item: #1 of 134 id: chapter-001 author: None title: chapter-001 date: None words: 195 flesch: 87 summary: The etymology was supplied by a late consumptive usher to a grammar school. The Usher was dusting his old lexicons and grammars with a handkerchief. The letter H alone maketh up the signification of the word "whale". keywords: nuee cache: chapter-001.txt plain text: chapter-001.txt item: #2 of 134 id: chapter-002 author: None title: chapter-002 date: None words: 3523 flesch: 83 summary: "Excerpts from a Sub-Sub-Librarian's book give a bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan by many nations and generations, including ourown. keywords: head; leviathan; ocean; sea; ship; sub; voyage; water; whale cache: chapter-002.txt plain text: chapter-002.txt item: #3 of 134 id: chapter-003 author: None title: chapter-003 date: None words: 2241 flesch: 76 summary: Ishmael is a sailor. He has a love of the sea and sailing. He describes the insular city of the Manhattoes and the sea-gazers who live there. He compares it to a city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. keywords: land; sea; time; voyage; water cache: chapter-003.txt plain text: chapter-003.txt item: #4 of 134 id: chapter-004 author: None title: chapter-004 date: None words: 1449 flesch: 76 summary: Ishmael left Manhatto and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. He arrived in New Bedford on a Saturday night in December. The packet for Nantucket had already sailed and he couldn't reach it until the following Monday. It was a dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless, and he knew no one in the place. He only brought up a few pieces of silver. keywords: nantucket; night; place cache: chapter-004.txt plain text: chapter-004.txt item: #5 of 134 id: chapter-005 author: None title: chapter-005 date: None words: 5979 flesch: 77 summary: On the wall of the Spouter-Inn there is a large oil-painting. It is so badly damaged that it is difficult to understand its purpose. It resembles a gigantic fish, a Hyperborean winter scene, and the breaking-up of Time. keywords: bed; harpooneer; head; landlord; man; night; room; sleep; thought cache: chapter-005.txt plain text: chapter-005.txt item: #6 of 134 id: chapter-006 author: None title: chapter-006 date: None words: 1673 flesch: 68 summary: The next morning she found Queequeg's arm thrown over her in the most loving and affectionate manner. When she was a child, she had been cutting up something and her stepmother dragged her out of the chimney and packed her off to bed. keywords: arm; bed; queequeg cache: chapter-006.txt plain text: chapter-006.txt item: #7 of 134 id: chapter-007 author: None title: chapter-007 date: None words: 757 flesch: 74 summary: The bar-room was full of boarders who had been dropping in the night before. They were whalemen, chief mates, second and third mates, sea carpenters, sea coopers, sea blacksmiths, harpooneers, and ship keepers. The boarders were all wearing monkey jackets for morning and gowns. keywords: breakfast; man cache: chapter-007.txt plain text: chapter-007.txt item: #8 of 134 id: chapter-008 author: None title: chapter-008 date: None words: 835 flesch: 78 summary: Queequeg is an unusual sight on the streets of New Bedford. Vermonters and New Hampshire men come to New Bedford weekly to work in the fishery. The country-bred dandy is more interesting than the town-bred one. keywords: bedford; new; town cache: chapter-008.txt plain text: chapter-008.txt item: #9 of 134 id: chapter-009 author: None title: chapter-009 date: None words: 953 flesch: 75 summary: There is a Whaleman's chapel in New Bedford. It is frequented by sailors and sailors' wives and widows. Three marble tablets with black borders are placed in the wall on either side of the pulpit. keywords: dead; memory; tablets cache: chapter-009.txt plain text: chapter-009.txt item: #10 of 134 id: chapter-010 author: None title: chapter-010 date: None words: 970 flesch: 64 summary: Father Mapple is the famous chaplain of the whalemen. He was a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but he dedicated his life to the ministry. Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age. He entered the chapel without an umbrella and didn't come in his carriage. keywords: pulpit; ship cache: chapter-010.txt plain text: chapter-010.txt item: #11 of 134 id: chapter-011 author: None title: chapter-011 date: None words: 3631 flesch: 79 summary: Father Mapple ordered the congregation to condense. The preacher kneeled in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. He then read the following hymn and burst out with a pealing exultation and joy. keywords: god; jonah; lesson; sea; shipmates; woe cache: chapter-011.txt plain text: chapter-011.txt item: #12 of 134 id: chapter-012 author: None title: chapter-012 date: None words: 1571 flesch: 73 summary: Queequeg had left the Chapel before the benediction some time and was alone in the Spouter-Inn. He had a negro idol of his and was studying it with a knife. Queequeg put up the image and then took up a large book and started counting the pages. keywords: head; man; queequeg cache: chapter-012.txt plain text: chapter-012.txt item: #13 of 134 id: chapter-013 author: None title: chapter-013 date: None words: 736 flesch: 67 summary: Queequeg and I were in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals. We felt nice and snug because it was chilly out of doors and there was no fire in the room. Eventually, though, they became tired and they had to sit up. keywords: bed cache: chapter-013.txt plain text: chapter-013.txt item: #14 of 134 id: chapter-014 author: None title: chapter-014 date: None words: 891 flesch: 73 summary: Queequeg is a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. His father was a High Chief, a King, his uncle a High Priest, and his maternal aunts were the wives of warriors. Queequeg wanted to visit Christendom. A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, but it spurned his suit. He paddled alone in his canoe to a distant strait. He sank his canoe and climbed up the chains to the deck. The captain threatened to throw him overboard. keywords: father; queequeg cache: chapter-014.txt plain text: chapter-014.txt item: #15 of 134 id: chapter-015 author: None title: chapter-015 date: None words: 1726 flesch: 74 summary: The next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, I settled my own and comrade's bill using his money. Queequeg and I went to "the Moss" and borrowed a wheelbarrow to carry our things to the Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf. The landlord, as well as the boarders, were tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between them. keywords: captain; kill; people; queequeg cache: chapter-015.txt plain text: chapter-015.txt item: #16 of 134 id: chapter-016 author: None title: chapter-016 date: None words: 765 flesch: 70 summary: After a fine run, they have arrived in Nantucket. The island is a mere hillock and elbow of sand, all beach, without a background. People there plant toadstools before their houses, they wear quicksand shoes, and they wear Laplander snowshoes. The Nantucketers, born on the beach, took to the sea for a livelihood. keywords: nantucket; sea cache: chapter-016.txt plain text: chapter-016.txt item: #17 of 134 id: chapter-017 author: None title: chapter-017 date: None words: 1213 flesch: 72 summary: Queequeg and Queequeg went to Nantucket