# Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

## BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER V. (_Razor Back_).—Of this whale little is

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known but his name. I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn. Of a retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which rises in a long sharp ridge. Let him go. I know little more of him, nor does anybody else.