Ahab - The Man Who Sailed in the Pequot

Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all engrossing object of hunting the white whale. He was intent on an audacious, unmitigable and supernatural revenge. But half dreamed of what was lurking in him then. How soon would the aghast in righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man? They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint. The white whale as much their insufferable foe as his. While yet all a rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill health.