In Chapter XXXVI, Ahab says,
"I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whatl on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out".
Ahab, in his all-consuming obsession, is essentially saying that he will follow the whale to the ends of the earth and to hell (perdition) and back. Ahab will not cease his pursuit of Moby Dick until the whale is dead.
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