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Title: Moby-♥♥♥♥; or, The Whale

Author: Herman Melville

Release date: May 1, 1991 [eBook #15]
Most recently updated: March 24, 2023

Language: English

Credits: Eugene F. Irey

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Moby-♥♥♥♥
or,
THE WHALE.
by Herman Melville
Contents
Etymology
Extracts

CHAPTER I.—Loomings
CHAPTER II.—The Carpet Bag
CHAPTER III.—The Spouter-Inn
CHAPTER IV.—The Counterpane
CHAPTER V.—Breakfast
CHAPTER VI.—The Street
CHAPTER VII.—The Chapel
CHAPTER VIII.—The Pulpit
CHAPTER IX.—The Sermon
CHAPTER X.—A Bosom Friend
CHAPTER XI.—Nightgown
CHAPTER XII.—Biographical
CHAPTER XIII.—Wheelbarrow
CHAPTER XIV.—Nantucket
CHAPTER XV.—Chowder
CHAPTER XVI.—The Ship
CHAPTER XVII.—The Ramadan
CHAPTER XVIII.—His Mark
CHAPTER XIX.—The Prophet
CHAPTER XX.—All Astir
CHAPTER XXI.—Going Aboard
CHAPTER XXII.—Merry Christmas
CHAPTER XXIII.—The Lee Shore
CHAPTER XXIV.—The Advocate
CHAPTER XXV.—Postscript
CHAPTER XXVI.—Knights and Squires
CHAPTER XXVII.—Knights and Squires
CHAPTER XXVIII.—Ahab
CHAPTER XXIX.—Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb
CHAPTER XXX.—The Pipe
CHAPTER XXXI.—Queen Mab
CHAPTER XXXII.—Cetology
CHAPTER XXXIII.—The Specksnyder
CHAPTER XXXIV.—The Cabin Table
CHAPTER XXXV.—The Mast-Head
CHAPTER XXXVI.—The Quarter-Deck. Ahab and all
CHAPTER XXXVII.—Sunset
CHAPTER XXXVIII.—Dusk
CHAPTER XXXIX.—First Night-Watch
CHAPTER XL.—Forecastle—Midnight
CHAPTER XLI.—Moby ♥♥♥♥
CHAPTER XLII.—The Whiteness of the Whale
CHAPTER XLIII.—Hark!
CHAPTER XLIV.—The Chart
CHAPTER XLV.—The Affidavit
CHAPTER XLVI.—Surmises
CHAPTER XLVII.—The Mat-Maker
CHAPTER XLVIII.—The First Lowering
CHAPTER XLIX.—The Hyena
CHAPTER L.—Ahab’s Boat and Crew—Fedallah
CHAPTER LI.—The Spirit-Spout
CHAPTER LII.—The Pequod meets the Albatross
CHAPTER LIII.—The Gam
CHAPTER LIV.—The Town-Ho’s Story
CHAPTER LV.—Monstrous Pictures of Whales
CHAPTER LVI.—Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales
CHAPTER LVII.—Of Whales in Paint, in Teeth, &c.
CHAPTER LVIII.—Brit
CHAPTER LIX.—Squid
CHAPTER LX.—The Line
CHAPTER LXI.—Stubb Kills a Whale
CHAPTER LXII.—The Dart
CHAPTER LXIII.—The Crotch
CHAPTER LXIV.—Stubb’s Supper
CHAPTER LXV.—The Whale as a Dish
CHAPTER LXVI.—The Shark Massacre
CHAPTER LXVII.—Cutting In
CHAPTER LXVIII.—The Blanket
CHAPTER LXIX.—The Funeral
CHAPTER LXX.—The Sphynx
CHAPTER LXXI.—The Pequod meets the Jeroboam. Her Story
CHAPTER LXXII.—The Monkey-rope
CHAPTER LXXIII.—Stubb & Flask kill a Right Whale
CHAPTER LXXIV.—The Sperm Whale’s Head
CHAPTER LXXV.—The Right Whale’s Head
CHAPTER LXXVI.—The Battering Ram
CHAPTER LXXVII.—The Great Heidelburgh Tun
CHAPTER LXXVIII.—Cistern and Buckets
CHAPTER LXXIX.—The Praire
CHAPTER LXXX.—The Nut
CHAPTER LXXXI.—The Pequod meets the Virgin
CHAPTER LXXXII.—The Honor and Glory of Whaling
