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the same period, seventeen vessels of war of our country also visited the Islands, 
and in this number is included the Exploring Expedition, which made extensive 
observations in Science and Natural History among the group. 
In the same five years there were only eighty-two English vessels, also mostly 
whalers, and nine men of war ; seven French merchantmen, and five men of war ; 
and a few scattering vessels from Mexico, Chili, Tahiti, Sydney, China, Russia 
and Prussia. At the port of Lahaina, the average annual number of our whalers 
is from thirty to fifty, and from twelve to twenty in the rest of the ports. 
The Imports for four and a half years previous to the 12th of September, 1840, 
are stated in " The Polynesian" to have been $1,567,000, of which $742,000 
were from the United States. 
The Exports for the same period were $1,388,100, of which $65,000 were in 
sandal-wood, $59,500 in hides, and the balance in goat-skins, salt, and sugar. 
During the same time ten vessels were owned by residents, of which seven were 
the property of our citizens, and three of Englishmen. 
I have derived from Mr. Jarves's exceHent work on these Islands, published 
last February, in Boston, the substance of the following statistics : 
He estimates the value of American property touching annually at Honolulu, 
including the outfits of whalers, at the lowest possible calculation, to be $1,200,- 
000. If to this be added the cargoes of oil, &c., the amount would unquestionably 
be swelled to at least $4,000,000. More than two thousand seamen navigate our 
vessels, exclusive of those employed on board of our national ships, and to the 
above sums we should join the value of the latter vessels, when estimating the 
American property which owes its security and protection to the harbors of these 
Islands. The value of the property of other nations is of course in proportion to 
their shipping ; but it may safely be stated, that the interests of the United States 
are four times greater than those of England, and that the importations are in the 
same ratio. 
IMPORTS FROM 1836 TO 1841. 
From the Un.ced States, $935,000 
« England, - 127,600 
•' California, 282,700 
« China, 233,990 
" Mexico, (specie and bullion,) 167,600 
« Chili, 160,000 
" Various countries, - - 127,300 
$2,034,190 
EXPORTS DURING THE SAME PERIOD. 
Sandal-wood » $65,000 
Hides, 90,000 
Goat-skins 27,240 
Sugar 34,000 
Molasses, 17,130 
Arrow-root, b,ii2Q 
Salt, 
20,000 
Sperm-oil, (vessels from Honolulu) 13,900 
Sundries, supplies to shipping, &c., - - - - - - 275,000 
$548,000 
