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  1. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
  2. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    There was no hair on his head -- none to speak of at least -- nothing but a small scalp-knot twisted up on his forehead.
  3. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    He now took off his hat -- a new beaver hat -- when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise.
  4. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    Placing these on the old chest in the middle of the room, he then took the New Zealand head -- a ghastly thing enough -- and crammed it down into the bag.
  5. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    But, after some difficulty having opened his bag, he commenced fumbling in it, and presently pulled out a sort of tomahawk, and a sealskin wallet with the hair on.
  6. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooner never noticed me at all.
  7. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    However, I had never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the skin.
  8. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one.
  9. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    But then, what to make of his unearthly complexion, that part of it, I mean, lying round about, and completely independent of the squares of tattooing.
  10. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
  11. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    And what is it, thought I, after all!
  12. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    I concluded that this harpooner, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
  13. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    I remembered a story of a white man -- a whaleman too -- who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them.
  14. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    At first I knew not what to make of this; but soon an inkling of the truth occurred to me.
  15. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    They were stains of some sort or other.
  16. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    But at that moment he chanced to turn his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks.
  17. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    Yes, it's just as I thought, he's a terrible bedfellow; he's been in a fight, got dreadfully cut, and here he is, just from the surgeon.
  18. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    It was of a dark, purplish, yellow color, here and there stuck over with large, blackish looking squares.
  19. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    Such a face!
  20. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    This accomplished, however, he turned round -- when, good heavens! what a sight!
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