- Chapter 64, Stubb's Supper

Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm so for a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the pequod. The strongest and most reliable hold which the ship has upon the whale when moored alongside, is by the flukes or tail. All these particulars are faithfully narrated here, as they will not fail to elucidate several important, however intricate, passages in scenes hereafter to be painted. Ahab dropped one of several more lanterns over the bulwarks. Vacantly eyeing the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for securing it for the night. He did not come