oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he’s chasing me now; not I, him — that’s bad; I might have known it, too. Fool! The lines — the harpoons he’s towing.

Aye, aye, I have run him by last night. About! About! Come down, all of ye, but the regular look outs! Man the braces!”

Steering as she had done, the wind had been somewhat on the Pequod’s quarter, so that now being pointed in the reverse direction, the braced ship sailed hard upon the breeze as she rechurned the cream in her own white wake.

“Against the wind he now steers for the open jaw,” murmured Starbuck to himself, as he coiled the new-hauled main-brace upon the rail.

“God keep us, but already my