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| Prophet to Ahab, stops the Ishmael and tells him that Ahab will die |
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| Inn in Nantucket that Ishmael stays at. Clam or cod. |
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| Owner of the try pots, wasn't there at the time |
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| 1st mate who speaks out against Ahab, Quake, Queequeg is his harpooner |
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| Harpooner from africa, big gold earrings, fought a lion |
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| Oldest crew member, oracle |
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| co owner of pequod, quaker, assigns lays, has pilot's license |
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| First "gam", speaker fell into water, fish following Peqoud followed Albatross |
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| It' Captain is Boomer, doctor is Bunger, Boomer lost arm to white whale, opposite path of Ahab, has friend that survived |
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| Knead spermaceti and this is what's left, crystal-like residue |
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| Take all barrels out of hold and find leaky one, otherwise ruins the rest. Ahab does this after has confrontation with Starbuck fearing omens |
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| Crustaceans eaten by right whales and humpback whales |
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| Black church, Ishmael stumbles into here when at New Bedford, blackness preaching about blackness |
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| Queequeg's coffin that when he decides to not die, it turns into a lifebuoy |
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| Smaller than blanketpiece, bigger than bible leaves |
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| Ahab's hat that gets taken by a seahawk and dropped into the ocean |
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| The day the Peqoud sets sail |
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| Queequeg pipe, violence and peace |
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| Attaches a crewmate to a harpooner standing on the whale |
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| The blacksmith, makes a special barb with horseshoes and blood. Instead of killing himself he goes to whaling, was alcoholic and ruined his life |
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| Bulkinton, "Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing--straighten up, leaps thy apotheosis |
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| Inn Ishamel stays at, meets Queequeg as his roomate, picture of the whale: whale is impaling itself on mast head |
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| Carefree, happy go lucky, 2nd mate, has pipe, tashtaego is harpooner |
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| Ship that takes Ishmael and Queequeg from New Bedford to Nantucket. Queequeg saves guy who tries to fight him |
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| Ahab's harpooner, doppelganger of Ahab, from Malaysia, turban-like hair |
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| Co-owner of ship, not the one who assigns lays, gives "interview" to Ishmael, gives 300th lay instead of 777th |
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| Whaling ship with lots of oil when met by Peqoud, has gam, the crew was partying with women from nearby islands |
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| Social meeting between two whaling ships |
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| Part of whales skin from the tail, very spongy, used to clean the decks |
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| The act of taking spermaceti from the head of the whale |
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| A creature more foreboding, dangerous and mysterious than sperm whales that the Peqoud finds |
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| Given to the mate who spot Moby Dick the day he's killed |
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| The process of throwing a log to the front of the boat and seeing how long it takes to reach the end of the boat determines speed and thus location |
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| Cuts up whale blubber for Try Works, Wears whale penis |
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| When a Ship's flag is red |
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| The type of gun that Ahab threatens Starbuck with |
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| Fedallah's 1 earring. Daggoo has 2 |
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| The crew sees a whale spout and they think it's Moby Dick's. They chase and never find a whale. Omen |
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| Makes wooden objects on the ship |
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| Weapon that Ahab tries to stab whale head with |
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| The 3rd mate, likes to hurt whales, sadist, short |
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| Young kid from Alabama, tambourine, falls off boat and becomes insane. "Castaway" |
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| A hero, challenges the unknown, "Lee Shore" |
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| captain of the Samuel Enderby, lost his arm to Moby, doesn't seek revenge like Ahab does |
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| A ship that had recently fought Moby Dick before the Peqoud approached. Lost 5 crewmembers, it's captain condemns Ahab, buries one of its dead at sea while Ahab tries to avoid, Queequeg's coffin is on side of ship so they can't avoid |
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| Pole with a flag that is stabbed into a killed whale so whaling ships knows what kills belong to who |
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| Biggest piece of whale blubber taken off whale, taken off first |
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| Smallest piece of whale blubber, smaller than horse piece |
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| Ship that has whale ivory all over it, a jawbone tiller, named after an extinct Indian tribe, cannibalistic craft |
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| Stubs from these are used to make a harpooner barb for Ahab to kill Moby Dick |
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| The equator OR the rope that attaches the harpoon to a whale boat |
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| A compass that hangs in the captain's cabin, isn't affected by the rocking of the ship |
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| Queequeg's fast that happens in the Try-Pots |
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| Semi-circle carved out of the front seat of a whaling boat so the harpooner can brace himself against it so he doesn't fall out |
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| Tablets in the Chapel, marking deaths of men lost at sea with no body found |
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| The act of cutting into whale blubber |
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| Type of bird that steals Moby Dick's hat and drops it into the sea. |
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