... like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity. MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 87 The Grand Armada The long and narrow peninsula of Malacca, extending ... contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs. Two thick squares of wood of equal size are wind, was herself in hot chase; how very kind of these tawny philanthropists ... capture of not a few of their number. And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation...