Chapter 91: Moby Dick

The Pequod comes across The Rose Bud which has found a few dead rotten whales that smell very bad. This is an irony because roses often smell quit nice. The Pequod then tricks the ship out of there whales and find some ambergris within it. Another thing that shows how valuable whales are, even from a rotten dead whale you can get a valuable substance.

Ambergris is basically the snot of a whale that is made to get rid of hard or sharp things out of the stomach such as squid beaks. When whales cough it up it can be heard from miles away and then can float for years being cleansed and polished by the sun. People find it on the shore and use it in perfumes. It is roughy 10,000 dollars a pound.