The Courage of a Starbuck

Starbuck well knew what doom was his own father's. Where in the bottomless deeps could he find the torn limbs of his brother? With memories like these in him, and moreover, given to a certain superstitiousness, as has been said, the courage of this starbuck, which could nevertheless still flour sh must indeed have been extreme. But it was not an reasonable nature that a man so organized and with such terrible experiences and remembrances as he had,. It was not a nature that these things should fail in latently engendering an element in him, which, under suitable circumstances, would break out from its confinement and burn all his courage up. Scarce might