuvier
's
,
were
these
or
almost
similar
impressions
effaced
.
For
in
his
Natural
History
,
the
Baron
himself
affirms
that
at
sight
of
the
Sperm
Whale
,
all
fish
(
sharks
included
)
are
"
struck
with
the
most
lively
terrors
,
"
and
"
often
in
the
precipitancy
of
their
flight
dash
themselves
against
the
rocks
with
such
violence
as
to
cause
instantaneous
death
.
"
And
however
the
general
experiences
in
the
fishery
may
amend
such
reports
as
these
;
yet
in
their
full
terribleness
,
even
to
the
bloodthirsty
item
of
Povelson
,
the
superstitious
belief
in
them
is
,
in
some
vicissitudes
of
their
vocation
,
revived
in
the
minds
of
the
hunters
.
So
that
overawed
by
the
rumors
and
portents
concerning
him
,
not
a
few
of
the
fishermen
recalled
,
in
reference
to
Moby
Dick
,
the
earlier
days
of
the
Sperm
Whale
fishery
,
when
it
was
oftentimes
hard
to
induce
long
practised
Right
whalemen
to
embark
in
the
perils
of
this
new
and
daring
warfare
;
such
men
protesting
that
although
other
leviathans
might
be
hopefully
pursued
,
yet
to
chase
and
point
lances
at
such
an
apparition
as
the
Sperm
Whale
was
not
for
mortal
man
.
That
to
attempt
it
,
would
be
inevitably
to
be
torn
into
a
quick
eternity
.
On
this
head
,
there
are
some
remarkable
documents
that
may
be
consulted
.
Nevertheless
,
some
there
were
,
who
even
in
the
face
of
these
things
were
ready
to
give
chase
to
Moby
Dick
;
and
a
still
greater
number
who
,
chancing
only
to
hear
of
him
distantly
and
vaguely
,
without
the
specific
details
of
any
certain
calamity
,
and
without
superstitious
accompaniments
were
sufficiently
hardy
not
to
flee
from
the
battle
if
offered
.
One
of
the
wild
suggestions
referred
to
,
as
at
last
coming
to
be
linked
with
the
White
Whale
in
the
minds
of
the
superstitiously
inclined
,
was
the
unearthly
conceit
that
Moby
Dick
was
ubiquitous
;
that
he
had
actually
been
encountered
in
opposite
latitudes
at
one
and
the
same
instant
of
time
.
Nor
,
credulous
as
such
minds
must
have
been
,
was
this
conceit
altogether
without
some
faint
show
of
superstitious
probability
.
