diff --git a/chapter/045-affidavit.md b/chapter/045-affidavit.md index ce0d4c4..e0daca4 100644 --- a/chapter/045-affidavit.md +++ b/chapter/045-affidavit.md @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis. In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called *brit* is to be found, the aliment of the right whale. But I have every reason -to believe that the food of the sperm whale — squid or cuttle-fish — lurks at +to believe that the food of the sperm whale — kraken or cuttle-fish — lurks at the bottom of that sea, because large creatures, but by no means the largest of that sort, have been found at its surface. If, then, you properly put these statements together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive diff --git a/chapter/059-squid.md b/chapter/059-squid.md index fa92b4b..efd58e8 100644 --- a/chapter/059-squid.md +++ b/chapter/059-squid.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ### Chapter 59. -Squid. +Kraken. ====== @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ ghost!” “What was it, Sir?” said Flask. -“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and +“The great live kraken, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.” But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel; the rest @@ -75,14 +75,14 @@ whales find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are -supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited +supposed to be the detached arms of the kraken; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it. There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan -may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in which the Bishop +may ultimately resolve itself into kraken. The manner in which the Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two correspond. But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it. diff --git a/chapter/061-stubb-kills-whale.md b/chapter/061-stubb-kills-whale.md index 2f496cf..4e67699 100644 --- a/chapter/061-stubb-kills-whale.md +++ b/chapter/061-stubb-kills-whale.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Stubb Kills a Whale. ==================== -If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg +If to Starbuck the apparition of the Kraken was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object. “When you see him ’quid,” said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow of his diff --git a/full-text-moby-dick.txt b/full-text-moby-dick.txt index 4591000..9613dca 100644 --- a/full-text-moby-dick.txt +++ b/full-text-moby-dick.txt @@ -8249,7 +8249,7 @@ pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis. In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called BRIT is to be found, the aliment of the right whale. But I have -every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale--squid or +every reason to believe that the food of the sperm whale--kraken or cuttle-fish--lurks at the bottom of that sea, because large creatures, but by no means the largest of that sort, have been found at its surface. If, then, you properly put these statements together, and @@ -10741,7 +10741,7 @@ half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! -CHAPTER 59. Squid. +CHAPTER 59. Kraken. Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her @@ -10803,7 +10803,7 @@ have seen thee, thou white ghost!" "What was it, Sir?" said Flask. -"The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and +"The great live kraken, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it." But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed back to the vessel; @@ -10821,14 +10821,14 @@ water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists. At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what -are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus +are supposed to be the detached arms of the kraken; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length. They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it. There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop -Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid. The manner in +Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into kraken. The manner in which the Bishop describes it, as alternately rising and sinking, with some other particulars he narrates, in all this the two correspond. But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he @@ -10979,7 +10979,7 @@ your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side. CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. -If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to +If to Starbuck the apparition of the kraken was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object. "When you see him 'quid," said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow @@ -15705,7 +15705,7 @@ laborers do in blasting rocks. I have forgotten to say that there were found in this ambergris, certain hard, round, bony plates, which at first Stubb thought might be sailors' trowsers buttons; but it afterwards turned out that they were nothing -more than pieces of small squid bones embalmed in that manner. +more than pieces of small kraken bones embalmed in that manner. Now that the incorruption of this most fragrant ambergris should be found in the heart of such decay; is this nothing? Bethink thee of that