Day 99 Chapter 100. Leg and Arm “But here a curious difficulty presented itself. In the excitement of the moment, Ahab had forgotten that...

Chapter 99. The Doubloon “But one morning, turning to pass the doubloon, he [Ahab] seemed to be newly attracted by the strange figures...

Chapter 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up “Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head;...

Chapters 95 (skipped) and 96 The Try-Works “Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn...

Chapter 94 A Squeeze of the Hands “Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us...

Chapter 93 The Castaway “The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely,...

Chapter 90 Heads or Tails and 91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. “And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to...

Day 92 Chapter 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish “What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish? What all men’s...

Chapter 87 Schools and Schoolmasters “Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the...

Chapter 86 The Grand Armada “And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights, did these inscrutable...

Chapter 86 The Tail “Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful,...

Chapter 85 The Fountain “For, d’ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, through all the thick...

Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded “Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this historical story of Jonah and the whale. But then...

Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling “The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head...

Chapter 81 The Pequod Meets the Virgin “It was his death stroke. For, by this time, so spent was he by loss of blood, that he helplessly...

Chapter 80 The Nut “For I believe that much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine...

Chapter 79 The Prairie “Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the...

Chapters 76, 77, and 78 The Battering-Ram, The Great Heidelburgh Tun, and Cistern and Buckets “The tun of the whale contains by far the...

Chapters 74 and 75 The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View and The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View “So long as a man’s eyes are open in...

CHAPTER 73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him “As before, the Pequod steeply leaned over towards the sperm...