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Whale ( / Kit ) is a 1970 Bulgarian satirical comedy film directed by Petar B. Vasilev and written by Cheremuhin . The film stars Georgi Kaloyanchev , Dimitar Panov , Georgi Partsalev , Grigor Vachkov and Tsvyatko Nikolov . This film had one of the most ...

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In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called brit is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.

When the whale is ill, the ambergris is formed--I suppose you could say it is no more complicated than the process by which phlegm is formed in your throat when you have a cold, and the whale coughs it up, or spews it out in the form of a liquid which hardens on exposure to the air.

Mohammedan travelers speak of ambergris swallowed by whales, who are made sick and regorge it.

There is more plankton on this world than a million times as many baleen whales could ever consume.

Then he felt the whale sinking back, and he saw the baleen close over him.

Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.

Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin.

Before we had slept that night, and after Imnak had constructed our shelter, he removed from the supplies several strips of supple baleen, whale bone, taken from the baleen whale, the bluish blunt fin, which we had killed before taking the black Hunjer whale.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the whaling hands at the far table were all standing up, drawing cudgels and belaying pins from their belts, grinning to one another.

I had devoted special study to this peculiar formation in the Barrier, and had arrived at the conclusion that the inlet that exists to-day in the Ross Barrier under the name of the Bay of Whales is nothing else than the self-same bight that was observed by Sir James Clark Ross -- no doubt with great changes of outline, but still the same.

It proved that Balloon Bight and another bight had merged to form a great bay, exactly as described by Sir Ernest Shackleton, and named by him the Bay of Whales.

Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.

Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.

A word or two more concerning this matter of the skin or blubber of the whale.

In some previous place I have described to you how the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.