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MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 81 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin The predestinated day arrived and we duly met the ship Jungfrau Derick De Deer master of Bremen. At one time the greatest whaling people in the world the Dutch and Germans are now among the least but here and there at very wide intervals of latitude and longitude you still occasionally meet with their flag in the Pacific. For some reason the Jungfrau seemed quite eager to pay her respects. While yet some distance from the Pequod she rounded to and dropping a boat her captain was impelled towards us impatiently standing in the bows instead of the stern. What has he in his hand there cried Starbuck pointing to something wavingly held by the German. Impossible - a lamp-feeder Not that said Stubb no no it s a coffee-pot Mr. Starbuck he s coming off to make us our coffee is the Yarman don t you see that big tin can there alongside of him - that s his boiling water. Oh he s all right is the Yarman. Go along with you cried Flask it s a lamp-feeder and an oil-can. He s out of oil and has come a-begging. However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whaleground and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle yet sometimes such a thing really happens and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare. As he mounted the deck Ahab abruptly accosted him without at all heeding what he had in his hand but in his broken lingo the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness- his last drop of Bremen oil being gone and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency concluding by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one that is an empty one well deserving the
