The Spectacular Whale, Part Two

A sudden exclamation was heard that took every eye from the whale with a start. All glared at dark ahab, who was surrounded by five dusky phantoms that seemed fresh formed out of air. This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain's on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter. The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel like lips. A rumpled chinese jacket of black on funarily invested him with wide black trousers of the same dark stuff. But strangely, crowning him was a glistening white plaited turban