Captain Ahab, a Gray Manx Man, Sailed Out of Nantucket

i was struck with the singular posture he maintained. Upon each side of the pequod's quarter deck, there was an auger hole bored about half an inch or so into the plank. His bone leg steadied in that hole, one arm elevated and holding by a shroud. It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had, at sea, been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw ay,. He dismassedt of japan, said the old gay head indian once but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another mast without coming home. For it, he has a quiver of em i hardly noted that not a little of this overbearing grim