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Harbour with 361 tuns of sperm oil, the 
produce of an eighteen months’ cruise, which 
was worth £ 22,000, the most valuable cargo 
of oil that had up to that time been brought 
into the port. A return of the exports from 
New South Wales for the years 1830 to 1840 
inclusive, gives an idea of what a trade this was. 
In the return the exports are classified as sperm 
whale and black whale oil, whalebone, and seal¬ 
skins ; without inflicting these figures on the 
reader it may be said that in. 1830 the value 
of these exports was about £60,000, and 
each year the amount steadily increased, until 
in 1840 it reached ,£224,144. 
Bay whaling in New Zealand had also in¬ 
creased to a considerable extent, the Maoris 
taking an active part with the Europeans in 
its development; but in New South Wales, with 
the exception of the settlement in Boyd Town, 
in later years the industry never established 
itself. Hobart Town has always been a regular 
port for whalers, and the industry survived 
longer there than at any place in the Southern 
Seas, although bay whaling had died out there 
by 1847. Norfolk Island was a regular calling 
place for the ships, and Lord Howe Island, 
