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Becasue the book is wrtten by Herman Mellville, we once again get a full manual about cutting, cooking and getting the whale oil out. But while I was reading this ”interesting” catalog something really gross came up on chapter 95 that talked about the whales’s penis and how it can be compared to how clergymen dress. I don’t think this makes any sense, although I found it humorous when he says “pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity avery strange , enigmatical object”.

Apart from the whaleing I really enjoyed reading about how clever Stubb is when the Pequod meets the Rose-bud. Stubb asks bout Moby Dick and notices that there are two whales tied to the ship with no oil but the second one containing a vailable substance known as ambergris in the intestines. Then he says that this whale might pose a threat to the crew tricking the captain and leaving Stubb with a valuable whale. Then there is the story of pip which cativated me since he is a poor little guy who gets yelled at all the time, “we can’t afford to lose whales by the likes of you, a whale would sell for thirty times what you would pip in Alabama” and almost dies drowned in the vastness of the ocean twice. Poor little smeagel.