Q. State what Captain Baker said?
A. Captain Baker, as near as I can bear in mind, hailed him, and told him to come on board and fetch his papers.
Q. Did Captain Meyer come on board?
A. He lowered his boat, and came on board with his own boat and crew. Captain Baker said to him that he was under the Confederate flag, and he considered him a prisoner, and his vessel a prize to the Confederate Government.
Q. Repeat that?
A. If I bear in mind, Captain Meyer asked what authority he had to hail his vessel, or to that effect. The reply of Captain Baker, I think, was that he was under a letter of marque of the Confederate Government, and he would take him as a prisoner, and his vessel as a prize to the Southern Confederacy. I do not know the very words, but that was the purport of the statement, as near as I understood.
Q. When Captain Baker hailed the Joseph, do you remember the language in which he hailed her?
A. I think, "Brig, ahoy! Where are you from?" He answered him where from—I think, from Cardenas; I think, bound to Philadelphia or New York.
Q. Did he inquire about the cargo?
A. No, sir, I think not, until Captain Meyer came on board. We were but a short distance from the brig. The brig was hove to.