"AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE" Job.
The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth1?-- Because one did survive the wreck2.
It so chanced, that after the Parsee's disappearance3, I was he whom the Fates ordained4 to take the place of Ahab's bowsman, when that bowsman assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern. So, floating on the margin5 of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but slowly, drawn6 towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided7 to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis8 of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve9. Till, gaining that vital centre, the black bubble upward burst; and now, liberated11 by reason of its cunning spring, and, owing to its great buoyancy, rising with great force, the coffin12 life-buoy shot lengthwise from the sea, fell over, and floated by my side. Buoyed13 up by that coffin, for almost one whole day and night, I floated on a soft and dirgelike main. The unharming sharks, they glided14 by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage15 sea-hawks sailed with sheathed16 beaks17. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing18 search after her missing children, only found another orphan19.
(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher21 to a Grammar School)
The pale Usher--threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons22 and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished23 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.
"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 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 vaulted24." --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
KETOS, Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHOEL, Anglo-Saxon. HVALT, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. WHALE, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Fegee. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Erromangoan.
EXTRACTS (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)
It will be seen that this mere26 painstaking27 burrower28 and grub-worm 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 random29 allusions30 to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever31, sacred or profane32. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic33, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching34 the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely35 valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously36 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 commentator37 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 convivial38 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 more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless! Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp39 down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long pampered40 Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming. Here ye strike but splintered hearts together--there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses!
"And God created great whales." --GENESIS.
"Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary41." --JOB.
"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah." --JONAH.
"There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein." --PSALMS42.
"In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked43 serpent; and he shall slay44 the dragon that is in the sea." --ISAIAH
"And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos45 of this monster's mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all incontinently that foul46 great swallow of his, and perisheth in the bottomless gulf47 of his paunch." --HOLLAND'S PLUTARCH'S MORALS.
"The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land." --HOLLAND'S PLINY.
"Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most monstrous48 size. ... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam49." --TOOKE'S LUCIAN. "THE TRUE HISTORY."
"He visited this country also with a view of catching50 horse-whales, which had bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he brought some to the king. ... The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He said that he was one of six who had killed sixty in two days." --OTHER OR OCTHER'S VERBAL NARRATIVE51 TAKEN DOWN FROM HIS MOUTH BY KING ALFRED, A.D. 890.
"And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel52, that enter into the dreadful gulf of this monster's (whale's) mouth, are immediately lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and there sleeps." --MONTAIGNE. - APOLOGY FOR RAIMOND SEBOND.
"Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job." --RABELAIS.
"This whale's liver was two cartloads." --STOWE'S ANNALS.
"The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe54 like boiling pan." --LORD BACON'S VERSION OF THE PSALMS.
"Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale." --IBID. "HISTORY OF LIFE AND DEATH."
"The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise55." --KING HENRY.
"Very like a whale." --HAMLET.
"Which to secure, no skill of leach's art Mote56 him availle, but to returne againe To his wound's worker, that with lowly dart57, Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro' the maine." --THE FAERIE QUEEN.
"Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean til it boil." --SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. PREFACE TO GONDIBERT.
"What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit." --SIR T. BROWNE. OF SPERMA CETI AND THE SPERMA CETI WHALE. VIDE HIS V. E.
"Like Spencer's Talus with his modern flail59 He threatens ruin with his ponderous60 tail. ... Their fixed61 jav'lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove62 of pikes appears." --WALLER'S BATTLE OF THE SUMMER ISLANDS.
"By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth63 or State--(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man." --OPENING SENTENCE OF HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN.
"Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale." --PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
"That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream." --PARADISE LOST.
"There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory64 sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts65 out a sea." --IBID.
"The mighty66 whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them." --FULLLER'S PROFANE AND HOLY STATE.
"So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend their prey68, And give no chance, but swallow in the fry, Which through their gaping69 jaws70 mistake the way." --DRYDEN'S ANNUS MIRABILIS.
"While the whale is floating at the stern of the ship, they cut off his head, and tow it with a boat as near the shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water." --THOMAS EDGE'S TEN VOYAGES TO SPITZBERGEN, IN PURCHAS.
"In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their pipes and vents72, which nature has placed on their shoulders." --SIR T. HERBERT'S VOYAGES INTO ASIA AND AFRICA. HARRIS COLL.
"Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run their ship upon them." --SCHOUTEN'S SIXTH CIRCUMNAVIGATION.
"We set sail from the Elbe, wind N. E. in the ship called The Jonas-in-the-Whale. ... Some say the whale can't open his mouth, but that is a fable73. ... They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains. ... I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a barrel of herrings in his belly74. ... One of our harpooneers told me that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over." --A VOYAGE TO GREENLAND, A.D. 1671 HARRIS COLL.
"Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one eighty feet in length of the whale-bone kind came in, which (as I was informed), besides a vast quantity of oil, did afford 500 weight of baleen75. The jaws of it stand for a gate in the garden of Pitferren." --SIBBALD'S FIFE AND KINROSS.
"Myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this Sperma-ceti whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness." --RICHARD STRAFFORD'S LETTER FROM THE BERMUDAS. PHIL. TRANS. A.D. 1668.
"Whales in the sea God's voice obey." --N. E. PRIMER.
"We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward76 of us." --CAPTAIN COWLEY'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE, A.D. 1729.
"... and the breath of the whale is frequendy attended with such an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder77 of the brain." --ULLOA'S SOUTH AMERICA.
"To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the important charge, the petticoat. Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fail, Tho' stuffed with hoops78 and armed with ribs79 of whale." --RAPE OF THE LOCK.
"If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that take up their abode80 in the deep, we shall find they will appear contemptible81 in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest animal in creation." --GOLDSMITH, NAT. HIST.
"If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak like great wales." --GOLDSMITH TO JOHNSON.
"In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, and were then towing ashore82. They seemed to endeavor to conceal83 themselves behind the whale, in order to avoid being seen by us." --COOK'S VOYAGES.
"The larger whales, they seldom venture to attack. They stand in so great dread53 of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even their names, and carry dung, lime-stone, juniper-wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach." --UNO VON TROIL'S LETTERS ON BANKS'S AND SOLANDER'S VOYAGE TO ICELAND IN 1772.
"The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fishermen." --THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WHALE MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH MINISTER IN 1778.
"And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?" --EDMUND BURKE'S REFERENCE IN PARLIAMENT TO THE NANTUCKET WHALE-FISHERY.
"Spain--a great whale stranded84 on the shores of Europe." --EDMUND BURKE. (SOMEWHERE.)
"A tenth branch of the king's ordinary revenue, said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the property of the king." --BLACKSTONE.
"Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o'er his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends." --FALCONER'S SHIPWRECK85.
"Bright shone the roofs, the domes86, the spires87, And rockets blew self driven, To hang their momentary88 fire Around the vault25 of heaven.
"So fire with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy." --COWPER, ON THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LONDON.
"Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity89." --JOHN HUNTER'S ACCOUNT OF THE DISSECTION90 OF A WHALE. (A SMALL SIZED ONE.)
"The aorta91 of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus92 and velocity to the blood gushing93 from the whale's heart." --PALEY'S THEOLOGY.
"The whale is a mammiferous animal without hind67 feet." --BARON CUVIER.
"In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them." --COLNETT'S VOYAGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING THE SPERMACETI WHALE FISHERY.
"In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every color, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner94 Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling every wave: Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by voracious95 enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm'd in front or jaw71, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs96." --MONTGOMERY'S WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD.
"Io! Paean97! Io! sing. To the finny people's king. Not a mightier98 whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a fatter fish than he, Flounders round the Polar Sea." --CHARLES LAMB'S TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE.
"In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting99 and sporting with each other, when one observed: there--pointing to the sea--is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread." --OBED MACY'S HISTORY OF NANTUCKET.
"I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway100 in the form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale's jaw bones." --HAWTHORNE'S TWICE TOLD TALES.
"She came to bespeak101 a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago." --IBID.
"No, Sir, 'tis a Right Whale," answered Tom; "I saw his sprout102; he threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian103 would wish to look at. He's a raal oil-butt, that fellow!" --COOPER'S PILOT.
"The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that whales had been introduced on the stage there." --ECKERMANN'S CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE.
"My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter?" I answered, "we have been stove by a whale." --"NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK OF THE WHALE SHIP ESSEX OF NANTUCKET, WHICH WAS ATTACKED AND FINALLY DESTROYED BY A LARGE SPERM58 WHALE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN." BY OWEN CHACE OF NANTUCKET, FIRST MATE OF SAID VESSEL. NEW YORK, 1821.
