The Captain's Best Coat - I Take Back the Coat

The story told, the stranger captain immediately went on to reveal his object in boarding the pequod. He desired that ship to unite with his own in the search by sailing over the sea some four or five miles apart and sweeping a double horizon. I will wager something now, whispered stubb to flask, that some one in that missing boat wore off that captain's best coat. Mayhap his watch. Who ever heard of two pious whale ships cruising after one missing whaleboat in the height of the whaling season? See flask, only see how pale he looks, pale in the very buttons of his eyes. Look, it wasn't the coat. It must have been the my