Nine of Pentacles

Meaning: Abundance, material security, rewarded efforts.

Depiction: The Bachelor and its merry crew bound for home, as described in the passage below. Nine doubloons adorn the side of the ship.

Text: Chapter 115, The Pequod Meets the Bachelor

It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her last cask of oil, and bolted down her bursting hatches; and now, in glad holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vain-gloriously, sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous to pointing her prow for home.

The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red bunting at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended, bottom down; and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain. Signals, ensigns, and jacks of all colours were flying from her rigging, on every side. Sideways lashed in each of her three basketed tops were two barrels of sperm; above which, in her top-mast cross-trees, you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid; and nailed to her main truck was a brazen lamp.

Comments: This was originally the description for the Empress, but I determined that that the sort of material abundance represented by the Bachelor was more appropriate here.  One of the miniseries - I believe it was the 1998 version with Patrick Stewart-  has a lively scene of the Bachelor approaching with the sailors dancing on the deck and their Fijian brides playing flutes.