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1That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man--as his wont at intervals--stepped forth from the scuttle in which he
2leaned, and went to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious
3ship's dog will, in drawing nigh to some barbarous isle. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that peculiar odor,
4sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm whale, was palpable to all the watch; nor was any mariner
5surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the
6odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.
7The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the
8sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the
9polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream. "Man the mast-heads! Call all
10hands!" Thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers with
11such judgment claps that they seemed to exhale from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes
12in their hands. "What d'ye see?" cried Ahab, flattening his face to the sky. "Nothing, nothing sir!" was the sound
13hailing down in reply. "T'gallant sails!--stunsails! alow and aloft, and on both sides!" All sail being set, he now cast
14loose the life-line, reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were hoisting him
15thither, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the
16main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the air. "There she blows!--there she blows! A hump
17like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!" Fired by the cry which seemed simultaneously taken up by the three look-outs, the
18men on deck rushed to the rigging to behold the famous whale they had so long been pursuing. Ahab had now gained his
19final perch, some feet above the other look-outs, Tashtego standing just beneath him on the cap of the top-gallant-mast,
20so that the Indian's head was almost on a level with Ahab's heel. From this height the whale was now seen some mile or
21so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the
22air. To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and
23Indian Oceans. "And did none of ye see it before?" cried Ahab, hailing the perched men all around him. "I saw him almost
24that same instant, sir, that Captain Ahab did, and I cried out," said Tashtego. "Not the same instant; not the same--no,
25the doubloon is mine, Fate reserved the doubloon for me. I only; none of ye could have raised the White Whale first.
26There she blows!--there she blows!--there she blows! There again!--there again!" he cried, in long-drawn, lingering,
27methodic tones, attuned to the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets. "He's going to sound! In stunsails! Down
28top-gallant-sails! Stand by three boats. Mr. Starbuck, remember, stay on board, and keep the ship. Helm there! Luff,
29luff a point! So; steady, man, steady! There go flukes! No, no; only black water! All ready the boats there? Stand by,
30stand by! Lower me, Mr. Starbuck; lower, lower,--quick, quicker!" and he slid through the air to the deck. "He is
31heading straight to leeward, sir," cried Stubb, "right away from us; cannot have seen the ship yet." "Be dumb, man!
32Stand by the braces! Hard down the helm!--brace up! Shiver her!--shiver her!--So; well that! Boats, boats!" Soon all the
33boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set--all the paddles plying; with rippling swiftness, shooting to
34leeward; and Ahab heading the onset. A pale, death-glimmer lit up Fedallah's sunken eyes; a hideous motion gnawed his
35mouth. Like noiseless nautilus shells, their light prows sped through the sea; but only slowly they neared the foe. As
36they neared him, the ocean grew still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a noon-meadow, so
37serenely it spread. At length the breathless hunter came so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey, that his entire
38dazzling hump was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated thing, and continually set in a revolving
39ring of finest, fleecy, greenish foam. He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting head beyond. Before
40it, far out on the soft Turkish-rugged waters, went the glistening white shadow from his broad, milky forehead, a
41musical rippling playfully accompanying the shade; and behind, the blue waters interchangeably flowed over into the
42moving valley of his steady wake; and on either hand bright bubbles arose and danced by his side. But these were broken
43again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowl softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like
44to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected
45from the white whale's back; and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering, and to and fro skimming like
46a canopy over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons. A
47gentle joyousness--a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter
48swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the
49maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great
50majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam. On each soft side--coincident with the
51parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away--on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings. No
52wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured
53to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes. Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou
54glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way thou may'st have bejuggled and
55destroyed before. And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand-clappings were
56suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged
57trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw. But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water;
58for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his
59bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight. Hoveringly halting, and
60dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left. With oars apeak, and
61paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance.
62"An hour," said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue
63spaces and wide wooing vacancies to leeward. It was only an instant; for again his eyes seemed whirling round in his
64head as he swept the watery circle. The breeze now freshened; the sea began to swell. "The birds!--the birds!" cried
65Tashtego. In long Indian file, as when herons take wing, the white birds were now all flying towards Ahab's boat; and
66when within a few yards began fluttering over the water there, wheeling round and round, with joyous, expectant cries.
67Their vision was keener than man's; Ahab could discover no sign in the sea. But suddenly as he peered down and down into
68its depths, he profoundly saw a white living spot no bigger than a white weasel, with wonderful celerity uprising, and
69magnifying as it rose, till it turned, and then there were plainly revealed two long crooked rows of white, glistening
70teeth, floating up from the undiscoverable bottom. It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw; his vast, shadowed
71bulk still half blending with the blue of the sea. The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored
72marble tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar, Ahab whirled the craft aside from this tremendous
73apparition. Then, calling upon Fedallah to change places with him, went forward to the bows, and seizing Perth's
74harpoon, commanded his crew to grasp their oars and stand by to stern.
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