"A mariner sat in the shrouds104 one night, The wind was piping free; Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher gleamed in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea." --ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH.
"The quantity of line withdrawn105 from the boats engaged in the capture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles. ...
"Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds106 to the distance of three or four miles." --SCORESBY.
"Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly107 destroyed. ... It is a matter of great astonishment108 that the consideration of the habits of so interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely109 neglected, or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have possessed110 the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of witnessing their habitudes." --THOMAS BEALE'S HISTORY OF THE SPERM WHALE, 1839.
"The Cachalot" (Sperm Whale) "is not only better armed than the True Whale" (Greenland or Right Whale) "in possessing a formidable weapon at either extremity112 of its body, but also more frequently displays a disposition113 to employ these weapons offensively and in manner at once so artful, bold, and mischievous114, as to lead to its being regarded as the most dangerous to attack of all the known species of the whale tribe." --FREDERICK DEBELL BENNETT'S WHALING VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE, 1840.
October 13. "There she blows," was sung out from the mast-head. "Where away?" demanded the captain. "Three points off the lee bow, sir." "Raise up your wheel. Steady!" "Steady, sir." "Mast-head ahoy! Do you see that whale now?" "Ay ay, sir! A shoal of Sperm Whales! There she blows! There she breaches115!" "Sing out! sing out every time!" "Ay Ay, sir! There she blows! there--there--thar she blows -bowes -bo-o-os!" "How far off?" "Two miles and a half." "Thunder and lightning! so near! Call all hands." --J. ROSS BROWNE'S ETCHINGS OF A WHALING CRUIZE. 1846.
"The Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid116 transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of Nantucket." --"NARRATIVE OF THE GLOBE," BY LAY AND HUSSEY SURVIVORS117. A.D. 1828.
Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw the onset118 was inevitable119." --MISSIONARY JOURNAL OF TYERMAN AND BENNETT.
"Nantucket itself," said Mr. Webster, "is a very striking and peculiar120 portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering121 industry." --REPORT OF DANIEL WEBSTER'S SPEECH IN THE U. S. SENATE, ON THE APPLICATION FOR THE ERECTION OF A BREAKWATER AT NANTUCKET. 1828.
"The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him in a moment." --"THE WHALE AND HIS CAPTORS, OR THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES AND THE WHALE'S BIOGRAPHY, GATHERED ON THE HOMEWARD CRUISE OF THE COMMODORE PREBLE." BY REV10. HENRY T. CHEEVER.
"If you make the least damn bit of noise," replied Samuel, "I will send you to hell." --LIFE OF SAMUEL COMSTOCK (THE MUTINEER), BY HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM COMSTOCK. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE WHALE-SHIP GLOBE NARRATIVE.
"The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the whale." --MCCULLOCH'S COMMERCIAL DICTIONARY.
"These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds122, only to bound forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly123 hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage." --FROM "SOMETHING" UNPUBLISHED.
"It is impossible to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular voyage." --CURRENTS AND WHALING. U. S. EX. EX.
"Pedestrians124 in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect125 having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to form arches over gateways126, or entrances to alcoves127, and they may perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales." --TALES OF A WHALE VOYAGER TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN.
"It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that the whites saw their ship in bloody128 possession of the savages129 enrolled130 among the crew." --NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND RETAKING OF THE WHALE-SHIP HOBOMACK.
"It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels131 (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed." --CRUISE IN A WHALE BOAT.
"Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up perpendicularly132 into the air. It was the while." --MIRIAM COFFIN OR THE WHALE FISHERMAN.
"The Whale is harpooned133 to be sure; but bethink you, how you would manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope tied to the root of his tail." --A CHAPTER ON WHALING IN RIBS AND TRUCKS.
"On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a stone's throw of the shore" (Terra Del Fuego), "over which the beech134 tree extended its branches." --DARWIN'S VOYAGE OF A NATURALIST135.
"'Stern all!' exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw the distended136 jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the boat, threatening it with instant destruction;--'Stern all, for your lives!'" --WHARTON THE WHALE KILLER137.
"So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!" --NANTUCKET SONG.
"Oh, the rare old Whale, mid111 storm and gale138 In his ocean home will be A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless139 sea." --WHALE SONG.
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