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Captain Peleg, said I, I have a friend with me who wants to ship too—shall I bring him down to-morrow?
法勒船長，我還有個朋友，他也想當水手，明天讓他跟我一塊兒來吧？
To be sure, said Peleg. Fetch him along, and we'll look at him.
可以，讓他來，我看看。
What lay does he want? groaned Bildad, glancing up from the book in which he had again been burying himself.
他要多少拆賬？ 又埋下頭來看書的比勒達警覺地抬起頭來問。
Oh! never thee mind about that, Bildad, said Peleg. Has he ever whaled it any? turning to me.
比勒達，這就不用你管了。我問你，以實瑪利，他捕過鯨嗎？
Killed more whales than I can count, Captain Peleg.
噢，法勒船長，我已經記不清他到底殺死過多少鯨了！
Well, bring him along then.
那好吧，讓他來吧！
And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I had done a good morning's work, and that the Pequod was the identical ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
簽了合同，我就離開了裴廓德號。我完成了一件大事，按約約的命令找到了要帶我和魁魁格去合恩角的船。
But I had not proceeded far, when I began to bethink me that the Captain with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen by me; though, indeed, in many cases, a whale-ship will be completely fitted out, and receive all her crew on board, ere the captain makes himself visible by arriving to take command; for sometimes these voyages are so prolonged, and the shore intervals at home so exceedingly brief, that if the captain have a family, or any absorbing concernment of that sort, he does not trouble himself much about his ship in port, but leaves her to the owners till all is ready for sea.
我突然又停住了腳步：這兩位船長都只是船主啊，真正指揮這條船的亞哈船長我還沒見到呢！ 一般說來，捕鯨船泊在港口的日子都很短，而出海作業的日子又很長，所以船一靠岸，船長就會抓緊時間回家或者上岸辦些事。至于船上的事，他可以完全撒手，任船主們去處理。 不過，到了船上你可就要完全聽他的了，所以現在還是見一見他。
