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- # CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This is a chapter from the novel "[Moby-Dick; or, The Whale](arke:01KG8AJ9GN1K052QJEZVGKXJ0T)" by Herman Melville, extracted from the text file "moby_dick.txt". The chapter was extracted on January 30, 2026, and is part of the "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection. The chapter's text begins on line 918 of the source file.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This chapter is part of the larger novel, which is contained within the "moby_dick.txt" file. The file is part of the "Melville Complete Works" collection. The chapter is preceded by "[CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.](arke:01KG8AKA3QQHP039MY78XH5MMC)" and followed by "[CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.](arke:01KG8AKA3Q726VVVQ5HEKG0FCF)". The structure extraction was performed by the "structure-extraction-lambda" tool.
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The chapter's title is "CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun." The text of the chapter begins with the line "in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board—yet, somehow, I".
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