Pull Pull My Good Boys

All four boats were now in keen pursuit of that one spot of troubled water and air. Beneath this atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of water also, the whales were swimming. Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapour they spouted seemed their fore running couriers and detached flying outriders. But it bade fair to outstrip them. It flew on and on as a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the hills,. said starbuck in the lowest possible, but intensest concentrated whisper to his men.