piece of household work which in all times but raging
gales is regularly attended to every evening ; it has been
known to be done in the case of ships actually foundering
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at the time. Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-
usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen ;
some of whom would not willingly drown without first
washing their faces. But in all vessels this broom business
is the prescriptive province of the boys, if boys there be
aboard. Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho
that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the
pumps ; and being the most athletic seaman of them all,
Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of
the gangs ; consequently he should have been freed from
any trivial business not connected with truly nautical
duties, such being the case with his comrades. I mention
all these particulars so that you may understand exactly
how this affair stood between the two men.
' But there was more than this : the order about the
shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult
Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face. Any
man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will understand
this ; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman
fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command.
But as he sat still for a moment, and as he steadfastly
looked into the mate's malignant eye and perceived the
stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-
match silently burning along toward them ; as he in-
stinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and un-
willingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any
already ireful being a repugnance most felt, when felt
at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved this
nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.
' Therefore, in his ordinary tone, only a little broken
by the bodily exhaustion he was temporarily in, he an-
swered him saying that sweeping the deck was not his
business, and he would not do it. And then, without at
all alluding to the shovel, he pointed to three lads as the
customary sweepers ; who, not being billeted at the
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pumps, had done little or nothing all day. To this,
Radney replied with an oath, in a most domineering and
outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his com-
mand ; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lake-
man, with an uplifted cooper's club hammer which he had
snatched from a cask near by.
' Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil
at the pumps, for all his first nameless feeling of forbear-
ance the sweating Steelkilt could but ill brook this bearing
in the mate ; but somehow still smothering the conflagra-
tion within him, without speaking he remained doggedly
rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook
the hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously
commanding him to do his bidding.
4 Steelkilt rose, and slowly retreating round the wind-
lass, steadily followed by the mate with his menacing
hammer, deliberately repeated his intention not to obey.
Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest
effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his
twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated
man ; but it was to no purpose. And in this way the
two went once slowly round the windlass ; when, resolved
at last no longer to retreat, bethinking him that he had
now forborne as much as comported with his humour,
the Lakeman paused on the hatches and thus spoke to
the officer :
1 " Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that
hammer away, or look to yourself." But the predestin-
ated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman
stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch
of his teeth ; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable
maledictions. Retreating not the thousandth part of an
inch ; stabbing him in the eye with the unflinching
poniard of his glance, Steelkilt, clenching his right hand
behind him and creepingly drawing it back, told his perse-
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cutor that if the hammer but grazed his cheek he (Steel-
kilt) would murder him. But, gentlemen, the fool had
been branded for the slaughter by the gods. Immediately
the hammer touched the cheek ; the next instant the
lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head ; he fell on
the hatch spouting blood like a whale.
* Ere the cry could go aft Steelkilt was shaking one of
the backstays leading far aloft to where two of his com-
rades were standing their mast-heads. They were both
Canallers.
' " Canallers ! " cried Don Pedro. " We have seen
many whale -ships in our harbours, but never heard of
your Canallers. Pardon : who and what are they ? "
' " Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our
grand Erie Canal. You must have heard of it."
' " Nay, Senor ; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most
lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your
vigorous North."
' " Ay ? Well then, Don, refill my cup. Your
chicha 's very fine ; and ere proceeding further I will tell
ye what our Canallers are ; for such information may
throw side-light upon my story."
4 For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through
the entire breadth of the state of New York ; through
numerous populous cities and most thriving villages ;
through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent,
cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility ; by billiard-
room and bar-room ; through the holy-of-holies of great
forests ; on Roman arches over Indian rivers ; through
sun and shade ; by happy hearts or broken ; through
all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk
counties ; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels,
whose spires stand almost like milestones, flows one con-
tinual stream of Venetianly corrupt and often lawless life.
There 's your true Ashantee, gentlemen ; there howl your
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pagans ; where you ever find them, next door to you ;
under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising
lee of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is
often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they
ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentle-
men, most abound in holiest vicinities.
4 " Is that a friar passing ? " said Don Pedro, looking
downward into the crowded plaza, with humorous
concern.
' " Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's In-
quisition wanes in Lima," laughed Don Sebastian. " Pro-
ceed, Senor."
' " A moment ! Pardon ! " cried another of the com-
pany. " In the name of all us Limeese, I but desire to
express to you, sir sailor, that we have by no means over-
looked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima
for distant Venice in your corrupt comparison. Oh ! do
not bow and look surprised ; you know the proverb all
along this coast 'Corrupt as Lima.' It but bears out
your saying, too ; churches more plentiful than billiard-
tables, and forever open and ' Corrupt as Lima.' So,
too, Venice ; I have been there ; the holy city of the
blessed evangelist, St. Mark ! St. Dominic, purge it !
Your cup ! Thanks : here I refill ; now, you pour out
again."
1 Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the
Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly
and picturesquely wicked is he. Like Mark Antony, for
days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he
indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked
Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck.
But ashore, all this effeminacy is dashed. The brigandish
guise which the Canaller so proudly sports, his slouched
and gaily -ribboned hat, betoken his grand features. A
terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through
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which he floats ; his swart visage and bold swagger are
not unshunned in cities. Once a vagabond on his own
canal, I have received good turns from one of these
Canallers ; I thank him heartily ; would fain be not
ungrateful ; but it is often one of the prime redeeming
qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has
as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to
plunder a wealthy one. In sum, gentlemen, what the
wildness of this canal life is, is emphatically evinced by
this ; that our wild whale-fishery contains so many of
its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of
mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by
our whaling-captains. Nor does it at all diminish the
curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our
rural boys and young men born along its line, the pro-
bationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole tran-
sition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field,
and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric
seas.
' " I see ! I see ! " impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro,
spilling his chicha upon his silvery ruffles. " No need to
travel ! The world 5 s one Lima. I had thought, now,
that at your temperate North the generations were cold
and holy as the hills. But the story."
' I left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman shook the
backstay. Hardly had he done so, when he was sur-
rounded by the three junior mates and the four har-
pooneers, who all crowded him to the deck. But sliding
down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers
rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out
of it toward the forecastle. Others of the sailors joined
with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil ensued ;
while standing out of harm's way, the valiant captain
danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his
officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke
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him along to the quarter-deck. At intervals, he ran close
up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying
into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the
object of his resentment. But Steelkilt and his desper-
adoes were too much for them all ; they succeeded in
gaining the forecastle deck, where, hastily slewing about
three or four large casks in a line with the windlass, these
sea-Parisians entrenched themselves behind the barricade.
' " Come out of that, ye pirates ! " roared the captain,
now menacing them with a pistol in each hand, just
brought to him by the steward. " Come out of that, ye
cut -throats ! "
' Steelkilt leaped on the barricade, and striding up and
down there, defied the worst the pistols could do ; but
gave the captain to understand distinctly, that his (Steel-
kilt's) death would be the signal for a murderous mutiny
on the part of all hands. Fearing in his heart lest this
might prove but too true, the captain a little desisted, but
still commanded the insurgents instantly to return to
their duty.
' " Will you promise not to touch us, if we do ? "
demanded their ringleader.
' " Turn to ! turn to ! I make no promise ; to your
duty ! Do you want to sink the ship, by knocking off
at a time like this ? Turn to ! " and he once more raised
a pistol.
' " Sink the ship ! " cried Steelkilt. " Ay, let her
sink. Not a man of us turns to, unless you swear not to
raise a rope-yarn against us. What say ye, men 1 "
turning to his comrades. A fierce cheer was their response.
' The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the
while keeping his eye on the captain, and jerking out such
sentences as these : "It 's not our fault ; we didn't
want it ; I told him to take his hammer away ; it was
boy 3 s business ; he might have known me before this ;
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I told him not to prick the buffalo ; I believe I have broken
a finger here against his cursed jaw ; ain't those mincing-
knives down in the forecastle there, men ? look to those
handspikes, my hearties. Captain, by God, look to
yourself ; say the word ; don't be a fool ; forget it all ;
we are ready to turn to ; treat us decently, and we 're
your men ; but we won't be flogged."
