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1Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon
2which the Right Whale largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be sailing
3through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat. On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure
4from the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly swam through the brit, which, adhering to
5the fringing fibres of that wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated from the water that
6escaped at the lip. As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet
7grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them
8endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea. *That part of the sea known among whalemen as the "Brazil Banks" does not
9bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, because of there being shallows and soundings there, but because of this
10remarkable meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually floating in those latitudes, where the
11Right Whale is often chased. But it was only the sound they made as they parted the brit which at all reminded one of
12mowers. Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms
13looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else. And as in the great hunting countries of India, the
14stranger at a distance will sometimes pass on the plains recumbent elephants without knowing them to be such, taking
15them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil; even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species
16of the leviathans of the sea. And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to
17believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that
18lives in a dog or a horse. Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any creatures of the deep with the same
19feelings that you do those of the shore. For though some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land
20are of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of the thing, this may very well be; yet coming to
21specialties, where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to the sagacious kindness
22of the dog? The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him. But though,
23to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial
24and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless
25unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal
26disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the
27waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and
28however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of
29doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by
30the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which
31aboriginally belongs to it. The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a
32whole world without leaving so much as a widow. That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships
33of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
34Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle upon one is not a miracle upon the other? Preternatural terrors
35rested upon the Hebrews, when under the feet of Korah and his company the live ground opened and swallowed them up for
36ever; yet not a modern sun ever sets, but in precisely the same manner the live sea swallows up ships and crews. But not
37only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the
38Persian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawned. Like a savage tigress
39that tossing in the jungle overlays her own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and
40leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and
41snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe. Consider the
42subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously
43hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most
44remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal
45cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
46Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land;
47and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land,
48so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the
49half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!
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