The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud

           "InvainitwastorakeforAmbergrieseinthepaunchofthisLeviathan,insufferablefetordenyingnotinquiry."

           SIRT.BROWNE,V.E.

           Itwasaweekortwoafterthelastwhalingscenerecounted,andwhenwewereslowlysailingoverasleepy,vapory,mid-daysea,thatthemanynosesonthePequod’sdeckprovedmorevigilantdiscoverersthanthethreepairsofeyesaloft.Apeculiarandnotverypleasantsmellwassmeltinthesea.

           "Iwillbetsomethingnow,"saidStubb,"thatsomewherehereaboutsaresomeofthosedruggedwhaleswetickledtheotherday.Ithoughttheywouldkeelupbeforelong."

           Presently,thevaporsinadvanceslidaside;andthereinthedistancelayaship,whosefurledsailsbetokenedthatsomesortofwhalemustbealongside.Asweglidednearer,thestrangershowedFrenchcolorsfromhispeak;andbytheeddyingcloudofvulturesea-fowlthatcircled,andhovered,andswoopedaroundhim,itwasplainthatthewhalealongsidemustbewhatthefishermencallablastedwhale,thatis,awhalethathasdiedunmolestedonthesea,andsofloatedanunappropriatedcorpse.Itmaywellbeconceived,whatanunsavoryodorsuchamassmustexhale;worsethananAssyriancityintheplague,whenthelivingareincompetenttoburythedeparted.Sointolerableindeedisitregardedbysome,thatnocupiditycouldpersuadethemtomooralongsideofit.Yetaretherethosewhowillstilldoit;notwithstandingthefactthattheoilobtainedfromsuchsubjectsisofaveryinferiorquality,andbynomeansofthenatureofattar-of-rose.

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