Not P but Moby-Dick (84)

[Mike Jing]

>From Chapter 104:

Then the whole world was the whale’s; and, king of creation, he left his
wake along the present lines of the Andes and the Himmalehs. Who can show a
pedigree like Leviathan? Ahab’s harpoon had shed older blood than the
Pharaohs’. Methuselah seems a schoolboy.

Here "the Pharaohs’" means "the Pharaohs’ blood", is that correct? The
previous translations interpreted it as "the Pharaohs’ harpoon", which
makes no sense to me.

Also, some of the previous translations treated Ahab here as the seventh
king of Israel, not Captain Ahab, which seems obviously wrong to me as well.