Captain Ahab - A Brief History

Captain ahab stood upon his quarter deck. There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him. You saw a slender rod like mark, lividly whitish, it resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it. Whether that mark was borne with him, or whether it was a scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say. But once tashtigo senior, an old gayhead indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did ahab become that way branded. Throughout the voyage, little or no sion was made to it