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 Navy as she now floats 15,000 US dollars, loaded with 2,750 barrels of whale oil, value 22,000 US dollars, loaded with - barrels of sperm oil, value - US dollars, loaded with 25,000 shp bone, value 5,500 US dollars. Total value 42,500 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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