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 Levi Starbuck as she now floats 10,000 US dollars, loaded with 800 barrels of whale oil, value 6,400 US dollars, loaded with 800 barrels of sperm oil, value 1,600 US dollars, loaded with 10,000 shp bone, value 2,200 US dollars. Total value 34,600 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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