Whalers caught what they could and there was no sure
way of knowing what would come next. The baleen whales or rorquals
were treated the same way, but sperm whales were treated differently
because of their unique oil filled organ - the "spermaceti organ". This
massive organ occupies about 1/4 to 1/3 of the whales total length.
In this picture it extends from where the lower jaw is hinged right
to the front of the whale. The whole of that huge portion of the whale
is the spermaceti organ and is filled with oil of different qualities
that is used for different purposes including some of the finest quality
oil to be found anywhere that was of the highest value in precision
engineering.
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