- description
- # CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch.
## Overview
This is chapter 39, titled "First Night-Watch," from the novel *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale*. It was extracted from the file `moby_dick.txt` and is part of the "Melville Complete Works" collection.
## Context
This chapter follows "CHAPTER 38. Dusk." and precedes "CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle." It is one of many chapters comprising Herman Melville's renowned novel, *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale*. The text was processed as part of the "Melville Complete Works" collection.
## Contents
Chapter 39, "First Night-Watch," begins with the line, "from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands." The chapter spans from line 880 to line 880 within the source text.
- description_generated_at
- 2026-01-30T20:50:43.428Z
- description_model
- gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- description_title
- CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch.
- end_line
- 880
- extracted_at
- 2026-01-30T20:47:54.524Z
- extracted_by
- structure-extraction-lambda
- start_line
- 880
- text
- from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant woodlands
- title
- CHAPTER 39. First Night-Watch.