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1Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the
2dark waters beneath the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they dipped in the water; and in
3this way accompanied the boat with their bites. It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those
4swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the
5banners of marching regiments in the east. But these were the first sharks that had been observed by the Pequod since
6the White Whale had been first descried; and whether it was that Ahab's crew were all such tiger-yellow barbarians, and
7therefore their flesh more musky to the senses of the sharks--a matter sometimes well known to affect them,--however it
8was, they seemed to follow that one boat without molesting the others. "Heart of wrought steel!" murmured Starbuck
9gazing over the side, and following with his eyes the receding boat--"canst thou yet ring boldly to that
10sight?--lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical
11third day?--For when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure the first is the morning, the
12second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing--be that end what it may. Oh! my God! what is this
13that shoots through me, and leaves me so deadly calm, yet expectant,--fixed at the top of a shudder! Future things swim
14before me, as in empty outlines and skeletons; all the past is somehow grown dim. Mary, girl! thou fadest in pale
15glories behind me; boy! I seem to see but thy eyes grown wondrous blue. Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but
16clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming? My legs feel faint; like his who has footed it all day. Feel thy
17heart,--beats it yet? Stir thyself, Starbuck!--stave it off--move, move! speak aloud!--Mast-head there! See ye my boy's
18hand on the hill?--Crazed;--aloft there!--keep thy keenest eye upon the boats:--mark well the whale!--Ho! again!--drive
19off that hawk! see! he pecks--he tears the vane"--pointing to the red flag flying at the main-truck--"Ha! he soars away
20with it!--Where's the old man now? see'st thou that sight, oh Ahab!--shudder, shudder!" The boats had not gone very far,
21when by a signal from the mast-heads--a downward pointed arm, Ahab knew that the whale had sounded; but intending to be
22near him at the next rising, he held on his way a little sideways from the vessel; the becharmed crew maintaining the
23profoundest silence, as the head-beat waves hammered and hammered against the opposing bow. "Drive, drive in your nails,
24oh ye waves! to their uttermost heads drive them in! ye but strike a thing without a lid; and no coffin and no hearse
25can be mine:--and hemp only can kill me! Ha! ha!" Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then
26quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of ice, swiftly rising to the surface. A low rumbling
27sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons,
28and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea. Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist, it
29hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping back into the deep. Crushed thirty feet upwards, the
30waters flashed for an instant like heaps of fountains, then brokenly sank in a shower of flakes, leaving the circling
31surface creamed like new milk round the marble trunk of the whale. "Give way!" cried Ahab to the oarsmen, and the boats
32darted forward to the attack; but maddened by yesterday's fresh irons that corroded in him, Moby Dick seemed combinedly
33possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven. The wide tiers of welded tendons overspreading his broad white
34forehead, beneath the transparent skin, looked knitted together; as head on, he came churning his tail among the boats;
35and once more flailed them apart; spilling out the irons and lances from the two mates' boats, and dashing in one side
36of the upper part of their bows, but leaving Ahab's almost without a scar. While Daggoo and Queequeg were stopping the
37strained planks; and as the whale swimming out from them, turned, and showed one entire flank as he shot by them again;
38at that moment a quick cry went up. Lashed round and round to the fish's back; pinioned in the turns upon turns in
39which, during the past night, the whale had reeled the involutions of the lines around him, the half torn body of the
40Parsee was seen; his sable raiment frayed to shreds; his distended eyes turned full upon old Ahab. The harpoon dropped
41from his hand. "Befooled, befooled!"--drawing in a long lean breath--"Aye, Parsee! I see thee again.--Aye, and thou
42goest before; and this, this then is the hearse that thou didst promise. But I hold thee to the last letter of thy word.
43Where is the second hearse? Away, mates, to the ship! those boats are useless now; repair them if ye can in time, and
44return to me; if not, Ahab is enough to die--Down, men! the first thing that but offers to jump from this boat I stand
45in, that thing I harpoon. Ye are not other men, but my arms and my legs; and so obey me.--Where's the whale? gone down
46again?" But he looked too nigh the boat; for as if bent upon escaping with the corpse he bore, and as if the particular
47place of the last encounter had been but a stage in his leeward voyage, Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming
48forward; and had almost passed the ship,--which thus far had been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for
49the present her headway had been stopped. He seemed swimming with his utmost velocity, and now only intent upon pursuing
50his own straight path in the sea. "Oh! Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist.
51See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!" Setting sail to the rising wind, the lonely
52boat was swiftly impelled to leeward, by both oars and canvas. And at last when Ahab was sliding by the vessel, so near
53as plainly to distinguish Starbuck's face as he leaned over the rail, he hailed him to turn the vessel about, and follow
54him, not too swiftly, at a judicious interval. Glancing upwards, he saw Tashtego, Queequeg, and Daggoo, eagerly mounting
55to the three mast-heads; while the oarsmen were rocking in the two staved boats which had but just been hoisted to the
56side, and were busily at work in repairing them. One after the other, through the port-holes, as he sped, he also caught
57flying glimpses of Stubb and Flask, busying themselves on deck among bundles of new irons and lances. As he saw all
58this; as he heard the hammers in the broken boats; far other hammers seemed driving a nail into his heart. But he
59rallied. And now marking that the vane or flag was gone from the main-mast-head, he shouted to Tashtego, who had just
60gained that perch, to descend again for another flag, and a hammer and nails, and so nail it to the mast. Whether fagged
61by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was
62some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed,
63from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as
64before. And still as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the
65boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in
66the sea, at almost every dip. "Heed them not! those teeth but give new rowlocks to your oars. Pull on! 'tis the better
67rest, the shark's jaw than the yielding water." "But at every bite, sir, the thin blades grow smaller and smaller!"
68"They will last long enough! pull on!--But who can tell"--he muttered--"whether these sharks swim to feast on the whale
69or on Ahab?--But pull on! Aye, all alive, now--we near him. The helm! take the helm! let me pass,"--and so saying two of
70the oarsmen helped him forward to the bows of the still flying boat.
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