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• bears_down_uponWhaling Boats

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  The main ship, the Pequod, approaches its smaller boats with sails outstretched, providing a dramatic backdrop to the chase.

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  the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood

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• sails_toIndian Ocean

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  The Pequod is destined for a whaling voyage that will take it to the Indian Ocean.

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  are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be detained.”

• sails_toPacific Ocean

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  The Pequod is destined for a whaling voyage that will take it to the Pacific Ocean.

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  are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be detained.”

• has_structureWhalebone Marquee

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  The Pequod is equipped with a whalebone marquee, a tent-like structure used only when in port.

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  this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port

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• referenced_byNantucket

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  after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen of Captain Ahab

• referenced_byIsolatoes

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  nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, _Isolatoes_ too

• referenced_byCaptain Ahab

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  the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea.

• referenced_byPip

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  Black Little Pip—he never did—oh, no! he went before. Poor Alabama boy! On the grim Pequod’s forecastle

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• rescuesNarrator

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  The main ship, the Pequod, unexpectedly appears through the mist and saves the stranded crew, including the narrator, from their swamped boat.

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  as the ship at last loomed into view, bearing right down upon us within a distance of not much more than its length. Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship’s bows like a chip at the base of a cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern. Again we swam for it, were dashed against it by the seas, and were at last taken up and safely landed on board.

• destroysWhaling Boat

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  The Pequod accidentally runs over and crushes the abandoned whaling boat during the rescue operation.

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  the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern.

• has_as_objectMoby Dick

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  The entire voyage of the Pequod is undertaken with the specific goal of hunting the White Whale, Moby Dick.

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  this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.

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• has as crewPequod’s crew

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  The Pequod is the ship that employs the Pequod's crew.

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  the Pequod’s crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea

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• referenced_byWounded Whale

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  the whale was transferred to her side,

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• referenced_byNarrator

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  we sallied out to board the Pequod

• referenced_byQueequeg

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  we sallied out to board the Pequod

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• experiencedTyphoon on Japan

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  The Pequod suffered a severe typhoon near Japan during a previous voyage.

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  Pequod here had her three masts overboard in that typhoon on Japan

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• hypothetically_visitsSeychelle Ground

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  The text discusses the hypothetical scenario of the Pequod visiting the Seychelle Ground in search of Moby Dick.

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  were the Pequod to visit either of those spots at any subsequent corresponding season, she would infallibly encounter him there

• hypothetically_visitsVolcano Bay

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  The text discusses the hypothetical scenario of the Pequod visiting Volcano Bay in search of Moby Dick.

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  were the Pequod to visit either of those spots at any subsequent corresponding season, she would infallibly encounter him there

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• conversing_withJeroboam

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  The Pequod maintained a conversation with the Jeroboam's boat, despite the need for quarantine, by preserving a few yards interval.

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  a conversation was sustained between the two parties

• spoke_withTown-Ho

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  The Pequod had previously communicated with the Town-Ho, learning a strange story about Gabriel and the Jeroboam.

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  the Pequod spoke the Town-Ho

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• carriesTashtego

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  Tashtego is on board the Pequod, specifically at the mainmast, during the ship's final moments.

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  over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast

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• referenced_byCaptain Peleg

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  Captain Peleg seldom or never went ashore, but sat in his wigwam keeping a sharp look-out upon the hands:

• referenced_byCaptain Bildad

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  It belongs to me and Captain Bildad to see the Pequod fitted out for the voyage, and supplied with all her needs, including crew. We are part owners and agents.

• referenced_byPequod Minor Shareholders

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  the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship.

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• transformed duringCutting In

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  During the cutting-in of a whale, the Pequod is turned into what resembles a 'shamble' with sailors acting as butchers.

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  The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.

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• meetsRachel

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  The Pequod had an encounter with the ship Rachel a few days prior to the current events.

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  after meeting the children-seeking Rachel; and no spout had yet been seen

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• has_crew_memberTashtego

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  Tashtego is explicitly identified as one of 'the people of the Pequod' who were engaged in the baling operation.

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  Now, the people of the Pequod had been baling some time in this way

• has_crew_memberDaggoo

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  Daggoo is a crew member of the Pequod, as evidenced by his presence and actions during the incident on board.

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  “Man overboard!” cried Daggoo, who amid the general consternation first came to his senses

• has_crew_memberStubb

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  Stubb is a crew member of the Pequod, participating in the events and speaking to Daggoo during the emergency.

