# curated-moby_dick_by_melville-gutenberg: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called curated-moby_dick_by_melville-gutenberg.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the content of the carrel. The keywords include:

> Ahab; Ship; Sea; Man; Queequeg; Stubb; Head; Time; Sperm; Night; Pip; Line; Leviathan; Water; Bed; Bildad; Oil; Life; Harpooneer; God; Jonah; Whaling; Fish; Flask; Whales; Sun; Leg; Nuee; Bedford; Dead; Bulkington; Pipe; Sword; Dish; Blubber; Skin; Brain; Perseus; Lance; Elephant; Harem; Duke; Idol; Loom; Carpenter; Thunder; Day

## Ahab

> Captain Ahab is the commanding officer of the whaling ship Pequod, as referenced when the steward announces dinner to him. He is deeply obsessed with hunting Moby Dick, studying sea charts nightly to calculate the whale's location. Ahab is characterized by his despotism and the fear he inspires in his crew, who have sworn an oath of revenge alongside him. He lost his leg in a previous encounter with the whale, an event that fuels his relentless quest.

- chapter-018 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-030 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-031 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-036 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-038 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-043 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-046 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-048 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-052 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-102 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-108 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-111 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-115 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-120 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-121 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-126 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-130 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-132 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-134 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-135 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-136 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-137 by None (None) - 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

## Ship

> The provided source does not explicitly define the term "ship" but offers a detailed context of its use within the whaling industry through descriptions of vessels like the Pequod. The narrative describes the activities aboard these ships, such as mending sails, provisioning stores, and the crew working on the rigging. The Pequod and other mentioned ships, such as the Albatross and the Bachelor, are central to the business of whaling, involving the pursuit and processing of whales. Therefore, based on the source, a "ship" is an essential vessel engaged in the whaling trade, serving as a mobile base for the crew's arduous and prolonged maritime endeavors.

- chapter-002 by None (None) - "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
- chapter-010 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-022 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-026 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-037 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-047 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-053 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-054 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-056 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-073 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-075 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-083 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-089 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-098 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-100 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-103 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-117 by None (None) - 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

## Sea

> Based on the source text, the sea is portrayed as both a livelihood for sailors like Ishmael and the Nantucketers, and a profound spiritual place, as seen in Father Mapple's prayer that gives the impression of being "at the bottom of the sea." It is also described in terms of its geography and vastness, such as the Pacific Ocean being depicted as rolling the world's midmost waters. The text further characterizes the sea through its atmospheric effects on sailors, inducing a "spell of sleep" when it is "still and sultry." Finally, the sea serves as the habitat for whales, like the Right Whale and Sperm Whale, which are central to the narrative's whaling activities.

- chapter-003 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-011 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-016 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-058 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-060 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-063 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-094 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-113 by None (None) - 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

## Man

> The provided text does not offer a definition for "man." Instead, it describes a diverse group of individuals, primarily whalemen in a bar-room, and then focuses on specific characters such as Queequeg and Starbuck. The passage characterizes Starbuck as a "staid, steadfast man," but this is a description of his disposition, not a definition of what a man is. The text is narrative and descriptive, not a source for defining the concept of "man."

- chapter-005 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-007 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-012 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-028 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-044 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-093 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-119 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-125 by None (None) - 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

## Queequeg

> Based on the provided text, Queequeg is a native of the island of Kokovoko, where his father was a High Chief and King. He is a harpooneer who performs specialized procedures on whales, requiring him to be lowered from the ship's side. Queequeg is also identified, though met with some disbelief by a captain, as a member of the first Congregational Church. The text further describes him observing a period of fasting and humiliation, referred to as his Ramadan.

- chapter-006 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-014 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-015 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-017 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-019 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-020 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-023 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-074 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-112 by None (None) - 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

## Stubb

> Stubb is described as the second mate on a whale-boat and a native of Cape Cod. He is characterized as good-humored, easy, and careless, notably taking perils with an indifferent air and even keeping a row of pipes in his bunk. The narrative presents him interacting with Flask about a strange dream involving Ahab, and depicts him involved in whaling activities, such as when his whale was killed and towed to the ship. His presence is part of the broader sailing life on the Pequod, which is detailed as cruising the Japanese fishing grounds with long, arduous pursuits of whales.

- chapter-029 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-033 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-050 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-066 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-095 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-116 by None (None) - 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

## Head

> Based on the provided text, "head" refers to the anatomical structure of whales that is specifically analyzed in the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale for scientific observation. The head's features are central to differentiating between these two species, with primary organs including the eyes and ears. A notable characteristic of the Sperm Whale's head is its front, which is described as a dead, blind wall without a single organ, while the mouth is situated entirely beneath it. Lastly, the head contains a distinct part called the "Tun," which Tashtego breaks into using a whip and bucket to lower into a tub.

