"that’s true, that’s true—yes, both true enough. but you must jump when he gives an order. step and growl; growl and go—that’s the word with captain ahab. but nothing about that thing that happened to him off cape horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the spaniard afore the altar in santa?—heard nothing about that, eh? nothing about the silver calabash he spat into? and nothing about his losing his leg last voyage, according to the prophecy. didn’t ye hear a word about them matters and something more, eh? no, i don’t think ye did; how could ye?