Chapter 96: Moby Dick

Ishmael explains what the try-works are a place where the blubber is boiled down. When Ishmael is steering the boat he gets caught up in looking at the "hellish" fires of the pots. He then almost allows the boat to turn wrong and possibly capsizing it. There is a common motif that almost everything that has to do with a whale is wrapped around some religion or curse. All these things enforce the whale as being a great power.