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1The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel Enderby of London, had not been unattended with
2some small violence to his own person. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had
3received a half-splintering shock. And when after gaining his own deck, and his own pivot-hole there, he so vehemently
4wheeled round with an urgent command to the steersman (it was, as ever, something about his not steering inflexibly
5enough); then, the already shaken ivory received such an additional twist and wrench, that though it still remained
6entire, and to all appearances lusty, yet Ahab did not deem it entirely trustworthy. And, indeed, it seemed small matter
7for wonder, that for all his pervading, mad recklessness, Ahab did at times give careful heed to the condition of that
8dead bone upon which he partly stood. For it had not been very long prior to the Pequod's sailing from Nantucket, that
9he had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible; by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable,
10unimaginable casualty, his ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise smitten, and all but
11pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured. Nor, at the time,
12had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue
13of a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind
14as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally
15beget their like. Yea, more than equally, thought Ahab; since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than
16the ancestry and posterity of Joy. For, not to hint of this: that it is an inference from certain canonic teachings,
17that while some natural enjoyments here shall have no children born to them for the other world, but, on the contrary,
18shall be followed by the joy-childlessness of all hell's despair; whereas, some guilty mortal miseries shall still
19fertilely beget to themselves an eternally progressive progeny of griefs beyond the grave; not at all to hint of this,
20there still seems an inequality in the deeper analysis of the thing. For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly
21felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic
22significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious
23deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless
24primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and soft cymballing, round
25harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad
26birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers. Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged,
27which perhaps might more properly, in set way, have been disclosed before. With many other particulars concerning Ahab,
28always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of
29the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought
30speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead. Captain Peleg's bruited reason for this thing
31appeared by no means adequate; though, indeed, as touching all Ahab's deeper part, every revelation partook more of
32significant darkness than of explanatory light. But, in the end, it all came out; this one matter did, at least. That
33direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness. And not only this, but to that ever-contracting, dropping
34circle ashore, who, for any reason, possessed the privilege of a less banned approach to him; to that timid circle the
35above hinted casualty--remaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab--invested itself with terrors, not entirely
36underived from the land of spirits and of wails. So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as
37in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable
38interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks. But be all this as it may; let the unseen, ambiguous
39synod in the air, or the vindictive princes and potentates of fire, have to do or not with earthly Ahab, yet, in this
40present matter of his leg, he took plain practical procedures;--he called the carpenter. And when that functionary
41appeared before him, he bade him without delay set about making a new leg, and directed the mates to see him supplied
42with all the studs and joists of jaw-ivory (Sperm Whale) which had thus far been accumulated on the voyage, in order
43that a careful selection of the stoutest, clearest-grained stuff might be secured. This done, the carpenter received
44orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to
45the distrusted one in use. Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the
46hold; and, to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the forging of whatever iron
47contrivances might be needed.
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