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1At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale's flank, he seemed strangely
2oblivious of its advance--as the whale sometimes will--and Ahab was fairly within the smoky mountain mist, which, thrown
3off from the whale's spout, curled round his great, Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when, with body
4arched back, and both arms lengthwise high-lifted to the poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse
5into the hated whale. As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked into a morass, Moby Dick sideways
6writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so suddenly canted the
7boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have
8been tossed into the sea. As it was, three of the oarsmen--who foreknew not the precise instant of the dart, and were
9therefore unprepared for its effects--these were flung out; but so fell, that, in an instant two of them clutched the
10gunwale again, and rising to its level on a combing wave, hurled themselves bodily inboard again; the third man
11helplessly dropping astern, but still afloat and swimming. Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated,
12instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to
13take new turns with the line, and hold it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their seats, and tow the boat up
14to the mark; the moment the treacherous line felt that double strain and tug, it snapped in the empty air! "What breaks
15in me? Some sinew cracks!--'tis whole again; oars! oars! Burst in upon him!" Hearing the tremendous rush of the
16sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled round to present his blank forehead at bay; but in that evolution, catching sight
17of the nearing black hull of the ship; seemingly seeing in it the source of all his persecutions; bethinking it--it may
18be--a larger and nobler foe; of a sudden, he bore down upon its advancing prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers of
19foam. Ahab staggered; his hand smote his forehead. "I grow blind; hands! stretch out before me that I may yet grope my
20way. Is't night?" "The whale! The ship!" cried the cringing oarsmen. "Oars! oars! Slope downwards to thy depths, O sea,
21that ere it be for ever too late, Ahab may slide this last, last time upon his mark! I see: the ship! the ship! Dash on,
22my men! Will ye not save my ship?" But as the oarsmen violently forced their boat through the sledge-hammering seas, the
23before whale-smitten bow-ends of two planks burst through, and in an instant almost, the temporarily disabled boat lay
24nearly level with the waves; its half-wading, splashing crew, trying hard to stop the gap and bale out the pouring
25water. Meantime, for that one beholding instant, Tashtego's mast-head hammer remained suspended in his hand; and the red
26flag, half-wrapping him as with a plaid, then streamed itself straight out from him, as his own forward-flowing heart;
27while Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster just as soon as
28he. "The whale, the whale! Up helm, up helm! Oh, all ye sweet powers of air, now hug me close! Let not Starbuck die, if
29die he must, in a woman's fainting fit. Up helm, I say--ye fools, the jaw! the jaw! Is this the end of all my bursting
30prayers? all my life-long fidelities? Oh, Ahab, Ahab, lo, thy work. Steady! helmsman, steady. Nay, nay! Up helm again!
31He turns to meet us! Oh, his unappeasable brow drives on towards one, whose duty tells him he cannot depart. My God,
32stand by me now!" "Stand not by me, but stand under me, whoever you are that will now help Stubb; for Stubb, too, sticks
33here. I grin at thee, thou grinning whale! Who ever helped Stubb, or kept Stubb awake, but Stubb's own unwinking eye?
34And now poor Stubb goes to bed upon a mattrass that is all too soft; would it were stuffed with brushwood! I grin at
35thee, thou grinning whale! Look ye, sun, moon, and stars! I call ye assassins of as good a fellow as ever spouted up his
36ghost. For all that, I would yet ring glasses with ye, would ye but hand the cup! Oh, oh! oh, oh! thou grinning whale,
37but there'll be plenty of gulping soon! Why fly ye not, O Ahab! For me, off shoes and jacket to it; let Stubb die in his
38drawers! A most mouldy and over salted death, though;--cherries! cherries! cherries! Oh, Flask, for one red cherry ere
39we die!" "Cherries? I only wish that we were where they grow. Oh, Stubb, I hope my poor mother's drawn my part-pay ere
40this; if not, few coppers will now come to her, for the voyage is up." From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now
41hung inactive; hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had
42darted from their various employments; all their enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely
43vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed.
44Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the
45solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled. Some fell flat upon
46their faces. Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks. Through the
47breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume. "The ship! The hearse!--the second hearse!" cried
48Ahab from the boat; "its wood could only be American!" Diving beneath the settling ship, the whale ran quivering along
49its keel; but turning under water, swiftly shot to the surface again, far off the other bow, but within a few yards of
50Ahab's boat, where, for a time, he lay quiescent. "I turn my body from the sun. What ho, Tashtego! let me hear thy
51hammer. Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and
52haughty helm, and Pole-pointed prow,--death-glorious ship! must ye then perish, and without me? Am I cut off from the
53last fond pride of meanest shipwrecked captains? Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness
54lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone
55life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the
56last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all
57coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still
58chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!" The harpoon was darted; the stricken
59whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the grooves;--ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did
60clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was
61shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out
62of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths. For an instant, the
63tranced boat's crew stood still; then turned. "The ship? Great God, where is the ship?" Soon they through dim,
64bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana; only the uppermost masts out of
65water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers still
66maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea. And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew,
67and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex,
68carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.
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