how did Ahab earn the gold coin ? where was it?
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Answer: In Chapter 36 of Moby D, Captain Ahab calls the entire crew together on the quarter deck and makes the following announcement:
"All ye mast-headers have before now heard me give orders about a white whale. Look ye! d'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?"--holding up a broad bright coin to the sun--"it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D'ye see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul."
This is an immense sum of money for the times, and the beautiful gold coin fascinates all the assembled men. Ahab proceeds to nail the coin to the main-mast and tells them:
"Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white-headed whale, with three holes punctured in his starboard fluke--look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!"
An ounce of gold at the present time would be worth in the neighborhood of $1200.
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