What Is Whaling?

Captain Ahab was alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation. He said: 'How could i know there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale? Though indeed, i might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident?' But if thou wantest to know what whaling is,  i can put ye in a way of finding it out before ye bind yourself to it.