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"
Yes
,
sir
,
"
replied
the
engineer
.
"
Go
ahead
,
"
cried
Commander
Farragut
.
Captain
Farragut
was
a
good
seaman
,
worthy
of
the
frigate
he
commanded
.
His
vessel
and
he
were
one
.
He
was
the
soul
of
it
.
On
the
question
of
the
monster
there
was
no
doubt
in
his
mind
,
and
he
would
not
allow
the
existence
of
the
animal
to
be
disputed
on
board
.
He
believed
in
it
,
as
certain
good
women
believe
in
the
leviathan
--
by
faith
,
not
by
reason
.
The
monster
did
exist
,
and
he
had
sworn
to
rid
the
seas
of
it
.
Either
Captain
Farragut
would
kill
the
narwhal
,
or
the
narwhal
would
kill
the
captain
.
There
was
no
third
course
.
The
officers
on
board
shared
the
opinion
of
their
chief
.
They
were
ever
chatting
,
discussing
,
and
calculating
the
various
chances
of
a
meeting
,
watching
narrowly
the
vast
surface
of
the
ocean
.
More
than
one
took
up
his
quarters
voluntarily
in
the
cross-trees
,
who
would
have
cursed
such
a
berth
under
any
other
circumstances
.
As
long
as
the
sun
described
its
daily
course
,
the
rigging
was
crowded
with
sailors
,
whose
feet
were
burnt
to
such
an
extent
by
the
heat
of
the
deck
as
to
render
it
unbearable
;
still
the
Abraham
Lincoln
had
not
yet
breasted
the
suspected
waters
of
the
Pacific
.
As
to
the
ship
's
company
,
they
desired
nothing
better
than
to
meet
the
unicorn
,
to
harpoon
it
,
hoist
it
on
board
,
and
despatch
it
.
They
watched
the
sea
with
eager
attention
.
Besides
,
Captain
Farragut
had
spoken
of
a
certain
sum
of
two
thousand
dollars
,
set
apart
for
whoever
should
first
sight
the
monster
,
were
he
cabin-boy
,
common
seaman
,
or
officer
.
I
leave
you
to
judge
how
eyes
were
used
on
board
the
Abraham
Lincoln
.
For
my
own
part
I
was
not
behind
the
others
,
and
,
left
to
no
one
my
share
of
daily
observations
.
The
frigate
might
have
been
called
the
Argus
,
for
a
hundred
reasons
.
Only
one
amongst
us
,
Conseil
,
seemed
to
protest
by
his
indifference
against
the
question
which
so
interested
us
all
,
and
seemed
to
be
out
of
keeping
with
the
general
enthusiasm
on
board
.
I
have
said
that
Captain
Farragut
had
carefully
provided
his
ship
with
every
apparatus
for
catching
the
gigantic
cetacean
.
No
whaler
had
ever
been
better
armed
.
We
possessed
every
known
engine
,
from
the
harpoon
thrown
by
the
hand
to
the
barbed
arrows
of
the
blunderbuss
,
and
the
explosive
balls
of
the
duck-gun
.
On
the
forecastle
lay
the
perfection
of
a
breech-loading
gun
,
very
thick
at
the
breech
,
and
very
narrow
in
the
bore
,
the
model
of
which
had
been
in
the
Exhibition
of
1867
.
This
precious
weapon
of
American
origin
could
throw
with
ease
a
conical
projectile
of
nine
pounds
to
a
mean
distance
of
ten
miles
.
Thus
the
Abraham
Lincoln
wanted
for
no
means
of
destruction
;
and
,
what
was
better
still
she
had
on
board
Ned
Land
,
the
prince
of
harpooners
.
