On a previous voyage, Moby-Dick bit off Ahab's leg at the knee and left him with a prosthesis fashioned from a whale's jawbone.
The Pequod and her crew are central to the story, which takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans.
Ahab will give the first man to sight Moby Dick a doubloon, a gold coin, which he nails to the mast.
Four boats are lowered in vain when Daggoo mistakes a giant squid for the white whale.
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