Vocabulary: 5 uses of 'see' - Moby Dick part 1

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Hello I'm Mariam. Today's story is about the experiences of a man who goes on an epic adventure.
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He sails on a ship whose captain is determined to seek revenge on a whale called Moby Dick.
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The man is called Ishmael. He's heading to Nantucket to see if he can find work on a
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whaling ship. On the way he meets Queequeg, a rough and dangerous-looking man who works
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as a harpooner. They become friends and together they find work on a whaling ship called The Pequod.
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It sets sail, but it's not until a few days into the journey that they first see the ship's
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captain, Ahab. He is a bitter and twisted old man with a long white scar down his face.
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He also has a false leg made from a whale's jaw. You see, his real leg had been bitten
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off by a whale on a previous voyage. He tells the crew "this whale was the famous Moby Dick"
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and he makes them all promise to help him hunt the whale down and kill him.
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It's a long and hard voyage - they sail across the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean - they encounter
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a huge typhoon and their navigational instruments break. Ishmael could not see how they would
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ever find Moby Dick in such a massive ocean. Then Queequeg the harpooner gets a bad fever
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and a coffin is made for him in anticipation of his death. But, he recovers and the ship
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sails on into the Pacific Ocean. Although they catch and kill other whales on the way,
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there is no sign of Moby. Where can he be?
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You'll have to wait and see. Join me in part two to see if Captain Ahab finally gets his
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revenge on Moby Dick. Bye for now.
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