A. Yes.
Q. Do you recognize Captain Baker in court?
A. Yes. As soon as they secured my crew they hauled the brig on the other tack, and stood into the westward, with the privateer in company. Captain Baker desired me to ask my mate to take the sun, as he had a chronometer on board, and the privateer had not. At 3 o'clock the privateer stood back to find out the longitude; while so doing she got astern of the brig, and about that time the brig Perry hove in sight, steering southward and eastward. When they saw the brig Perry they hauled the privateer more on the wind, because she would go a point or two nearer to the wind than the brig Joseph, so as to cut off the Perry if they could. They went aloft a good deal with opera glasses, to find out what she was, and they made her out to be a merchant vessel, as they thought. Then they saw the Perry's quarter boats, and rather mistrusted her. They backed ship and stood the same as the Perry. The Perry then set gallant stern-sail, and kept her more free, because she got the weather-gauge of the privateer.
Q. At the time of the capture of the Joseph by the Savannah did you observe all the crew, and in what attitude they were on deck?
A. I saw them working around the gun and hauling at it. Whether it was loaded or not, I could not say.
Q. Were any of the men armed?
A. None at that time that I know of; but after I went on board I saw them armed with a kind of cutlass, and old-fashioned boarding-pistols; and they had muskets with bayonets on.
Q. At the time you left your vessel for the Savannah, in what attitude were the men on board the Savannah?
A. They were all around on deck. Perhaps half of them were armed.
Q. How was the gun pointed?