@ No. 14
A serial reading from
Herman Melville's ' Moby Dick ' by Geoffrey Tandy
While the head of the Pequod's first sperm whale is still hanging from the tackle two boats are sent off to catch a right whale, of which there are a number about, because superstition has it that once the heads of these two whales have hung at the same time, that ship can never capsize.
In this instalment Tashtego is bailing out spermaceti from one of the heads. He falls into the head, which slips its tackle, and Tashtego, entombed, is drawn down into the sea.