Chapter 103: Moby Dick

About half into the chapter Ishmael realizes that you cannot "decipher" a whale merely form his skeleton because you are missing the blubber, the skin, and everything else that would have rotted away. Considering the gigantic size of a whale, he claims the largest of about ninety tons, that it is impossible to study one falling short of taking months to drag one on to land and maybe hitting the tide right get in on dry land. This gives the whale another feeling of god-like stature because nobody really knows about it.