CHAPTER LXXXIII.—Jonah Historically Regarded
CHAPTER LXXXIV.—Pitchpoling
CHAPTER LXXXV.—The Fountain
CHAPTER LXXXVI.—The Tail
CHAPTER LXXXVII.—The Grand Armada
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.—Schools & Schoolmasters
CHAPTER LXXXIX.—Fast Fish and Loose Fish
CHAPTER XC.—Heads or Tails
CHAPTER XCI.—The Pequod meets the Rose-Bud
CHAPTER XCII.—Ambergris
CHAPTER XCIII.—The Castaway
CHAPTER XCIV.—A Squeeze of the Hand
CHAPTER XCV.—The Cassock
CHAPTER XCVI.—The Try-Works
CHAPTER XCVII.—The Lamp
CHAPTER XCVIII.—Stowing Down and Clearing Up
CHAPTER XCIX.—The Doubloon
CHAPTER C.—The Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby of London
CHAPTER CI.—The Decanter
CHAPTER CII.—A Bower in the Arsacides
CHAPTER CIII.—Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
CHAPTER CIV.—The Fossil Whale
CHAPTER CV.—Does the Whale Diminish?
CHAPTER CVI.—Ahab’s Leg
CHAPTER CVII.—The Carpenter
CHAPTER CVIII.—The Deck. Ahab and the Carpenter
CHAPTER CIX.—The Cabin. Ahab and Starbuck
CHAPTER CX.—Queequeg in his Coffin
CHAPTER CXI.—The Pacific
CHAPTER CXII.—The Blacksmith
CHAPTER CXIII.—The Forge
CHAPTER CXIV.—The Gilder
CHAPTER CXV.—The Pequod meets the Bachelor
CHAPTER CXVI.—The Dying Whale
CHAPTER CXVII.—The Whale-Watch
CHAPTER CXVIII.—The Quadrant
CHAPTER CXIX.—The Candles
CHAPTER CXX.—The Deck
CHAPTER CXXI.—Midnight, on the Forecastle
CHAPTER CXXII.—Midnight, Aloft
CHAPTER CXXIII.—The Musket
CHAPTER CXXIV.—The Needle
CHAPTER CXXV.—The Log and Line
CHAPTER CXXVI.—The Life-Buoy
CHAPTER CXXVII.—Ahab and the Carpenter
CHAPTER CXXVIII.—The Pequod meets the Rachel
CHAPTER CXXIX.—The Cabin. Ahab and Pip
CHAPTER CXXXI.—The Hat
CHAPTER CXXXII.—The Pequod meets the Delight
CHAPTER CXXXIII.—The Symphony
CHAPTER CXXXIV.—The Chase. First Day
CHAPTER CXXXV.—The Chase. Second Day
CHAPTER CXXXVI.—The Chase. Third Day
EPILOGUE.
ETYMOLOGY.
(Supplied by a late consumptive usher to a grammar school.)

The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.

ETYMOLOGY
“While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.” —Hackluyt.

“WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —Webster’s Dictionary.

“WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’s Dictionary.

חו, Hebrew.
ϰητος, Greek.
CETUS, Latin.
WHŒL, Anglo-Saxon.
HVALT, Danish.
WAL, Dutch.
HWAL, Swedish.
HVALUR, Icelandic.
WHALE, English.
BALEINE, French.
BALLENA, Spanish.
PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Fegee.
PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE, Erromangoan.
EXTRACTS.
(Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian.)
It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grubworm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.

So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness—Give it up, Sub-Subs! For by how much the more pains ye take to please t