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1Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a
2gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that
3languid breeze, as three mild palms on a plain. And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely, alluring
4jet would be seen. But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural spread over the sea, however
5unattended with any stagnant calm; when the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid across
6them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush
7of the visible sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head. In the distance, a great white mass
8lazily rose, and rising higher and higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before our prow like
9a snow-slide, new slid from the hills. Thus glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank. Then once more
10arose, and silently gleamed. It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went
11down, but on re-appearing once more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled
12out--"There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead! The White Whale, the White Whale!" Upon this, the seamen
13rushed to the yard-arms, as in swarming-time the bees rush to the boughs. Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on
14the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance
15in the direction indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo. Whether the flitting attendance of the
16one still and solitary jet had gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the ideas of mildness
17and repose with the first sight of the particular whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed
18him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity
19he instantly gave orders for lowering. The four boats were soon on the water; Ahab's in advance, and all swiftly pulling
20towards their prey. Soon it went down, and while, with oars suspended, we were awaiting its reappearance, lo! in the
21same spot where it sank, once more it slowly rose. Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now
22gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. A vast pulpy mass,
23furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating
24from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within
25reach. No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct; but undulated
26there on the billows, an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life. As with a low sucking sound it slowly
27disappeared again, Starbuck still gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice exclaimed--"Almost
28rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!" "What was it, Sir?" said Flask.
29"The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it." But
30Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel; the rest as silently following. Whatever
31superstitions the sperm whalemen in general have connected with the sight of this object, certain it is, that a glimpse
32of it being so very unusual, that circumstance has gone far to invest it with portentousness. So rarely is it beheld,
33that though one and all of them declare it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very few of them have any
34but the most vague ideas concerning its true nature and form; notwithstanding, they believe it to furnish to the sperm
35whale his only food. For though other species of whales find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act
36of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it
37that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are
38supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length.
39They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the
40sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it. There seems some ground to
41imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in which the
42Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two
43correspond. But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it. By some naturalists who
44have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish, to
45which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.
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