to try pot-luck at Try Pots. The landlord of the Spouter-Inn recommended them to his cousin Hosea Hussey, who runs a famous hotel. The directions he gave them were wrong. They had to beat about in the dark to find the place. keywords: clam; hussey; queequeg cache: chapter-017.txt plain text: chapter-017.txt item: #18 of 134 id: chapter-018 author: None title: chapter-018 date: None words: 5595 flesch: 76 summary: Queequeg and Yojo wanted to go together among the whaling-fleet in the harbor, but Ishmael wanted to take charge of the selection of the ship. Queequeg didn't like Yojo's idea, but he had no choice. keywords: ahab; bildad; captain; lay; man; peleg; ship; thou cache: chapter-018.txt plain text: chapter-018.txt item: #19 of 134 id: chapter-019 author: None title: chapter-019 date: None words: 2330 flesch: 78 summary: Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day. Ismael didn't want to disturb him till towards night-fall. Queequeg didn't answer his door. Isael tried to open it, but the door was fastened inside. Isaela could only see part of the foot-board of the bed and a line of wall. keywords: door; queequeg; ramadan; thought cache: chapter-019.txt plain text: chapter-019.txt item: #20 of 134 id: chapter-020 author: None title: chapter-020 date: None words: 1390 flesch: 82 summary: Queequeg is a member of the first Congregational Church. Captain Peleg wants Queequeg to produce his papers to prove it. Captain Bildad doesn't believe it. Queequega worships in Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman's meeting-house. keywords: bildad; peleg; queequeg cache: chapter-020.txt plain text: chapter-020.txt item: #21 of 134 id: chapter-021 author: None title: chapter-021 date: None words: 1244 flesch: 85 summary: Queequeg and Queequeg have just signed the articles on the Pequod. A stranger asks them if they have shipped in the ship. He is shabbily dressed and has smallpox, but he's got enough to make up for all deficiencies in other chaps. Que equeg and the stranger have to leave because a fellow has broken loose from somewhere and is talking about something. keywords: captain cache: chapter-021.txt plain text: chapter-021.txt item: #22 of 134 id: chapter-022 author: None title: chapter-022 date: None words: 938 flesch: 69 summary: There was great activity aboard the Pequod. The old sails were being mended and new sails were coming on board. Captain Peleg seldom went ashore, but sat in his wigwam. Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores, and the men employed in the hold and on the rigging were working till long after night-fall. The ship didn't sail for several days. keywords: board; ship cache: chapter-022.txt plain text: chapter-022.txt item: #23 of 134 id: chapter-023 author: None title: chapter-023 date: None words: 1101 flesch: 85 summary: Elijah and Queequeg are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They saw some men going towards the ship, but it was too dim to be sure if it was sailors. They are going back to the wharf for breakfast. keywords: queequeg cache: chapter-023.txt plain text: chapter-023.txt item: #24 of 134 id: chapter-024 author: None title: chapter-024 date: None words: 1669 flesch: 79 summary: Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the quarter-deck of the Pequod. Captain Ahab was in the cabin. Captain Peleg seemed to do most of the talking and commanding. keywords: bildad; captain; peleg cache: chapter-024.txt plain text: chapter-024.txt item: #25 of 134 id: chapter-025 author: None title: chapter-025 date: None words: 378 flesch: 78 summary: Bulkington, a new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn in mid-winter, had just returned from a four years' dangerous voyage. He had to push off again for another term, because the land was scorching. keywords: bulkington cache: chapter-025.txt plain text: chapter-025.txt item: #26 of 134 id: chapter-026 author: None title: chapter-026 date: None words: 1680 flesch: 69 summary: Queequeg and Queequeg are hunters of whales. The business of whaling has come to be regarded as unpoetical and disreputable among people at large. The world declines honoring whalemen because of the uncleanliness of the business. keywords: ship; whale; whaling; world cache: chapter-026.txt plain text: chapter-026.txt item: #27 of 134 id: chapter-027 author: None title: chapter-027 date: None words: 289 flesch: 78 summary: There is a saltcellar of state and a caster of state at the coronation of kings and queens. King's head is oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad. The kind of oil used at coronations cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, castor oil, bear's oil, train oil, cod liver oil or sperm oil. keywords: oil cache: chapter-027.txt plain text: chapter-027.txt item: #28 of 134 id: chapter-028 author: None title: chapter-028 date: None words: 1236 flesch: 66 summary: Starbuck is the chief mate of the Pequod. He is a native of Nantucket and a Quaker by descent. He was born in some time of drought and famine. Starbuck is a staid, steadfast man. He believes in superstition. keywords: man; starbuck; thou cache: chapter-028.txt plain text: chapter-028.txt item: #29 of 134 id: chapter-029 author: None title: chapter-029 date: None words: 1704 flesch: 67 summary: Stubb was the second mate on a whale-boat. He was a native of Cape Cod. Stubb was good-humored, easy, and careless. He took perils with an indifferent air. He kept a row of pipes in his bunk. keywords: mate; pequod; stubb; whale cache: chapter-029.txt plain text: chapter-029.txt item: #30 of 134 id: chapter-030 author: None title: chapter-030 date: None words: 1422 flesch: 62 summary: After leaving Nantucket, there was no sign of Captain Ahab. The mates were the only commanders of the ship, and they sometimes issued sudden and peremptory orders from the cabin. Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly disturbed him. keywords: ahab; deck; ship cache: chapter-030.txt plain text: chapter-030.txt item: #31 of 134 id: chapter-031 author: None title: chapter-031 date: None words: 1246 flesch: 85 summary: Ahab's ship, the Pequod, was sailing through the Quito spring. It was warm, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, with rose-water snow. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets. Old age is always wakeful. Old sea-commanders often leave their berths to visit the deck. keywords: ahab; man; stubb cache: chapter-031.txt plain text: chapter-031.txt item: #32 of 134 id: chapter-032 author: None title: chapter-032 date: None words: 294 flesch: 88 summary: When Stubb left, Ahab sent a sailor to get his pipe and stool. He sat on the weather side of the deck and smoked. He will no longer smoke as it no longer soothes him. He tossed the pipe into the sea. keywords: pipe cache: chapter-032.txt plain text: chapter-032.txt item: #33 of 134 id: chapter-033 author: None title: chapter-033 date: None words: 885 flesch: 98 summary: Flask had a strange dream about Ahab kicking him with a whalebone cane. Next morning Stubb accosted him. In the dream Flask was trying to kick Ahab with a false leg. An old man with a hump on his back grabbed him by the shoulder and dragged him around. keywords: stubb cache: chapter-033.txt plain text: chapter-033.txt item: #34 of 134 id: chapter-034 author: None title: chapter-034 date: None words: 5190 flesch: 75 summary: Cetology is the study of the classification of the cetacea into groups and families. Many people have written on the subject, including the Bible, Aristotle, Pliny, Aldrovandi, Sir Thomas Browne, Gesner, Ray, Linnus, Rondeletius, Willoughby, Green, Artedi, etc. keywords: book; chapter; fin; fish; folio; greenland; porpoise; sperm; whale cache: chapter-034.txt plain text: chapter-034.txt item: #35 of 134 id: chapter-035 author: None title: chapter-035 date: None words: 986 flesch: 44 summary: The Harpooneer class of officers is a class unknown in any other marine than the whale-fleet. In the old Dutch Fishery, two centuries ago, the command of a whale ship was divided between the captain and an official called the Specksnyder, which means Fat-Cutter. The Specks Snyder used to be the most important officer in the whaling fleet, but in the British Greenland Fishery he is now a junior officer. keywords: captain; whale cache: chapter-035.txt plain text: chapter-035.txt item: #36 of 134 id: chapter-036 author: None title: chapter-036 date: None words: 2252 flesch: 68 summary: It is noon. Dough-Boy, the steward, announces dinner to his lord and master. Ahab is taking an observation of the sun. Starbuck, the first Emir, takes a few turns along the planks. The second Emir lounges about the rigging. The third Emir goes to the quarter-deck and plays a hornpipe. keywords: ahab; cabin; dinner; flask; table cache: chapter-036.txt plain text: chapter-036.txt item: #37 of 134 id: chapter-037 author: None title: chapter-037 date: None words: 2635 flesch: 54 summary: In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving the port. The earliest standers of mast-head were the old Egyptians. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, built a lofty stone pillar in the desert. keywords: head; mast; sea; ship; sleet; whale cache: chapter-037.txt plain text: chapter-037.txt item: #38 of 134 id: chapter-038 author: None title: chapter-038 date: None words: 2846 flesch: 86 summary: After the affair of the pipe, Ahab started to walk on the quarter-deck. The planks he treaded on were dented and dented. Ahab's thought was so full that at every uniform turn that he made, he turned and paced the deck. He came to a halt by the Bulwarks and inserted his bone leg into the auger-hole there. He ordered Starbuck to send everybody aft. keywords: ahab; aye; men; starbuck; whale cache: chapter-038.txt plain text: chapter-038.txt item: #39 of 134 id: chapter-040 author: None title: chapter-040 date: None words: 399 flesch: 96 summary: Starbuck's soul is more than matched by his overmanned office. Starbuck feels that he must help him to an impious end, but he has no key to lift the weight. The crew on board is celebrating. keywords: life cache: chapter-040.txt plain text: chapter-040.txt item: #40 of 134 id: chapter-042 author: None title: chapter-042 date: None words: 1633 flesch: 100 summary: Harpooners and Sailors are singing in chorus at night. Captain of 1st Nantucket Sailing tells them to sing goodbye to Spanish ladies. Captain is looking at the whales. Mate's bell-boy is calling the watch. keywords: pip; row; sailor; thou cache: chapter-042.txt plain text: chapter-042.txt item: #41 of 134 id: chapter-043 author: None title: chapter-043 date: None words: 3809 flesch: 54 summary: Ishmael was on the crew of Moby Dick. He and the others had sworn an oath of revenge against him. The Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning and malignity in the Sperm Whales. keywords: ahab; dick; moby; sperm; time; whale; white cache: chapter-043.txt plain text: chapter-043.txt item: #42 of 134 id: chapter-044 author: None title: chapter-044 date: None words: 3667 flesch: 57 summary: The whiteness of the whale appalled Ahab. The color of whiteness has a royal pre-eminence. It is the emblem of many noble things, including the innocence of brides, the benignity of age, and even of happiness. keywords: hue; man; snow; soul; things; time; white; whiteness cache: chapter-044.txt plain text: chapter-044.txt item: #43 of 134 id: chapter-046 author: None title: chapter-046 date: None words: 2067 flesch: 54 summary: Captain Ahab has a large roll of yellowish sea charts spread before him on his screwed-down table in his cabin. Almost every night they are brought out and he studies them with pencil marks on them. Ahab knows the sets of all tides and currents, and calculates the driftings of sperm whales. keywords: ahab; sperm; time; whale cache: chapter-046.txt plain text: chapter-046.txt item: #44 of 134 id: chapter-047 author: None title: chapter-047 date: None words: 3577 flesch: 62 summary: There is a chapter on sperm whales in the book entitled "The Affidavit". The chapter is indirectly touching on some interesting and curious facts about sperm whales. In one instance, three years elapsed between the flinging of the two harpoons, and the same whale was killed by the same hand. In another instance, the man who killed the other whale was on a voyage to Africa. keywords: captain; sea; ship; sperm; time; whale; years cache: chapter-047.txt plain text: chapter-047.txt item: #45 of 134 id: chapter-048 author: None title: chapter-048 date: None words: 1009 flesch: 49 summary: Ahab is obsessed with the capture of Moby Dick. Starbuck is not fond of his captain's quest. Ahab knows that Starbuck's mind and body are subordinate to his will, so long as he keeps his magnet at Starbuck’s brain. keywords: ahab; starbuck cache: chapter-048.txt plain text: chapter-048.txt item: #46 of 134 id: chapter-049 author: None title: chapter-049 date: None words: 943 flesch: 73 summary: Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving a sword-mat for an additional lashing to the boat. Queequeg's sword slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads of the mat and idly drove home every yarn. It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon. keywords: sword; weaving cache: chapter-049.txt plain text: chapter-049.txt item: #47 of 134 id: chapter-050 author: None title: chapter-050 date: None words: 4035 flesch: 80 summary: The phantoms were flitting on the other side of the deck. They were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth protruding from its mouth. He was dressed in a rumpled Chinese jacket, with wide black trowsers and a glistening white plaited turban. His companions were of that vivid, tiger-yellow complexion. Ahab shouted for the crew to lower away. Sailors leaped down the rolling ship's side into the tossed boats below. keywords: boat; crew; like; pull; stubb; white cache: chapter-050.txt plain text: chapter-050.txt item: #48 of 134 id: chapter-051 author: None title: chapter-051 date: None words: 848 flesch: 67 summary: There are times when a man takes the whole universe for a practical joke. There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy. Mr. Stubb's mate, Mr. Starbuck, is by far the most careful and prudent of whalemen. keywords: whale cache: chapter-051.txt plain text: chapter-051.txt item: #49 of 134 id: chapter-052 author: None title: chapter-052 date: None words: 1034 flesch: 51 summary: Stubb, who has one leg, is a whaling captain in Captain Ahab's boat and crew. He has one knee left and the other part of the other leg is broken. The boat was given to him by the joint-owners of the Pequod as a regular headsman in the hunt. He was also given five extra men as crew. keywords: ahab; boat cache: chapter-052.txt plain text: chapter-052.txt item: #50 of 134 id: chapter-053 author: None