' " Turn to ! I make no promises, turn to, I say ! "
' " Look ye, now," cried the Lake man, flinging out his
arm toward him, " there are a few of us here (and I am
one of them) who have shipped for the cruise, d' ye see ;
now as you well know, sir, we can claim our discharge as
soon as the anchor is down ; so we don't want a row ; it 's
not our interest ; we want to be peaceable ; we are ready
to work, but we won't be flogged."
' " Turn to ! " roared the captain.

6 " Down into the forecastle then, down with ye, I '11
keep ye there till ye 're sick of it. Down ye go."
' " Shall we ? " cried the ringleader to his men. Most
of them were against it ; but at length, in obedience to
Steelkilt, they preceded him down into their dark den,
growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
' As the Lakeman's bare head was just level with the
planks, the captain and his posse leaped the barricade,
and rapidly drawing over the slide of the scuttle, planted
their group of hands upon it, and loudly called for the
steward to bring the heavy brass padlock belonging to the
companion-way. Then opening the slide a little, the
captain whispered something down the crack, closed it,
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and turned the key upon them ten in number leaving
on deck some twenty or more, who thus far had remained
neutral.
' All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the
officers, forward and aft, especially about the forecastle
scuttle and fore-hatchway : at which last place it was
feared the insurgents might emerge, after breaking through
the bulkhead below. But the hours of darkness passed
in peace ; the men who still remained at their duty toiling
hard at the pumps, whose clinking and clanking at inter-
vals through the dreary night dismally resounded through
the ship.
' At sunrise the captain went forward, and knocking
on the deck, summoned the prisoners to work ; but with
a yell they refused. Water was then lowered down to
them, and a couple of handfuls of biscuit were tossed after
it ; when again turning the key upon them and pocketing
it, the captain returned to the quarter-deck. Twice
every day for three days this was repeated ; but on the
fourth morning a confused wrangling, and then a scuffling
was heard, as the customary summons was delivered ;
and suddenly four men burst up from the forecastle,
saying they were ready to turn to. The fetid closeness
of the ah*, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some
fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to
surrender at discretion. Emboldened by this, the captain
reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted
up to him a terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake
himself where he belonged. On the fifth morning three
others of the mutineers bolted up into the air from the
desperate arms below that sought to restrain them.
Only three were left.
' " Better turn to, now ? " said the captain, with a
heartless jeer.

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4 " Oh ! certainly," said the captain, and the key clicked.
' It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the
defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the
mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened
by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels
of despair ; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two
Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to
burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the
garrison ; and armed with their keen mincing-knives
(long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each
end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail ; and if
by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship.
For himself, he would do this, he said, whether they joined
him or not. That was the last night he should spend in
that den. But the scheme met with no opposition on
the part of the other two ; they swore they were ready for
that, or for any other mad thing, for anything in short
but a surrender. And what was more, they each insisted
upon being the first man on deck, when the time to make
the rush should come. But to this their leader as fiercely
objected, reserving that priority for himself ; particularly
as his two comrades would not yield, the one to the other,
in the matter ; and both of them could not be first, for
the ladder would but admit one man at a time. And
here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants must
come out.
' Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each
in his own separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would
seem, upon the same piece of treachery, namely : to be
foremost in breaking out, in order to be the first of the
three, though the last of the ten, to surrender ; and there-
by secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct
might merit. But when Steelkilt made known his deter-
mination still to lead them to the last, they in some way, by
some subtle chemistry of villainy, mixed their before secret
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treacheries together ; and when their leader fell into a
doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in three
sentences ; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged
him with cords ; and shrieked out for the captain at
midnight.
' Thinking murder at hand, and smelling in the dark
for the blood, he and all his armed mates and harpooneers
rushed for the forecastle. In a few minutes the scuttle
was opened, and, bound hand and foot, the still struggling
ringleader was shoved up into the air by his perfidious
allies, who at once claimed the honour of securing a man
who had been fully ripe for murder. But all these were
collared, and dragged along the deck like dead cattle ; and,
side by side, were seized up into the mizen rigging, like
three quarters of meat, and there they hung till morning.
 "
' At sunrise he summoned all hands ; and separating
those who had rebelled from those who had taken no
part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good
mind to flog them all round thought, upon the whole,
he would do so he ought to justice demanded it ; but
for the present, considering their timely surrender, he
would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly
administered in the vernacular.
' " But as for you, ye carrion rogues," turning to the
three men in the rigging " for you, I mean to mince ye
up for the try -pots " ; and, seizing a rope, he applied it
with all his might to the backs of the two traitors, till
they yelled no more, but lifelessly hung their heads side-
ways, as the two crucified thieves are drawn.
4 " My wrist is sprained with ye ! " he cried, at last ;
" but there is still rope enough left for you, my fine
bantam, that wouldn't give up. Take that gag from his
mouth, and let us hear what he can say for himself."
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' For a moment the exhausted mutineer made a tremu-
lous motion of his cramped jaws, and then painfully
twisting round his head, said in a sort of hiss, " What I
say is this and mind it well if you flog me, I murder
you ! "
' " Say ye so ? then see how ye frighten me " and
the captain drew off with the rope to strike.
' " Best not," hissed the Lakeman.
' " But I must," and the rope was once more drawn
back for the stroke.
* Steelkilt here hissed out something, inaudible to all
but the captain ; who, to the amazement of all hands,
started back, paced the deck rapidly two or three times,
and then suddenly throwing down his rope, said, " I won't
do it let him go cut him down : d' ye hear ? "
' But as the junior mates were hurrying to execute the
order, a pale man, with a bandaged head, arrested them
Radney the chief mate. Ever since the blow, he had
lain in his berth ; but that morning, hearing the tumult
on the deck, he had crept out, and thus far had watched
the whole scene. Such was the state of his mouth, that
he could hardly speak ; but mumbling something about
his being willing and able to do what the captain dared not
attempt, he snatched the rope and advanced to his pinioned
foe.

' " So I am, but take that." The mate was in the very
act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
He paused : and then pausing no more, made good his
word, spite of Steelkilt 's threat, whatever that might have
been. The three men were then cut down, all hands were
turned to, and, sullenly worked by the moody seamen, the
iron pumps clanged as before.
' Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired
below, a clamour was heard in the forecastle : and the
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two trembling traitors running up, besieged the cabin
door, saying they durst not consort with the crew. En-
treaties, cuffs, and kicks could not drive them back, so
at their own instance they were put down in the ship's run
for salvation. Still, no sign of mutiny reappeared among
the rest. On the contrary, it seemed, that mainly at
Steelkilt's instigation, they had resolved to maintain
the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and,
when the ship reached port, desert her in a body. But in
order to ensure the speediest end to the voyage, they all
agreed to another thing namely, not to sing out for
whales, in case any should be discovered. For, spite of
her leak, and spite of all her other perils, the Town-Ho
still maintained her mast-heads, and her captain was just
as willing to lower for a fish that moment, as on the day
his craft first struck the cruising -ground ; and Radney
the mate was quite as ready to change his berth for a boat,
and with his bandaged mouth seek to gag in death the
vital jaw of the whale.
' But though the Lakeman had induced the seamen to
adopt this sort of passiveness in their conduct, he kept
his own counsel (at least till all was over) concerning his
own proper and private revenge upon the man who had
stung him in the ventricles of his heart. He was in
Radney the chief mate's watch ; and as if the infatuated
man sought to run more than half-way to meet his doom,
after the scene at the rigging, he insisted, against the
express counsel of the captain, upon resuming the head
of his watch at night. Upon this, and one or two other
circumstances, Steelkilt systematically built the plan of his
revenge.
' During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way
of sitting on the bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning
his arm upon the gunwale of the boat which was hoisted
up there, a little above the ship's side. In this attitude,
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it was well known, he sometimes dozed. There was a
considerable vacancy between the boat and the ship, and
down between this was the sea. Steelkilt calculated his
time, and found that his next trick at the helm would
come round at two o'clock, in the morning of the third
day from that in which he had been betrayed. At his
leisure, he employed the interval in braiding something
very carefully in his watches below.
' " What are you making there ? " said a shipmate.
c " What do you think ? what does it look like ? "
' " Like a lanyard for your bag ; but it 's an odd one,
seems to me."
