WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



the squid and cuttlefish upon which the sperm whale 

 feeds. 



If but a small amount of ambergris is produced it 

 will often pass off with the excreta and, since it is very 

 light, may be found floating in the water, but the en- 





Stripping the blubber from the head of a sperm whale. Immedi- 

 ately beneath the blubber of this portion is the oil-case. 

 The blowhole may be seen at the end of the snout. 



tire intestines of dead whales have been known to be 

 clogged with the substance. It is exceedingly valuable, 

 the black ambergris being worth at the present time 

 $12.50 an ounce, and the gray, which is of superior 

 quality, $20. As much as $60,000 worth has been 

 taken from the intestines of a single whale. 



It is not itself used as an odor but as a fixative in 

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