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Ahab, Captain
     
Ahab, Captain
a character in the book Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Captain Ahab risks his life and the lives of everyone on his ship by hunting a large dangerous white whale called Moby-Dick. Ahab is determined to kill the whale, but it finally sinks his ship, killing him and most of his men.
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