
Moby Dick - Chapters 96, 97 and 98
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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The First Fire in the Tri Works
The intense heat of the fire is prevented from communicating, i self to the deck by means of a shallow reservoir extending under the entire enclosed surface. This reservoir is kept replenished with water as fast as it evaporates. There are no external chimneys. They open direct from the rear wall. Once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body. Would that he consumed his own smoke. And inhale it you must. It has an unspeakable wild hindoo odor bout it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funeral pyres. The burning ship drove on as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed. We were clear from
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