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Southeast on the Cape of Good Hope, the Pequod tends to make the 1st of nine sea-encounters, or "gams", with other ships: Ahab hails the Goney (Albatross) to talk to whether or not they have seen the White Whale, even so the trumpet by which her captain tries to talk falls to the sea before he can solution. Ishmael clarifies that because of Ahab's