title: chapter-053 date: None words: 1531 flesch: 67 summary: The Pequod was sailing along the Carrol Ground, southerly from St. Helena. On a serene and moonlight night, a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow, lit up by the moon. Fedallah, an old Oriental, was standing on the main-mast head, looking at the sea with the same precision as if it had been day. After several nights of silence, he announced that the jet was blowing. The crew on board were excited. Ahab commanded the lowering. keywords: jet; night; ship cache: chapter-053.txt plain text: chapter-053.txt item: #51 of 134 id: chapter-054 author: None title: chapter-054 date: None words: 728 flesch: 77 summary: The Albatross was sailing south-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising ground for Right Whalemen. The Goney (Albatross) was bleached, rust-covered, and her spars and rigging were furred with hoar-frost. The look-outs at the mast-heads had survived nearly four years of cruising. The captain's trumpet fell from his hand and into the sea. keywords: ship; world cache: chapter-054.txt plain text: chapter-054.txt item: #52 of 134 id: chapter-055 author: None title: chapter-055 date: None words: 1660 flesch: 62 summary: Ahab didn't go on board the whaler because of the weather. He didn't want to meet with any stranger captain except if he could contribute some information. Whaling vessels should be more friendly and sociable when they meet each other in foreign seas. keywords: english; ships; whaling cache: chapter-055.txt plain text: chapter-055.txt item: #53 of 134 id: chapter-056 author: None title: chapter-056 date: None words: 8093 flesch: 73 summary: The Town-Ho, a whaleman's ship, was sailing towards the Cape of Good Hope. She was manned almost entirely by Polynesians. She gave news of Moby Dick. The secret part of the story was not revealed to Captain Ahab or his mates. It was the private property of three confederate white seamen. keywords: boat; captain; deck; don; gentlemen; lakeman; mate; radney; ship; steelkilt; whale cache: chapter-056.txt plain text: chapter-056.txt item: #54 of 134 id: chapter-057 author: None title: chapter-057 date: None words: 1925 flesch: 65 summary: The most ancient portrait purporting to be the whale's is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that pagoda, all the trades and pursuits were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being. keywords: book; leviathan; picture; whale cache: chapter-057.txt plain text: chapter-057.txt item: #55 of 134 id: chapter-058 author: None title: chapter-058 date: None words: 1332 flesch: 63 summary: There are only four published outlines of the great Sperm whale: Colnett's, Huggins's, Frederick Cuvier's, Beale's and Scoresby's. French engravings of the Sperm and Right Whales are the best examples of their depiction. keywords: boat; sea; whale cache: chapter-058.txt plain text: chapter-058.txt item: #56 of 134 id: chapter-059 author: None title: chapter-059 date: None words: 980 flesch: 66 summary: Whale-hunters toil with theirjack-knives alone. Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. keywords: savage; stump; whales cache: chapter-059.txt plain text: chapter-059.txt item: #57 of 134 id: chapter-060 author: None title: chapter-060 date: None words: 1015 flesch: 63 summary: On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen swimming through the British waters. The sound they made as they parted the brit reminded one of mowers. The Right Whale is often chased by sperm whalers in the "Brazil Banks". keywords: ocean; sea cache: chapter-060.txt plain text: chapter-060.txt item: #58 of 134 id: chapter-061 author: None title: chapter-061 date: None words: 935 flesch: 70 summary: The Pequod was sailing north-eastward towards the island of Java. In the stillness of the sea, Daggoo saw a strange spectre from the main-mast-head. Ahab stood on the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave to the helmsman. keywords: whale; white cache: chapter-061.txt plain text: chapter-061.txt item: #59 of 134 id: chapter-062 author: None title: chapter-062 date: None words: 1499 flesch: 55 summary: The whale-line used in the fishery was of the best hemp, slightly vapored with tar, not impregnated with it. The Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines. It is stronger, and far more soft and elastic than hemp. keywords: boat; line; whale cache: chapter-062.txt plain text: chapter-062.txt item: #60 of 134 id: chapter-063 author: None title: chapter-063 date: None words: 2003 flesch: 77 summary: Starbuck, Queequeg and the crew of the Pequod's ship were sailing through the Indian Ocean. The sea was still and sultry, so the crew couldn't resist the spell of sleep induced by the still, still sea. Starbuck was standing at the foremast-head, swaying to and fro, when he saw a sperm whale rolling in the water. keywords: boat; sea; stubb; whale cache: chapter-063.txt plain text: chapter-063.txt item: #61 of 134 id: chapter-064 author: None title: chapter-064 date: None words: 577 flesch: 64 summary: The harpooneer-oar is the foremost oar of the whale-boat. He is expected to set an example of superhuman activity to the rest, not only by rowing and shouting, but also by repeated loud and intrepid exclamations. In a long dart, the heavy implement has to be flung to a distance of twenty or thirty feet, but he has to pull his oar meanwhile to the utmost. Out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful. Many hapless harpoones are madly cursed and disrated. keywords: harpooneer cache: chapter-064.txt plain text: chapter-064.txt item: #62 of 134 id: chapter-065 author: None title: chapter-065 date: None words: 478 flesch: 60 summary: The crotch is a notched stick of a peculiar form, some two feet in length, inserted into the starboard gunwale near the bow for the purpose of furnishing a rest for the wooden extremity of the harpoon. It is customary to have two harpoons, each by its own cord, connected with the line. The object is to dart them both, if possible, one after the other into the same whale. keywords: line cache: chapter-065.txt plain text: chapter-065.txt item: #63 of 134 id: chapter-066 author: None title: chapter-066 date: None words: 3067 flesch: 82 summary: Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. Three boats towed it to the Pequod with a team of 18 men. Captain Ahab didn't want to take part in the tow, because Moby Dick was yet to be killed. keywords: cook; dat; steak; stubb; whale cache: chapter-066.txt plain text: chapter-066.txt item: #64 of 134 id: chapter-067 author: None title: chapter-067 date: None words: 1007 flesch: 74 summary: Whale meat used to be considered a delicacy in France and in Henry VIIIth's time. Porpoises are still considered fine eating today. Englishmen lived for several months on the scraps of dead whales in Greenland. Dutch whalemen eat the scraps called "fritters". keywords: dish; whale cache: chapter-067.txt plain text: chapter-067.txt item: #65 of 134 id: chapter-068 author: None title: chapter-068 date: None words: 641 flesch: 63 summary: The Pequod's sharks killed a sperm whale in the Pacific. Queequeg and a forecastle seaman killed the sharks with whaling-spades. The crew had to wait for the sharks to kill them. keywords: god; sharks cache: chapter-068.txt plain text: chapter-068.txt item: #66 of 134 id: chapter-069 author: None title: chapter-069 date: None words: 746 flesch: 