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<s>[INST] He was always a furious man, it seems, in a boat. [/INST] And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back. </s> |
<s>[INST] And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back. [/INST] Nothing loath, his bows- man hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that blent two whitenesses together ; till of a sudden the boat struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the standing mate. </s> |
<s>[INST] Nothing loath, his bows- man hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that blent two whitenesses together ; till of a sudden the boat struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the standing mate. [/INST] That instant, as he fell on the whale's slippery back, the boat righted, and was... |
<s>[INST] That instant, as he fell on the whale's slippery back, the boat righted, and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was tossed over into the sea, on the other flank of the whale . [/INST] He struck out through the spray, and, for an instant, was dimly seen through that veil, wildly seeking to remove hims... |
<s>[INST] He struck out through the spray, and, for an instant, was dimly seen through that veil, wildly seeking to remove himself from the eye of Moby-Dick. [/INST] But the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom ; seized the swimmer between his jaws ; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went do... |
<s>[INST] But the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom ; seized the swimmer between his jaws ; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down. ' [/INST] Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the Lakeman had slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool ; calmly looking ... |
<s>[INST] Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the Lakeman had slackened the line, so as to drop astern from the whirlpool ; calmly looking on, he thought his own thoughts. [/INST] But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line. </s> |
<s>[INST] But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line. [/INST] He cut it ; and the whale was free. </s> |
<s>[INST] He cut it ; and the whale was free. [/INST] But, at some distance, Moby-Dick rose again, with some tatters of Radney 's red woollen shirt caught in the teeth that had destroyed 328 MOBY-DICK him. </s> |
<s>[INST] But, at some distance, Moby-Dick rose again, with some tatters of Radney 's red woollen shirt caught in the teeth that had destroyed 328 MOBY-DICK him. [/INST] All four boats gave chase again ; but the whale eluded them, and finally wholly disappeared. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] All four boats gave chase again ; but the whale eluded them, and finally wholly disappeared. ' [/INST] In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port a savage, solitary place where no civilised creature resided. </s> |
<s>[INST] In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port a savage, solitary place where no civilised creature resided. [/INST] There, headed by the Lake man, all but five or six of the foremast-men deliberately deserted among the palms ; eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double war- canoe of the savages, and se... |
<s>[INST] There, headed by the Lake man, all but five or six of the foremast-men deliberately deserted among the palms ; eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double war- canoe of the savages, and setting sail for some other harbour. [/INST] 4 The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain calle... |
<s>[INST] 4 The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving down the ship to stop the leak. [/INST] But to such unresting vigilance over their danger- ous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both by night and by d... |
<s>[INST] But to such unresting vigilance over their danger- ous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work they underwent, that upon the vessel being ready again for sea, they were in such a weakened condition that the captain durst not put off with th... |
<s>[INST] After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the ship as far off shore as possible ; loaded and ran out his two cannon from the bows ; stacked his muskets on the poop ; and warning the Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat,... |
<s>[INST] On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which seemed to have touched at a low isle of corals. [/INST] He steered away from it ; but the savage craft bore down on him ; and soon the voice of Steelkilt hailed him to heave to, or he would run him under water. </s> |
<s>[INST] He steered away from it ; but the savage craft bore down on him ; and soon the voice of Steelkilt hailed him to heave to, or he would run him under water. [/INST] The captain presented a pistol. </s> |
<s>[INST] The captain presented a pistol. [/INST] With one foot on each prow of the yoked war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to scorn ; assuring him that if the pistol so much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and foam. </s> |
<s>[INST] With one foot on each prow of the yoked war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to scorn ; assuring him that if the pistol so much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and foam. [/INST] THE TOWN-HO'S STORY 329 ' " What do you want of me ? " </s> |
<s>[INST] THE TOWN-HO'S STORY 329 ' " What do you want of me ? " [/INST] cried the captain. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] cried the captain. ' [/INST] " Where are you bound ? </s> |
<s>[INST] " Where are you bound ? [/INST] and for what are you bound ? " </s> |
<s>[INST] and for what are you bound ? " [/INST] demanded Steelkilt ; "no lies." </s> |
<s>[INST] demanded Steelkilt ; "no lies." [/INST] ' " I am bound to Tahiti for more men." </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " I am bound to Tahiti for more men." [/INST] ' " Very good. </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " Very good. [/INST] Let me board you a moment I come in peace." </s> |
<s>[INST] Let me board you a moment I come in peace." [/INST] With that he leaped from the canoe, swam to the boat ; and climbing the gunwale, stood face to face with the captain. " </s> |
<s>[INST] With that he leaped from the canoe, swam to the boat ; and climbing the gunwale, stood face to face with the captain. " [/INST] Cross your arms, sir ; throw back your head. </s> |
<s>[INST] Cross your arms, sir ; throw back your head. [/INST] Now, repeat after me. </s> |
<s>[INST] Now, repeat after me. [/INST] As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six days. </s> |
<s>[INST] As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six days. [/INST] If I do not, may lightnings strike me ! " </s> |
<s>[INST] If I do not, may lightnings strike me ! " [/INST] ' " A pretty scholar," laughed the Lakeman. " </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " A pretty scholar," laughed the Lakeman. " [/INST] Adios, Senor ! " </s> |
