id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-126 chapter-126 .txt text/plain 1229 62 79 Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward Thrusting his head half way into the binnacle, Ahab caught one glimpse compasses pointed East, and the Pequod was as infallibly going West. Mr. Starbuck, last night's thunder turned our compasses--that's compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took "Men," said he, steadily turning upon the crew, as the mate handed him the things he had demanded, "my men, the thunder turned old Ahab's needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his own, With a blow from the top-maul Ahab knocked off the steel head of the and moving to the binnacle, slipped out the two reversed needles there, The sun is East, and that compass swears it!" ./cache/chapter-126.txt ./txt/chapter-126.txt