61 summary: It was a Saturday night and such a Sabbath as followed. The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble. Every sailor was a butcher. Starbuck and Stubb were cutting a hole in the body for the insertion of the blubber hook. keywords: blubber; whale cache: chapter-069.txt plain text: chapter-069.txt item: #67 of 134 id: chapter-070 author: None title: chapter-070 date: None words: 1214 flesch: 70 summary: The skin of the whale is the outermost layer of the animal's body. It is transparent, flexible and soft, but when dried it contracts and thickens and becomes hard and brittle. The whale's skin is thinner and more tender than the skin of a newborn baby. keywords: skin; whale cache: chapter-070.txt plain text: chapter-070.txt item: #68 of 134 id: chapter-071 author: None title: chapter-071 date: None words: 447 flesch: 79 summary: The beheaded whale's funeral takes place. The sea-vultures, air-sharks, and swarming fowls kill the whale. The headless whale's corpse is set down in the log and rocks near the shore. keywords: whale cache: chapter-071.txt plain text: chapter-071.txt item: #69 of 134 id: chapter-072 author: None title: chapter-072 date: None words: 894 flesch: 75 summary: Before stripping the body of the sperm whale, he was beheaded. Beheading a sperm whale is a scientific anatomical feat. The head is dropped astern and held there by a cable till the body is stripped. It is then hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of. keywords: head; whale cache: chapter-072.txt plain text: chapter-072.txt item: #70 of 134 id: chapter-073 author: None title: chapter-073 date: None words: 2306 flesch: 69 summary: Jeroboam of Nantucket had a malignant epidemic on board his ship. He refused to come into contact with the Pequod as he was afraid of infecting the crew with the disease. The stranger lowered a boat, but it was rigged to accommodate the visiting captain. keywords: boat; gabriel; ship; whale cache: chapter-073.txt plain text: chapter-073.txt item: #71 of 134 id: chapter-074 author: None title: chapter-074 date: None words: 1675 flesch: 77 summary: Queequeg is a harpooneer who has to climb upon the back of a whale to perform a special procedure. The whale is almost completely submerged, except for the immediate parts operated upon. Queequeg's friend, the bowsman, held him from the ship's steep side by a monkey-rope. keywords: ginger; queequeg; whale cache: chapter-074.txt plain text: chapter-074.txt item: #72 of 134 id: chapter-075 author: None title: chapter-075 date: None words: 2238 flesch: 80 summary: A Sperm Whale was brought alongside and beheaded on the Pequod. Two boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were in pursuit of a Right Whale. The boats were dragged towards the ship by the whale, but it disappeared from view. keywords: devil; ship; whale cache: chapter-075.txt plain text: chapter-075.txt item: #73 of 134 id: chapter-076 author: None title: chapter-076 date: None words: 1670 flesch: 69 summary: The Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are the only whales that are regularly hunted by man. The differences between them are mainly observable in their heads. The eye and the ear are the most important organs of the head. The position of the eyes corresponds to that of the whale's eyes. keywords: eyes; head; whale cache: chapter-076.txt plain text: chapter-076.txt item: #74 of 134 id: chapter-077 author: None title: chapter-077 date: None words: 1258 flesch: 78 summary: The Right Whale's head resembles a Galliot-toed shoe or a shoemaker's last. The right whale's head also looks like the trunk of an oak with a bird's nest in its crotch. The green, barnacled thing on the top of the head is called a crown. keywords: head; whale cache: chapter-077.txt plain text: chapter-077.txt item: #75 of 134 id: chapter-078 author: None title: chapter-078 date: None words: 880 flesch: 60 summary: The front of the Sperm whale's head is a dead, blind wall without a single organ or prominence of any sort. The mouth is entirely under the head. The eyes and ears are at the sides of the head, nearly one third of the entire length from the front. The whale has no external nose and his spout hole is on the top of his head. keywords: head; whale cache: chapter-078.txt plain text: chapter-078.txt item: #76 of 134 id: chapter-079 author: None title: chapter-079 date: None words: 652 flesch: 59 summary: The head of a sperm whale is divided into two parts. The upper part, known as the Case, is the great Heidelburgh Tun of the Sperm Whale. The lower part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil formed by the crossing and re-crossing. keywords: whale cache: chapter-079.txt plain text: chapter-079.txt item: #77 of 134 id: chapter-080 author: None title: chapter-080 date: None words: 1676 flesch: 68 summary: Tashtego has to break into the Tun. He uses a whip and a bucket to do it. The bucket is lowered from the top of the Tun, caught by a hand, and put into a large tub. The tub is filled with water. keywords: bucket; head; tashtego cache: chapter-080.txt plain text: chapter-080.txt item: #78 of 134 id: chapter-081 author: None title: chapter-081 date: None words: 951 flesch: 73 summary: No physiognomist or phrenologist has yet studied the face of Leviathan. Lavater studied the faces of horses, birds, serpents, and fish. The Sperm Whale has no nose. The nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features of a human face. keywords: sperm; whale cache: chapter-081.txt plain text: chapter-081.txt item: #79 of 134 id: chapter-082 author: None title: chapter-082 date: None words: 918 flesch: 67 summary: In the full-grown Sperm Whale the skull will measure at least 20 feet in length. The brain is at least twenty feet from the head in life. It is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec. keywords: brain; whale cache: chapter-082.txt plain text: chapter-082.txt item: #80 of 134 id: chapter-083 author: None title: chapter-083 date: None words: 4440 flesch: 76 summary: The Pequod met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen, who was trying to borrow some oil from the ship Yarman. Yarman is a lamp-feeder and an oil-can. Ahab stopped him on the deck. keywords: boats; derick; german; ship; starbuck; whale cache: chapter-083.txt plain text: chapter-083.txt item: #81 of 134 id: chapter-084 author: None title: chapter-084 date: None words: 1167 flesch: 59 summary: There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method and whaling is one of them. In the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast skeleton of a whale. It was from Joppa that Jonah set sail. keywords: perseus; whale cache: chapter-084.txt plain text: chapter-084.txt item: #82 of 134 id: chapter-085 author: None title: chapter-085 date: None words: 793 flesch: 65 summary: Some Nantucketers distrust the historical story of Jonah and the whale. Sag-Harbor whaleman had an old Bibles with a picture of Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head. Bishop Jebb suggests Jonah is not tombed in the whale's belly but temporarily lodged in some part of his mouth. keywords: jonah; whale cache: chapter-085.txt plain text: chapter-085.txt item: #83 of 134 id: chapter-086 author: None title: chapter-086 date: None words: 819 flesch: 69 summary: Queequeg grease the bottom of his boat to make it slide. Queequeg believed strongly in anointing his boat, and one morning the German ship Jungfrau disappeared. Tashtego tried to lance a flying whale, but the whale swam away. keywords: lance; whale cache: chapter-086.txt plain text: chapter-086.txt item: #84 of 134 id: chapter-087 author: None title: chapter-087 date: None words: 2090 flesch: 67 summary: It is 15:15 on the 15th of December, 1851. The sperm whale is spouting water, but it is not clear whether it is water or vapor. The whale's mouth is buried at least eight feet beneath the surface. It can only breathe through its spiracle, which is on the top of the head. keywords: spout; water; whale cache: chapter-087.txt plain text: chapter-087.txt item: #85 of 134 id: chapter-088 author: None title: chapter-088 date: None words: 1866 flesch: 68 summary: The Sperm Whale's tail is made up of three layers: upper, middle and lower. The middle layer is similar to the thin course of tiles alternating with the stone used in Roman walls. The fibres in the upper and lower layers are long and horizontal, and the middle one is short and very short. keywords: elephant; flukes; tail; whale cache: chapter-088.txt plain text: chapter-088.txt item: #86 of 134 id: chapter-089 author: None title: chapter-089 date: None words: 4799 flesch: 64 summary: Malacca is the most southerly point of all Asia. The islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor form a vast rampart connecting Asia with Australia. This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports for the convenience of ships and whales. The straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java. keywords: herd; line; pequod; sea; ship; sperm; straits; time; whales cache: chapter-089.txt plain text: chapter-089.txt item: #87 of 134 id: chapter-090 author: None title: chapter-090 date: None words: 1203 flesch: 62 summary: The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of sperm whales. Small detached bands with up to 50 individuals are known as schools. They are composed almost entirely of females and mustering none but young males, or bulls, as they are familiarly designated. In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old, who covers the flight of his ladies. keywords: harem; schools; young cache: chapter-090.txt plain text: chapter-090.txt item: #88 of 134 id: chapter-091 author: None title: chapter-091 date: None words: 1447 flesch: 69 summary: The whaling code of Holland was decreed by the States-General in A.D. 1695. American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers. They have provided a system which surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business. keywords: fish; possession; whale cache: chapter-091.txt plain text: chapter-091.txt item: #89 of 134 id: chapter-092 author: None title: chapter-092 date: None words: 1066 flesch: 72 summary: The law of the Laws of England states that all whales captured by anybody on the coast of that land must be presented to the King with the head and to the Queen with the tail. The Cinque Ports are partially under the jurisdiction of a policeman or beadle called a Lord Warden. keywords: duke; queen; whale cache: chapter-092.txt plain text: chapter-092.txt item: #90 of 134 id: chapter-093 author: None title: chapter-093 date: None words: 2593 flesch: 76 summary: Sir T. Browne, V. E. Stubb, and others were sailing over a sleepy, vapory, mid-day sea. They noticed a strange smell in the sea. There was a whaling ship with a dead whale alongside it. keywords: captain; man; stubb; whale cache: chapter-093.txt plain text: chapter-093.txt item: #91 of 134 id: chapter-094 author: None title: chapter-094 date: None words: 985 flesch: 66 summary: In 1791 Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on the origin of ambergris. It is used in perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair-powders, and Pomatum. The Turks use it in cooking and also carry it to Mecca. Some wine merchants drop a few grains into claret to flavor it. keywords: ambergris; sea; whale cache: chapter-094.txt plain text: chapter-094.txt item: #92 of 134 id: chapter-095 author: None title: chapter-095 date: None words: 1651 flesch: 72 summary: Pip, a ship-keeper on the Pequod's crew, got caught up in a panic and lost his brightness. Dough-Boy was dull and torpid, but Pip was bright and over-tender-hearted. keywords: pip; stubb; whale cache: chapter-095.txt plain text: chapter-095.txt item: #93 of 134 id: chapter-096 author: None title: chapter-096 date: None words: 1295 flesch: 71 summary: Stubb's whale of Stubb's was brought to the Pequod's side of the ship. It had cooled and crystallized to such a degree that it was necessary to squeeze the lumps back into fluid. It was a sweet and unctuous duty. The sperm was a favourite cosmetic. keywords: hands; sperm; squeeze cache: chapter-096.txt plain text: chapter-096.txt item: #94 of 134 id: chapter-097 author: None title: chapter-097 date: None words: 505 flesch: 63 summary: There is a strange enigmatical object on board the Pequod. It is an idol of Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg. The idol was found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea. King Asa, her son, destroyed the idol and burnt it. keywords: idol cache: chapter-097.txt plain text: chapter-097.txt item: #95 of 134 id: chapter-098 author: None title: chapter-098 date: None words: 1848 flesch: 77 summary: The try-works are planted between the foremast and main-mast of an American whaler. They are ten feet by eight square and five feet high. When not in use, they are polished with soapstone and sand and used for mathematical meditation. keywords: fire; ship; try; works cache: chapter-098.txt plain text: chapter-098.txt item: #96 of 134 id: chapter-099 author: None title: chapter-099 date: None words: 250 flesch: 76 summary: In the Pequod's try-works, the off-duty watch were sleeping. The whaleman takes his handful of old bottles and vials of lamps to the copper cooler at the try-Works and replenishes them there. He burns the purest of oil. keywords: oil cache: chapter-099.txt plain text: chapter-099.txt item: #97 of 134 id: chapter-100 author: None title: chapter-100 date: None words: 1037 flesch: 69 summary: The great leviathan is chased over the watery moors, slaughtered in the valleys of the deep, towed and beheaded. The spermaceti, oil, and bone pass unscathed through the fire. They are put into the six-barrel casks and brought to their final rest in the sea. keywords: oil; ship cache: chapter-100.txt plain text: chapter-100.txt item: #98 of 134 id: chapter-101 author: None title: chapter-101 date: None words: 2525 flesch: 88 summary: The doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, over golden sands, and nailed amidst rustiness of iron bolts and verdigris of copper spikes, but untouchable and immaculate to any foulness. Ahab was attracted by the strange figures and inscriptions stamped on it. keywords: doubloon; gold; look; round; sun cache: chapter-101.txt plain text: chapter-101.txt item: #99 of 134 id: chapter-102 author: None title: chapter-102 date: None words: 2768 flesch: 78 summary: Ahab lost his leg at sea. He had to clamber up a ship's side from a boat on the open sea to get to the other side. Ahab and his crew were dropped to the water and were soon alongside of the stranger. keywords: ahab; arm; boat; captain; whale cache: chapter-102.txt plain text: chapter-102.txt item: #100 of 134 id: chapter-103 author: None title: chapter-103 date: None words: 1782 flesch: 73 