' " Yes, rather oddish," said the Lakeman, holding it
at arm's length before him ; " but I think it will answer.
Shipmate, I haven't enough twine, have you any ? "
' But there was none in the forecastle.
' " Then I must get some from old Had " ; and he rose
to go aft.
' " You don't mean to go a-begging to him I " said a
sailor.
' " Why not ? Do you think he won't do me a turn,
when it 's to help himself in the end, shipmate ? " and
going to the mate, he looked at him quietly, and asked
him for some twine to mend his hammock. It was given
him neither twine nor lanyard were seen again ; but
the next night an iron ball, closely netted, partly rolled
from the pocket of the Lakeman's monkey-jacket, as he
was tucking the coat into his hammock for a pillow.
 Yet complete
revenge he had, and without being the avenger. For by
a mysterious fatality, Heaven itself seemed to step in to
take out of his hands into its own the damning thing he
would have done.
1 It was just between daybreak and sunrise of the
morning of the second day, when they were washing down
the decks, that a stupid Teneriffe man, drawing water in
the main-chains, all at once shouted out, " There she rolls !
there she rolls ! " Jesu, what a whale ! It was Mahv^JQick.
4 " Moby-Dick ! " cried Don Sebastian ; " St. Dominic !
sir sailor, but do whales have christenings ? Whom call
you Moby-Dick ? "
4 " A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal
monster, Don ; but that would be too long a story."
4 " How ? how ? " cried all the young Spaniards,
crowding.
' " Nay, Dons, Dons nay, nay ! I cannot rehearse
that now. Let me get more into the air, sirs."
4 " Chicha ! the chicha ! " cried Don Pedro ; " our
vigorous friend looks faint ; fill up his empty glass ! "
4 No need, gentlemen ; one moment, and I proceed.
Now, gentlemen, so suddenly perceiving the snowy whale
within fifty yards of the ship forgetful of the compact
among the crew in the excitement of the moment, the
Teneriffe man had instinctively and involuntarily lifted
his voice for the monster, though for some little time past
it had been plainly beheld from the three sullen mast-heads.
All was now a frenzy. " The White Whale the White
Whale ! " was the cry from captain, mates, and har-
pooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all
anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish ; while
the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appal-
ling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a hori-
zontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living
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opal in the blue morning sea. Gentlemen, a strange
fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if
verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.
The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate, and when
fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him, while Radney
stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or slacken
the line, at the word of command. Moreover, when the
four boats were lowered, the mate's got the start ; and
none howled more fiercely with delight than did Steelkilt,
as he strained at his oar. After a stiff pull, their har-
pooneer got fast, and, spear in hand, Radney sprang to
the bow. He was always a furious man, it seems, in a
boat. And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him
on the whale's topmost back. Nothing loath, his bows-
man hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that
blent two whitenesses together ; till of a sudden the boat
struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled
out the standing mate. That instant, as he fell on the
whale's slippery back, the boat righted, and was dashed
aside by the swell, while Radney was tossed over into the
sea, on the other flank of the whale . He struck out through
the spray, and, for an instant, was dimly seen through
that veil, wildly seeking to remove himself from the eye
of Moby-Dick. But the whale rushed round in a sudden
maelstrom ; seized the swimmer between his jaws ; and
rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and
went down.
' Meantime, at the first tap of the boat's bottom, the
Lakeman had slackened the line, so as to drop astern from
the whirlpool ; calmly looking on, he thought his own
thoughts. But a sudden, terrific, downward jerking
of the boat, quickly brought his knife to the line. He
cut it ; and the whale was free. But, at some distance,
Moby-Dick rose again, with some tatters of Radney 's
red woollen shirt caught in the teeth that had destroyed
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him. All four boats gave chase again ; but the whale
eluded them, and finally wholly disappeared.
' In good time, the Town-Ho reached her port a savage,
solitary place where no civilised creature resided.
There, headed by the Lake man, all but five or six of the
foremast-men deliberately deserted among the palms ;
eventually, as it turned out, seizing a large double war-
canoe of the savages, and setting sail for some other
harbour.
4 The ship's company being reduced to but a handful,
the captain called upon the Islanders to assist him in the
laborious business of heaving down the ship to stop the
leak. But to such unresting vigilance over their danger-
ous allies was this small band of whites necessitated, both
by night and by day, and so extreme was the hard work
they underwent, that upon the vessel being ready again
for sea, they were in such a weakened condition that the
captain durst not put off with them in so heavy a vessel.
After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the
ship as far off shore as possible ; loaded and ran out his
two cannon from the bows ; stacked his muskets on the
poop ; and warning the Islanders not to approach the
ship at their peril, took one man with him, and setting
the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight before the
wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure
a reinforcement to his crew.
' On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was
descried, which seemed to have touched at a low isle of
corals. He steered away from it ; but the savage craft
bore down on him ; and soon the voice of Steelkilt hailed
him to heave to, or he would run him under water. The
captain presented a pistol. With one foot on each prow
of the yoked war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to
scorn ; assuring him that if the pistol so much as clicked
in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and foam.
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' " What do you want of me ? " cried the captain.
' " Where are you bound ? and for what are you
bound ? " demanded Steelkilt ; "no lies."
' " I am bound to Tahiti for more men."
' " Very good. Let me board you a moment I come
in peace."
 Now,
repeat after me. As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear
to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six
days. If I do not, may lightnings strike me ! "
' " A pretty scholar," laughed the Lakeman. " Adios,
Senor ! " and leaping into the sea, he swam back to his
comrades.
' Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and
drawn up to the roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt
made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his
own place of destination. There, luck befriended him ;
two ships were about to sail for France, and were provi-
dentially in want of precisely that number of men which
the sailor headed. They embarked ; and so forever got
the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded
to work them legal retribution.
' Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-
boat arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of
the more civilised Tahitians, who had been somewhat
used to the sea. Chartering a small native schooner, he
returned with them to his vessel ; and finding all right
there, again resumed his cruisings.
' Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know ; but
upon the island of Nantucket, the widow of Radney still
turns to the sea which refuses to give up its dead ; still
in dreams sees the awful White Whale that destroyed
him. * * *
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' " Are you through ? " said Don Sebastian quietly.
1 " I am, Don."
6 " Then I entreat you, tell me if to the best of your
own convictions, this your story is in substance really
true ? It is so passing wonderful ! Did you get it from an
unquestionable source ? Bear with me if I seem to press."
' " Also bear with all of us, sir sailor ; for we all join
in Don Sebastian's suit," cried the company, with exceed-
ing interest.
' " Is there a copy of the Holy Evangelists hi the Golden
Inn, gentlemen ? "
' " Nay," said Don Sebastian ; " but I know a worthy
priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me. I
go for it ; but are you well advised ? this may grow too
serious."
' " Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don ? "
' " Though there are no Auto-da-Fes in Lima now,"
said one of the company to another ; "I fear our sailor
friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy. Let us withdraw
more out of the moonlight. I see no need of this."
' " Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian ;
but may I also beg that you will be particular in procuring
the largest -sized Evangelists you can."
*******
' " This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,"
said Don Sebastian gravely, returning with a tall and
solemn figure.
' " Let me remove my hat. Now, venerable priest,
further into the light, and hold the Holy Book before me
that I may touch it.
' " So help me Heaven, and on my honour the story I
have told ye, gentlemen, is in substance and its great
items, true. I know it to be true ; it happened on this
ball ; I trod the ship ; I knew the crew ; I have seen and
talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney."
CHAPTER LV
OF THE MONSTROUS PICTURES OF WHALES
I SHALL ere long paint to you as well as one can without
canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he
actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his
own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the
whale -ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there.
It may be worth while, therefore, previously to advert
to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even
down to the present day confidently challenge the faith
of the landsman. It is time to set the world right in
this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all
wrong.
It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial
delusions will be found among the oldest Hindu, Egyptian,
and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive
but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings
of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields,
medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in
scales of chain-armour like Saladin's, and a helmeted
head like St. George's ; ever since then has something
of the same sort of licence prevailed, not only in most
popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific
presentations of him.
Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait
anyways 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 immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits,
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every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages
before any of them actually came into being. No wonder,
then, that in some sort our noble profession of whaling
should have been there shadowed forth. The Hindu
whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the
wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of
leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar. But
though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as
only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section
of him is all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail
of an anaconda a than the broad palms of the true whale's
majestic flukes.
But go to the old galleries, and look now at a great
Christian painter's portrait of this fish ; for he succeeds
no better than the antediluvian Hindu. It is Guide's
picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-
monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of
such a strange creature as that ? Nor does Hogarth, in
painting the same scene in his own ' Perseus Descending,'
make out one whit better. The huge corpulence of that
Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely
drawing one inch of water. It has a sort of howdah on its
back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the
billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate
leading from the Thames by water into the Tower. Then,
there are the Prodromus whales of old Scotch Sibbald,
and Jonah's whale, as depicted in the prints of old Bibles
and the cuts of old primers. What shall be said of these ?
As for the bookbinder's whale winding like a vine-stalk
round the stock of a descending anchor as stamped and
gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both
old and new that is a very picturesque but purely
fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures
on antique vases. Though universally denominated a
dolphin, I nevertheless call this bookbinder's fish an
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attempt at a whale ; because it was so intended when the
device was first introduced. It was introduced by an old
Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century,
during the Revival of Learning ; and in those days, and
even down to a comparatively late period, dolphins were
popularly supposed to be a species of the leviathan.
In the vignettes and other embellishments of some
ancient books you will at times meet with very curious
touches at the whale, where all manner of spouts, jets
d'eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and Baden-Baden,
come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the
title-page of the original edition of the Advancement of
Learning you will find some curious whales.
But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us
glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be
sober, scientific delineations, by those who know. In
old Harris's collection of voyages there are some plates
of whales extracted from a Dutch book of voyages, A.D.
1671, entitled A Whaling Voyage to Spitzbergen in the ship
Jonas in the Whale, Peter Peterson of Friesland, master.
In one of those plates the whales, like great rafts of
logs, are represented lying among ice-isles, with white
bears running over their living backs. In another
plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing
the whale with perpendicular flukes.
Then again, there is an imposing quarto, written by one
Captain Colnett, a post-captain in the English navy,
entitled A Voyage round Cape Horn into the South Seas,
for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries.
In this book is an outline purporting to be a ' Picture of a
Physeter or Spermaceti whale, drawn by scale from one
killed on the coast of Mexico, August 1793, and hoisted
on deck.' I doubt not the captain had this veracious
picture taken for the benefit of his marines. To mention
but one thing about it, let me say that it has an eye which
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applied, according to the accompanying scale, to a full-
grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a
bow- window some five feet long. Ah, my gallant cap-
tain, why did ye not give us Jonah looking out of that eye !
Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural
History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from
the same heinousness of mistake. Look at that popular
work Goldsmith's Animated Nature. In the abridged
London edition of 1807, there are plates of an alleged
'whale' and a 'narwhale.' I do not wish to seem
inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an
amputated sow ; and, as for the nar whale, one glimpse at
it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century
such a hippogrrff could be palmed for genuine upon any
intelligent public of schoolboys.
Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lace-
pede, a great naturalist, published a scientific systematised
whale book, wherein are several pictures of the different
species of the leviathan. All these are not only incorrect,
but the picture of the Mysticetus or Greenland whale
(that is to say, the right whale), even Scoresby, a long-
experienced man as touching that species, declares not
to have its counterpart in nature.
But the placing of the cap -sheaf to all this blundering
business was reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier,
brother to the famous Baron. In 1836, he published a
Natural History of Whales, in which he gives what he
calls a picture of the sperm whale. Before showing that
picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for
your summary retreat from Nantucket. In a word,
Frederick Cuvier's sperm whale is not a sperm whale,
but a squash. Of course, he never had the benefit of a
whaling voyage (such men seldom have), but whence he
derived that picture, who can tell ? Perhaps he got it
as his scientific predecessor in the same field, Desmarest,
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got one of his authentic abortions ; that is, from a Chinese
drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil
those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us.
As for the sign-painters' whales seen in the streets
hanging over the shops of oil-dealers, what shall be said
of them ? They are generally Richard in. whales, with
dromedary humps, and very savage ; breakfasting on
three or four sailor tarts, that is whale-boats full of
mariners : their deformities floundering in seas of blood
and blue paint.
But these manifold mistakes in depicting the whale are
not so very surprising after all. Consider ! Most of the
scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded
fish ; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a
wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly repre-
sent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of
hull and spars. Though elephants have stood for their
full-lengths, the living leviathan has never yet fairly
floated himself for his portrait. The living whale, in his
full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in
unfathomable waters ; and afloat the vast bulk of him
is out of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship ; and
out of that element it is a thing eternally impossible for
mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to
preserve all his mighty swells and undulations. And,
not to speak of the highly presumable difference of con-
tour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown
Platonian leviathan ; yet, even in the case of one of those
young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such is
then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of
him, that his precise expression the devil himself could
not catch.
But it may be fancied, that from the naked skeleton
of the stranded whale, accurate hints may be derived
touching his true form. Not at all. For it is one of the
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more curious things about this leviathan, that his skele-
ton gives very little idea of his general shape. Though
Jeremy Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra
in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys
the idea of a burly -browed utilitarian old gentleman, with
all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics ; yet
nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's
articulated bones. In fact, as the great Hunter says, the
mere skeleton of the whale bears the same relation to the
fully invested and padded animal as the insect does to
the chrysalis that so roundingly envelops it. This peculi-
arity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of
this book will be incidentally shown. It is also very
curiously displayed in the side fin, the bones of which
almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand,
minus only the thumb. This fin has four regular bone-
fingers, the index, middle, ring, and little finger. But all
these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering,
as the human fingers in an artificial covering. ' However
recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us/ said
humorous Stubb one day, ' he can never be truly said to
handle us without mittens.'
For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it,
you must needs conclude that the great leviathan is that
one creature in the world which must remain unpainted
to the last. True, one portrait may hit the mark much
nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very
considerable degree of exactness. So there is no earthly
way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks
like. And the only mode in which you can derive even
a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a-whaling
yourself ; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being
eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to
me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity
touching this leviathan.
CHAPTER LVI
OF THE LESS ERRONEOUS PICTURES OF WHALES, AND THE
TRUE PICTURES OF WHALING SCENES
IN connection with the monstrous pictures of whales, I
am strongly tempted here to enter upon those still more
monstrous stories of them which are to be found in certain
books, both ancient and modern, especially hi Pliny,
Purchas, Hakluyt, Harris, Cuvier, etc. But I pass that
matter by.
I know of only four published outlines of the great
sperm whale : Colnett's, Huggins's, Frederick Cuvier 's,
and Beale's. In the previous chapter Colnett and Cuvier
have been referred to. Huggins's is far better than theirs ;
but, by great odds, Beale's is the best. All Beale's draw-
ings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure
in the picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping
his second chapter. His frontispiece, boats attacking
sperm whales, though no doubt calculated to excite the
civil scepticism of some parlour men, is admirably correct
and lifelike in its general effect. Some of the sperm
whale drawings in J. Ross Browne are pretty correct in
contour ; but they are wretchedly engraved. That is
not his fault, though.
Of the right whale, the best outline pictures are in
Scoresby ; but they are drawn on too small a scale to
convey a desirable impression. He has but one picture
of whaling scenes, and this is a sad deficiency, because it
is by such pictures only, when at all well done, that you
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can derive anything like a truthful idea of the living whale
as seen by his living hunters.
But, taken for all in all, by far the finest, though in some
details not the most correct, presentations of whales and
whaling scenes to be anywhere found, are two large
French engravings, well executed, and taken from paint-
ings by one Garnery. Respectively, they represent
attacks on the sperm and right whale. In the first en-
graving a noble sperm whale is depicted in full majesty
of might, just risen beneath the boat from the profundities
of the ocean, and bearing high in the air upon his back the
terrific wreck of the stoven planks. The prow of the boat
is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon
the monster's spine ; and standing in that prow, for that
one single incomputable flash of time, you behold an oars-
man, half shrouded by the incensed boiling spout of the
whale, and in the act of leaping, as if from a precipice.
