there, that shivered lance will do.

Muster the men. Surely I have not seen him yet. By heaven it cannot be! — missing? — quick! Call them all.”

The old man’s hinted thought was true. Upon mustering the company, the Parsee was not there.

“The Parsee!” cried Stubb — “he must have been caught in — — ”

“The black vomit wrench thee! — run all of ye above, alow, cabin, forecastle — find him — not gone — not gone!”

But quickly they returned to him with the tidings that the Parsee was nowhere to be found.

“Aye, sir,” said Stubb — “caught among the tangles of your line — I thought I saw him dragging under.”