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Updated: June 29, 2025
As for the men, they went about their work with relish, and total indifference as to consequences. When the largest whale had been hauled alongside, ropes were attached to his head and tail, and the former was secured near the stern of the ship, while the latter was lashed to the bow; the cutting-tackle was then attached.
But this awkwardness only lasted a minute, because the strange captain, observing at a glance how affairs stood, cried out, "I see, I see! avast heaving there! Jump, boys, and swing over the cutting-tackle."
Which way heading?" "Good God!" cried the English Captain, to whom the question was put. "What's the matter? He was heading east, I think. Is your Captain crazy?" whispering Fedallah. But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to take the boat's steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle towards him commanded the ship's sailors to stand by to lower.
But this awkwardness only lasted a minute, because the strange captain, observing at a glance how affairs stood, cried out, "I see, I see! avast heaving there! Jump, boys, and swing over the cutting-tackle."
Which way heading?" "Good God!" cried the English Captain, to whom the question was put. "What's the matter? He was heading east, I think. Is your Captain crazy?" whispering Fedallah. But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to take the boat's steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle towards him, commanded the ship's sailors to stand by to lower.
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