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By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

 

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<Achievement Unlocked> Chapter 1
Finish Chapter 1 of Moby Dick. But this is just the beginning!


Gonna go run RG and head to bed, have fun with Chapter 2 (or I'll start it tomorrow if you haven't)

 

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CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.​

I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific.

 

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Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.

 

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The seas part for we alone.

 

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It was a Saturday night in December.

 

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Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.

 

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As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford

 

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thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.

 

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For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft

 

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because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.

 

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Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original- the Tyre of this Carthage;- the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.

 

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Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?

 

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