- chapter-072 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-076 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-077 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-078 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-080 by None (None) - 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

## Time

> Based on the provided source, time is implicitly presented through the comparative aging of whales across geological eras. The text contrasts "present day" whales with those from the "antediluvian" period and the "Tertiary system." It quantitatively measures time through the increasing size of whale skeletons over these epochs, moving from pre-adamite specimens to modern captures. Therefore, time is framed as a historical and geological progression, evidenced by the physical evolution of the whale.

- chapter-106 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-107 by None (None) - 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

## Sperm

> The term "sperm" in the provided source refers specifically to the substance derived from the Sperm Whale. After being harvested, the sperm was described as cooling and crystallizing, requiring it to be squeezed back into a fluid state. It was noted as a sweet and unctuous substance used as a favourite cosmetic. The passage does not provide a biological definition of sperm in a general or human context, focusing solely on this whale-derived product.

- chapter-034 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-081 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-096 by None (None) - 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

## Night

- chapter-004 by None (None) - 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

## Pip

> Since the provided text does not contain a definition of "pip," I cannot answer the question based solely on this source. The source material discusses activities aboard a ship, including singing and the use of a log and line. There is no mention of the term "pip" or an explanation of its meaning within this passage. Therefore, an answer to your question cannot be derived from your specified source.

- chapter-042 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-127 by None (None) - 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

## Line

> "Line" is a rope used in whale fishery, specifically for connecting to harpoons. It is made of materials such as hemp or Manilla rope, with the latter being stronger and more elastic than hemp. This line is connected to harpoons, and it is customary to use two harpoons each with their own line. The purpose of these lines is to attach the harpoons to the whale, and ideally, both harpoons are thrown into the same whale.

- chapter-062 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-065 by None (None) - 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

## Leviathan

- chapter-057 by None (None) - 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

## Water

- chapter-087 by None (None) - 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

## Bed

- chapter-013 by None (None) - 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

## Bildad

- chapter-024 by None (None) - 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

## Oil

> The source text metaphorically compares the oil used to anoint a king at his coronation to a head of salad, emphasizing the ceremonial act of anointing. It explicitly excludes many specific types, such as olive oil, castor oil, or sperm oil, but does not define the exact substance. A separate passage states that a whaleman on the Pequod burns the "purest of oil," which he collects from the ship's try-works. However, the primary text does not provide a concrete, factual definition of "oil" beyond these comparative and descriptive uses.

- chapter-027 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-099 by None (None) - 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

## Life

> Based strictly on the provided text, "life" remains undefined as the source does not explicitly define the term. The text offers glimpses of life through action and suffering, as seen in Perth's chronic injury and the loss of his feet. It is also present in the crew's collective experience, from their celebrations to being startled by a wild, unearthly cry. Ultimately, the passage suggests life involves a complex combination of duty, physical existence, and shared, often unsettling, experiences.

- chapter-040 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-114 by None (None) - 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
- chapter-128 by None (None) - 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

## Harpooneer

- chapter-064 by None (None) - 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

## God

- chapter-068 by None (None) - 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

## Jonah

- chapter-085 by None (None) - 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

## Whaling

- chapter-055 by None (None) - 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

## Fish

- chapter-091 by None (None) - 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

## Flask

- chapter-123 by None (None) - 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

## Whales

- chapter-059 by None (None) - 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

## Sun

- chapter-101 by None (None) - 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

## Leg

- chapter-110 by None (None) - 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

## Nuee

- chapter-001 by None (None) - 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

## Bedford

- chapter-008 by None (None) - 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

## Dead

- chapter-009 by None (None) - 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

## Bulkington

- chapter-025 by None (None) - 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

## Pipe

- chapter-032 by None (None) - 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

## Sword

- chapter-049 by None (None) - 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

## Dish

- chapter-067 by None (None) - 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

## Blubber

- chapter-069 by None (None) - 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

## Skin

- chapter-070 by None (None) - 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

## Brain

- chapter-082 by None (None) - 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

## Perseus

- chapter-084 by None (None) - 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

## Lance

- chapter-086 by None (None) - 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

## Elephant

- chapter-088 by None (None) - 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

## Harem

- chapter-090 by None (None) - 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

## Duke

- chapter-092 by None (None) - 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

## Idol

- chapter-097 by None (None) - 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

## Loom

- chapter-104 by None (None) - 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

## Carpenter

- chapter-109 by None (None) - 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

## Thunder

- chapter-124 by None (None) - 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

## Day

- chapter-138 by None (None) - 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

## Epilogue

For more detail, about this study carrel, see the computed home page. For more detail about study carrels in general, see the read me file.

Created: 2025-11-20