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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 77 words
Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket, was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days sail eastward from the eaves of this good Golden Inn. She was somewhere to the northward of the Line. One morning upon handling the pumps, according to daily usage, it was observed that she made more water in her hold than common.
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