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Slack.com slash DHQ. Chapter 48, Part 2. Now, the advent of these outlandish strangers

at such a critical instant as the lowering of the boats from the deck, this had not unreasonably

awakened a sort of superstitious amazement in some of the ship's company. But Archie's

fancy discovery, having sometime previous, got abroad among them, though indeed not credited

then. This had in some small measure prepared them for the event. It took off the extreme

edge of their wonder, and so what, with all this, and stubs confident way of accounting

for their appearance, they were for the time freed from their superstitious surmising,

though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures has to

dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning. For me, I silently recalled

the mysterious shadows I had seen creeping on board the Piquad during the Dimnan-Tucket

Dawn, as well as the ignomatical hintings of the unaccountable Elijah.

Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to winward, was

still ranging ahead of the other boats. A circumstance, bespeaking how potent a crew

was pulling him. Those tiger creatures of his seemed all steel and whalebone. Like

five triphammers, they rose and fell with regular strokes of strength, which periodically

started the boat along the water like a horizontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer.

As for Fidala, who has seen pulling the harpooner ore, he had thrown aside his black jacket

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