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1Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis, its bow, by anticipation, was made to face the
2whale's head while yet under water. But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence
3ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise
4beneath the boat. Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely
5lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark, slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that
6the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock. The
7bluish pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab's head, and reached higher than that. In this
8attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse. With unastonished eyes Fedallah
9gazed, and crossed his arms; but the tiger-yellow crew were tumbling over each other's heads to gain the uttermost
10stern. And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied with the doomed craft in
11this devilish way; and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from the bows, for the
12bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis
13impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which
14placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his
15naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe. As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the
16frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the
17craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks. These
18floated aside, the broken ends drooping, the crew at the stern-wreck clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast
19to the oars to lash them across. At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the
20whale's intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his
21hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite. But only slipping further into the whale's mouth, and
22tilting over sideways as it slipped, the boat had shaken off his hold on the jaw; spilled him out of it, as he leaned to
23the push; and so he fell flat-faced upon the sea. Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little
24distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving
25his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose--some twenty or more feet out of the water--the
26now rising swells, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered
27spray still higher into the air. So, in a gale, the but half baffled Channel billows only recoil from the base of the
28Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud. *This motion is peculiar to the sperm whale. It receives
29its designation (pitchpoling) from its being likened to that preliminary up-and-down poise of the whale-lance, in the
30exercise called pitchpoling, previously described. By this motion the whale must best and most comprehensively view
31whatever objects may be encircling him. But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round and
32round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and
33more deadly assault. The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast
34before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees. Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the whale's insolent
35tail, and too much of a cripple to swim,--though he could still keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as
36that; helpless Ahab's head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least chance shock might burst. From the boat's
37fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not
38succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves. For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's
39aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.
40And though the other boats, unharmed, still hovered hard by; still they dared not pull into the eddy to strike, lest
41that should be the signal for the instant destruction of the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that case could
42they themselves hope to escape. With straining eyes, then, they remained on the outer edge of the direful zone, whose
43centre had now become the old man's head. Meantime, from the beginning all this had been descried from the ship's mast
44heads; and squaring her yards, she had borne down upon the scene; and was now so nigh, that Ahab in the water hailed
45her!--"Sail on the"--but that moment a breaking sea dashed on him from Moby Dick, and whelmed him for the time. But
46struggling out of it again, and chancing to rise on a towering crest, he shouted,--"Sail on the whale!--Drive him off!"
47The Pequod's prows were pointed; and breaking up the charmed circle, she effectually parted the white whale from his
48victim. As he sullenly swam off, the boats flew to the rescue. Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes,
49the white brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded
50to his body's doom: for a time, lying all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one trodden under foot of herds of
51elephants. Far inland, nameless wails came from him, as desolate sounds from out ravines. But this intensity of his
52physical prostration did but so much the more abbreviate it. In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to
53one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives. And so, such
54hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate a whole age of
55woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the
56entire circumferences of inferior souls. "The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended
57arm--"is it safe?" "Aye, sir, for it was not darted; this is it," said Stubb, showing it. "Lay it before me;--any
58missing men?" "One, two, three, four, five;--there were five oars, sir, and here are five men." "That's good.--Help me,
59man; I wish to stand. So, so, I see him! there! there! going to leeward still; what a leaping spout!--Hands off from me!
60The eternal sap runs up in Ahab's bones again! Set the sail; out oars; the helm!"
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