According to a report of Mr. G.D. Gilman of American whalers with a total value of 1,010,240 US dollars berthed at Honolulu, Hawaii on 24 October 1844 was the value of the American whaler Philip Tabb as she now floats 10,000 US dollars, loaded with 2,700 barrels of whale oil, value 21,600 US dollars, loaded with - barrels of sperm oil, value - US dollars, loaded with 2,700 shp bone, value 5,940 US dollars. Total value 37,540 US dollars.
Source
Robert Crichton Wyllie, Esquire. Notes on the shipping, trade, agriculture, diseases...of the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands published in the monthly numbers of the The Friend, from May to December. Honolulu, 1845.
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