The action of the whole thing is wonderfully good and true.
The half -emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea ; the
wooden poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it ;
the heads of the swimming crew are scattered about the
whale in contrasting expressions of affright ; while hi the
black stormy distance the ship is bearing down upon the
scene. Serious fault might be found with the anatomical
details of this whale, but let that pass ; since, for the life
of me, I could not draw so good a one.
In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of draw-
ing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running right
whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some
mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs. His jets
are erect, full, and black like soot ; so that from so
abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there
must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below.
Sea-fowls are pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and
other sea-candies and macaroni, which the right whale
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sometimes carries on his pestilent back. And all the
while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the
deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake,
and causing the slight boat to rock in the swells like a
skiff caught nigh the paddle-wheels of an ocean steamer.
Thus, the foreground is all raging commotion ; but
behind, in admirable artistic contrast, is the glassy
level of a sea becalmed, the drooping unstarched sails
of the powerless ship, and the inert mass of a dead
whale, a conquered fortress, with the flag of capture
lazily hanging from the whale-pole inserted into his
spout -hole.
Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not. But
my life for it he was either practically conversant with his
subject, or else marvellously tutored by some experienced
whaleman. The French are the lads for painting action.
Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe, and where
will you find such a gallery of living and breathing com-
motion on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles ;
where the beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the
consecutive great battles of France ; where every sword
seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the successive
armed kings and emperors dash by, like a charge of
crowned centaurs ?
The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the
picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced
in what paintings and engravings they have of their
whaling scenes. With not one tenth of England's experi-
ence in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that
of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both
nations with the only finished sketches at all capable
of conveying the real spirit of the whale-hunt. For the
most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen
seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical
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outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale ;
which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is
about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.
Even Scoresby, the justly renowned right whaleman,
after giving us a stiff full-length of the Greenland whale,
and three or four delicate miniatures of narwhales and
porpoises, treats us to a series of classical engravings of
boat-hooks, chopping-knives, and grapnels ; and with the
microscopic diligence of a Leuwenhoeck submits to the
inspection of a shivering world ninety-six facsimiles of
magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement
to the excellent voyager (I honour him for a veteran), but
in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not
to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken
before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.
In addition to those fine engravings from Garnery, there
are two other French engravings worthy of note, by some-
one who subscribes himself ' H. Durand.' One of them,
though not precisely adapted to our present purpose,
nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts. It is a
quiet noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific ; a French
whaler anchored, inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking
water on board ; the loosened sails of the ship, and the
long leaves of the palms in the background, both drooping
together in the breezeless air. The effect is very fine,
when considered with reference to its presenting the hardy
fishermen under one of their few aspects of oriental
repose. The other engraving is quite a different affair :
the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in the very heart
of the leviathanic life, with a right whale alongside ; the
vessel (in the act of cutting -in) hove over to the monster
as if to a quay ; and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from
this scene of activity, is about giving chase to whales in
the distance. The harpoons and lances lie levelled for
use ; three oarsmen are just setting the mast in its hole ;
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while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands
half -erect out of the water, like a rearing horse. From
the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale
is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies ; and
to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of
squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the
excited seamen.
CHAPTER LVII
OF WHALES IN PAINT ; IN TEETH ; IN WOOD ; IN SHEET-
IRON ; IN STONE ; IN MOUNTAINS ; IN STARS
ON Tower Hill, as you go down to the London docks, you
may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors
say) holding a painted board before him, representing
the tragic scene in which he lost his leg. There are three
whales and three boats ; and one of the boats (presumed
to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is
being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale. Any
time these ten years, they tell me, has that man held up
that picture, and exhibited that stump to an incredulous
world. But the time of his justification has now come.
His three whales are as good whales as were ever published
in Wapping, at any rate ; and his stump as unquestion-
able a stump as any you will find in the Western clearings.
But, though forever mounted on that stump, never a
stump-speech does the poor whaleman make ; but, with
downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own
amputation.
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and
New Bedford, and Sag Harbour, you will come across
lively sketches of whales and whaling scenes, graven by
the fishermen themselves on sperm whale-teeth, or ladies'
busks wrought out of the right whalebone, and other like
skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous
little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out
of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking
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implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering
business. But, in general, they toil with their jack-
knives alone ; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of
the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please,
in the way of a mariner's fancy.
Long exile from Christendom and civilisation inevitably
restores a man to that condition in which God placed him,
i.e. what is called savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as
much a savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a savage,
owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals ;
and ready at any moment to rebel against him.
Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage
in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry.
An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full
multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a
trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon. For,
with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that
miraculous intricacy of wooden net work has been achieved ;
and it has cost steady years of steady application.
As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-
savage. With the same marvellous patience, and with
the same single shark's tooth, of his one poor jack-knife,
he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as
workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of
design, as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield ; and full
of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the prints of that
fine old Dutch savage, Albert Durer.
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the
small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are
frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers.
Some of them are done with much accuracy.
At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see
brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the roadside
door. When the porter is sleepy, the anvil-headed whale
would be best. But these knocking whales are seldom
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remarkable as faithful essays. On the spires of some old-
fashioned churches you will see sheet-iron whales placed
there for weather-cocks ; but they are so elevated, and
besides that are to all intents and purposes so labelled
with ' Hands off ! ' you cannot examine them closely
enough to decide upon their merit.
In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base
of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic
groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images
as of the petrified forms of the leviathan partly merged
in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a
surf of green surges.
Then, again, in mountainous countries where the
traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical
heights ; here and there from some lucky point of view
you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of whales
defined along the undulating ridges. But you must be a
thorough whaleman, to see these sights ; and not only
that, but if you wish to return to such a sight again, you
must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and
longitude of your first standpoint, else so chance-like are
such observations of the hills, that your precise, previous
standpoint would require a laborious rediscovery ; like
the Soloma islands, which still remain incognita, though
once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera
chronicled them.
Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you
fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and
boats in pursuit of them ; as when long filled with
thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked
in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I
chased leviathan round and round the Pole with the
revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to
me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have
boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against
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the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydras
and the Flying Fish.
With a frigate's anchors for my bridle -bits and fasces
of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale
and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled
heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped
beyond my mortal sight !
CHAPTER LVII1
BRIT
STEERING north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with
vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance upon
which the right whale largely feeds. For leagues and
leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be
sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat.
On the second day, numbers of right whales were seen,
who, secure from the attack of a sperm whaler like the
Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly swam through the brit,
which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that wondrous
Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner
separated from the water that escaped at the lip.
As morning mowers, who side by side slowly arid
seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet
grass of marshy meads ; even so these monsters swam,
making a strange, grassy, cutting sound ; and leaving
behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow
sea. 1
But it was only the sound they made as they parted
the brit which at all reminded one of mowers. Seen from
the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were
stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more
like lifeless masses of rock than anything else. And as
in the great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a
1 That part of the sea known among whalemen as the ' Brazil Banks '
does not bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, because of
there being shallows and soundings there, but because of this remarkable
meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast drifts of brit continually
floating in those latitudes, where the right whale is often chased.
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BRIT 347
distance will sometimes pass on the plains recumbent
elephants without knowing them to be such, taking them
for bare, blackened elevations of the soil ; even so, often,
with him who for the first time beholds this species of
the leviathans of the sea. And even when recognised at
last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really
to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can
possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life
that lives in a dog or a horse.
Indeed, in other respects, you can hardly regard any
creatures of the deep with the same feelings that you do
those of the shore. For though some old naturalists have
maintained that all creatures of the land are of their kind
in the sea ; and though taking a broad general view of
the thing, this may very well be ; yet coming to specialities,
where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish that
in disposition answers to the sagacious kindness of the
dog ? The accursed shark alone can in any generic
respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
But though, to landsmen in general, the native in-
habitants of the seas have ever been regarded with
emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling ; though we
know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that
Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to
discover his one superficial western one ; though, by vast
odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have im-
memorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and
hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the
waters ; though but a moment's consideration will teach,
that however baby man may brag of his science and skill,
and however much, in a flattering future, that science and
skill may augment ; yet forever and forever, to the crack
of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise
the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make ; nevertheless,
by the continual repetition of these very impressions,
348 MOBY-DICK
man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea
which aboriginally belongs to it.