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  “In heaven’s name, man,” cried Stubb

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• referenced_bySperm Whale

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  we have a Sperm Whale’s prodigious head hanging to the Pequod’s side.

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• referenced_byPequod's Carpenter

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  the Pequod’s carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage

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• descried_fromship's mast heads

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  The events of the chase were observed from the mast heads of the ship.

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  all this had been descried from the ship’s mast heads

• rescuesAhab

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  The Pequod intervenes by parting Moby Dick from its victim, effectively rescuing Ahab.

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  she effectually parted the white whale from his victim.

• offers_means_ofMoby Dick

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  The ship itself, the Pequod, offers the most promising way to overtake Moby Dick, as the boats are struggling.

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  The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase.

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• carriesPequod's Crew

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  The Pequod serves as the vessel transporting Ahab and his crew, unifying them in their singular pursuit.

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  For as the one ship that held them all; though it was put together of all contrasting things—oak, and maple, and pine wood; iron, and pitch, and hemp—yet all these ran into each other in the one concrete hull

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• employs_payment_systemLays

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  The Pequod, as part of the whaling business, operates on a payment system where crew members receive shares of profits, known as 'lays,' instead of wages.

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  in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called _lays_

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• is_destined_forCape Horn

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  The Pequod is intended to sail around Cape Horn as part of its whaling voyage.

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  carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.

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• is_fromNantucket

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  The whaling ship Pequod is identified as originating from Nantucket.

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  The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby

• meetsSamuel Enderby

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  The Pequod encounters the Samuel Enderby at sea.

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  The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of

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• carriesLog and Line

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  The log and line are part of the standard equipment on the Pequod, though seldom used.

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  The Log and Line. While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log and line had but very seldom been in use

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• referenced_byFlask

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  They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.

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• referenced_byYellow Boys

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• utilizesBurton (ship equipment)

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  The Pequod employs Burtons as part of its equipment for managing cargo and operations in its hold.

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  up Burton, and break out in the main-hold.” It were perhaps vain to surmise exactly why it was, that as respecting Starbuck, Ahab thus acted. It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship. However it was, his orders were executed; and the Burtons were hoisted.

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• has_crew_memberPip

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  Pip is identified as one of the crew members of the Pequod, initially considered the most insignificant.

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  insignificant of the Pequod’s crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.

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• referenced_byAhab

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  we both grow old together; sound in our hulls, though, are we not, my ship?

• referenced_byMoby Dick

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  He turns to meet us! Oh, his unappeasable brow drives on towards one

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• referenced_byBildad

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  Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores;

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  nothing should be found wanting in the Pequod, after once fairly getting to sea.

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• referenced_byGabriel's Whaleboat

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  the mutinous boat rapidly shot away from the Pequod

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• chasesSperm Whale

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  The Pequod actively pursues the vast fleet of Sperm Whales, crowding all sail to catch them.

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• sails_throughStraits of Sunda

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  The Pequod enters and sails through the Straits of Sunda during the chase.

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• passesCockatoo Point

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  The Pequod sails past Cockatoo Point, leaving the pirates behind.

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  the Pequod at last shot by the vivid green Cockatoo Point on the Sumatra side

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• referenced_byTrade Winds

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  these same Trades that so directly blow my good ship on

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• carriesSails

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  The Pequod is equipped with various sails, some of which were damaged and replaced during the typhoon.

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  the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails

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• voyages_throughIndian Ocean

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  The Pequod's journey continues through the Indian Ocean, a region noted for its lack of usual whaling activity.

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  For this part of the Indian Ocean through which we then were voyaging

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• is_bound_forPacific Ocean

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  Ahab declares that the Pequod's extensive voyage will take it to the Pacific Ocean, where future communications should be directed.

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  This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean! and this time three years, if I am not at home

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• hasjoint-owners

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  The whaling ship Pequod is owned by multiple parties, who likely would not have approved of Ahab's special boat arrangements.

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  the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not.

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• performs_operationsHeidelburgh Tun

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  The Pequod was the location where operations, including baling into the Heidelburgh Tun, were performed on the whale.

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  where all those cutting and hoisting operations previously detailed, were regularly gone through, even to the baling of the Heidelburgh Tun, or Case.

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• meetsRose-Bud (ship)

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  The Pequod encounters another ship, the 'stranger,' which is later identified as the Rose-Bud.

