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1"In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry." Sir T.
2Browne, V.E. It was a week or two after the last whaling scene recounted, and when we were slowly sailing over a sleepy,
3vapory, mid-day sea, that the many noses on the Pequod's deck proved more vigilant discoverers than the three pairs of
4eyes aloft. A peculiar and not very pleasant smell was smelt in the sea. "I will bet something now," said Stubb, "that
5somewhere hereabouts are some of those drugged whales we tickled the other day. I thought they would keel up before
6long." Presently, the vapors in advance slid aside; and there in the distance lay a ship, whose furled sails betokened
7that some sort of whale must be alongside. As we glided nearer, the stranger showed French colours from his peak; and by
8the eddying cloud of vulture sea-fowl that circled, and hovered, and swooped around him, it was plain that the whale
9alongside must be what the fishermen call a blasted whale, that is, a whale that has died unmolested on the sea, and so
10floated an unappropriated corpse. It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an
11Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed. So intolerable indeed is it regarded
12by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it. Yet are there those who will still do it;
13notwithstanding the fact that the oil obtained from such subjects is of a very inferior quality, and by no means of the
14nature of attar-of-rose. Coming still nearer with the expiring breeze, we saw that the Frenchman had a second whale
15alongside; and this second whale seemed even more of a nosegay than the first. In truth, it turned out to be one of
16those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving
17their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil. Nevertheless, in the proper place we shall see that
18no knowing fisherman will ever turn up his nose at such a whale as this, however much he may shun blasted whales in
19general. The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed he recognised his cutting spade-pole
20entangled in the lines that were knotted round the tail of one of these whales. "There's a pretty fellow, now," he
21banteringly laughed, standing in the ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen
22are but poor devils in the fishery; sometimes lowering their boats for breakers, mistaking them for Sperm Whale spouts;
23yes, and sometimes sailing from their port with their hold full of boxes of tallow candles, and cases of snuffers,
24foreseeing that all the oil they will get won't be enough to dip the Captain's wick into; aye, we all know these things;
25but look ye, here's a Crappo that is content with our leavings, the drugged whale there, I mean; aye, and is content too
26with scraping the dry bones of that other precious fish he has there. Poor devil! I say, pass round a hat, some one, and
27let's make him a present of a little oil for dear charity's sake. For what oil he'll get from that drugged whale there,
28wouldn't be fit to burn in a jail; no, not in a condemned cell. And as for the other whale, why, I'll agree to get more
29oil by chopping up and trying out these three masts of ours, than he'll get from that bundle of bones; though, now that
30I think of it, it may contain something worth a good deal more than oil; yes, ambergris. I wonder now if our old man has
31thought of that. It's worth trying. Yes, I'm for it;" and so saying he started for the quarter-deck. By this time the
32faint air had become a complete calm; so that whether or no, the Pequod was now fairly entrapped in the smell, with no
33hope of escaping except by its breezing up again. Issuing from the cabin, Stubb now called his boat's crew, and pulled
34off for the stranger. Drawing across her bow, he perceived that in accordance with the fanciful French taste, the upper
35part of her stem-piece was carved in the likeness of a huge drooping stalk, was painted green, and for thorns had copper
36spikes projecting from it here and there; the whole terminating in a symmetrical folded bulb of a bright red colour.
37Upon her head boards, in large gilt letters, he read "Bouton de Rose,"--Rose-button, or Rose-bud; and this was the
38romantic name of this aromatic ship. Though Stubb did not understand the Bouton part of the inscription, yet the word
39rose, and the bulbous figure-head put together, sufficiently explained the whole to him. "A wooden rose-bud, eh?" he
40cried with his hand to his nose, "that will do very well; but how like all creation it smells!" Now in order to hold
41direct communication with the people on deck, he had to pull round the bows to the starboard side, and thus come close
42to the blasted whale; and so talk over it. Arrived then at this spot, with one hand still to his nose, he
43bawled--"Bouton-de-Rose, ahoy! are there any of you Bouton-de-Roses that speak English?" "Yes," rejoined a Guernsey-man
44from the bulwarks, who turned out to be the chief-mate. "Well, then, my Bouton-de-Rose-bud, have you seen the White
45Whale?" "What whale?" "The White Whale--a Sperm Whale--Moby Dick, have ye seen him? "Never heard of such a whale.
46Cachalot Blanche! White Whale--no." "Very good, then; good bye now, and I'll call again in a minute." Then rapidly
47pulling back towards the Pequod, and seeing Ahab leaning over the quarter-deck rail awaiting his report, he moulded his
48two hands into a trumpet and shouted--"No, Sir! No!" Upon which Ahab retired, and Stubb returned to the Frenchman. He
49now perceived that the Guernsey-man, who had just got into the chains, and was using a cutting-spade, had slung his nose
50in a sort of bag. "What's the matter with your nose, there?" said Stubb. "Broke it?" "I wish it was broken, or that I
51didn't have any nose at all!" answered the Guernsey-man, who did not seem to relish the job he was at very much. "But
52what are you holding yours for?" "Oh, nothing! It's a wax nose; I have to hold it on. Fine day, ain't it? Air rather
53gardenny, I should say; throw us a bunch of posies, will ye, Bouton-de-Rose?" "What in the devil's name do you want
54here?" roared the Guernseyman, flying into a sudden passion. "Oh! keep cool--cool? yes, that's the word! why don't you
55pack those whales in ice while you're working at 'em? But joking aside, though; do you know, Rose-bud, that it's all
56nonsense trying to get any oil out of such whales? As for that dried up one, there, he hasn't a gill in his whole
57carcase." "I know that well enough; but, d'ye see, the Captain here won't believe it; this is his first voyage; he was a
58Cologne manufacturer before. But come aboard, and mayhap he'll believe you, if he won't me; and so I'll get out of this
59dirty scrape." "Anything to oblige ye, my sweet and pleasant fellow," rejoined Stubb, and with that he soon mounted to
60the deck. There a queer scene presented itself. The sailors, in tasselled caps of red worsted, were getting the heavy
61tackles in readiness for the whales. But they worked rather slow and talked very fast, and seemed in anything but a good
62humor. All their noses upwardly projected from their faces like so many jib-booms. Now and then pairs of them would drop
63their work, and run up to the mast-head to get some fresh air. Some thinking they would catch the plague, dipped oakum
64in coal-tar, and at intervals held it to their nostrils. Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off
65at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories. Stubb was struck by
66a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain's round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a
67fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within. This was the tormented surgeon, who, after in
68vain remonstrating against the proceedings of the day, had betaken himself to the Captain's round-house (cabinet he
69called it) to avoid the pest; but still, could not help yelling out his entreaties and indignations at times.
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