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Show AMBERGRIS FOUND IN SPERM WHALE Boston, April 25. A 100-pound lteg of ambergris, the largest shipment ever received in this city. Is awaiting appraisal today in the vault of a wholesale drug firm. It is valued at more than $GO,000. The proceeds of the sale will be divided among a score of lucky sailors who found tho treasure treas-ure while whaling off the coast of Africa Afri-ca in December. The sailors, members of the crow of the boats Bertha and Viola, were pursuing pur-suing sperm whales one fine Dacembor day when they succeeded In harpooning harpoon-ing a thirty-footer who lagged behind his follows. He yielded only 15 barrels bar-rels of oil. but the grumbling of the whalers was dispelled when a huge lump of ambergris was taken from him. |