The Sea, a Coward's Intolerance

Sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea, mark how closely they hug their ship and only coast along hersides. A coward, so called is marked with the same ruthless detestation peculiar to military navies and armies. But it so happened that those boats, without seeing pip, suddenly, spying whales close to them on one side, turned and gave chase. And stubb's boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent upon his fish that pips ringed horizon began to expand around him miserably. By the merest chance, the ship itself at last rescued him. The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up,