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Updated: May 24, 2025
Cachalots, or sperm whales, must have been captured on the coasts of Europe in a desultory way from a very early date, by the incidental allusions to the prime products spermaceti and ambergris which are found in so many ancient writers, Shakespeare's reference "The sovereign'st thing on earth was parmaceti for an inward bruise" will be familiar to most people, as well as Milton's mention of the delicacies at Satan's feast "Grisamber steamed" not to carry quotation any further.
While thus ruminating, the mate and Louis began a desultory conversation concerning what they termed "ambergrease." I had never even heard the word before, although I had a notion that Milton, in "Paradise Regained," describing the Satanic banquet, had spoken of something being "grisamber steamed."
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