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Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond

Pacific. CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith. CHAPTER 113. The Forge. CHAPTER 114. The Gilder. CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale. CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch. CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant. CHAPTER 119. The Candles. CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch

antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe

oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious

Antarctic seas. From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main

Antarctic in their glittering expression—all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those

ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor’ West Coast, and various other parts of the world, designated by them Right Whale Cruising Grounds. Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree

Ocean through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively ground; that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins, flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than those off the Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru

ocean floor. Over thousands of years, these peoples spread across both North and South America, adapting to an extraordinary range of environments: Arctic tundra, dense forests, vast grasslands, and arid deserts. By 1492, between 50 and 100 million people lived in the Americas, speaking hundreds of distinct languages and organised