Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan? A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. How obvious is it, too, that this necessity for the whale’s rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase. And to the importunity of their persisted questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate.