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1(Enter Ahab: Then, all.) It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after
2breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin-gangway to the deck. There most sea-captains usually walk at that
3hour, as country gentlemen, after the same meal, take a few turns in the garden. Soon his steady, ivory stride was
4heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented, like
5geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow;
6there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints--the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought. But on
7the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark. And, so
8full of his thought was Ahab, that at every uniform turn that he made, now at the main-mast and now at the binnacle, you
9could almost see that thought turn in him as he turned, and pace in him as he paced; so completely possessing him,
10indeed, that it all but seemed the inward mould of every outer movement. "D'ye mark him, Flask?" whispered Stubb; "the
11chick that's in him pecks the shell. 'Twill soon be out." The hours wore on;--Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon,
12pacing the deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect. It drew near the close of day. Suddenly he came
13to a halt by the bulwarks, and inserting his bone leg into the auger-hole there, and with one hand grasping a shroud, he
14ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft. "Sir!" said the mate, astonished at an order seldom or never given on ship-board
15except in some extraordinary case. "Send everybody aft," repeated Ahab. "Mast-heads, there! come down!" When the entire
16ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not
17unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting
18his eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns
19upon the deck. With bent head and half-slouched hat he continued to pace, unmindful of the wondering whispering among
20the men; till Stubb cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have summoned them there for the purpose of witnessing
21a pedestrian feat. But this did not last long. Vehemently pausing, he cried:-- "What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?"
22"Sing out for him!" was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices. "Good!" cried Ahab, with a wild approval
23in his tones; observing the hearty animation into which his unexpected question had so magnetically thrown them. "And
24what do ye next, men?" "Lower away, and after him!" "And what tune is it ye pull to, men?" "A dead whale or a stove
25boat!" More and more strangely and fiercely glad and approving, grew the countenance of the old man at every shout;
26while the mariners began to gaze curiously at each other, as if marvelling how it was that they themselves became so
27excited at such seemingly purposeless questions. But, they were all eagerness again, as Ahab, now half-revolving in his
28pivot-hole, with one hand reaching high up a shroud, and tightly, almost convulsively grasping it, addressed them
29thus:-- "All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a white whale. Look ye! d'ye see this Spanish
30ounce of gold?"--holding up a broad bright coin to the sun--"it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D'ye see it? Mr.
31Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul." While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was slowly rubbing the
32gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile
33lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming
34of the wheels of his vitality in him. Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the main-mast with the
35hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the other, and with a high raised voice exclaiming: "Whosoever of
36ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed
37whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke--look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he
38shall have this gold ounce, my boys!" "Huzza! huzza!" cried the seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins they hailed the act
39of nailing the gold to the mast. "It's a white whale, I say," resumed Ahab, as he threw down the topmaul: "a white
40whale. Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out." All this while
41Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on with even more intense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the
42mention of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if each was separately touched by some specific
43recollection. "Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same that some call Moby Dick." "Moby Dick?"
44shouted Ahab. "Do ye know the white whale then, Tash?" "Does he fan-tail a little curious, sir, before he goes down?"
45said the Gay-Header deliberately. "And has he a curious spout, too," said Daggoo, "very bushy, even for a parmacetty,
46and mighty quick, Captain Ahab?" "And he have one, two, three--oh! good many iron in him hide, too, Captain," cried
47Queequeg disjointedly, "all twiske-tee be-twisk, like him--him--" faltering hard for a word, and screwing his hand round
48and round as though uncorking a bottle--"like him--him--" "Corkscrew!" cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all
49twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of
50our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.
51Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen--Moby Dick--Moby Dick!" "Captain Ahab," said Starbuck, who, with
52Stubb and Flask, had thus far been eyeing his superior with increasing surprise, but at last seemed struck with a
53thought which somewhat explained all the wonder. "Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick--but it was not Moby Dick that
54took off thy leg?" "Who told thee that?" cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was
55Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye," he shouted with a
56terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed
57me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!" Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he
58shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and
59round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on
60both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. What say ye, men, will ye
61splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave." "Aye, aye!" shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to
62the excited old man: "A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for Moby Dick!" "God bless ye," he seemed to half
63sob and half shout. "God bless ye, men. Steward! go draw the great measure of grog. But what's this long face about, Mr.
64Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?" "I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the
65jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I came here to hunt
66whales, not my commander's vengeance. How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain
67Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market." "Nantucket market! Hoot! But come closer, Starbuck; thou
68requirest a little lower layer. If money's to be the measurer, man, and the accountants have computed their great
69counting-house the globe, by girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then, let me tell thee, that
70my vengeance will fetch a great premium here!" "He smites his chest," whispered Stubb, "what's that for? methinks it
71rings most vast, but hollow." "Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest
72instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."
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