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1Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind
2to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the
3door to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of
4Peleg. But to my astonishment, he sat down again on the transom very quietly, and seemed to have not the slightest
5intention of withdrawing. He seemed quite used to impenitent Peleg and his ways. As for Peleg, after letting off his
6rage as he had, there seemed no more left in him, and he, too, sat down like a lamb, though he twitched a little as if
7still nervously agitated. "Whew!" he whistled at last--"the squall's gone off to leeward, I think. Bildad, thou used to
8be good at sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye. My jack-knife here needs the grindstone. That's he; thank ye,
9Bildad. Now then, my young man, Ishmael's thy name, didn't ye say? Well then, down ye go here, Ishmael, for the three
10hundredth lay." "Captain Peleg," said I, "I have a friend with me who wants to ship too--shall I bring him down
11to-morrow?" "To be sure," said Peleg. "Fetch him along, and we'll look at him." "What lay does he want?" groaned Bildad,
12glancing up from the book in which he had again been burying himself. "Oh! never thee mind about that, Bildad," said
13Peleg. "Has he ever whaled it any?" turning to me. "Killed more whales than I can count, Captain Peleg." "Well, bring
14him along then." And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I had done a good morning's work,
15and that the Pequod was the identical ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape. But I had not
16proceeded far, when I began to bethink me that the Captain with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen by me; though,
17indeed, in many cases, a whale-ship will be completely fitted out, and receive all her crew on board, ere the captain
18makes himself visible by arriving to take command; for sometimes these voyages are so prolonged, and the shore intervals
19at home so exceedingly brief, that if the captain have a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort, he does not
20trouble himself much about his ship in port, but leaves her to the owners till all is ready for sea. However, it is
21always as well to have a look at him before irrevocably committing yourself into his hands. Turning back I accosted
22Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain Ahab was to be found. "And what dost thou want of Captain Ahab? It's all right
23enough; thou art shipped." "Yes, but I should like to see him." "But I don't think thou wilt be able to at present. I
24don't know exactly what's the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the house; a sort of sick, and yet he don't
25look so. In fact, he ain't sick; but no, he isn't well either. Any how, young man, he won't always see me, so I don't
26suppose he will thee. He's a queer man, Captain Ahab--so some think--but a good one. Oh, thou'lt like him well enough;
27no fear, no fear. He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn't speak much; but, when he does speak, then
28you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as 'mong the
29cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales. His
30lance! aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our isle! Oh! he ain't Captain Bildad; no, and he ain't Captain
31Peleg; he's Ahab, boy; and Ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!" "And a very vile one. When that wicked king
32was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?" "Come hither to me--hither, hither," said Peleg, with a significance
33in his eye that almost startled me. "Look ye, lad; never say that on board the Pequod. Never say it anywhere. Captain
34Ahab did not name himself. 'Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died when he was only a
35twelvemonth old. And yet the old squaw Tistig, at Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic. And,
36perhaps, other fools like her may tell thee the same. I wish to warn thee. It's a lie. I know Captain Ahab well; I've
37sailed with him as mate years ago; I know what he is--a good man--not a pious, good man, like Bildad, but a swearing
38good man--something like me--only there's a good deal more of him. Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly; and I
39know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his
40bleeding stump that brought that about, as any one might see. I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage
41by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody--desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.
42And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a
43laughing bad one. So good-bye to thee--and wrong not Captain Ahab, because he happens to have a wicked name. Besides, my
44boy, he has a wife--not three voyages wedded--a sweet, resigned girl. Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man has
45a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab
46has his humanities!" As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had been incidentally revealed to me of
47Captain Ahab, filled me with a certain wild vagueness of painfulness concerning him. And somehow, at the time, I felt a
48sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I don't know what, unless it was the cruel loss of his leg. And yet I also felt a
49strange awe of him; but that sort of awe, which I cannot at all describe, was not exactly awe; I do not know what it
50was. But I felt it; and it did not disincline me towards him; though I felt impatience at what seemed like mystery in
51him, so imperfectly as he was known to me then. However, my thoughts were at length carried in other directions, so that
52for the present dark Ahab slipped my mind.
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