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Moby-Dick Herman Melville

ETYMOLOGY (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) ETYMOLOGY (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.” —HACKLUYT “WHALE… . Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY “WHALE… . It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —RICHARDSON’S DICTIONARY KETOS, Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHOEL, Anglo-Saxon. HVALT, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. WHALE, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. BALLENA, Spanish. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Fegee. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Erromangoan.

EXTRACTS (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian).

Chapter 1 Loomings

Chapter 2 The Carpet-Bag

Chapter 3 The Spouter-Inn

Chapter 4 The Counterpane

Chapter 5 Breakfast

Chapter 6 The Street

Chapter 7 The Chapel

Chapter 8 The Pulpit

Chapter 9 The Sermon

Chapter 10 A Bosom Friend

Chapter 11 Nightgown

Chapter 12 Biographical

Chapter 13 Wheelbarrow

Chapter 14 Nantucket

Chapter 15 Chowder

Chapter 16 The Ship

Chapter 17 The Ramadan

Chapter 18 His Mark

Chapter 19 The Prophet

Chapter 20 All Astir

Chapter 21 Going Aboard

Chapter 22 Merry Christmas

Chapter 23 The Lee Shore

Chapter 24 The Advocate

Chapter 25 Postscript

Chapter 26 Knights and Squires

Chapter 27 Knights and Squires

Chapter 28 Ahab

Chapter 29 Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb

Chapter 30 The Pipe

Chapter 31 Queen Mab

Chapter 32 Cetology

Chapter 33 The Specksynder

Chapter 34 The Cabin-Table

Chapter 35 The Mast-Head

Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck

Chapter 37 Sunset

Chapter 38 Dusk

Chapter 39 First Night Watch

Chapter 40 Midnight, Forecastle

Chapter 41 Moby Dick

Chapter 42 The Whiteness of The Whale

Chapter 43 Hark!

Chapter 44 The Chart

Chapter 45 The Affidavit

Chapter 46 Surmises

Chapter 47 The Mat-Maker

Chapter 48 The First Lowering

Chapter 49 The Hyena

Chapter 50 Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah

Chapter 51 The Spirit-Spout

Chapter 52 The Albatross

Chapter 53 The Gam

Chapter 54 The Town-Ho’s Story

Chapter 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales

Chapter 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes

Chapter 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars

Chapter 58 Brit

Chapter 59 Squid

Chapter 60 The Line

Chapter 61 Stubb Kills a Whale

Chapter 62 The Dart

Chapter 63 The Crotch

Chapter 64 Stubb’s Supper

Chapter 65 The Whale as a Dish

Chapter 66 The Shark Massacre

Chapter 67 Cutting In

Chapter 68 The Blanket

Chapter 69 The Funeral

Chapter 70 The Sphynx

Chapter 71 The Jeroboam’s Story

Chapter 72 The Monkey-Rope

Chapter 73 Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk Over Him

Chapter 74 The Sperm Whale’s Head — Contrasted View

Chapter 75 The Right Whale’s Head — Contrasted View

Chapter 76 The Battering-Ram

Chapter 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun

Chapter 78 Cistern and Buckets

Chapter 79 The Prairie

Chapter 80 The Nut

Chapter 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin

Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling

Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded

Chapter 84 Pitchpoling

Chapter 85 The Fountain

Chapter 86 The Tail

Chapter 87 The Great Armada

Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters

Chapter 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish

Chapter 90 Heads or Tails

Chapter 91 The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud

Chapter 92 Ambergris

Chapter 93 The Castaway

Chapter 94 A Squeeze of the Hand

Chapter 95 The Cassock

Chapter 96 The Try-Works

Chapter 97 The Lamp

Chapter 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up

Chapter 99 The Doubloon

Chapter 100 Leg and Arm

Chapter 101 The Decanter

Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides

Chapter 103 Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton

Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale

Chapter 105 Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? — Will He Perish?

Chapter 106 Ahab's Leg

Chapter 107 The Carpenter

Chapter 108 Ahab and the Carpenter

Chapter 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin

Chapter 110 Queequeg in His Coffin

Chapter 111 The Pacific

Chapter 112 The Blacksmith

Chapter 113 The Forge

Chapter 114 The Gilder

Chapter 115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor

Chapter 116 The Dying Whale

Chapter 117 The Whale Watch

Chapter 118 The Quadrant

Chapter 119 The Candles

Chapter 120 The Deck Toward the End of the First Night Watch

Chapter 121 Midnight — The Forecastle Bulwarks

Chapter 122 Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning

Chapter 123 The Musket

Chapter 124 The Needle

Chapter 125 The Log and Line

Chapter 126 The Life-Buoy

Chapter 127 The Deck

Chapter 128 The Pequod Meets the Rachel

Chapter 129 The Cabin

Chapter 130 The Hat

Chapter 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight

Chapter 132 The Symphony

Chapter 133 The Chase — First Day

Chapter 134 The Chase — Second Day

Chapter 135 The Chase — Third Day

Epilogue

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Published:1851 Categorie(s):Fiction, Action & Adventure

The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.

“While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by

what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”

—HACKLUYT

“WHALE… . Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness

or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.”

—WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY

“WHALE… . It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger.

Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.”

—RICHARDSON’S DICTIONARY

KETOS, Greek.

CETUS, Latin.

WHOEL, Anglo-Saxon.

HVALT, Danish.

WAL, Dutch.

HWAL, Swedish.

WHALE, Icelandic.

WHALE, English.

BALEINE, French.

BALLENA, Spanish.

PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Fegee.

PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, Erromangoan.

It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird’s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.