他的三艘船在他周围炉子，桨和男人都在涡流中旋转。一位船长从他破碎的船尾夺取了刀刀，在鲸鱼上冲了鲸，当时是阿肯色州的敌人，他的敌人盲目地用六英寸的刀片盲目地寻求鲸鱼的深处生活。那个船长是亚哈。然后是，突然扫除了他镰状的下颌贝尼，Moby Dick收获了Ahab的腿。
(His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg.)
在“ Moby-Dick”的这一激烈的场景中，Ahab上尉发现自己被混乱所包围，因为他的三艘船与强大的鲸鱼莫米·迪克（Moby Dick）挣扎。局势随着行动旋风而陷入困境，类似于凶猛的决斗。亚哈（Ahab）受到他的痴迷的驱使，采取了冒险的立场，挥舞着刀，挥舞着鲸鱼，坚定不移地决心，类似于一名斗鸡主义者挑战竞争对手。
但是，当Moby Dick进行报复时，对抗发生了可怕的转变。在迅速的运动中，巨大的鲸鱼袭击，用强大的下颌毁灭性地切断了亚哈的腿。这一刻强调了亚哈和莫比·迪克（Ahab and Moby Dick）之间战斗的残酷性，这说明了亚哈对已经对他已经造成了深远个人损失的生物的无情追求。