summary: The Decadent is a whaling ship from London, named after the late Samuel Enderby. It was fitted out in 1775 to hunt sperm whales. In 1778 it was the first among the nations to lower a whale-boat in the South Sea. The Amelia's example was soon followed by other ships, English and American. keywords: dutch; english; ship; whale cache: chapter-103.txt plain text: chapter-103.txt item: #101 of 134 id: chapter-104 author: None title: chapter-104 date: None words: 1581 flesch: 72 summary: Ishmael is an oarsman in the Fishery. He has dissected a Sperm Whale in miniature on a ship he once belonged to. He would like to dissect a full-grown whale on his deck for examination. keywords: loom; skeleton; tranquo; whale cache: chapter-104.txt plain text: chapter-104.txt item: #102 of 134 id: chapter-105 author: None title: chapter-105 date: None words: 941 flesch: 75 summary: The Sperm Whale's skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two feet in length. Its skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some fifty feet of plain back-bone with a circular basket of ribs attached to it. It is the most complicated part of the skeleton. keywords: feet; whale cache: chapter-105.txt plain text: chapter-105.txt item: #103 of 134 id: chapter-106 author: None title: chapter-106 date: None words: 1446 flesch: 63 summary: The whale is the subject of the book "The Fossil Whales" written by a professor of literature. He has already described the whale in anatomical terms. Now he has to magnify him in an archological, fossiliferous, andantediluvian point of view. keywords: leviathan; temple; time; whale cache: chapter-106.txt plain text: chapter-106.txt item: #104 of 134 id: chapter-107 author: None title: chapter-107 date: None words: 1587 flesch: 55 summary: Whales of the present day are superior in size to the whales of the Tertiary system. The largest pre-adamite whale was less than 70 feet long in the skeleton, whereas the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a modern whale. Sperm Whales have been captured near a hundred feet long at the time of capture. keywords: feet; time; whale; years cache: chapter-107.txt plain text: chapter-107.txt item: #105 of 134 id: chapter-108 author: None title: chapter-108 date: None words: 945 flesch: 50 summary: Captain Ahab quitted the Samuel.Enderby of London. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his leg had received a half-splintering shock. He was found one night lying prone upon the ground, insensible, because his limb had been dislodged and all but pierced his groin. keywords: ahab; leg cache: chapter-108.txt plain text: chapter-108.txt item: #106 of 134 id: chapter-109 author: None title: chapter-109 date: None words: 1069 flesch: 57 summary: The Pequod's carpenter is a sea-going shippenter. He is experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own business. He was efficient in many mechanical emergencies on long voyages. The one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold was his vice-bench. keywords: carpenter; vice; wood cache: chapter-109.txt plain text: chapter-109.txt item: #107 of 134 id: chapter-110 author: None title: chapter-110 date: None words: 1639 flesch: 93 summary: Carpenter is busy filing the ivory joist for the leg. The file doesn't work. The bone dust makes it hard to work in dead wood. Carpenter will call his old Mogulship to see if the length will be all right. keywords: leg; sir; thou cache: chapter-110.txt plain text: chapter-110.txt item: #108 of 134 id: chapter-111 author: None title: chapter-111 date: None words: 936 flesch: 79 summary: The Pequod is drawing nigh to Formosa and the Bashee Isles, between which lies one of the tropical outlets from the China waters into the Pacific. The oil in the hold is leaking. Captain Ahab and Starbuck are going to break out of the ship and sail to Japan. keywords: ahab; starbuck cache: chapter-111.txt plain text: chapter-111.txt item: #109 of 134 id: chapter-112 author: None title: chapter-112 date: None words: 2280 flesch: 74 summary: Quequeg was a captain of a whaling ship. He had to deal with a leak in the hold. The ship was very heavy. Queequeg's companion, a harpooner, died of a fever. keywords: coffin; dig; pip; queequeg cache: chapter-112.txt plain text: chapter-112.txt item: #110 of 134 id: chapter-113 author: None title: chapter-113 date: None words: 431 flesch: 66 summary: The Pacific Ocean is the sea of the Magian rover. It rolls the midmost waters of the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic Ocean being but its arms. The waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns and lave the faded but still beautiful skirts of Asiatic lands. keywords: sea cache: chapter-113.txt plain text: chapter-113.txt item: #111 of 134 id: chapter-114 author: None title: chapter-114 date: None words: 956 flesch: 62 summary: Perth, the blacksmith, was employed by the mariners to do small jobs for them. He had a chronic back injury and lost the extremities of both his feet. He took refuge in a leaning, dilapidated barn. keywords: blacksmith; death; life cache: chapter-114.txt plain text: chapter-114.txt item: #112 of 134 id: chapter-115 author: None title: chapter-115 date: None words: 1253 flesch: 86 summary: Perth is a blacksmith. Captain Ahab thinks he's mad. Ahab is impatient of misery in others. Perth is making a pike-head at the forge. He smooths all the seams and dents on the pike head except one. keywords: ahab; perth; thou cache: chapter-115.txt plain text: chapter-115.txt item: #113 of 134 id: chapter-116 author: None title: chapter-116 date: None words: 653 flesch: 71 summary: The Pequod was cruising in the Japanese fishing grounds. They were often in the boats for 12, 15, 18, or 20 hours at a time, pulling, sailing, or paddling after the whales, or for an interlude of 60 or 70 minutes waiting for their uprising. keywords: golden; stubb cache: chapter-116.txt plain text: chapter-116.txt item: #114 of 134 id: chapter-117 author: None title: chapter-117 date: None words: 910 flesch: 71 summary: The Bachelor, a Nantucket ship, had just wedged in her last cask of oil and bolted down her bursting hatches. Now she was sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous to pointing her prow for home. Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colors were flying from her rigging, on every side. The Bachelor had met with the most surprising success. keywords: bachelor; ship cache: chapter-117.txt plain text: chapter-117.txt item: #115 of 134 id: chapter-118 author: None title: chapter-118 date: None words: 524 flesch: 73 summary: The next day four sperm whales were killed by Ahab's ship, the Pequod, and one of them died. Ahab watched the whale's dying movements from the boat. The Spanish land-breeze had gone to sea, freighted with hymns. keywords: whale cache: chapter-118.txt plain text: chapter-118.txt item: #116 of 134 id: chapter-119 author: None title: chapter-119 date: None words: 478 flesch: 89 summary: The four whales that evening had died wide apart. The windward one could not be reached till morning, and the boat that had killed it lay by its side all night. Ahab and all his boat's crew were asleep, but the Parsee was watching the sharks that played around the dead whale. keywords: man cache: chapter-119.txt plain text: chapter-119.txt item: #117 of 134 id: chapter-120 author: None title: chapter-120 date: None words: 913 flesch: 78 summary: The season for the Line at length drew near. It was hard upon high noon. Ahab was seated in the bows of his high-hoisted boat. He was taking his wonted daily obervation of the sun to determine his latitude. The Parsee was kneeling beneath him on the ship's deck. keywords: ahab; thou cache: chapter-120.txt plain text: chapter-120.txt item: #118 of 134 id: chapter-121 author: None title: chapter-121 date: None words: 2580 flesch: 84 summary: Typhoon struck the Pequod. Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck. Stubb and Flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of the boats. The windward quarter boat (Ahab's) did not escape. keywords: ahab; starbuck; stubb; thee; thou cache: chapter-121.txt plain text: chapter-121.txt item: #119 of 134 id: chapter-122 author: None title: chapter-122 date: None words: 192 flesch: 101 summary: Ahab sends down the main-top-sail yard at the end of the first night watch. The band is loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. The anchors are working, but the wind has not got up to the table-lands yet. keywords: sir cache: chapter-122.txt plain text: chapter-122.txt item: #120 of 134 id: chapter-123 author: None title: chapter-123 date: None words: 652 flesch: 92 summary: Flask and Stubb are arguing about the risks of sailing a ship in a storm. Stubb wants Flask to take his leg off from the crown of the anchor so he can pass the rope. Flask wants Stubb to pay an extra premium for extra insurance. keywords: flask cache: chapter-123.txt plain text: chapter-123.txt item: #121 of 134 id: chapter-124 author: None title: chapter-124 date: None words: 55 flesch: 101 summary: Tashtego doesn't like thunder and wants a glass of rum, not lightning and thunder, but instead of thunder, she wants rum and lightening. Tashteg is passing new lashings around the main sail yard. keywords: thunder cache: chapter-124.txt plain text: chapter-124.txt item: #122 of 134 id: chapter-125 author: None title: chapter-125 date: None words: 1250 flesch: 87 summary: The Typhoon hit Pequod. The man at the tiller had several times been hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions. After midnight, the Typhoon abated. The shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars. New sails were bent and reefed, and a storm-trysail was set further aft. The helmsman was given to steer the ship east-south-east. keywords: aye; man; starbuck cache: chapter-125.txt plain text: chapter-125.txt item: #123 of 134 id: chapter-126 author: None title: chapter-126 date: None words: 1229 flesch: 76 summary: The Pequod was sailing east-sou-east when Ahab noticed the sun's rays were blurring with the rays of the sun. Ahab was confused and almost staggered. Starbuck looked behind him and saw the phenomenon. keywords: ahab; compasses; sun cache: chapter-126.txt plain text: chapter-126.txt item: #124 of 134 id: chapter-127 author: None title: chapter-127 date: None words: 1145 flesch: 95 summary: The log and line on the Pequod were not used for a long time. Ahab wanted to toss them overboard. Tahitian and Manxman took the reel and heaveed the log. The log and the line were damaged. keywords: line; pip cache: chapter-127.txt plain text: chapter-127.txt item: #125 of 134 id: chapter-128 author: None title: chapter-128 date: None words: 1428 flesch: 85 summary: The Pequod was sailing south-eastward towards the Equator. It was sailing by a cluster of rocky islets when the watch was startled by a cry so plaintively wild and unearthly that it disturbed the crew. Ahab didn't hear it until the next morning, when he came to the deck. Flask explained it to him. keywords: buoy; coffin; life cache: chapter-128.txt plain text: chapter-128.txt item: #126 of 134 id: chapter-129 author: None title: chapter-129 date: None words: 742 flesch: 96 summary: Pip is turning a coffin into a life buoy for Mr. Starbuck's orders. Ahab wants to know if Pip is a leg-maker or an undertaker. Pip claims to be a jack-of-all-trades, but does as he does. keywords: sir; thou cache: chapter-129.txt plain text: chapter-129.txt item: #127 of 134 id: chapter-130 author: None title: chapter-130 date: None words: 1438 flesch: 74 summary: The Rachel came close to the Pequod the next day. The captain of the Rachel, a Manxman, stopped his vessel's way, and his boat-hook clinched the main-chains of the Pquod's main-chain. Ahab recognized the captain as a Nantucketer he knew. keywords: ahab; boat; ship cache: chapter-130.txt plain text: chapter-130.txt item: #128 of 134 id: chapter-131 author: None title: chapter-131 date: None words: 594 flesch: 100 summary: Pip wants to follow Ahab to the deck. Ahab is mad and wants Pip to follow him. Pip refuses. Pip will go with Ahab even though Ahab's purpose keels up in him. If Pip is killed, God will save him. keywords: thee cache: chapter-131.txt plain text: chapter-131.txt item: #129 of 134 id: chapter-132 author: None title: chapter-132 date: None words: 1716 flesch: 63 summary: Ahab is on a whaling trip. He is determined to kill his foe. The crew are afraid of him. He has a despotistic attitude towards them. They are afraid he is going to kill them all. keywords: ahab; man; night cache: chapter-132.txt plain text: chapter-132.txt item: #130 of 134 id: chapter-134 author: None title: chapter-134 date: None words: 1639 flesch: 90 summary: It was a clear steel-blue day. The air was pure and soft. The sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells. The contrast was only in shades and shadows. Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morning. Miriam and Martha were laughing-eyed. keywords: ahab; starbuck; years cache: chapter-134.txt plain text: chapter-134.txt item: #131 of 134 id: chapter-135 author: None title: chapter-135 date: None words: 3615 flesch: 77 summary: The first day of the chase Ahab ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered and the sail shortened. Daggoo roused the sleepers with such judgment claps that they exhaled from the scuttle. The life-line brought Daggoo to the main royal-mast head. keywords: ahab; boat; man; sea; whale; white cache: chapter-135.txt plain text: chapter-135.txt item: #132 of 134 id: chapter-136 author: None title: chapter-136 date: None words: 3350 flesch: 79 summary: The chase of the whale continued through day into night and through night into day. The top-gallant sails should have been kept on the boat all night, but they were resting for the rush. The pursuit of whales is not unprecedented in the South sea fishery. keywords: ahab; boats; man; men; sea; whale cache: chapter-136.txt plain text: chapter-136.txt item: #133 of 134 id: chapter-137 author: None title: chapter-137 date: None words: 4596 flesch: 87 summary: The third day of the chase for Ahab is fair and fresh. The whale is not yet in sight, but Ahab follows the whale's wake. Ahab never thinks, he only feels, feels and feels. Thinking is coolness and calmness, but in reality it's tingling. keywords: ahab; aye; boat; ship; thou; whale cache: chapter-137.txt plain text: chapter-137.txt item: #134 of 134 id: chapter-138 author: None title: chapter-138 date: None words: 277 flesch: 84 summary: After the Parsee's disappearance, the bowman took the place of Ahab's bowman. On the last day, he was tossed from the rocking boat and was picked up by a sail. Rachel, in her search for her missing children, found another orphan. keywords: day cache: chapter-138.txt plain text: chapter-138.txt