DISCOVERY IN WHALE.
AMBERGRIS WORTH £6OO. A lump of ambergris worth £6OO has been found in a 55ft. sperm whale caught' in Cape waters. It is .the largest piece of ambergris to be found in those waters for more than 10 years, according to the statements in Capetown. The catch was made by the whaler Tygerberg. Her Norwegian master, Captain Pihl, stated that he had never before seen such a big piece of the precious ambergris. The whale was sighted 70 miles out from Galdanha Bay. The whalers gave chase and shot two harpoons into it and then hove it to, dead. They towed it to Donlcerget, the whaling station, where they cut it up and found inside the ambergris, weighing 351 b.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19370803.2.155
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
123DISCOVERY IN WHALE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in