The Moby-Dick Bible
< Back to the concordance

Symbolism › Turban

Turban

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

You may think with what emotions, then, the seamen beheld this old Oriental perched aloft at such unusual hours; his turban and the moon, companions in one sky. But when, after spending his uniform interval there for several successive nights without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence, his unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet, every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew.

Chapter 51, The Spirit-Spout · verse 4

Read in context >