A. I saw a big gun amid-ships, on a pivot.
Q. How far on was she when you saw the gun?
A. About a mile and a half or two miles; I could see it with the spy-glass very plainly.
Q. Can you give us the size of the gun?
A. Not exactly; I believe it was an old eighteen pound cannonade.
Q. How was it mounted?
A. On a kind of sliding gutter, which goes on an iron pivot: it was on a round platform on deck, so that it could be hauled round and round.
Q. So that it could be pointed in any direction?
A. Yes, in any direction. After she came up alongside of me, Captain Baker asked me where I was from, and where bound, and ordered me with my boat and papers on board his vessel. I asked him by what authority he ordered me on board, and he said, by authority of the Confederate States. I lowered my boat and went on board with two of my men. When I got alongside, Captain Baker helped me over the bulwarks, or fence, and said he was sorry to take my vessel, but he had to retaliate, because the North had been making war upon them. I told him that that was all right, but that he ought to do it under his own flag. He then hoisted his own flag, and ordered a boat's crew to go on board the brig. Some of them afterwards returned, leaving six on board the brig.
Q. Did Captain Baker take your papers?