Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris.
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I'd as soon expect to sight a cachalot on top of the Rocky Mountains.
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The creature had not quite escaped from the cachalot's teeth.
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The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to Fredol's description.
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The case of the cachalot is still more difficult.
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The sperm whale, or cachalot, has teeth in its lower jaw, and no whalebone whatever.
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You spoke of the cachalot as a small creature.
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No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
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The resultant oil, when recent, is of a clear white, unlike the golden-tinted fluid obtained from the cachalot.
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Still, as a practice, these creatures leave the cachalot respectfully alone, knowing instinctively that he is not their game.
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The sperm or cachalot whale is a dangerous and bold fighter and is perhaps the most interesting of all cetaceans.
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Of one thing I am certain-that ,ifany of the trio survived, they never afterwards attempted to rush a cachalot.
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She is put about, making a course which shortly brings her a mile or two to windward of the slowly-moving cachalot.
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Except for the head work, removing the blubber was effected in precisely the same way as in the case of the cachalot.
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Out came the head belonging to it, and a spout like an explosion burst forth, denoting the presence of an enormous bull-cachalot.
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To any one studying the peculiar configuration of a cachalot's mouth, it would appear a difficult problem how the calf could suck.
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The great cachalot was now directly ahead, about two hundred fathoms away, and coming down upon them with twice his ordinary speed.