Starbuck's Tears the Glue

"This dead wood has the better of my live flesh every way. I can't compare with it," he said. "Good bye, masthead. Keep a good eye upon the whale the while i'm gone. We'll talk to morrow." 'Some men die at ebb tide, some at low water, some at the full of the flood,' wrote Captain Ahab in his memoirs. He added: 'I feel now like a billow that's all one crested comb star buck, i am old'