486 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
In the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, of Honolulu, under date of 
March 11, 1858, appeared the following: 
The season for humpback whales amongst these islands extends from January to 
April. The four or five whaling companies at or near Lahaina have not as yet suc- 
ceeded in securing a whale, but a company of natives from Honolulu stationed at 
Lahaina killed a cow and a calf there on the Ist of March, while a boat from the 
Sharon, lying at anchor, captured the male which was in company. From Hilo our 
correspondent gives an account of the taking of a whale in that harbor by the boats 
of the Dover. A school of these whales were seen off the entrance of our harbor 
yesterday morning. 
In 1859 three stations for bay whaling were opened in and around 
Kalepolepo Bay, on Maui. On April 8, 1862, Mr. O. J. Harris, of 
Lahaina, captured a large bowhead whale in this bay. When tried 
out it yielded about 50 barrels. 
A small sloop, the Zaanu7, O. J. Harris, captain, was engaged in 
the business in 1863 and met with considerable success, while Mr. Pat 
Shaw, of Lahaina, with a crew from the same place, was very success- 
ful in bay whaling during the ‘‘ sixties.” 
In 1870 the Anne, Captain Roys, of Honolulu, engaged in bay whal- 
ing at Kalepolepo Bay. Try works were erected at Oloalu, some 4 
or 5 miles beyond Lahaina. Captain Roys used an explosive gun of 
his own design and met with considerable success. 
In March, 1870, a whale was caught off Hilo, Hawaii, by a shore 
party from that place. They obtained 75 barrels of oil from it. 
The vessel //enrietta, of Honolulu, engaged in the fishery in 1872 
around Lahaina and was quite successful. She got one whale in Maa- 
laea Bay which tried out 50 barrels, worth about $1,000. A shore 
party under O. J. Harris was‘also working in the same vicinity at that 
time and met with considerable success. 
Whales are still seen quite frequently each year around the islands, 
but little attention is paid to them unless one should be stranded, 
when the natives gladly seize upon it. 
THE FOREIGN WHALING FLEET AT THE ISLANDS. 
One of the principal causes of the present material wealth of the 
islands was the rendezyousing of the Pacific whaling fleets from the 
United States and other countries at the various ports of the islands 
for many years, and the transshipment of oil and bone from these 
ports. An effort is made herewith to show the history and extent of 
this business so far as can be done from the data available. 
The first whaler to enter the Pacific Ocean was the ship Ame/za, 
Captain Shields, from London, in 1788. She was fitted out at vast 
expense by Mr. Enderby, a London merchant, and carried a crew of 
Nantucket, Mass., whalers. She sailed on September 1, 1788, and 
returned March 12, 1790, with a cargo of 139 tons of sperm oil. She 
received a bounty of 800 pounds from the Government. Most of the 
whaling was done off the coasts of Chile and Peru. Capt. Archetus 
