| The try-works are planted between the foremast and the mainmast, the most roomy part of the deck.…
By midnight the works were in full operation. We were clear of the
carcass; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean
darkness was intense. But that darkness was licked up by the fierce
flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illu
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minated every lofty rope in the rigging. Then the rushing Pequod,
freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and
plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counter
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part of her monomaniac commander’s soul. (Chapter 96
—The Try-Works) |
