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1Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. The crotch
2alluded to on a previous page deserves independent mention. It is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in
3length, which is perpendicularly inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow, for the purpose of furnishing a rest
4for the wooden extremity of the harpoon, whose other naked, barbed end slopingly projects from the prow. Thereby the
5weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his
6rifle from the wall. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and
7second irons. But these two harpoons, each by its own cord, are both connected with the line; the object being this: to
8dart them both, if possible, one instantly after the other into the same whale; so that if, in the coming drag, one
9should draw out, the other may still retain a hold. It is a doubling of the chances. But it very often happens that
10owing to the instantaneous, violent, convulsive running of the whale upon receiving the first iron, it becomes
11impossible for the harpooneer, however lightning-like in his movements, to pitch the second iron into him. Nevertheless,
12as the second iron is already connected with the line, and the line is running, hence that weapon must, at all events,
13be anticipatingly tossed out of the boat, somehow and somewhere; else the most terrible jeopardy would involve all
14hands. Tumbled into the water, it accordingly is in such cases; the spare coils of box line (mentioned in a preceding
15chapter) making this feat, in most instances, prudently practicable. But this critical act is not always unattended with
16the saddest and most fatal casualties. Furthermore: you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it
17thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the
18lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions. Nor, in general, is it possible to secure
19it again until the whale is fairly captured and a corpse. Consider, now, how it must be in the case of four boats all
20engaging one unusually strong, active, and knowing whale; when owing to these qualities in him, as well as to the
21thousand concurring accidents of such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be simultaneously
22dangling about him. For, of course, each boat is supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first
23one be ineffectually darted without recovery. All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail
24to elucidate several most important, however intricate passages, in scenes hereafter to be painted.
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