The jirst boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with
Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world with-
out leaving so much as a widow. That same ocean rolls
now ; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of
last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet
subsided ; two -thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
Wherein differ the sea and the land, that a miracle
upon one is not a miracle upon the other ? Preternatural
terrors rested upon the Hebrews, when under the feet of
Korah and his company the live ground opened and
swallowed them up forever ; yet not a modern sun ever
sets, but in precisely the same manner the live sea swallows
up ships and crews.
But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien
to it, but it is also a fiend to its own offspring ; worse than
the Persian host who murdered his own guests ; sparing
not the creatures which itself hath spawned. Like a
savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her
own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales
against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with
the split wrecks of ships. No mercy, no power but its
own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle-
steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns
the globe.
Consider the subtleness of the sea ; how its most
dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the
most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest
tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and
beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the
dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the
sea ; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying
on eternal war since the world began.
BRIT 349
Consider all this ; and then turn to this green, gentle,
and most docile earth ; consider them both, the sea
and the land ; and do you not find a strange analogy to
something in yourself ? For as this appalling ocean
surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there
lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encom-
passed by all the horrors of the half -known life. God
keep thee ! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never
return !
CHAPTER LIX
SQUID
SLOWLY wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod
still held on her way north-eastward toward the island
of Java ; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the
surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly
waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a
plain. And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night,
the lonely, alluring jet would be seen.
But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness
almost preternatural spread over the sea, however un-
attended with any stagnant calm ; when the long bur-
nished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger
laid across them, enjoining some secrecy ; when the
slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on ;
in this profound hush of the visible sphere a strange spectre
was seen by Daggoo from the mainmast-head.
In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising
higher and higher, and disentangling itself from the azure,
at last gleamed before our prow like a snow-slide, new slid
from the hills. Thus glistening for a moment, as slowly
it subsided, and sank. Then once more arose, and silently
gleamed. It seemed not a whale ; and yet is this Moby-
Dick ? thought Daggoo. Again the phantom went down,
but on reappearing once more, with a stiletto-like cry that
startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled out
4 There ! there again ! there she breaches ! right ahead !
The White Whale, the White Whale ! '
Upon this, the seamen rushed to the yard-arms, as in
swarming-time the bees rush to the boughs. Bareheaded
in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on the bowsprit, and with one
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SQUID 351
hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave his orders to
the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction indi-
cated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo.
Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and
solitary jet had gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he
was now prepared to connect the ideas of mildness and
repose with the first sight of the particular whale he
pursued ; however this was, or whether his eagerness
betrayed him ; whichever way it might have been, no
sooner did he distinctly perceive the white mass, than with
a quick intensity he instantly gave orders for lowering.
The four boats were soon on the water ; Ahab's in
advance, and all swiftly pulling toward their prey. Soon
it went down, and while, with oars suspended, we were
awaiting its reappearance, lo ! in the same spot where it
sank, once more it slowly rose. Almost forgetting for
the moment all thoughts of Moby-Dick, we now gazed
at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas
have hitherto revealed to mankind. A vast pulpy mass,
furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour,
lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating
from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of
anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object
within reach. No perceptible face or front did it have ;
no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct ; but
undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless,
chance-like apparition of life.
As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again,
Starbuck still gazing at the agitated waters where it had
sunk, with a wild voice exclaimed ' Almost rather had
I seen Moby-Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee,
thou white ghost ! '
' What was it, sir ? ' said Flask.
' The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships
ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.'
352 MOBY-DICK
But Ahab said nothing ; turning his boat, he sailed
back to the vessel ; the rest as silently following.
Whatever superstitions the sperm whalemen in general
have connected with the sight of this object, certain it is,
that a glimpse of it being so very unusual, that circum-
stance has gone far to invest it with portent ousness. So
rarely is it beheld, that though one and all of them declare
it to be the largest animated thing in the ocean, yet very
few of them have any but the most vague ideas concern-
ing its true nature and form ; notwithstanding, they
believe it to furnish to the sperm whale his only food.
For though other species of whales find their food above
water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the
spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown
zones below the surface ; and .only by inference is it
that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists.
At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are
supposed to be the detached arms of the squid ; some of
them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in
length. They fancy that the monster to which these arms
belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean ;
and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied
with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
There seems some ground to imagine that the great
Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve
itself into Squid. The manner in which the Bishop de-
scribes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with some
other particulars he narrates, in all this the two corre-
spond. But much abatement is necessary with respect
to the incredible bulk he assigns it.
By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumours
of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included
among the class of cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain
external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the
Anak of the tribe.
CHAPTER LX
THE LINE
WITH reference to the whaling scene shortly to be de-
scribed, as well as for the better understanding of all
similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here to speak
of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
The line originally used in the fishery was of the best
hemp, slightly vapoured with tar, not impregnated with
it, as in the case of ordinary ropes ; for while tar, as
ordinarily used, makes the hemp more pliable to the rope-
maker, and also renders the rope itself more convenient
to the sailor for common ship use ; yet, not only would
the ordinary quantity too much stiffen the whale-line for
the close coiling to which it must be subjected ; but as
most seamen are beginning to learn, tar in general by
no means adds to the rope's durability or strength, how-
ever much it may give it compactness and gloss.
Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American
fishery almost entirely superseded hemp as a material
for whale-lines ; for, though not so durable as hemp, it
is stronger, and far more soft and elastic ; and I will add
(since there is an aesthetics in all things), is much more
handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp. Hemp
is a dusky, dark fellow, a sort of Indian ; but Manilla
is as a golden-haired Circassian to behold.
The whale-line is only two-thirds of an inch in thickness.
At first sight, you would not think it so strong as it really
is. By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each sus-
pend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds ; so
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354 MOBY-DICK
that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three
tons. In length, the common sperm whale-line measures
something over two hundred fathoms. Toward the
stern of the boat it is spirally coiled away in the tub, not
like the worm-pipe of a still though, but so as to form one
round, cheese-shaped mass of densely bedded 'sheaves,'
or layers of concentric spiralisations, without any hollow
but the 'heart/ or minute vertical tube formed at the
axis of the cheese. As the least tangle or kink in the
coiling would, in running out, infallibly take somebody's
arm, leg, or entire body off, the utmost precaution is
used in stowing the line in its tub. Some harpooneers
will consume almost an entire morning in this business,
carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downward
through a block toward the tub, so as in the act of coiling
to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
In the English boats two tubs are used instead of one ;
the same line being continuously coiled in both tubs.
There is some advantage in this ; because these twin -tubs
being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do
not strain it so much ; whereas, the American tub, nearly
three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes
a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but
one half-inch in thickness ; for the bottom of the whale-
boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable
distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated
one. When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the
American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off
with a prodigious great wedding-cake to present to the
whales.
Both ends of the line are exposed ; the lower end
terminating in an eye -splice or loop coming up from the
bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over
its edge completely disengaged from everything. This
arrangement of the lower end is necessary on two accounts.
THE LINE 355
First : In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an
additional line from a neighbouring boat, in case the
stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to
carry off the entire line originally attached to the har-
poon. In these instances, the whale of course is shifted
like a mug of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the
other ; though the first boat always hovers at hand to
assist its consort. Second : This arrangement is indis-
pensable for common safety's sake ; for were the lower
end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were
the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a
single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would
not stop there, for the doomed boat would infallibly
be dragged down after him into the profundity of the sea ;
and in that case no town -crier would ever find her again.
Before lowering the boat for the chase, the upper end
of the line is taken aft from the tub, and passing round the
logger-head there, is again carried forward the entire
length of the boat, resting crosswise upon the loom or
handle of every man's oar, so that it jogs against his wrist
in rowing ; and also passing between the men, as they
alternately sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded
chocks or grooves in the extreme pointed prow of the boat,
where a wooden pin or skewer the size of a common quill,
prevents it from slipping out. From the chocks it hangs
in a slight festoon over the bows, and is then passed inside
the boat again ; and some ten or twenty fathoms (called
box-line) being coiled upon the box in the bows, it con-
tinues its way to the gunwale still a little further aft, and
is then attached to the short -warp the rope which is
immediately connected with the harpoon ; but previous
to that connection, the short -warp goes through sundry
mystifications too tedious to detail.
