In etaoin's post is the word "ambergris". I looked it up,
and found a long article about a form of amber, from an Arab root, found on seashore. Though there was a picture of a whale at the top of the site, there was not a word about
whale ambergris, an extremely valuable large chunk of fatty stuff said to be vomited by whales, and used in the perfume industry. I'll see if I can find out information about that.
hhttp://www.netstrider.com/documents/ambergris/dictionaries/