Sentences with phrase «island of ambergris»
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The island is named after the substance ambergris, a wax like material that comes from sperm whales and is used in the manufacture of perfume.
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An American fisherman from Antigua found, inside a whale, about 52 leagues south - east from the Windward Islands, a piece of ambergris which weighed about 130 lb, and sold for 500 sterling.
It is met with in the Atlantic Ocean, on the coasts of Brazil and Madagascar; also on the coast of Africa, of the East Indies, China, Japan, and the Molucca Islands; but most at the ambergris which is brought to England comes from the Bahama Islands, Providence, & c.