the noblest and biggest I ever saw, sir, in my life — I resolved to capture him, spite of the boiling rage he seemed to be in. And thinking the hap-hazard line would get loose, or the tooth it was tangled to might draw (for I have a devil of a boat’s crew for a pull on a whale-line); seeing all this, I say, I jumped into my first mate’s boat — Mr. Mounttop’s here (by the way, Captain — Mounttop; Mounttop — the captain); — as I was saying, I jumped into Mounttop’s boat, which, d’ye see, was gunwale and gunwale with mine, then; and snatching the first harpoon, let this old great-grandfather have it. But, Lord, look you, sir — hearts and souls alive, man — the next instant, in a jiff, I was blind as a bat — both eyes out — all befogged and bedeadened with black foam — the