<s>[INST] Adios, Senor ! " [/INST] and leaping into the sea, he swam back to his comrades. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] and leaping into the sea, he swam back to his comrades. ' [/INST] Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. </s> |
<s>[INST] Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. [/INST] There, luck befriended him ; two ships were about to sail for France, and were provi- dentially in want of precise... |
<s>[INST] There, luck befriended him ; two ships were about to sail for France, and were provi- dentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor headed. [/INST] They embarked ; and so forever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] They embarked ; and so forever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution. ' [/INST] Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale- boat arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilised Tahitians, who had been somewhat used ... |
<s>[INST] Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale- boat arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilised Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. [/INST] Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel ; and finding all right there, again resumed h... |
<s>[INST] Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel ; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings. ' [/INST] Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know ; but upon the island of Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to give up its dead ; still in... |
<s>[INST] Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know ; but upon the island of Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to give up its dead ; still in dreams sees the awful White Whale that destroyed him. [/INST] * * * 330 MOBY-DICK ' " Are you through ? " </s> |
<s>[INST] * * * 330 MOBY-DICK ' " Are you through ? " [/INST] said Don Sebastian quietly. </s> |
<s>[INST] said Don Sebastian quietly. [/INST] 1 " I am, Don." </s> |
<s>[INST] 1 " I am, Don." [/INST] 6 " Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions, this your story is in substance really true ? </s> |
<s>[INST] 6 " Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your own convictions, this your story is in substance really true ? [/INST] It is so passing wonderful ! </s> |
<s>[INST] It is so passing wonderful ! [/INST] Did you get it from an unquestionable source ? </s> |
<s>[INST] Did you get it from an unquestionable source ? [/INST] Bear with me if I seem to press." </s> |
<s>[INST] Bear with me if I seem to press." [/INST] ' " Also bear with all of us, sir sailor ; for we all join in Don Sebastian's suit," cried the company, with exceed- ing interest. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " Also bear with all of us, sir sailor ; for we all join in Don Sebastian's suit," cried the company, with exceed- ing interest. ' [/INST] " Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists hi the Golden Inn, gentlemen ? " </s> |
<s>[INST] " Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists hi the Golden Inn, gentlemen ? " [/INST] ' " Nay," said Don Sebastian ; " but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me. </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " Nay," said Don Sebastian ; " but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me. [/INST] I go for it ; but are you well advised ? </s> |
<s>[INST] I go for it ; but are you well advised ? [/INST] this may grow too serious." </s> |
<s>[INST] this may grow too serious." [/INST] ' " Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don ? " </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don ? " [/INST] ' " Though there are no Auto-da-Fes in Lima now," said one of the company to another ; "I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy. </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " Though there are no Auto-da-Fes in Lima now," said one of the company to another ; "I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy. [/INST] Let us withdraw more out of the moonlight. </s> |
<s>[INST] Let us withdraw more out of the moonlight. [/INST] I see no need of this." </s> |
<s>[INST] I see no need of this." [/INST] ' " Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian ; but may I also beg that you will be particular in procuring the largest -sized Evangelists you can." </s> |
<s>[INST] ' " Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian ; but may I also beg that you will be particular in procuring the largest -sized Evangelists you can." [/INST] ******* ' " This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists," said Don Sebastian gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] ******* ' " This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists," said Don Sebastian gravely, returning with a tall and solemn figure. ' [/INST] " Let me remove my hat. </s> |
<s>[INST] " Let me remove my hat. [/INST] Now, venerable priest, further into the light, and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it. ' </s> |
<s>[INST] Now, venerable priest, further into the light, and hold the Holy Book before me that I may touch it. ' [/INST] " So help me Heaven, and on my honour the story I have told ye, gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true. </s> |
<s>[INST] " So help me Heaven, and on my honour the story I have told ye, gentlemen, is in substance and its great items, true. [/INST] I know it to be true ; it happened on this ball ; I trod the ship ; I knew the crew ; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney." </s> |
<s>[INST] I know it to be true ; it happened on this ball ; I trod the ship ; I knew the crew ; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney." [/INST] CHAPTER LV OF THE MONSTROUS PICTURES OF WHALES I SHALL ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the wh... |
<s>[INST] CHAPTER LV OF THE MONSTROUS PICTURES OF WHALES I SHALL ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whale -ship so that he can be fairly stepp... |
<s>[INST] It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. [/INST] It is time to set the world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all wrong. </s> |
<s>[INST] It is time to set the world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all wrong. [/INST] It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindu, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. </s> |
<s>[INST] It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindu, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. [/INST] For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coin... |
<s>[INST] For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armour like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St. George's ; ever since then has something of the sa... |
<s>[INST] Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to be the whale's, is to be found in the famous cavern -pagoda of Elephanta, in India. [/INST] The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, 331 332 MOBY-DICK every conce... |
