Note 99 — THE OBSERVATIONS OF SIR RICHARD HAWKINS, KNIGHT, IN HIS VOYAGE INTO THE SOUTH SEA. (continued 2)
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“And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise.” —Henry IV, Part I.
Spermaceti is obtained from the brain of the sperm whale,—physeter monocephalus—not from the spawn.