And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boat’s side into that same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:⁠—

“Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride’s eye!⁠—Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.”

And Stubb, fish-like, with sparkling scales, leaped up in that same golden light:⁠—

“I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths that he has always been jolly!”