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- # Stubb's interpretation
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This is a section extracted from the text file [moby_dick.txt](arke:01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6), labeled "Stubb's interpretation." It is part of the "Melville Complete Works" collection ([Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)). The section, starting on line 16717 and ending on line 16726, was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the "structure-extraction-lambda" process. It is a textual passage focusing on the character Stubb's perspective.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This section appears within "CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon." ([CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.](arke:01KG8AMA8Z935HRK7VVGR9ARH4)) and follows "Starbuck's interpretation" ([Starbuck's interpretation](arke:01KG8ANJN9KV2XSKPQ6HCZ4KYQ)). It precedes "Stubb's interpretation of the doubloon" ([Stubb's interpretation of the doubloon](arke:01KG8ANJNFVSY2SF2B1MWP5W8Y)). The text was extracted from the novel *Moby Dick* as part of a larger collection of Melville's works.
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The section contains Stubb's musings on a doubloon, prompted by observing Starbuck and the "old Mogul" (likely Ahab) examining it. Stubb reflects on the value of gold, contrasting its worth with the interpretations of the coin's symbolism. He references various doubloons from different regions and expresses his opinion that the coin is "queer."
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- “There now’s the old Mogul,” soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, “he’s
been twigging it; and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with
faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long.
And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have it now on
Negro Hill or in Corlaer’s Hook, I’d not look at it very long ere
spending it. Humph! in my poor, insignificant opinion, I regard this as
queer. I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons
of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your
doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold
moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes. What
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