The White Whale and the Catastrophe of the Fishery

Tom and don miguel were systematically hunted out, chased and killed by valiant whaling captains. Captain butler of old had it in his mind to capture that notorious, murderous, savage anawon the headmost warrior of the indian king, philip. Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment, perhaps caught by the whale line off the coast of new guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan?