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"Out of the way, Commodore!" cried one, to a great dromedary that of a sudden rose bodily to the surface, and for an instant threatened to swamp us. "Hard down with your tail, there!" cried a second to another, which, close to our gunwale, seemed calmly cooling himself with his own fan-like extremity.
"闪开些，艇长！"这个叫道，因为他看到突然有一只象单峰大骆驼似的东西冒出了海面，眼看一下子就要把我们弄翻了。"喂，转舵当风呀！"那一个叫道，因为他看到另一条鲸，靠着我们的舷壁，好象泰然地用它那只大扇子似的尾巴在给自己扇风。
All whale-boats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs. Two thick squares of wood of equal size are stoutly clenched together, so that they cross each other's grain at right angles; a line of considerable length is then attached to the middle of this block, and the other end of the line being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon. It is chiefly among gallied whales that this drugg is used. For then, more whales are close round you than you can possibly chase at one time. But sperm whales are not every day encountered; while you may, then, you must kill all you can. And if you cannot kill them all at once, you must wing them, so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure. Hence it is, that at times like these the drug, comes into requisition. Our boat was furnished with three of them. The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg. They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.
所有的捕鲸小艇都带有一些精巧的小发明品，这种东西叫做"得拉格"，原来是南塔开特的印第安人始创的。它是把两块四方的、大小一样的厚木头紧嵌在一起，使两块木头的纹路彼此相交成直角；然后用一根相当长的绳子缚在这木块中间，把绳子的另一端结成一个活圈，使它可以立刻缚住标枪。它主要是在碰到"吓怕了"的鲸群才拿出来用的。因为在这时，你周围的那些鲸已经密集得叫你无法一下子追击它们了。而抹香鲸又不是每天都可以碰到的；于是，既然有了机会，就得竭尽力之所及，把它们全都捕杀了。如果你不能一下子都把它们杀倒，那就得把它们弄伤，这样，可以等你以后有空的时候再慢慢地来捕杀。因此，凡是碰到这样的场合，就用得着这种"得拉格"了。我们的小艇一共备有三只这样的东西。头二只都很顺利地戳住了，我们看到那两条鲸，被斜里拖着的大木头铐住着，蹒蹒跚跚地奔开去。它们被钳得象拖着铁链铁球的犯人。
