id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-086 chapter-086 .txt text/plain 819 38 72 his boat, and one morning not long after the German ship Jungfrau Nevertheless, the boats pursued, and Stubb's was foremost. imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him. haul the boat up to his flank was impossible, he swam so fast and none exceed that fine manuvre with the lance called pitchpoling. is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is small rope called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be hauled back to the hand after darting. the harpoon may be pitchpoled in the same way with the lance, yet it is general thing, therefore, you must first get fast to a whale, before flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet Then holding the lance full spread of his spout-hole there, and from that live punch-bowl quaff the ./cache/chapter-086.txt ./txt/chapter-086.txt