I've been following the news from Bournemouth this week, that lucky 8-year-old Charlie Naysmith found a solid block of ambergris while walking along the shoreline on England's south coast. Mostly, I've been enjoying the errors of fact in reporting.
Ambergris, after all, is not vomit.
It's not coughed up, or regurgitated, or anything like that.
Hundreds of years of slowly accumulated evidence more than suggests that ambergris is actually formed in the hindgut, and exits the sperm whale via the much less illustrious nether end. And anyone who reads my book would know that for themselves, and would be able to school their less educated friends on such matters.
Get educated, folks!
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