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201 ：吾輩は名無しである：2013/10/26(土) 14:49:39.02 .net

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The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin,
cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes,
and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed on the nailed doubloon;
impatient for the order to point the ship's prow for the equator. In good time the order came. It was hard upon high noon;
and Ahab, seated in the bows of his high-hoisted boat, was about taking his wonted daily observation of the sun to determine his latitude.

Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of effulgences.

多分ここが日本海で沈んだってソースで
今赤道付近にいる、の直後にここ日本海では〜とくるので認識上赤道付近まで日本海と読んでる
で多分次にjapanが出てくるのが123章のスターバックがエイハブまじくるってんじゃないの一番近い日本は鎖国してるし〜
って悩んでるシーン

で最終的に沈んだのは赤道付近だが118章で同一視してるっぽいので(当時の捕鯨√から不自然でもないので)
118以降日本南赤道付近をグダグダ回っていてかつそこを日本海と認識してる、という風に捉える人がいるんだと思う