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1When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it
2is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in. For that business
3is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it. Therefore, the
4common usage is to take in all sail; lash the helm a'lee; and then send every one below to his hammock till daylight,
5with the reservation that, until that time, anchor-watches shall be kept; that is, two and two for an hour, each couple,
6the crew in rotation shall mount the deck to see that all goes well. But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the
7Pacific, this plan will not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather round the moored carcase,
8that were he left so for six hours, say, on a stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning. In
9most other parts of the ocean, however, where these fish do not so largely abound, their wondrous voracity can be at
10times considerably diminished, by vigorously stirring them up with sharp whaling-spades, a procedure notwithstanding,
11which, in some instances, only seems to tickle them into still greater activity. But it was not thus in the present case
12with the Pequod's sharks; though, to be sure, any man unaccustomed to such sights, to have looked over her side that
13night, would have almost thought the whole round sea was one huge cheese, and those sharks the maggots in it.
14Nevertheless, upon Stubb setting the anchor-watch after his supper was concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a
15forecastle seaman came on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for immediately suspending the cutting
16stages over the side, and lowering three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid sea, these two
17mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks, by striking the keen steel
18deep into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part. But in the foamy confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts,
19the marksmen could not always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the incredible ferocity of the
20foe. They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their
21own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping
22wound. Nor was this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures. A sort of generic or
23Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual life had
24departed. Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin, one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off,
25when he tried to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw. *The whaling-spade used for cutting-in is made of the very
26best steel; is about the bigness of a man's spread hand; and in general shape, corresponds to the garden implement after
27which it is named; only its sides are perfectly flat, and its upper end considerably narrower than the lower. This
28weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor. In its socket,
29a stiff pole, from twenty to thirty feet long, is inserted for a handle. "Queequeg no care what god made him shark,"
30said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; "wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark
31must be one dam Ingin."
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