Thus the whale-line folds the whole boat in its compli-
cated coils, twisting and writhing around it in almost
356 MOBY-DICK
every direction. All the oarsmen are involved in its
perilous contortions ; so that to the timid eye of the
landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest
snakes sportively festooning their limbs. Nor can any
son of mortal woman, for the first time, seat himself amid
those hempen intricacies, and while straining his utmost
at the oar, bethink him that at any unknown instant the
harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions
be put in play like ringed lightnings ; he cannot be thus
circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very
marrow in his bones to quiver in him like a shaken jelly.
Yet habit strange thing ! what cannot habit accom-
plish ? Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes,
and brighter repartees, you never heard over your
mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white
cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman's
nooses ; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King
Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the
jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you
may say.
Perhaps a very little thought will now enable you to
account for those repeated whaling disasters some few
of which are casually chronicled of this man or that man
being taken out of the boat by the line, and lost. For,
when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat
is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings
of a steam-engine in full play, when every flying beam,
and shaft, and wheel, is grazing you. It is worse ; for
you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils,
because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are
pitched one way and the other, without the slightest
warning ; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy
and simultaneousness of volition and action can you
escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where
the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out.
THE LINE 357
Again : as the profound calm which only apparently
precedes and prophesies of the storm is perhaps more
awful than the storm itself ; for, indeed, the calm
is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm ; and con-
tains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the
fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion ; so the
graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about
the oarsmen before being brought into actual play this
is a thing which carries more of true terror than any other
aspect of this dangerous affair. But why say more ?
All men live enveloped in whale -lines. All are born with
halters round their necks ; but it is only when caught
in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise
the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you
be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you
would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than
though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and
not a harpoon, by your side.
END OF VOL. I.
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An HTTP Client
is the default implementation of a Client
in Safe Browsing.NET that allows you to communicate with
the Google Safe Browsing API.
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Example: Retrieve All Available Threat List Descriptors
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients.Http;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Examples {
/// <summary>
/// Main Program.
/// </summary>
public static class Program {
/// <summary>
/// Execute Main Program.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="args">
/// A collection of arguments passed from the command line.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// A task representing the asynchronous operation
/// </returns>
public static async Task Main(string[] args) {
var httpClient = new HttpBrowsingClient("YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY");
using (httpClient) {
try {
var getThreatListDescriptorsTask = httpClient.GetThreatListDescriptorsAsync(CancellationToken.None);
var threatListDescriptors = await getThreatListDescriptorsTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
foreach (var threatListDescriptor in threatListDescriptors) {
// ...
//
// Do something with each threat list descriptor.
}
}
catch (BrowsingClientException) {
// ...
//
// Catch this exception if you want to handle a communication error with the Google Safe Browsing
// API.
}
}
}
}
}
Example: Retrieve Threat List Full Updates
using Gee.External.Browsing;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients.Http;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Examples {
/// <summary>
/// Main Program.
/// </summary>
public static class Program {
/// <summary>
/// Execute Main Program.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="args">
/// A collection of arguments passed from the command line.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// A task representing the asynchronous operation
/// </returns>
public static async Task Main(string[] args) {
var httpClient = new HttpBrowsingClient("YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY");
using (httpClient) {
try {
// ...
//
// Build a request to retrieve two threat lists as a full update. A full update refers to
// retrieving the threat lists in their entirety.
var request = ThreatListUpdateRequest.Build()
.AddQuery(b => {
b.SetThreatListDescriptor(ThreatType.Malware, PlatformType.Linux, ThreatEntryType.Url);
return b.Build();
})
.AddQuery(b => {
b.SetThreatListDescriptor(ThreatType.Malware, PlatformType.Windows, ThreatEntryType.Url);
return b.Build();
})
.Build();
// ...
//
// Throws an exception if the operation fails.
var getThreatListUpdatesTask = httpClient.GetThreatListUpdatesAsync(request, CancellationToken.None);
var response = await getThreatListUpdatesTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
foreach (var responseResult in response.Results) {
// ...
//
// There will be one retrieved threat list for each one requested. Its checksum is a SHA256
// hash formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
//
// The threat list's state will help you to subsequently retrieve the threat list as a partial
// update. It is an opaque value formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
var retrievedThreatList = responseResult.RetrievedThreatList;
var retrievedThreatListChecksum = responseResult.RetrievedThreatListChecksum;
var retrievedThreatListState = retrievedThreatList.State;
// ...
//
// The retrieved threat list's wait to date, if not a null reference, indicates the date you
// MUST wait to before retrieving the threat list from the Google Safe Browsing API again.
var retrievedThreatListWaitToDate = responseResult.RetrievedThreatList.WaitToDate;
foreach (var threatToAdd in responseResult.ThreatsToAdd) {
// ...
//
// Do something with each threat associated with the retrieved threat list. Each threat
// that is associated with the retrieved threat list is identified using a SHA256 hash
// formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
}
}
}
catch (BrowsingClientException) {
// ...
//
// Catch this exception if you want to handle a communication error with the Google Safe Browsing
// API.
}
}
}
}
}
Example: Retrieve Threat List Full Updates With Update Constraints
using Gee.External.Browsing;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients.Http;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Examples {
/// <summary>
/// Main Program.
/// </summary>
public static class Program {
/// <summary>
/// Execute Main Program.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="args">
/// A collection of arguments passed from the command line.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// A task representing the asynchronous operation
/// </returns>
public static async Task Main(string[] args) {
var httpClient = new HttpBrowsingClient("YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY");
using (httpClient) {
try {
// ...
//
// Build a request to retrieve one threat list as a full update with update constraints. A full
// update refers to retrieving the threat lists in their entirety, subject to the update
// constraints that are applied.
var request = ThreatListUpdateRequest.Build()
.AddQuery(b => {
b.SetThreatListDescriptor(ThreatType.Malware, PlatformType.Linux, ThreatEntryType.Url);
b.SetUpdateConstraints(bb => {
bb.SetMaximumDatabaseEntries(4096);
return bb.Build();
});
return b.Build();
})
.Build();
// ...
//
// Throws an exception if the operation fails.
var getThreatListUpdatesTask = httpClient.GetThreatListUpdatesAsync(request, CancellationToken.None);
var response = await getThreatListUpdatesTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
foreach (var responseResult in response.Results) {
// ...
//
// There will be one retrieved threat list for each one requested. Its checksum is a SHA256
// hash formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
//
// The threat list's state will help you to subsequently retrieve the threat list as a partial
// update. It is an opaque value formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
var retrievedThreatList = responseResult.RetrievedThreatList;
var retrievedThreatListChecksum = responseResult.RetrievedThreatListChecksum;
var retrievedThreatListState = retrievedThreatList.State;
// ...
//
// The retrieved threat list's wait to date, if not a null reference, indicates the date you
// MUST wait to before retrieving the threat list from the Google Safe Browsing API again.
var retrievedThreatListWaitToDate = responseResult.RetrievedThreatList.WaitToDate;
foreach (var threatToAdd in responseResult.ThreatsToAdd) {
// ...
//
// Do something with each threat associated with the retrieved threat list. Each threat
// that is associated with the retrieved threat list is identified using a SHA256 hash
// formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
}
}
}
catch (BrowsingClientException) {
// ...
//
// Catch this exception if you want to handle a communication error with the Google Safe Browsing
// API.
}
}
}
}
}
Example: Retrieve Threat List Partial Updates
using Gee.External.Browsing;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients;
using Gee.External.Browsing.Clients.Http;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Examples {
/// <summary>
/// Main Program.
/// </summary>
public static class Program {
/// <summary>
/// Execute Main Program.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="args">
/// A collection of arguments passed from the command line.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// A task representing the asynchronous operation
/// </returns>
public static async Task Main(string[] args) {
var httpClient = new HttpBrowsingClient("YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY");
using (httpClient) {
try {
// ...
//
// Build a request to retrieve two threat lists. One of the threat lists will be retrieved as a
// partial update. One will be retrieved as a full update.
