Cachalot
a cetacean of the family Balænidæ. It is the Physeter macrocephalus, called also the sperm or spermaceti whale. The male is from 46 to 60, or even 70 feet long; the female from 30 to 35. It is black, becoming whitish 1 CACHALOT late are made from them, the former being a powder obtained by grinding the seeds, and often mixed with other substances when prepared for sale, the latter being this powder mixed with sugar and various flavoring matters and formed into solid cakes. es. The seeds when roasted and divested of their husks and crushed are known as cocoa nibs. The seeds yield also an oil called butter of cacao, used in pomatum and for making candles, soap, etc. The term cocoa is a corruption of cacao, but is more commonly used in commerce; cocoa nuts, however, are obtained from an entirely below. The cachalots feed chiefly on squids or cuttle-fishes. They are gregarious, and go in schools, sometimes with as many as 500 or 600 individuals.
There are two kinds-female schools and schools of males not fully grown.
With each female school are from one to three large bulls, or, as the whalers call them, schoolmasters. The cachalot inhabits the northern seas, but straggles through a great part of the ocean.