Ahab's Hat, Sir

One of those red billed savage sea hawks came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings. The wild hawk flew on and on with it, far in advance of the prow and at last disappeared. An eagle flew thrice round tarquin's head, removing his cap to replace it. And thereupon his wife declared that tarquin would be king of rome. But only by the replacing of the cap was that omen accounted good.