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 Wm. Thompson as she now floats 22,000 US dollars, loaded with 2.050barrels of whale oil, value 16,400 US dollars, loaded with 700 barrels of sperm oil, value 14,000US dollars, loaded with -shp bone , value - US dollars. Total value 52,400 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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