Captain Doctor Bunger, My Lad, the Captain

"I was blind as a bat, both eyes out, all befogged and bedeadened with black foam. The whale's tail looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air like a marble steeple," he said. "A combing sea dashed me off, and at the same instant, the fish, taking one good dart forwards, went down like a flash." 'And the barb of that cursed second iron towering along near me, caught me here, clapping his hand just below his der yes, caught me just here, i say, and bore me down to hell's flames,' he added.