CONTENTS 
CHAPTER PAGE 
LXXXV The Tail 346 
LXXXYI The Grand Armada 350 
LXXXYII Schools and Schoolmasters 362 
LXXXYIII Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 365 
LXXXIX Heads or Tails 369 
XC The Peqvod Meets the Rosebud 371 
XGI Ambergris 37'8 
XCII The Castaway 380 
XCIII A Squeeze of the Hand 384 
XCIY The Cassock 387 
XCY The Try-Works 389 
XCYI The Lamp 393 
XCYII Stowing down and Clearing up 394 
XCYIII The Doubloon 396 
XCIX Leg and Arm. — The Peqvod of Nantucket Meets 
the Samuel Enderby of London * 402 
C The Decanter 409 
Cl A Bower in the Arsacides 414 
CII Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton . . . 418 
CIII The Fossil Whale 420 
CIY Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? — Will 
pie Perish? 424 
CY Ahab’s Leg ! 428 
CYI The Carpenter 430 
CYII Ahab and the Carpenter 433 
CYIII Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin 437 
CIX Queequeg in his Coffin 439 
CX The Pacific 444 
CXI The Blacksmith 446 
CXII The Forge 448 
CXIII The Gilder 451 
CXIY The Peqvod Meets the Bachelor 453 
CXY The Dying Whale 455 
CXYI The Whale Watch 457 
CXYII The Quadrant 458 
CXYIII The Candles 460 
CXIX The Deck Towards the End of the First Night 
Watch 467’ 
CXX Midnight. — The Forecastle Bulwarks .... 467 
CXXI Midnight Aloft. — Thunder and Lightning . . 469 
CXXII The Musket 469 
CXXIII The Needle 472 
CXXIY The Log and Line 476 
CXXY The Lifebuoy 479 
CXXYI The Deck 482 
CXX VII The Pequod Meets the Rachel 484 
CXXVIII The Cabin 488 
