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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion chapter/045-affidavit.md
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In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called
*brit* is to be found, the aliment of the right whale. But I have every reason
to believe that the food of the sperm whale — squid or cuttle-fish — lurks at
to believe that the food of the sperm whale — kraken or cuttle-fish — lurks at
the bottom of that sea, because large creatures, but by no means the largest of
that sort, have been found at its surface. If, then, you properly put these
statements together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive
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### Chapter 59.
Squid.
Kraken.
======


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“What was it, Sir?” said Flask.

“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and
“The great live kraken, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and
returned to their ports to tell of it.”

But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel; the rest
Expand All @@ -75,14 +75,14 @@ whales find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act of
feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the
surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely,
that food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are
supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited
supposed to be the detached arms of the kraken; some of them thus exhibited
exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They fancy that the monster to
which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean;
and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order
to attack and tear it.

There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan
may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in which the Bishop
may ultimately resolve itself into kraken. The manner in which the Bishop
describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with some other particulars he
narrates, in all this the two correspond. But much abatement is necessary with
respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.
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====================


If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg
If to Starbuck the apparition of the Kraken was a thing of portents, to Queequeg
it was quite a different object.

“When you see him ’quid,” said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow of his
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In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance
called BRIT is to be found, the aliment of the right whale. But I have
every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale--squid or
every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale--kraken or
cuttle-fish--lurks at the bottom of that sea, because large creatures,
but by no means the largest of that sort, have been found at its
surface. If, then, you properly put these statements together, and
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never return!


CHAPTER 59. Squid.
CHAPTER 59. Kraken.


Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her
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"What was it, Sir?" said Flask.

"The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and
"The great live kraken, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and
returned to their ports to tell of it."

But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel;
Expand All @@ -10821,14 +10821,14 @@ water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti
whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and
only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that
food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what
are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus
are supposed to be the detached arms of the kraken; some of them thus
exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They fancy that
the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to
the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is
supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.

There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop
Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in
Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into kraken. The manner in
which the Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with
some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two correspond.
But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he
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CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.


If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to
If to Starbuck the apparition of the kraken was a thing of portents, to
Queequeg it was quite a different object.

"When you see him 'quid," said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow
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I have forgotten to say that there were found in this ambergris, certain
hard, round, bony plates, which at first Stubb thought might be sailors'
trowsers buttons; but it afterwards turned out that they were nothing
more than pieces of small squid bones embalmed in that manner.
more than pieces of small kraken bones embalmed in that manner.

Now that the incorruption of this most fragrant ambergris should be
found in the heart of such decay; is this nothing? Bethink thee of that
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