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CHAPTER 1
%Loomings
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long
precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and
nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I
would sail about a little and see the watery part of the
world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and
regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing
grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly
November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear
of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos
get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong
moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping
into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats
off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I
can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a
philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I
quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprisi . . .
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ETYMOLOGY
The pale Usher--threadbare in coat, heart, body, and
brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons
and grammars, with a queer hankerchief, mockingly
embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations
of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow
reminded him of his mortality.
"While you take in hand to school others, and to teach
them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our
tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which
almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you
deliver that which is not true."
HACKLUYT.
"Whale. * * * Sw. and Dan. %hval. This animal is
named for roundness or rolling; for in Dan. %hvalt is
arched or vaulted."
WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY.
"Whale. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and
Ger. %Wallen a.s. %Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow."
RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY.
tev resh, %Hebrew.
chi eta tau omicron sigma, %Greek.
CETUS, Latin. . . .
