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 Ann Alexander as she now floats 13,000 US dollars, loaded with - barrels of whale oil, value - US dollars, loaded with 1,500 barrels of sperm oil, value 30,000 US dollars, loaded with - shp bone, value -US dollars. Total value 43,000 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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