MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 115 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 115 Meets The Bachelor And jolly enough were the sights and the sounds that came bearing down before the wind some few weeks after Ahab s harpoon had been welded. It was a Nantucket ship the Bachelor which had just wedged in her last cask of oil and bolted down her bursting hatches and now in glad holiday apparel was joyously though somewhat vain-gloriously sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground previous to pointing her prow for home. The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red bunting at their hats from the stern a whale-boat was suspended bottom down and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain. Signals ensigns and jacks of all colors were flying from her rigging on every side. Sideways lashed in each of her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm above which in her top-mast cross-trees you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid and nailed to her main truck was a brazen lamp. As was afterwards learned the Bachelor had met with the most surprising success all the more wonderful for that while cruising in the same seas numerous other vessels had gone entire months without securing a single fish. Not only had barrels of beef and bread been given away to make room for the far more valuable sperm but additional supplemental casks had been bartered for from the ships she had met and these were stowed along the deck and in the captain s and officers state-rooms. Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt lashed down to the floor for a centerpiece. In the forecastle the sailors had actually caulked and pitched their chests and filled them it was humorously added that the cook had clapped a head on his largest boiler and filled it that the steward had plugged his spare coffee-pot and filled it that the harpooneers had headed the sockets of their .
