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Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody;
我站在它的甲板上，想找個當頭的，好自薦。
but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast.
可不但沒見著當頭的，一個人影也沒見著。
It seemed only a temporary erection used in port. It was of a conical shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale.
主桅后面一頂臨時帳篷引起了我的注意，它呈圓錐形，是用一只露脊鯨的頭部的幾大片骨頭搭成的。
Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other,
把鯨魚那些寬大的骨板插在甲板上，圍成一個圓，用繩子相連，
and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem's head.
系緊，在頂部形成一個尖兒。向朝頭的這一面開了一個三角形的入口，坐在里面，可以看到大船行駛的方向。
A triangular opening faced towards the bows of the ship, so that the insider commanded a complete view forward.
這帳篷似乎是船靠岸以后才搭的。里面坐著個人，似乎是個頭目。
