His bone leg steadied in that gap; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, wanting straight out beyond the ship’s ever-pitching prow. It had beforehand come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been usual from the polished bone of the sperm whale’s jaw. But after that morning, he was day by day visible to the crew; either standing in his pivot-gap, or seated upon an ivory stool he had; or heavily strolling the deck. It was one of those less reducing, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a good wind the ship was dashing through the water with a vindictive kind of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my look towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I immediately gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first obscure disquietude touching the unknown captain, now within the seclusion of the sea, grew to become almost a perturbation.
An Anacharsis Clootz deputation from all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth, accompanying Old Ahab in the Pequod to lay the world’s grievances before that bar from which not very a lot of them ever come back. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. So that no white sailor significantly contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab needs to be tranquilly laid out-which might hardly come to cross, so he muttered-then, whoever should try this final office for the useless, would discover a start-mark on him from crown to sole. There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him appeared a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Upon every aspect of the Pequod’s quarter deck, and fairly near the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger gap, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank. Threading its means out from amongst his gray hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, until it disappeared in his clothes, you noticed a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish.
But once Tashtego’s senior, an previous Gay-Head Indian among the many crew, superstitiously asserted that not until he was full forty years previous did Ahab grow to be that manner branded, after which it got here upon him, not within the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea. Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some determined wound, no one could actually say. The one positive test of the structure of a living factor lies in the nature of the gametes which it carries, and it’s the evaluation of those gametes which varieties the province of heredity. They were almost all Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such, not acknowledging the widespread continent of males, however every Isolato residing on a separate continent of his personal. There appeared no sign of frequent bodily illness about him, nor of the recovery from any. How it is, there is no such thing as a telling, but Islanders appear to make the best whalemen.
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