//
// By specifying a state, you are retrieving the threat list as a partial update. A partial update
// refers to retrieving only updates to a threat list since the last time you retrieved it as a full
// update. In other words, you want to retrieve a computed difference between your local copy of
// the threat list and Google's remote copy of the threat list as of the time you send the request.
var request = ThreatListUpdateRequest.Build()
.AddQuery(b => {
b.SetThreatListDescriptor(ThreatType.Malware, PlatformType.Linux, ThreatEntryType.Url);
b.SetThreatListState("AABBCC");
return b.Build();
})
.AddQuery(b => {
b.SetThreatListDescriptor(ThreatType.Malware, PlatformType.Windows, ThreatEntryType.Url);
return b.Build();
})
.Build();
// ...
//
// Throws an exception if the operation fails.
var getThreatListUpdatesTask = httpClient.GetThreatListUpdatesAsync(request, CancellationToken.None);
var response = await getThreatListUpdatesTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
foreach (var responseResult in response.Results) {
// ...
//
// There will be one retrieved threat list for each one requested. Its checksum is a SHA256
// hash formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
//
// The threat list's state will help you to subsequently retrieve the threat list as a partial
// update. It is an opaque value formatted as a hexadecimal encoded string.
var retrievedThreatList = responseResult.RetrievedThreatList;
var retrievedThreatListChecksum = responseResult.RetrievedThreatListChecksum;
var retrievedThreatListState = retrievedThreatList.State;
// ...
//
// The threat list's wait to date, if not a null reference, indicates the date you MUST wait to
// before retrieving the threat list from the Google Safe Browsing API again.
var retrievedThreatListWaitToDate = responseResult.RetrievedThreatList.WaitToDate;
if (responseResult.IsFullUpdate) {
// ...
//
// If the threat list is retrieved as a full update, there will only be threats identified
// for addition to your local copy of it.
foreach (var threatToAdd in responseResult.ThreatsToAdd) {
// ...
//
// Store each threat identified for addition to your local copy of the threat list.
// Each threat is identified using a SHA256 hash formatted as a hexadecimal encoded
// string.
}
}
else if (responseResult.IsPartialUpdate) {
// ...
//
// If the threat list is retrieved as a partial update, there will be threats identified
// for addition to and removal from your local copy of it.
//
// You MUST FIRST remove the threats identified for removal BEFORE adding the threats
// identified for addition.
foreach (var threatToRemove in responseResult.ThreatsToRemove) {
// ...
//
// Remove each threat identified for removal from your local copy of the threat list.
// Each threat is identified using a zero-based index. You'll need to lexicographically
// sort your local copy of the threat list before you're able to remove the threats
// identified for removal.
}
foreach (var threatToAdd in responseResult.ThreatsToAdd) {
// ...
//
// Store each threat identified for addition to your local copy of the threat list.
// Each threat is identified using a SHA256 hash formatted as a hexadecimal encoded
// string.
}
}
}
}
catch (BrowsingClientException) {
// ...
//
// Catch this exception if you want to handle a communication error with the Google Safe Browsing
// API.
}
}
}
}
}


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I’m an Assistant Member at the Fred Hutch in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and the Computational Biology Program. I’m also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. I study the dynamics of virus populations. How do strains spread through the world? How do strains evolve in response to immune pressure? And ultimately, what makes a strain successful?
| I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and my PhD from Harvard University, advised by Dan Hartl. Following my PhD I worked for Wolfram Research on [Wolfram | Alpha](http://www.wolframalpha.com/), worked on infectious disease dynamics at the University of Michigan with Mercedes Pascual and worked on viral phylogenetics with Andrew Rambaut at the University of Edinburgh. |


{% extends "public.html" %} {% block scripts %} {% endblock %} {% block page %}
Easy to set up and lightweight, LNbits can run on any lightning-network funding source, currently supporting LND, c-lightning, OpenNode, lntxbot, LNPay and even LNbits itself!
You can run LNbits for yourself, or easily offer a custodian solution for others.
Each wallet has its own API keys and there is no limit to the number of wallets you can make. Being able to partition funds makes LNbits a useful tool for money management and as a development tool.
Extensions add extra functionality to LNbits so you can experiment with a range of cutting-edge technologies on the lightning network. We have made developing extensions as easy as possible, and as a free and open-source project, we encourage people to develop and submit their own.
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Basic Usage
Configuration
Synced folders are configured within your Vagrantfile using the config.vm.synced_folder
method. Usage of the configuration directive is very simple:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
# other config here
config.vm.synced_folder "src/", "/srv/website"
end
The first parameter is a path to a directory on the host machine. If the path is relative, it is relative to the project root. The second parameter must be an absolute path of where to share the folder within the guest machine. This folder will be created (recursively, if it must) if it doesn't exist.
Enabling
Synced folders are automatically setup during vagrant up
and vagrant reload
.
Disabling
Shared folders can be disabled by adding the disabled
option to any definition:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.synced_folder "src/", "/srv/website", disabled: true
end
Modifying the Owner/Group
By default, Vagrant mounts the synced folders with the owner/group set to the SSH user. Sometimes it is preferable to mount folders with a different owner and group. It is possible to set these options:
config.vm.synced_folder "src/", "/srv/website",
owner: "root", group: "root"


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set the probability that any given node in a layer will be kept
\(keepprob = 0.8\)
randomly choose which nodes to drop in layer \(l\)
\(todrop^{[l]} = np.random.rand(a^{[l]}.shape[0],\ \ a^{[l]}.shape[1])\ <\ keepprob\)
drop chosen nodes
\(a^{[l]} = np.multiply(a^{[l]},\ todrop^{[l]})\)
scale the activation values \(a^{[l]}\) (invert the dropout) in order to not reduce the expected values of \(w^{[l+1]}\)
\(a^{[l]} = \frac{a^{[l]}}{keepprob}\)


DENTCA-4 digitally revolutionizes the traditional hybrid denture solution. From 3D scanning, to generating a digital model and milling; Dentca-4 utilizes state-of-the-art CAD/CAM denture software and cutting edge technology.
Thanks to its segmented CAD/CAM milled bar technology and monolithic zirconia restorations, the DENTCA-4 System does not require the use of multi-unit abutments, extensive bone grafting or difficult bar fitting/planning; thus making your treatments easy to deliver and reducing the chances of fracture/failure. The segmented and custom-angled bars generated by the DENTCA software, simplify the chairside process yet retain the same strength and functionality than conventional implant supported full mouth restorations. Finish your cases in a faster, more predictable and economical way.
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mixins.graph-selectable-graphic Class
Adds functionality to a component to make it a selectable graphic within it's parent nf-graph.
Methods
_updateGraphSelected
()
private
Makes calls to the parent nf-graph to update it's
selected
property. Observes changes to selected
and also
fires on didInsertElement
.
Properties
isSelected
Unknown
deprecated
Alias of selected
selectable
Boolean
Gets or sets whether or not the graphic is "selectable". Meaning can be "selected" on the nf-graph via some action (usually click). The component will then show up in the nf-graph parent's selected property.
Default: false
selected
Boolean
Gets or sets whether or not the graphic is selected.
Default: false


@(message: String) @Main("Home") {
To see a list of textbooks click on Textbook List.
To see a list of students click on Student List.
To see a list of buy offers click on Buy Offer List.
To see a list of sell offers click on Sell Offer List.
To create a new student profile click on New Student and fill out the form as shown.
To create a new buy offer click on New Buy Offer and fill out the form as shown.
To create a new sell offer click on New Sell Offer and fill out the form as shown.
To create a new textbook page click on New Textbook and fill out the form as shown.
To search for matches for a search click on Match and fill out information.


WATCH | The moment proud SA erupts in cheers as the Springboks win the Rugby World Cup
South Africa exploded in a celebration of tears, cheers and dancing as the Springboks dominated their English rivals to win the finals of the Rugby World Cup in Japan on Saturday.
Ahead of the hotly contested final, fans, schools and even President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Boks rallied behind the national team to give them messages of support.
The Boks went into the match as slight underdogs, but they were superb from start to finish as they dominated almost every department against an English outfit that could not repeat its heroic semi-final performance against the All Blacks.
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