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 Chelsea as she now floats 14,000 US dollars, loaded with 1,700 barrels of whale oil, value 13,600 US dollars, loaded with - barrels of sperm oil, value - US dollarsloaded with 17,000 shp bone, value 3,740 US dollars. Total value 31,350 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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