<s>[INST] The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, 331 332 MOBY-DICK every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being. [/INST] No wonder, then, that in some sort our noble profession of whaling... |
<s>[INST] No wonder, then, that in some sort our noble profession of whaling should have been there shadowed forth. [/INST] The Hindu whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar. </s> |
<s>[INST] The Hindu whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar. [/INST] But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is... |
<s>[INST] But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong. [/INST] It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda a than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes. </s> |
<s>[INST] It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda a than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes. [/INST] But go to the old galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's portrait of this fish ; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindu. </s> |
<s>[INST] But go to the old galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's portrait of this fish ; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindu. [/INST] It is Guide's picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea- monster or whale. </s> |
<s>[INST] It is Guide's picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea- monster or whale. [/INST] Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that ? </s> |
<s>[INST] Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that ? [/INST] Nor does Hogarth, in painting the same scene in his own ' Perseus Descending,' make out one whit better. </s> |
<s>[INST] Nor does Hogarth, in painting the same scene in his own ' Perseus Descending,' make out one whit better. [/INST] The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water. </s> |
<s>[INST] The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water. [/INST] It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower. </... |
<s>[INST] It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower. [/INST] Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as depicted in the prints of old... |
<s>[INST] Then, there are the Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald, and Jonah's whale, as depicted in the prints of old Bibles and the cuts of old primers. [/INST] What shall be said of these ? </s> |
<s>[INST] What shall be said of these ? [/INST] As for the bookbinder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both old and new that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like fig... |
<s>[INST] As for the bookbinder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both old and new that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases. [/INST] Though ... |
<s>[INST] Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless call this bookbinder's fish an MONSTROUS PICTURES OF WHALES 333 attempt at a whale ; because it was so intended when the device was first introduced. [/INST] It was introduced by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revi... |
<s>[INST] It was introduced by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of Learning ; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a species of the leviathan. [/INST] In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient... |
<s>[INST] In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient books you will at times meet with very curious touches at the whale, where all manner of spouts, jets d'eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and Baden-Baden, come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. [/INST] In the title-page of the original edition ... |
<s>[INST] In the title-page of the original edition of the Advancement of Learning you will find some curious whales. [/INST] But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know. </s> |
<s>[INST] But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know. [/INST] In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671, entitled A Whaling V... |
<s>[INST] In old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D. 1671, entitled A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship Jonas in the Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master. [/INST] In one of those plates the whales, like great rafts of logs, are repres... |
<s>[INST] In one of those plates the whales, like great rafts of logs, are represented lying among ice-isles, with white bears running over their living backs. [/INST] In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes. </s> |
<s>[INST] In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes. [/INST] Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain Colnett, a post-captain in the English navy, entitled A Voyage round Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the purpose of extending the Spe... |
<s>[INST] Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one Captain Colnett, a post-captain in the English navy, entitled A Voyage round Cape Horn into the South Seas, for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries. [/INST] In this book is an outline purporting to be a ' Picture of a Physeter or Sper... |
<s>[INST] In this book is an outline purporting to be a ' Picture of a Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one killed on the coast of Mexico, August 1793, and hoisted on deck.' [/INST] I doubt not the captain had this veracious picture taken for the benefit of his marines. </s> |
<s>[INST] I doubt not the captain had this veracious picture taken for the benefit of his marines. [/INST] To mention but one thing about it, let me say that it has an eye which 334 MOBY-DICK applied, according to the accompanying scale, to a full- grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a bow- window some ... |
<s>[INST] To mention but one thing about it, let me say that it has an eye which 334 MOBY-DICK applied, according to the accompanying scale, to a full- grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a bow- window some five feet long. [/INST] Ah, my gallant cap- tain, why did ye not give us Jonah looking out of tha... |
<s>[INST] Ah, my gallant cap- tain, why did ye not give us Jonah looking out of that eye ! [/INST] Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of mistake. </s> |
<s>[INST] Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of mistake. [/INST] Look at that popular work Goldsmith's Animated Nature. </s> |
<s>[INST] Look at that popular work Goldsmith's Animated Nature. [/INST] In the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged 'whale' and a 'narwhale.' </s> |
<s>[INST] In the abridged London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged 'whale' and a 'narwhale.' [/INST] I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow ; and, as for the nar whale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hipp... |
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