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Receiving the top-maul from Starbuck, he advanced towardshe advanced towards the main-mast with the hammemer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the other, and with a with a high raisedraised voice exclaiming: “Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled browbrow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke—look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, mymy boys!” “Huzza! huzza!” cried the seathe seamen, as with swinging tarpaulins they hailed the act of nailing the gold to the mast. “It’s a white whale, I say,” resumed Ahab, as he threw down the topmaul: “a white whale. Skin your eyes for himeyes for him, men; look sharp for white water; if ye see but a bubble, singbubble,sing out.” All this while Tashtego, Daggoo, and Queequeg had looked on withwith even more intense interestintense interest and surprise than the rest, and at the mention of the wrinkled brow and crooked jaw they had started as if as if each each was separately touchtouched by some specific recollection. “Captain Ahab,” saidsaid Tashtetego, “that white whale must be the samame that some call Mooby Dick.”

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