        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
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          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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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          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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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          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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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