somewhat slackened his flight. Haul in –haul in! cried Stubb to the
bowsman! and, facing round towards the whale, all hands began pulling the
boat up to him, while yet the boat was being towed on. Soon ranging up by
his flank, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart
after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat
alternately sterning out of the way of the whale’s horrible wallow, and then
ranging up for another fling. The red tide now poured from all sides of the
monster like brooks down a hill. His tormented body rolled not in brine but
in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake. The
slanting sun playing upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its
reflection into every face, so that they all glowed to each other like red
men. And all the while, jet after jet of white smoke was agonizingly shot
from the spiracle of the whale, and vehement puff after puff from the mouth
of the excited headsman; as at every dart, hauling in upon his crooked
lance (by the line attached to it), Stubb straightened it again and again,ugg 5389 boots,
by a few rapid blows against the gunwale,UGG Mini Boots, then again and again sent it into
the whale. Pull up –pull up! he now cried to the bowsman, as the waning
whale relaxed in his wrath. Pull up! –close to! and the boat ranged along
the fish’s flank. When reaching far over the bow, Stubb slowly churned his
long sharp lance into the fish, and kept it there, carefully churning and
churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold watch that the
whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of breaking ere he
could hook it out. But that gold watch he sought was the innermost life of
the fish. And now it is struck; for, starting
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from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his flurry, the monster
horribly wallowed in his blood,ugg nightfall, over-wrapped himself in impenetrable, mad,
boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly dropping astern, had
much ado blindly to struggle out from that phrensied twilight into the clear
air of the day. And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled
out into view; surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and
contracting his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations. At
last, gush after gush of clotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees
of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran dripping
down his motionless flanks into the sea. His heart had burst! He’s dead,
Mr. Stubb, said Daggoo. Yes; both pipes smoked out! and withdrawing his
own from his mouth, Stubb scattered the dead ashes over the water; and, for
a moment, stood thoughtfully eyeing the vast corpse he had made.
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It will be seen in some other place of what a very light substance the entire
interior of the sperm whale’s enormous head consists. Though apparently the
most massive, it is by far the most buoyant part about him. So that with ease
he elevates it in the air, and invariably does so when going at his utmost
speed. Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his
head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by
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