Slowly she drifted to the southeast, rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts and diminished the weight upon her....

This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days after, lo! at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it...

During the first days, they went along smoothly enough. The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north-east, th...

As I walked, my eyes were bent upon the beach so that it was not until I had come quite upon it that I discovered that which sh...

The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpit...

Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time...

The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this important Nebraska town. Omaha is connected with Chicago by the Chicago ...

I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. ...

The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive a...

I wondered why these agile creatures required connecting bridges between the trees, but later when I saw the motley aggregation of half-sava...