American whaler Metacom hailed according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 21 February 1852

 The New Pictorial and Illustrated Family Magazine established for the diffusion of useful knowledge, vol. III. Robert Sears editor, New York 1846

An item reported that the American whaler Gideon Howland on 22 November 1851 saw at Hope Island the whaler Metacom master Boney still caught nothing that season.