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1Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling
2track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed
3vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was
4only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned
5Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps
6with light and heat. Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship
7loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly
8settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same yellow rays were blending
9with his undeviating wake. "Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot of the sun. Ho, ho! all
10ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye! Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!" But
11suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
12"East-sou-east, sir," said the frightened steersman. "Thou liest!" smiting him with his clenched fist. "Heading East at
13this hour in the morning, and the sun astern?" Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then
14observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very blinding palpableness must have been the cause.
15Thrusting his head half way into the binnacle, Ahab caught one glimpse of the compasses; his uplifted arm slowly fell;
16for a moment he almost seemed to stagger. Standing behind him Starbuck looked, and lo! the two compasses pointed East,
17and the Pequod was as infallibly going West. But ere the first wild alarm could get out abroad among the crew, the old
18man with a rigid laugh exclaimed, "I have it! It has happened before. Mr. Starbuck, last night's thunder turned our
19compasses--that's all. Thou hast before now heard of such a thing, I take it." "Aye; but never before has it happened to
20me, sir," said the pale mate, gloomily. Here, it must needs be said, that accidents like this have in more than one case
21occurred to ships in violent storms. The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know,
22essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should
23be. Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the
24effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the
25before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle. But in either case, the needle never again,
26of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate
27reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson. Deliberately
28standing before the binnacle, and eyeing the transpointed compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand,
29now took the precise bearing of the sun, and satisfied that the needles were exactly inverted, shouted out his orders
30for the ship's course to be changed accordingly. The yards were hard up; and once more the Pequod thrust her undaunted
31bows into the opposing wind, for the supposed fair one had only been juggling her. Meanwhile, whatever were his own
32secret thoughts, Starbuck said nothing, but quietly he issued all requisite orders; while Stubb and Flask--who in some
33small degree seemed then to be sharing his feelings--likewise unmurmuringly acquiesced. As for the men, though some of
34them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate. But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers
35remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial
36hearts from inflexible Ahab's. For a space the old man walked the deck in rolling reveries. But chancing to slip with
37his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper sight-tubes of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to the deck. "Thou
38poor, proud heaven-gazer and sun's pilot! yesterday I wrecked thee, and to-day the compasses would fain have wrecked me.
39So, so. But Ahab is lord over the level loadstone yet. Mr. Starbuck--a lance without a pole; a top-maul, and the
40smallest of the sail-maker's needles. Quick!" Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about to
41do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his
42subtile skill, in a matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses. Besides, the old man well knew that to steer
43by transpointed needles, though clumsily practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious sailors,
44without some shudderings and evil portents. "Men," said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed him the
45things he had demanded, "my men, the thunder turned old Ahab's needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one
46of his own, that will point as true as any." Abashed glances of servile wonder were exchanged by the sailors, as this
47was said; and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic might follow. But Starbuck looked away. With a blow from
48the top-maul Ahab knocked off the steel head of the lance, and then handing to the mate the long iron rod remaining,
49bade him hold it upright, without its touching the deck. Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of
50this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times,
51the mate still holding the rod as before. Then going through some small strange motions with it--whether indispensable
52to the magnetizing of the steel, or merely intended to augment the awe of the crew, is uncertain--he called for linen
53thread; and moving to the binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there, and horizontally suspended the
54sail-needle by its middle, over one of the compass-cards. At first, the steel went round and round, quivering and
55vibrating at either end; but at last it settled to its place, when Ahab, who had been intently watching for this result,
56stepped frankly back from the binnacle, and pointing his stretched arm towards it, exclaimed,--"Look ye, for yourselves,
57if Ahab be not lord of the level loadstone! The sun is East, and that compass swears it!" One after another they peered
58in, for nothing but their own eyes could persuade such ignorance as theirs, and one after another they slunk away. In
59his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.
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