Wallaby voyage production and trade
Richards reports twelve right whales taken during five months in New Zealand, yielding about 50 tuns of right whale oil plus baleen. Richards states Wallaby also carried sperm oil from earlier stages of the voyage; confirm units and voyage totals against original tables. Richards mentions a passenger John Knox connected to the Mana Island farm begun by Mossman of Sydney.
The voyage as an economic route
Wallaby carried a history of labour, hunting and coastal movement. Visiting whaling ships connected Kāpiti with other New Zealand ports and wider markets for oil, whalebone and supplies.
A wider commercial network
Alexander Fraser’s 1840 accounts record £394 of pork and £436 of flour in the local supply economy. These are Fraser’s accounts, not Wallaby’s cargo; they show the sort of provisioning economy through which visiting vessels moved.
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