TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 71

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 71 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 71 The Jeroboam s Story Hand in hand ship and breeze blew on but the breeze came faster than the ship and soon the Pequod began to rock. By and by through the glass the stranger s boats and manned mast-heads proved her a whale-ship. But as she was so far to windward and shooting by apparently making a passage to some other ground the Pequod could not hope to reach her. So the signal was set to see what response would be made. Here be it said that like the vessels of military marines the ships of the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal all which signals being collected in a book with the names of the respective vessels attached every captain is provided with it. Thereby the whale commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean even at considerable distance and with no small facility. The Pequod s signal was at last responded to by the stranger s setting her own which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket. Squaring her yards she bore down ranged abeam under the Pequod s lee and lowered a boat it soon drew nigh but as the side-ladder was being rigged by Starbuck s order to accommodate the visiting captain the stranger in question waved his hand from his boat s stern in token of that proceeding being entirely unnecessary. It turned out that the Jeroboam had a malignant epidemic on board and that Mayhew her captain was fearful of infecting the Pequod s company. For though himself and the boat s crew remained untainted and though his ship was half a rifle-shot off and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and flowing between yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine of the land he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with the Pequod. But this did by no means prevent all communications. Preserving an interval of some few yards between itself and the ship the Jeroboam s boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the Pequod as she heavily forged through the

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