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chapter-099		chapter-099			.txt	text/plain	250	14	81	CHAPTER XCVII. THE LAMP Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes. In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of But the whaleman, as he Aladdin's lamp, and lays him down in it; so that in the pitchiest night the ship's black hull still houses an illumination. See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps--often but old bottles and vials, though--to the copper cooler at the try-works, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat. burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore, goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveller on the prairie hunts up his own	./cache/chapter-099.txt	./txt/chapter-099.txt