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1What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that
2indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks
3anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain't
4a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me
5about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much
6the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round,
7and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content. Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because
8they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On
9the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being
10paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But
11being paid,--what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous,
12considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied
13man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because
14of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck. For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent
15than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the
16quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but
17not so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the
18leaders little suspect it. But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I
19should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the
20constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way--he can better answer
21than any one else. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence
22that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.
23I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: "Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of
24the United States. "WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. "BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN." Though I cannot tell why it was
25exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set
26down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in
27farces--though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a
28little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set
29about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own
30unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment. Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale
31himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he
32rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a
33thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish. With other men, perhaps, such things would not have
34been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden
35seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be
36social with it--would they let me--since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one
37lodges in. By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world
38swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul,
39endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
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