Chapter 59 The Squid
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right slowly waiting through the meadows of Britt. The peak would still held on her way northeast would towards the island of Java. A gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity! Her three tall tapering masts mildly waved that language Breeze as three mild palms on a plane. And still at wide intervals in the silvery night the lonely alluring jet could be seen but one transparent blue morning, when a stillness, almost preternatural, spread over the sea, however unattended, with any staining calm, when the long burnished sun glade on the water seemed a golden finger laid across them, enjoying some secrecy. When the slipper waves whispered together as they softly ran on in this profound hush of the visible sphere, a strange specter was seen by Dagou from the main mast head in the distance a great white mass lazily rose and rising higher and higher and disentangling itself from the azure at last gleamed before our prow like a snowslide. New slid from the hills, thus glistening for a moment as slowly it subsided and sank. Then once more arose and silently gleamed. It seemed not a whale, and yet this is Moby ****! Again! The phantom went down, but on reappearing once more with a stiletto like cry that startled every man from his nod. He yelled out there! There again! There! She breaches! Right ahead! The white whale! The white whale upon this! The semen rushed to the yard arms, as in swarming time. The bees rushed to the bows, bareheaded in the sultry son Ahab stood on the bow Spirit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to waive his orders to the helmsman cast his eager glance in the direction, indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of dagou. Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had gradually worked upon. Ahab! So that he was now prepared to connect to the ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular whale! He pursued. However, this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed him, whichever way it may have been. No sooner did he distinctly perceive the white mass than with a quick intensity! He instantly gave orders for lowering The four boats were soon on the water. Ahab's in advance, and all swiftly pulling towards their prey. Soon it went down, and while with or suspended we were awaiting its reappearance low in the same spot where it sank once more. It slowly rose, almost forgetting for a moment all thoughts of Moby ****, We now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind a vast pulpy mass furlongs in length and breadth of a glancing cream color, lay floating on the water. Innumerable long arms radiating from its center and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly, to clutch at any hapless object within reach, no perceptible face or front! Did it have no conceivable token, or either sensation or instinct but undulated there on the billows. An unearthly formless chance like operation of life, as with a low sucking sound that slowly disappeared again. Starbucks, still gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk with a wild voice! Exclaimed, Almost rather would I have seen Moby **** and fought him, and to have seen the White Ghost! What was it, sir? Said, flask the great live squid, which they say few whale ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it. But, ahab! Said nothing. Turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel. The rest as silently following whatever superstitions the sperm whale men in general, have connected with the site of this object. Certain it is that a glimpse of it being so very unusual, that circumstance has gone far to invest it with pretentiousness so rarely is it beheld that, though one and all of them declared to be the largest animated thing in the ocean? Yet very few of them have any but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature and form, notwithstanding. They believe it to furnish to the sperm oil his only food for the other species of whales find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding the sperm a study whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface, and only by inference is it that anyone can tell of what precisely that food consists at times when closely pursued. He will discourage what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid. Some of them thus exhibited exceeding 20 and 30 ft in length. They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean, and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it. There seems some ground to imagine that the great kraken of Bishop Ponta pardon, may ultimately resolve itself into squid. The manner in which the bishop describes it as alternately rising and sinking with some other particulars he narrates and all this. The two correspond, but much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bolt. He assigns it by some naturalists, who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature here spoken of it is indeed among the class of cuttlefish to which, indeed in certain external respects, it would seem to belong, but only as the almanac of the tribe. The british. No. Mhm, probably. Mhm. Yeah, it's from well got it, that before the board had hit the water the wheels came off