id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt chapter-018 chapter-018 .txt text/plain 5595 210 74 It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship. Like Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad was a well-to-do, retired whaleman. cache/chapter-018.txt txt/chapter-018.txt