Ay Ay, Hardy, Let Us Shake Bones

Ahab saw a white whale on the line and decided to capture him. He put out his ivory leg like two swordfish blades, cried out in his walrus way. The englishman said he had seen it before but was ignorant of its significance. Ahab then pulled at the hook with such ferocity that they came plump up to 'the noblest and biggest i ever saw'