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  The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger

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• named_afterMassachusetts Indians

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  The whaling ship Pequod derives its name from a celebrated, now-extinct tribe of Massachusetts Indians.

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• adorned_withSperm whale

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  The Pequod is uniquely embellished with long, sharp teeth from sperm whales serving as pins in its bulwarks and a tiller carved from a sperm whale's lower jaw.

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  her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.

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• drifted into sea withRight Whale

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  The Pequod drifted into a sea where patches of yellow brit indicated the presence of Right Whales.

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  the Pequod had gradually drifted into a sea, which, by its occasional patches of yellow brit, gave unusual tokens of the vicinity of Right Whales

• passed nearCrozetts

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  The Pequod had previously sailed past the Crozetts, encountering many Right Whales without pursuing them.

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  she had passed numbers of them near the Crozetts without lowering a boat;

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• encountersThe Delight

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  The Pequod, while sailing on, descries another ship named 'The Delight'.

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  another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried

• carriesLife-buoy-coffin

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  The Pequod carries a unique object, a 'life-buoy-coffin', which is observed to be lightly swinging.

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  the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung

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• processesSperm Whale

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  The Pequod's crew is engaged in the task of processing a captured Sperm Whale, which includes decapitation and stripping of the body.

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  The Pequod’s whale being decapitated and the body stripped

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• travels_towardsJava

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  The whaling ship Pequod is sailing north-eastward with the island of Java as its destination.

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  the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java

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• is commanded byCaptain Ahab

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  The rushing Pequod is described as the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul, implicitly Captain Ahab.

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  material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.

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• sails_towardsEquator

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  The Pequod is currently on a south-eastward course, making a long passage towards the Equatorial fishing-ground.

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  the Pequod held on her path towards the Equator.

• is_huntingWhite Whale

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  The primary objective of the Pequod's voyage is to hunt and find the legendary White Whale.

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  to look out for the White Whale,

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• referenced_byThe Needle (Chapter 124)

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  striving in the Pequod’s gurgling track, pushed her on

• referenced_byCompasses

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  the two compasses pointed East, and the Pequod was as infallibly going West.

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• has_componentQuarter-deck

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  The Pequod is equipped with a quarter-deck, an elevated area where Captain Ahab often stands.

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  Upon each side of the Pequod’s quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank

• sails_throughQuito Spring

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  The Pequod sails through the region characterized by the bright Quito spring weather.

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  the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring

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  those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it

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• undertakesWhaling voyage

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• plunges intoAtlantic Ocean

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  The Pequod, along with its accompanying boat, begins its voyage by plunging into the vast and solitary Atlantic.

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  blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.

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• meetsJungfrau

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  The Pequod encounters the ship Jungfrau on a predestinated day.

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  we duly met the ship Jungfrau,

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  The Pequod's boats join the chase, trying to overtake the German boats and the whales.

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  At this juncture the Pequod’s keels had shot by the three German boats last lowered;

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• carriesWhale-boat

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  into the bows of one of the whale-boats hanging to the side; and then bracing his left knee

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  Captain Ahab was the captain of the Pequod during the voyage when it experienced the typhoon on Japan.

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  that same voyage when thou went mate with Captain Ahab

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• nearsFormosa

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  The whaling ship Pequod is approaching the geographical location of Formosa.

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  Now, from the South and West the Pequod was drawing nigh to Formosa and the Bashee Isles

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  The whaling ship Pequod is approaching the geographical location of the Bashee Isles.

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  Now, from the South and West the Pequod was drawing nigh to Formosa and the Bashee Isles

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  The ship Pequod has oil casks located within its hold, which are currently compromised.

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  the casks below must have sprung a bad leak.

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  The Pequod is facing a problem where its valuable whale oil cargo is leaking due to sprung casks in the hold.

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• referenced_byCaptain (Whale Ship)

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  the moody captain of the Pequod was

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• was struck byTyphoon

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  The whaling ship Pequod was directly hit by the powerful Typhoon, causing its canvas to be torn and leaving it bare-poled.

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  the Pequod was torn of her canvas, and bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon which had struck her directly ahead.

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  Stubb expresses an optimistic belief that the Pequod's hold will be completely full of sperm-oil, signifying future success.

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  for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a’ block with sperm-oil

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  Yes, our three masts will yet be as three spermaceti candles—that’s the good promise we saw.”

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